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Practice presentations & workshops

The Concrete Centre

Practice Workshops - The Concrete Centre is staffed by architects, structural engineers, and material specialists and our aim is to enable designers to realise the potential of concrete for their projects.

Concrete and the Carbon Challenge

The Concrete Centre

Guy Thompson explains how The Concrete Centre responds to the challenges and many enquiries about the sustainability performance of concrete and how the industry is committed to a holistic measure of sustainability thus enabling designers and specifiers to produce evermore sustainable solutions.

Reflections on Concrete Elegance - Sustainable Education

The Concrete Centre

Two very different examples of educational buildings were featured in this year’s first Concrete Elegance lecture: Bobby Moore Academy Secondary School, Stratford is a new school with an ambitious programme on a tight site in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Specifying concrete for a sustainable built environment

The Concrete Centre

The Government’s commitment to net zero carbon for UK is to be net zero by 2050. To make a genuinely positive impact to global climate change this needs to be achieved without significant carbon leakage – where we use products that emit their carbon elsewhere.

Visual concrete

The Concrete Centre

Visual concrete can provide the most basic, utilitarian surface, appropriate for a plant room through to highly finished cladding for a corporate headquarters or gallery, and every quality of finish in between. Find out about how to specify visual concrete and the material efficiency and energy performance benefits of using concrete as a finish.

Cost & programme

The Concrete Centre

Concrete frames can be constructed quickly, safely and are cost-effective.

Circular economy

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.

1 New Park Square, Edinburgh

The Concrete Centre

AHMM’s all-electric office building in Edinburgh is designed to stand the test of time, with exposed concrete playing a crucial role in its low-carbon operation.

Concrete House, Lewes

The Concrete Centre

Adrian Corrigall’s self-built house is part film set, part adventure playground – but all concrete. Tony Whitehead explores the ‘disruptive’ technologies behind a unique dream home.