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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.
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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.
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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
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These latest additions to Essex university campus bring an elegant evolution to the legacy of the campus’ brutalist concrete architecture.
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Evans Vettori’s extension building for Nottingham Trent University uses cantilevering concrete to weave around the surrounding tree roots.
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Glenn Howells shows the versatility of a repeating structural grid, with a building designed to adapt to University College Birmingham’s ever-changing needs.
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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”
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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.
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Week 5: Delivering real carbon reductions within the standards