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Offsite concrete construction

The Concrete Centre

The use of precast concrete elements is a well-established construction method. Concrete offsite solutions range from whole building and structural systems, to precast construction components, offering numerous benefits during construction and over the whole life of a building.

Narbo Via, France

The Concrete Centre

The layered pink walls of Foster + Partners' Narbo Via bring the rustic charm of the southern French soil to precision-engineered concrete, writes Tony Whitehead.

West Hub, Cambridge

The Concrete Centre

The beating heart of Cambridge’s new innovation quarter, Jestico + Whiles’ West Hub is a unique academic and public building with a highly tailored structure, writes Tony Whitehead

The Dryden Enterprise Centre, Nottingham

The Concrete Centre

Evans Vettori’s extension building for Nottingham Trent University uses cantilevering concrete to weave around the surrounding tree roots.

Moss House, Birmingham

The Concrete Centre

Glenn Howells shows the versatility of a repeating structural grid, with a building designed to adapt to University College Birmingham’s ever-changing needs.

Catalyst Building, Staffordshire

The Concrete Centre

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios combines post-tensioned slabs and open spaces for a lean, robust framework student centre capable of having “three or four lives” 

Whole-life carbon and buildings

The Concrete Centre

To acquire an overall understanding of a built project’s total carbon impact, it is necessary to assess both the anticipated operational and embodied emissions over the life of the asset. Considering the combined operational and embodied carbon emissions over a project’s expected life cycle constitutes a whole-life approach.