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Listing of all 24 news releases from The Concrete Centre:

Energy and CO2: building with concrete and masonry

The Concrete Centre is to hold a series of breakfast seminars examining how concrete and masonry construction can meet the requirements of The Code for Sustainable Homes.

News from The Concrete Centre (25 June 2008)

Concrete well placed for sustainable construction

Technical background article The Concrete Centre believes that concrete is well placed to deliver many of the Government's proposed targets that aim to provide long-term holistic sustainable construction solutions.

News from The Concrete Centre (16 June 2008)

Calls for flood resilience kitemark welcomed

Technical background article The Concrete Centre has welcomed the call from the Association of British Insurers for new flood resilience kitemark for housing developments planned for flood plains.

News from The Concrete Centre ( 2 June 2008)

Concrete sector ready to work with new Eurocodes

Technical background article The Concrete Centre believes that the annoucement from BSI that they no longer support BS8110 will act as a further prompt to those firms which are yet to adopt Eurocode 2 for concrete.

News from The Concrete Centre (22 May 2008)

Concrete Communications Conference

The development and enhancement of communication between universities and private practice on concrete design and construction will be continued at a forthcoming conference.

News from The Concrete Centre (14 May 2008)

Building Design to Eurocode 2

The Concrete Centre is to hold a one-day course entitled Building Design to Eurocode 2: Theory and Worked Examples.

News from The Concrete Centre ( 8 May 2008)

Requirements of Code for Sustainable Homes

Technical background article The Concrete Centre publish new guide demonstrating how to achieve Code's mandatory energy and CO2 requirements with masonry and concrete.

News from The Concrete Centre ( 3 April 2008)

Free evening seminars held by The Concrete Centre

Free evening seminars on 'Innovate Green' office in Leeds which has achieved one of the best ever BREEAM scores of 87.5%.

News from The Concrete Centre ( 3 April 2008)

The Concrete Centre Sustainability Awards 2008

Entries are invited for The Concrete Centre's 2008 Sustainability Award to be presented at The Concrete Society's annual dinner in November.

News from The Concrete Centre (27 February 2008)

Concrete Centre joins UK Green Building Council

The Concrete Centre, has joined the UK Green Building Council, whose mission is to improve the sustainability of the built environment.

News from The Concrete Centre (18 February 2008)

Latest 'Concrete Surfaces' course

Following a sell-out course held late 2007, The Concrete Centre announce a repeat of the Concrete Surfaces short course, held in partnership with The Building Centre Trust.

News from The Concrete Centre (30 January 2008)

Precast Construction Guide

Published by The Concrete Centre and supported by British Precast, 'Precast Concrete in Buildings: A Guide to Design and Construction', provides overview of precast construction solutions.

News from The Concrete Centre (21 January 2008)

Building Design to Eurocode 2

The Concrete Centre is to hold one-day course on Building Design to Eurocode 2: Theory and Worked Examples.

News from The Concrete Centre (21 January 2008)

Summer flood report welcomed by concrete industry

Technical background article The Concrete Centre believes that realisation of the flood resilient properties of concrete will help the UK to lessen the impact of future flooding.

News from The Concrete Centre (20 December 2007)

Entries invited for Structural Concrete 2008

Entries are invited from students of structural and civil engineering for the Structural Concrete 2008 Student Design Competition.

News from The Concrete Centre (20 November 2007)

Eurocode 6 guidance published

Technical background article The Concrete Centre and the Modern Masonry Alliance have jointly published a series of three guides entitled How to design masonry structures using Eurocode 6

News from The Concrete Centre (20 November 2007)

Recycled materials usage sets benchmark

Arup collected first prize in The Concrete Centre's Award for Sustainability 2007 for high percentage of recycled materials used at Number 1 Coleman Street, London.

News from The Concrete Centre ( 6 November 2007)

Winter school in concrete design

The Concrete Centre, in collaboration with Imperial College London, is to hold a two-day Winter School with Concrete at Imperial College.

News from The Concrete Centre (25 October 2007)

Insurers to reduce premiums for flood resilience

Technical background article Need to strengthen building regulations to incorporate flood-resilience measures and encourage insurance companies to reduce premiums for properties that have such measures.