Case Studies

UCL East

London

UCL’s East Bank campus heralds a new chapter for the Olympic Park. Take a look around the first buildings to emerge on a waterfront development devoted to culture and learning.

Campus East Gateway

University of York

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. 

Space House

London

Space House is a 255,000 sq ft brutalist masterpiece restored into a state-of-the-art smart building with unsurpassed amenities and designed to BREEAM Outstanding and Fitwel certification. 

Futurebuild 2025

The Concrete Centre championed concrete innovation at Futurebuild 2025 with both a Concrete Futures exhibition and a plethora of latest best practice guidance and advice. In the film (above) Elaine Toogood, Senior Director, Concrete at MPA gives a tour of the stand and discusses its main themes. These include The Concrete Centre's mission to provide up-to-date technical information to the design community; a look at the lower carbon concretes that were on display- available to use on projects now; concrete's role in a circular economy and how concrete can ensure that housing is built to be resilient and fit for the future. 

Presentations - watch on demand

The Concrete Centre, MPA Precast and MPA Masonry were proud to curate speaking sessions within the Futurebuild knowledge programme. These sessions are now available to watch on-demand, via the links below.

 

Concrete Futures Spring 2025

Specifying Sustainable Concrete: Key considerations for specifying lower carbon concrete