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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.

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.

Inverness Justice Centre, Inverness

The Concrete Centre

Reiach and Hall’s Inverness Justice Centre combines the honesty of an exposed in-situ structure with the civic dignity of a glistening precast colonnade, writes Tony Whitehead

Reflections on Concrete Elegance - Attention to Detail

The Concrete Centre

‘Attention to Detail’ was the title given to our most recent Concrete Elegance lecture, featuring projects by architectural practices well versed in detailing concrete.

Tom Herre and Matt Ball of David Chipperfield Architects presented Inagawa cemetery chapel and visitor centre. Hannah Fothergill and Rob Bearyman of Bennetts Associates and Barry Dobbins from Waterman Group presented their soon to be completed Royal College of Pathologists Headquarters in Aldgate, London.

2022 Structural Concrete Student Competition winners announced

The Concrete Centre

The Concrete Centre’s annual student Structural Concrete competition, in partnership with Laing O’Rourke, has been won by Sara Edgar, Naomi Stanton and Christopher Walsh from Queen’s University, Belfast. The 2022 competition challenge for teams of engineering students was to design a school building within an existing school development in the suburbs of a large UK city.