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  • Specification
    • What is concrete
      • Ready-mixed concrete
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      • Blocks
      • Mortar
      • Cementitious materials
      • Calcined clay
      • Aggregates
      • Reinforcement
      • Water
      • Admixtures
    • Visual concrete
      • Exposed concrete floors
      • Visual blockwork and masonry
      • Visual in-situ concrete
      • Visual precast concrete
    • Special concrete
      • High strength concrete
      • High workability concrete
      • Lightweight concrete
      • No-fines concrete
      • Roller-compacted concrete
      • Self-compacting concrete (SCC)
      • Sprayed concrete
      • Water-resistant concrete
    • Innovative concrete
      • (P)RECAST
      • Minimass
      • EUREKA Project
      • Self healing anti corrosion concrete
      • Circle Permeable Concrete
      • Essential homes
      • 3D printed concrete at Loughborough Uni
      • 3D printed two-storey home
      • Bio blocks create marine habitats
      • Bioreceptive concrete supports biodiversity
      • BioZeroc microbe concrete
      • Cambridge Electric Cement
      • Carbon capture algae
      • Cement from concrete demolition waste
      • Cement-based batteries
      • Charcoal concrete
      • Graphene concrete
      • Kiacrete permeable paving
      • Mumbles sea hive project
      • Recycled concrete paste
      • Robotic formwork
      • Sector progress to reduce carbon
      • Self-healing concrete
      • Seratech an olivine based technology
      • 'Smart' concrete
      • Striatus 3D printed concrete
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      • BIM
      • CE marking and concrete
      • National Structural Concrete Specification (NSCS)
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      • Cladding
      • Floors
      • Formwork
      • Foundations
      • Walls
      • Transfer slabs
    • Eurocode 0 and 1
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      • Bridges
      • External hardstanding
      • Highways
      • Marine and coastal
      • Offshore wind: concrete gravity foundations
      • Onshore wind energy
    • Building regulations
      • Part L1, SAP and TFEE
      • Overheating and Part O
    • Eurocode 2: concrete
    • Standards and PAS
      • Standards for cement, aggregates, admixtures
      • Standards for concrete, BS 8500
      • Standards for precast concrete
      • Standards for reinforcement
      • Standards for workmanship and temporary works
    • Building sectors
      • Car parks
      • Commercial
      • Education
      • Healthcare
      • Hotels
      • Industrial buildings - sheds
      • Residential: high-rise
      • Residential: low-rise
      • Retail
    • Eurocode 6: masonry
    • Environmental assessments
      • BES 6001 and Responsible Sourcing
      • BREEAM and BRE Assessment Methods
      • CEEQUAL
      • EPDs and EN 15804
    • Framed buildings
      • Hybrid concrete construction
      • Modern methods of construction (MMC)
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      • Overheating and Part O
      • Providing enough thermal mass in air conditioned buildings
      • Providing enough thermal mass in naturally ventilated buildings
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Winter/Spring 2025 | Issue 289
Concrete Quarterly
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Leader: Scandi gris

There’s quite a Scandi vibe to this issue of Concrete Quarterly, with our cover story and innovation feature

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Origin story: Reciprocal House

Norman Foster’s first project was an extension in north London. Now Gianni Botsford has built a house to go with it

HERE’S THE PITCH: OUR HERO (LET’S CALL HIM MARCEL) IS A TORTURED BUT VISIONARY HUNGARIAN-BORN ARCHITECT, SEEKING TO REBUILD HIS LIFE IN POST-WAR AMERICA. HE IS DRIVEN BY A SINGLE OBSESSION …AUTUMN 1969: THE BRUTALIST II – IT’S PRECAST
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Inspiration: BIG HQ, Copenhagen

Bjarke Ingels Group’s Copenhagen base harks back to the brutalist era, while heralding a new dawn for calcined clay

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Lasting impression: Mike Jamieson

How a brush with Basil Spence led the TateHindle director on a path to Cockfosters tube station

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Inspiration: Sadler’s Wells East, London

O’Donnell + Tuomey and Buro Happold build a noise and vibration-free machine for dancing

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Innovation: (P)RECAST

A cross-industry team including the danish technological institute and GXN has extracted precast slabs

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Inspiration: Capella, London

Laing O’Rourke uses concrete strength sensors to cut 34 tonnes of embodied carbon

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Application: Cutting carbon with Concept

The embodied carbon of concrete structural frames can vary widely.

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Inspiration: ROCO, Liverpool

SODA Studio shows that even a 1970s tax office can be reinvented for desirable city-centre living

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Final frame: Dún Laoghaire baths

The renovation of the 19th-century baths at Dún Laoghaire has restored a lost connection between the town and sea

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