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TermoDeck

TermoDeck is a system that uses the thermal mass in hollowcore concrete floors to provide low energy heating and cooling.

Sustainability Series: Energy efficient homes – some contemporary solutions (Week 3)

BREEAM and BRE Assessment Methods

BREEAM is a suite of assessment methods developed by BRE that provide a benchmark for sustainable construction and design.

Part L1, SAP and TFEE

This page provides information on part L1A

English National Ballet, London

The hybrid concrete structure, combines a cast insitu fame with long span prestressed precast T beams is exposed inside, which together with polished concrete floors, provide thermal mass and a comfortable but robust, contemporary environment.

Material efficiency

How concrete production itself uses waste derived from other industries, as well as how the material can be made more efficient, through design.

Designing low-carbon concrete basements

Emily Halliwell of The Concrete Centre and The Basement Information Centre discusses the factors designers should consider to achieve low-carbon basement designs.

Bobby Moore Academy Secondary School, London

An unusually tall school building that optimizes the use of the thermal mass of cast in situ concrete structure to provide low energy consumption while employing an innovative ventilation strategy in response to a noisy external environment.

Hybrid concrete construction

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Housing

How concrete can deliver energy efficiency through low embodied and operational energy and carbon for housing and structural frames.