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Ash Court is a new student accommodation wing at Girton College in Cambridge designed to Passivhaus standard with a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating and a 100-year design life.
Speakers: Max Kettenacker, Allies and Morrison
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Greenwatt Way is a development of 10 homes constructed to Code Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes and is part of a two-year monitoring research project to understand the real life, day to day experiences of low carbon living.
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The first phase of Lend Lease’s major development in Stratford. The project consists of 2 residential blocks of 17 and 30 storeys. RC frame construction starting with large foundation pads above piles.
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Once completed, Deansgate Square, Manchester, will consist of four glazed towers – the tallest of which will be 64 storeys high - the tallest building in the UK outside London.
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The Concrete Centre’s senior architect Elaine Toogood on the design considerations and technical requirements when using brick-faced cladding.
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Embedded in a Forest of Dean hillside, Loyn & Co’s Manser Medal winner is changing public attitudes to concrete housing.
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1200 Works takes the ‘raw is more’ approach on a London end-of-terrace cast from fibre-reinforced concrete.
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Few buildings provide as valuable a template for the retrofit of existing concrete structures as the 1960s Park Hill estate in Sheffield.
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The mammoth Thames Tideway Tunnel is a 25km, 7.2m-diameter addition to London’s Victorian sewage network to make it fit for the 21st century.
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Thin joint blockwork (thin joint masonry) is a fast, clean, accurate system for construction using autoclaved aerated concrete blocks of close dimensional tolerance with 2mm-3mm mortar joints.This solution is recognised as a modern method of construction.