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Thirst for knowledge

02 Feb 2023

It’s great to see so much cross-industry collaboration to accelerate the decarbonisation of our built environment. But I’ve noticed that they very often come up against the same problem: a lack of data about the buildings we are completing today.

Getting closer to net zero using concrete

11 Oct 2022

This year’s Concrete Centre Sustainability Series has now officially started. Elaine Toogood reflects on the launch event and the theme of the evening - collaboration and knowledge sharing, as well as previewing some highlights of the upcoming Series.

2022 Structural Concrete Student Competition Winners Announced

18 Aug 2022

The Concrete Centre’s annual student Structural Concrete competition, in partnership with Laing O’Rourke, has been won by Sara Edgar, Naomi Stanton and Christopher Walsh from Queen’s University, Belfast. The 2022 competition challenge for teams of engineering students was to design a school building within an existing school development in the suburbs of a large UK city.

Looking for a student competition that will inspire your classes? Look no more

27 Jul 2022

Our next generation of architects and landscape architects will have to be the ultimate polymaths, well prepared for practice and a fast changing industry. The Design Concrete 2023 brief aims to promote and encourage this.

A reflection on the Fresh Concrete innovation series

25 Jul 2022

The Concrete Centre and The Building Centre have a long history! Our collaboration has resulted in a string of successful events stretching back over 15 years, notably the highly successful Concrete Elegance series, with ‘Fresh Concrete’ representing the very latest offering.

Next Generation Eurocode 2

08 Jun 2022

Tony Jones of The Concrete Centre looks at the revision process of Eurocode 2, highlighting some of the changes and explaining what is left to do before the revised Code can be used.

Watertight concrete structures to BS 8102:2022

09 May 2022

Emily provides a snapshot of some of the key changes in the 2022 revision of BS 8102. The revision to BS 8102 (Code of practice for protection of below ground structures against water from the ground) was published in March 2022.

New powder generation

03 May 2022

Specifiers seeking lower-carbon concretes will very soon have a new tool at their disposal, with the addition of multi-component cements to the BS 8500 standard.

Fantastic turn out for new Fresh Concrete Series

23 Mar 2022

Today The Concrete Cente, in a joint collaboration with The Building Centre launched its first event in the new series, Fresh Concrete. With almost 600 registrations for the first event, this online series of talks showcases some of the innovative practice and new types of concrete emerging to address climate mitigation and adaptation.

Why we need a long term view in a short term world

28 Feb 2022

There are no shortage of headlines about distractions in British politics at the moment. The Partygate scandal was recently cited as the reason that embodied carbon was not given enough airtime by senior MPs during a Ten Minute Rule Bill debate led by backbenchers.