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  • Mesh gets image-conscious
    Features

    What to specify: cladding and curtain walling

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    From banks to cinemas, and from theatres to homes, the latest cladding and curtain walling products can work wonders anywhere

  • A model showing how Sheffield University’s Learning Resource Centre will look when finished
    Features

    Touching the void

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    If you thought concrete had to be heavy then you've clearly never used the latest void forming systems, reports Roger Northam of Cobiax Technologies

  • Features

    Solid as a rock

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    An unfortunate side effect of the increasing use of lighter, longer floor spans is vibration, a particular problem in buidings such as hospitals. But as The Concrete Centre’s Andrew Minson reports, this doesn’t have to be a problem

  • News

    Trent's Sheffield job starts on site

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Construction is now under way on a 13-storey residential development in Tenter Street, Sheffield, which was designed by Axis Architecture.

  • The latest in hassle-free housebuilding
    News

    The latest in hassle-free housebuilding

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    H+H Celcon has introduced the RÃ¥ House (pronounced "raw"), a new concept in masonry construction. It is made from Celcon aircrete blocks stuck together using the "Thin-Joint" system. The floors and roofs also use proprietary systems, and there is an option to use Celcon Foundation blocks and the Celcon Flooring ...

  • News

    Permeable paving goes mainstream

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    A new report from Interpave, Permeable Paving Projects: Concrete Block Permeable Pavements Case Studies and Update, provides evidence of the movement of concrete block permeable pavement technology into the mainstream.

  • The concrete blocks forming the labyrinth provide thermal mass
    Features

    Playing it cool

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The first glasshouse to be built at Kew in almost 20 years is not designed to keep heat in – quite the opposite in fact. Which is why concrete proved to be as vital a component as glass.

  • Features

    Construction lessons

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    A new prestressed slab product has helped to deliver quality student accommodation at a West Country university within a tight deadline, reports George Tootell, special projects director at Buchan Concrete Solutions

  • Concrete was used to great effect at Manchester Ravensbury Community Primary School
    Features

    A class of its own

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Concrete's thermal efficiency and adaptability means it's not only well placed to deliver the government's school construction and refurbishment programme, it can do so sustainably, says The Concrete Centre's Andrew Minson

  • The library’s copper-clad performance centre protrudes from the main building
    Features

    Centre of learning

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The successful design and construction of Oldham's library and lifelong learning centre could teach other PFI consortiums a thing or two

  • The University of Edinburgh team’s winning entry
    News

    Concrete Centre names winners of student design competition

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The judges were impressed by the entries for the ‘plastic-opacity' themed contest, reports The Concrete Centre's Allan Haines

  • Features

    Carbon trading

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Timber homes might have less embodied CO2 than than those buit from concrete. But new research shows that over their lifetime, concrete homes win the carbon battle hands down. By Jeff Dyson of The Concrete Centre

  • News

    Briefs

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    News briefs …

  • News

    Get your Sustainability Awards entries in

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The Concrete Centre is inviting entries for its Sustainability Awards 2006.

  • News

    Events - Graduate summer workshop will examine ‘adventures beyond modernism'

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The resurgence of interest in the potential of concrete and its architectural and engineering possibilities will be examined as part of the 2006 graduate summer workshop, to be held between 21 and 25 August.

  • The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal extension to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, designed by Libeskind, is due to open this autumn
    News

    Events - Daniel Libeskind to present 2006 BCA Berthold Lubetkin memorial lecture

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Architect Daniel Libeskind is to present this year's British Cement Association Berthold Lubetkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Concrete Centre.

  • News

    Events - Papers wanted for the Concrete Communication Conference 2006

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    A call for papers has been issued for the forthcoming Concrete Communications Conference 2006, to be hosted by The Concrete Centre, the British Cement Association and The Concrete Society.

  • News

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Hall of Fame

    2006-06-29T00:00:00Z

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Welcome

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Hall of Fame is a celebration of the men and women who have done most to change the built environment for the greater good since 1966. That date is not arbitrary, as the Hall also acknowledges a 40th anniversary that passed earlier this year.

  • Martin Spring, Architectural editor, ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø
    News

    The judges

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Hall of Fame