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Concrete Elegance: World Class Performers

The Concrete Centre

The projects featured at this Concrete Elegance lecture are described as world-class facilities in their specialist fields of dance and medicine: the new English National Ballet and The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

UK Concrete commitment to decarbonising

The Concrete Centre

Decarbonising concrete has been a focus of the industry for 30 years. MPA UK Concrete, the group representing the UK concrete industry, has developed a framework to help inform the delivery of an ambitious roadmap for the UK concrete and cement sector to deliver net negative emissions by 2050.

City of Westminster College, London

The Concrete Centre

City of Westminster College is designed to be sustainable and energy efficient and the overall scheme has a low maintenance ethos.

The Forum, Southend-on-Sea

The Concrete Centre

The Forum building achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating and provides residents, students and visitors with great facilities and enjoyment of a sustainable and aesthetically accomplished local building.

Crosswall

The Concrete Centre

Crosswall construction is an effective and efficient method of offsite construction that employs factory-produced, precision engineered, concrete structural components. It uses precast concrete floors and load-bearing walls ideal for buildings of a cellular nature, for example hotels, student accommodation, housing and apartments.

Home Quality Mark (HQM)

The Concrete Centre

BRE launched the basic framework for the Home Quality Mark (HQM) in 2015.

Climate change resilience

The Concrete Centre

Climate change resilience is the ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from the impacts of climate change while minimising damage to the environment, economy and society. This compass helps to navigate to the evolving range of related resources produced by and in collaboration with The Concrete Centre.  

Concrete Futures

The Concrete Centre

Concrete Futures is a lecture and magazine series which is dedicated to exploring innovation, research and new developments in concrete.