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Salvation Army, London

The Concrete Centre

High levels of GGBS and a lean ribbed-slab structure have helped to reduced embodied carbon by 30% at Tatehindle’s admirably restrained HQ for the Salvation Army, writes Tony Whitehead

Hackney New School, London

The Concrete Centre

At 333 Kingsland Road and Hackney New Primary School, the practice unites two very different typologies through big public gestures and bold red masonry.

Tower Hamlets Town Hall, London

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AHMM has resuscitated the 18th-century Royal London Hospital, adapting and extending it into a flagship centre of east London civic life

Robotic formwork

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Digital design experts at Bath are creating software tools that will be used – among other things – to power a giant 8m x 4m pin-mould in Cambridge to become bespoke formwork at the touch of a return key.

Jubilee Library, Brighton

The Concrete Centre

This BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rated public building optimises the thermal properties of concrete and embraces the benefits of a wind-assisted passive ventilation system.

Heidelberg Materials HQ, Germany

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Heidelberg Materials’ new HQ is a trove of concrete excellence, from the air-cleaning facade to precision-cast feature columns. And it’s just been awarded Germany’s top sustainability rating.

Low carbon concrete

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How concrete can be specified to have lower embodied carbon and provide the lowest whole life carbon solutions, now and in the future.