The Concrete Centre
The Concrete Centre
These latest additions to Essex university campus bring an elegant evolution to the legacy of the campus’ brutalist concrete architecture.
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Evans Vettori’s extension building for Nottingham Trent University uses cantilevering concrete to weave around the surrounding tree roots.
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Glenn Howells shows the versatility of a repeating structural grid, with a building designed to adapt to University College Birmingham’s ever-changing needs.
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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios combines post-tensioned slabs and open spaces for a lean, robust framework student centre capable of having “three or four lives”
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To acquire an overall understanding of a built project’s total carbon impact, it is necessary to assess both the anticipated operational and embodied emissions over the life of the asset. Considering the combined operational and embodied carbon emissions over a project’s expected life cycle constitutes a whole-life approach.
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O’Donnell + Tuomey and Buro Happold build a noise and vibration-free machine for dancing
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UCL’s East Bank campus heralds a new chapter for the Olympic Park. Nick Jones looks around the first buildings to emerge on a waterfront development devoted to culture and learning
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This afternoon of practical and informative seminars will provide designers with guidance on regulation and specification as well design exemplars and practical advice on concrete.
The event will cover Part L and thermal performance, this will include an update on recent changes to building regulations and guidance on ways to achieve high thermal performance detailing using concrete and masonry. Concrete and BREEAM:2014, achieving polished concrete floors by offering Practical guidance, tips and tricks for specification and installation of cast in situ concrete floors with case studies from an experienced installer and specialist in concrete postfinishing techniques and lastly a case study of John Henry Brookes Building. This project was awarded winner of RIBA South Sustainability & Building of the Year categories. The use of visual concrete is integral to the low energy strategy and BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.
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Case study articles include: Francis Crick Institute, London; Tate Modern extension; London Salerno Marine Terminal.
Technical articles on: thermal bridging; timber formwork; concrete's fire resistance.