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Why choose
concrete?
An essential material
An essential material
What is concrete?
Why do we need concrete?
Enabling great design
Enabling great design
2,000 years of outstanding design
Protecting people
Protecting people
Keeping cool with concrete
Heavyweight advantages
Fighting fire
Resisting floods
Innovating for the future
Innovating for the future
A cutting-edge material
Digital concrete
The concrete of tomorrow
Local and responsibly sourced
Local and responsibly sourced
Stornoway to Penzance: essential to local and national economies
Integrity and transparency
Tackling climate change
Tackling climate change
Decarbonising concrete
Five ways concrete is creating lower-carbon buildings
UK Concrete’s ‘roadmap to beyond net zero’ explained
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Putting our energies into carbon-cutting research
The UK concrete and cement industries have already worked hard to make significant strides in reducing carbon dioxide emissions and are committed to playing a vital role in meeting the UK’s ambition of net zero carbon by 2050.
Newham’s responsible switch
Chris Leese, Director MPA UK Concrete, comments on the decision by one east London Borough to switch from timber to concrete in a residential development.
On the front line against COVID
The recent letter from Alok Sharma MP, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to UK construction was a welcome note in what has been an extremely challenging time for everyone.
There’s no time to be complacent about climate change
Elaine Toogood, Head of Architecture at The Concrete Centre, talks about the road ahead for construction and what lessons glass milk bottles can teach the industry.
The welcome rise of whole-life sustainability
Tom de Saulles, Senior Manager of Building Sustainability at The Concrete Centre, discusses the merits of encouraging lifelong sustainability.
Winter is coming, but don’t forget the dangers of overheating
Guy Thompson, Director, Sustainability – Built Environment and Housing at The Concrete Centre, explores the link between well-designed homes and workplaces and wellbeing.
Concrete can help keep communities afloat
Read more from Elaine Toogood, Head of Architecture at The Concrete Centre, about how concrete can help us to tackle the increasing risks from flooding.
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