News and agenda

News & Innovation

The latest news and innovation from CQ Winter 273

Round Up: Piano, Picasso and play labs

Innovation: Bio blocks

“Add complexity, and you give life a much better chance of thriving”

Agenda & Events

Comment and debate on the concrete industry’s most pressing issues and well as events that are coming up.

Playing to our strengths

Like many of you, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can build back better after COVID. We’ve had a chance to stop and reflect, to reconnect with what’s important to us, and to our communities and to nature. We have seen that when something major happens, we can do things differently. So what should we be doing differently?

Learning in lockdown

The Concrete Centre’s events programme continues despite the pandemic.

Final Frame: Marshall building, London

Work is nearing completion on Grafton Architects’ Marshall Building at the London School of Economics, which is due to open next year. The £140m eight-storey building includes a grand public hall on the ground floor, teaching and research areas, a basement sports hall and a two-storey rooftop pavilion. The large spans of the flexible lower-level spaces are accommodated by a structure of huge tree-like concrete columns.

Photo Dennis Gilbert / VIEW Pictures