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Greenfields Community Housing HQ is a flexible building that demonstrates and embodies the organisation’s commitment to the environment.
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The concrete sector offers alternatives to the ubiquitous steel shed that offer flexibility, fast construction and durability against damage. Concrete also provides a wide range of benefits which are built-in and have no additional cost.
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'Cement’ generally refers to the powder component of concrete which, when mixed with water, becomes the glue-like material, or binder, that allows concrete to set, harden and strengthen. These materials include Portland cement, fly ash, ground granulated blastfurnace slag (GGBS), limestone fines and silica fume.
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Tunnel form is a formwork system that allows the contractor to cast walls and slabs in one operation in a daily cycle. The result is a cellular reinforced structure, the surfaces of which are sufficiently high quality to require only minimal finishing for direct decoration.
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The BREEAM Outstanding, Brent Civic Centre has proved itself a sustainable concrete exemplar.
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This issue, we have a spectacularly inert building on our cover. The Ray Dolby Centre is designed to house some of the most sensitive equipment in the world, and the level of vibration transmission is 250 times lower than human perception.
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Re-conditioning and reuse of an 1870s concrete building, that has required comparatively minor remedial work, despite the harsh marine environment in which it is situated.
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Concrete does not burn – it cannot be set on fire and it does not emit any toxic fumes when affected by fire. Concrete is proven to have a high degree of fire resistance and, in the majority of applications, can be described as virtually fireproof.
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It is common practice to include some recycled or secondary material content in the manufacture of concrete, including its cementitious binder, aggregate and reinforcement.
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Practice Workshops - The Concrete Centre is staffed by architects, structural engineers, and material specialists and our aim is to enable designers to realise the potential of concrete for their projects.