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The UK BIM Alliance is delighted to announce a formal affiliation with The Concrete Centre and Mineral Products Association. The Concrete Centre provides material, design and construction guidance.

Would a modern twist on the Bauhaus vision help to inspire and transform, asks Elaine Toogood

We’re just about to start the third section of our virtual Sustainability Series, with this part looking in a more detail at the numbers and data that you can use for evaluating the sustainability of your project, either looking at the embodied carbon or at the whole lifecycle. 

Like many of you, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can build back better after COVID. We’ve had a chance to stop and reflect, to reconnect with what’s important to us, and to our communities and to nature.

Jenny Burridge, Head of Structural Engineering, The Concrete Centre talks us through the use of long-lasting precast concrete as a perfect offsite construction for tall  buildings design.

The UK concrete and cement industry has launched a roadmap to become net negative by 2050, removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it emits each year. 

The Concrete Centre, the provider of material, design and construction guidance for concrete has launched an update to its software tool Concept.

On Monday 10th August The Concrete Centre held a seminar featuring Kingston University Town House which played out to a ‘packed’ virtual audience. Elaine Toogood, head of architecture at The Concrete Centre listened in and particularly enjoyed listening to Matt McCulloch of Grafton Architects talk about the development of the design strategy for the project – the practice’s first in the UK.

Concrete is one of the built environment’s most used, and most environmentally unfriendly, materials. That’s why researchers are so excited about a new type of concrete that absorbs carbon, heals its own cracks and even creates a habitat for wildlife.

Jenny Burridge of The Concrete Centre looks at the latest trends for tall buildings and considers some of the design, construction and material property benefits that the use of concrete brings.