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We are here - a Concrete Centre update

30 Mar 2020

As we adjust to restrictions on our movement and the lockdown of schools and workplaces, this update from The Concrete Centre aims to help those working from home and those wanting to access design guidance.

Futurebuild 2020

27 Mar 2020

Futurebuild 2020 was the busiest year in recent memory, with the climate challenge at the top of the built environment agenda the event was popular with specifiers and sustainability experts alike.

The Concrete Centre Returns to Futurebuild in 2020

20 Jan 2020

The Concrete Centre will be returning to Futurebuild in 2020, which will take place at London’s ExCel exhibition centre on 3rd - 5th March 2020.

Cementing a New Status

18 Jan 2020

Concrete structures are popping up everywhere - and winning awards, too. Few other building materials are more vilified than concrete. the philosopher Roger Scruton believes that post-war Britain was almost ‘obliterated by ugly deposits of concrete and steel’.

Concrete Elegance: World Class Performers

17 Jan 2020

The projects featured at this Concrete Elegance lecture are described as world-class facilities in their specialist fields of dance and medicine: the new English National Ballet and The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

The Concrete Centre to Sponsor Best Use of Concrete Technology in Offsite Construction Awards

17 Jan 2020

The Concrete Centre is thrilled to be sponsoring the Best Use of Concrete Technology category in this year’s Offsite Construction Awards. The 2020 entries are now open, so make sure you submit your project or innovation by the 15th May deadline.

Carbon Challenge Needs Whole-life Views, Not Half-truths

31 Oct 2019

Against the backdrop of climate change, the construction industry needs to chart the roadmap to a net-zero-carbon society by 2050. This requires an intelligent and informed industry discussion about embodied and operational carbon.

Cafe Concrete @ Coin Street - This is Visual Concrete

18 Oct 2019

The Concrete Centre’s popular event Cafe Concrete will return on 29th October 2019 at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, situated on London’s Southbank. This free pop-up event will examine the latest thinking the ways in which visual concrete can reduce materials and cut carbon emissions.

Reactive Fire Safety Regs Ignore Tragedies Waiting to Happen

07 Oct 2019

It’s a red herring to suggest that ‘avoiding another Grenfell’ is the reason we need stronger fire safety regulations. Quite rightly, preventing tragedies is a priority for the ministers, the Fire Brigades Union and others using this language to criticise the pace of change.

Making Places

07 Oct 2019

There are few areas related to building development that generate as much debate as housing, from the size and type of tenure, location and density, to environmental considerations such as energy efficiency, noise and comfort. Elaine Toogood of The Concrete Centre reports.