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Tall Buildings

Tall Buildings

£55.00 + VAT

This publication assists engineers in understanding the common challenges of building tall.

Visual Concrete

Visual Concrete

Free

This guide aims to enable designers to realise their aesthetic aspirations using concrete.

Specifying Sustainable Concrete

Specifying Sustainable Concrete

Free

An all-you-need-to-know guide on the specification of sustainable concrete.

Thermal Performance: Part L1A (2013)

Thermal Performance: Part L1A (2013)

Free

This guide focuses on concrete and masonry housing, and presents requirements for Part L1A of the Building Regulations.

Concrete Framed Buildings

Concrete Framed Buildings

Free

Gives likely structural options for a concrete frame, with useful points to note - written by engineers for engineers.

Post-tensioned Concrete Floors

Post-tensioned Concrete Floors

Free

This publication widens the understanding of post-tensioned floor construction and illustrates the considerable benefits.

Material Efficiency

Material Efficiency

Free

This document provides information on the material and resource efficiency of concrete and masonry.

Whole-life Carbon and Buildings

Whole-life Carbon and Buildings

Free

 This guide sets out how concrete's attributes can be used to minimise CO2 emissions.

Project Profile - Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre

Project Profile - Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre

Free

This guide focuses on the use of concrete at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre and its part in creating a low energy building.

Concise Eurocode 2 for Bridges

Concise Eurocode 2 for Bridges

£30.00 + VAT

This publication summarises the material used in the design of reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges using Eurocode 2

The World Recast

The World Recast

£24.95

The buildings from 70 years of Concrete Quarterly.

This is Concrete - 70 Years of Concrete Quarterly

This is Concrete - 70 Years of Concrete Quarterly

Free

A magazine to commemorate 70 years of Concrete Quarterly.

Concrete Tall Buildings

Concrete Tall Buildings

Free

This publication seeks to provide information for structural engineers who are designing tall buildings in concrete.

Overheating: An extract from Resilient Homes

Published:2016
Publisher:MPA The Concrete Centre
Price:Free

An extract from a forthcoming Concrete Centre guide, Resilient Homes, to be published in 2017, this section tackles the issue of overheating in housing.

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The Concrete Centre provides material, design and construction guidance. Our aim is to enable all those involved in the design, use and performance of concrete and masonry to realise the potential of these materials.

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Mineral Products Association (MPA) is the trade association for aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, dimension stone, lime, mortar and silica sand industries.

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