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Week 2: Precast concrete and MMC
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UCL’s East Bank campus heralds a new chapter for the Olympic Park. Nick Jones looks around the first buildings to emerge on a waterfront development devoted to culture and learning
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This afternoon of practical and informative seminars will provide designers with guidance on regulation and specification as well design exemplars and practical advice on concrete.
The event will cover Part L and thermal performance, this will include an update on recent changes to building regulations and guidance on ways to achieve high thermal performance detailing using concrete and masonry. Concrete and BREEAM:2014, achieving polished concrete floors by offering Practical guidance, tips and tricks for specification and installation of cast in situ concrete floors with case studies from an experienced installer and specialist in concrete postfinishing techniques and lastly a case study of John Henry Brookes Building. This project was awarded winner of RIBA South Sustainability & Building of the Year categories. The use of visual concrete is integral to the low energy strategy and BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.
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Case study articles include: Francis Crick Institute, London; Tate Modern extension; London Salerno Marine Terminal.
Technical articles on: thermal bridging; timber formwork; concrete's fire resistance.
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High levels of GGBS and a lean ribbed-slab structure have helped to reduced embodied carbon by 30% at Tatehindle’s admirably restrained HQ for the Salvation Army, writes Tony Whitehead
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At 333 Kingsland Road and Hackney New Primary School, the practice unites two very different typologies through big public gestures and bold red masonry.
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AHMM has resuscitated the 18th-century Royal London Hospital, adapting and extending it into a flagship centre of east London civic life
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