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Montgomery School, Exeter

The Concrete Centre

Montgomery Primary School is the UK’s first zero carbon school built to the PassivHaus standard.

University of the Arts, London

The Concrete Centre

University of the Arts in London’s campus for Central Saint Martins at King’s Cross is a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ building and a feat of fair-faced concrete.
 

Library of Birmingham, Birmingham

The Concrete Centre

Birmingham City Council’s target for the library to be BREEAM ‘Excellent’ was made possible by ensuring thermal mass was integral to the building’s energy strategy.

TermoDeck

The Concrete Centre

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

BREEAM and BRE Assessment Methods

The Concrete Centre

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

English National Ballet, London

The Concrete Centre

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

The Concrete Centre

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

The Concrete Centre

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

The Concrete Centre

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.