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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.  

Concrete Futures

The Concrete Centre

Concrete Futures is a lecture and magazine series which is dedicated to exploring innovation, research and new developments in concrete.

Campus East Gateway, York

The Concrete Centre

Sheppard Robson turned to an innovative crosswall precast system to cope with the post-pandemic rush of students to its new University of York campus. By Tony Whitehead

Structural Concrete 2018 Competition Winners Announced

The Concrete Centre

The Concrete Centre’s annual student competition, in partnership with Laing O’Rourke has been won by a team from the University of East London. The 2018 competition brief for teams of engineering students was to design a new office building with a basement car park in a city centre in the North West of England.

The Local Material with Offsite Credentials

The Concrete Centre

The drive for offsite methods of construction aims to increase UK Construction’s productivity, with factory-produced quality and speed on site. With concrete solutions this can be achieved, with the added benefits of a UK supply chain, proven structural performance and a versatile aesthetic.

Kingston University Town House

The Concrete Centre

On Monday 10th August The Concrete Centre held a seminar featuring Kingston University Town House which played out to a ‘packed’ virtual audience. Elaine Toogood, head of architecture at The Concrete Centre listened in and particularly enjoyed listening to Matt McCulloch of Grafton Architects talk about the development of the design strategy for the project – the practice’s first in the UK.