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Dynamic thermal properties

A free tool for calculating the thermal properties of construction elements.

Thermal Mass the Key to Healthy and Sustainable New Housing

Following the Government’s Budget announcement this week, The Concrete Centre is calling for joined up thinking that responds to proven research from Government bodies and beyond to ensure that performance and quality are criteria for securing funding.

Exposing concrete structure: A material efficient and low carbon strategy

Energy efficient buildings

How concrete can deliver energy efficiency through low embodied and operational energy and carbon for housing and structural frames.

Evelyn Grace Academy, London

Evelyn Grace Academy won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2011. Exposed thermal mass is an integral part of the environmental strategy for the building.

Overheating in housing

Carbon savings – it’s all about the timing

For many years now, the main aim of government energy policy in the built environment has been to drive down demand; a simple strategy for cutting carbon that continues to make good sense, although with increasing wind and solar power supplying the UK, things are no longer quite so straightforward. 

The Concrete Centre shares concerns about resilience of housing to overheating

It’s hard to ignore the recent press that this topic has been generating in response to one of the hottest summers that Europe has experienced in decades. Buildoffsite have hit back at challenges to the performance of lightweight modular homes.

Surface emissivity - why this matters

This page provides information on surface emissivity

Velodrome, London

The thermal mass of the concrete at the Velodrome is essential to the natural ventilation strategy and the robustness of concrete is essential to its structural integrity.