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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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Why choose
concrete?
An essential material
An essential material for our economy, homes, buildings, infrastructure and way of life
Local and responsibly sourced
Locally sourced, economically vital
Protecting people
Protecting people and property
Tackling climate change
Building a sustainable future
Innovating for the future
Concrete thinking: innovating for the future
Enabling great design
Creating new possibilities
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UK concrete is essential, sustainable, protecting people, innovating, helping to tackle climate change and enabling great design
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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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London College of Fashion