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20 Apr 2022
Calling both MPA Members and those working closely with them across all Product Groups. Enter these long established and highly acclaimed awards and play a pivotal role in preventing serious injuries and fatalities within the mineral products industry. Deadline: Friday 20th May
09 Jan 2020
Building projects in the UK are specifying a design life of 60 years, but, British concrete standards give information to intended working lives of 50 or 100 years. British Precast Architectural and Structural have produced a helpful factsheet to resolve the discrepancy.
11 Oct 2019
Get the *New* Offsite Concrete Construction Guide
01 Jul 2019
British Precast Architectural and Structural have published a third EPD, detailing the environmental impact of 1m2 of brick-faced precast concrete cladding from cradle-to-grave.
01 Mar 2019
The Concrete Centre’s senior architect Elaine Toogood on the design considerations and technical requirements when using brick-faced cladding.
13 Nov 2018
British Precast Architectural and Structural offers a range of helpful resources to help architects and specifiers maximise the benefits of offsite precast.
28 Aug 2018
The recommendations from Dame Judith Hackitt’s report provides a direction of travel for managing fire safety and building safety more generally. Lessons can be applied by designers now, writes Andrew Minson.
28 Aug 2018
Precast concrete is virtually unlimited in its application including the entire structure or selected elements such as frame, floors, walls, stairs or balconies. The advantages of factory production, combined with the inherent benefits of concrete, provide compelling reasons to use precast concrete.
11 Jul 2018
The product association previously known as the Architectural and Structural Precast Association (ASPA) underwent a rebrand at the start of 2018 to bring its brand identity in line with a number of other associations across the British Precast family.
11 Jul 2018
The next frontier in the crusade to cut construction’s carbon emissions is likely to be environmental product declarations (EPDs) – and precast concrete has already taken a lead.