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Winter 2022 | Issue Number 281
Concrete Quarterly
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Leader: Thirst for knowledge

Carbon targets are essential, but they are based on limited data. We need to share knowledge rather than just tick boxes

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Origin story: Hylo Tower

How AKT II changed the rules on retrofit

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Inspiration: Meta Headquarters 

An important milestone in the measurement of embodied carbon

FROM THE ARCHIVE: "NO WHITE TILES AND WHIFF OF FORMALDEHYDE HERE …” HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THE LESSONS OF POWELL & MOYA’S WEXHAM PARK?WINTER 1966: IN NEED OF TREATMENT
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Inspiration: Heidelberg Materials HQ

AS+P delivers a trove of concrete excellence, from twisting feature columns to an air-cleaning facade

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Lasting impression: Julian Gitsham

From high-speed housebuilding Victorian-style to beautiful blockwork, via a graveyard of astronomical wonders

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Inspiration: Catalyst Building

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios combines post-tensioned slabs and open spaces for a lean, robust framework student centre

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Application: How to cut carbon in reinforcement

Steel contributes around a quarter of a concrete slab’s embodied carbon

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Inspiration: Neptune Wharf 

Haworth Tompkins’ canalside regeneration project next to the Olympic Village is now complete

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Innovation: Biozeroc

A Cambridge start-up is using bacteria to create cement-free concrete.

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Final frame: IQON, Quito

BIG completes the tallest building in the Ecuadorian

WELCOME TO THE CONCRETE QUARTERLY ARCHIVE.... A WEALTH OF ISSUES, GOING BACK TO 1947BROWSE THE CQ ARCHIVE LIBRARY

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