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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
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1.5 million homes – why we must deliver quality, sustainability and safety

Government has put housing at the heart of unlocking growth in the UK, committing to deliver the biggest housebuilding programme in two generations with significant, controversial planning reforms announced to enable progress.

Shaping a climate-ready future

Climate change and a need for greater built environment resilience has defined the start of 2025 in some parts of the UK.

Squaring the circular economy with Canary Wharf Group

Squaring the circular economy with Canary Wharf Group

Coming soon: the concrete that can repair itself 

How self-healing concrete could change the built environment

Let’s use data to make informed decisions about materials

Why we need to consider the whole life carbon impacts of materials including timber and concrete.

Further, deeper, windier: how floating concrete can propel offshore wind

Offshore Wind

Make the switch: save carbon now

Recent updates to the BS 8500 concrete standard mean that there are now more lower carbon options available for use, helping architects and engineers decarbonise buildings and infrastructure.
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