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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.
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Guy Thompson explains how The Concrete Centre responds to the challenges and many enquiries about the sustainability performance of concrete and how the industry is committed to a holistic measure of sustainability thus enabling designers and specifiers to produce evermore sustainable solutions.
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The UK Concrete Industry Sustainable Construction Strategy reached a key milestone in July 2018, with a stakeholder event at the Royal Festival Hall on 4th July to mark 10 years of this important initiative.
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Two very different examples of educational buildings were featured in this year’s first Concrete Elegance lecture: Bobby Moore Academy Secondary School, Stratford is a new school with an ambitious programme on a tight site in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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The Government’s commitment to net zero carbon for UK is to be net zero by 2050. To make a genuinely positive impact to global climate change this needs to be achieved without significant carbon leakage – where we use products that emit their carbon elsewhere.