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As we reflect on 2020, we have learnt that things can change and quickly. The Concrete Centre started the year with its usual events programme, a Concrete Elegance lecture, technical webinars, and a successful exhibition at Futurebuild at the ExCel in London but just a few weeks after Futurebuild, the ExCel was a Nightingale hospital and the country was in lockdown.
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Shortlisted for a RIBA London Award, Covert House is an ultra-modern family home with exposed concrete walls and soffits, white resin floor and mirrored facades
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The exposed in-situ concrete structure of the University of Portsmouth library extension is integral to its success. It is a fundamental part of its strategy to reduce energy use and to create a comfortable, stable climate for its users.
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Powell and Moya's granite Oxford college has been updated in the spirit of the original.
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The project team set out to design and construct a premium quality, low-energy building with extensive use of off-site manufacturing, few following trades and minimal site waste.
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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.