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The Evolution of BREEAM

The Concrete Centre

While not radically different to its predecessor, BREEAM New Construction 2018 does contain some significant changes. These include greater use of Environment Performance Declarations (EPDs) for Life Cycle Analysis in the Materials category. Another is an overhaul of the methodology related to the use of recycled aggregates. 

10 Design Resources to assist you in 2019

The Concrete Centre

The Concrete Centre provides material, design and construction guidance through its published work, events, webinars, research and online resources. Take a look at our most popular resources throughout 2018, and see if they can help you too.

Cafe Concrete @ Coin Street - This is Visual Concrete

The Concrete Centre

The Concrete Centre’s popular event Cafe Concrete will return on 29th October 2019 at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, situated on London’s Southbank. This free pop-up event will examine the latest thinking the ways in which visual concrete can reduce materials and cut carbon emissions.

Concrete Elegance: World Class Performers

The Concrete Centre

The projects featured at this Concrete Elegance lecture are described as world-class facilities in their specialist fields of dance and medicine: the new English National Ballet and The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

UK Concrete commitment to decarbonising

The Concrete Centre

Decarbonising concrete has been a focus of the industry for 30 years. MPA UK Concrete, the group representing the UK concrete industry, has developed a framework to help inform the delivery of an ambitious roadmap for the UK concrete and cement sector to deliver net negative emissions by 2050.

City of Westminster College, London

The Concrete Centre

City of Westminster College is designed to be sustainable and energy efficient and the overall scheme has a low maintenance ethos.

The Forum, Southend-on-Sea

The Concrete Centre

The Forum building achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating and provides residents, students and visitors with great facilities and enjoyment of a sustainable and aesthetically accomplished local building.

Crosswall

The Concrete Centre

Crosswall construction is an effective and efficient method of offsite construction that employs factory-produced, precision engineered, concrete structural components. It uses precast concrete floors and load-bearing walls ideal for buildings of a cellular nature, for example hotels, student accommodation, housing and apartments.

Home Quality Mark (HQM)

The Concrete Centre

BRE launched the basic framework for the Home Quality Mark (HQM) in 2015.

Climate change resilience

The Concrete Centre

Climate change resilience is the ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from the impacts of climate change while minimising damage to the environment, economy and society. This compass helps to navigate to the evolving range of related resources produced by and in collaboration with The Concrete Centre.