Concrete Perspectives February 2014

Construction sector

The DoP on websites published in the Official Journal

On 21 February 2014, the Delegated Regulation on making available online the declaration of performance for construction products was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The regulation will help to improve the communication in the construction sector and will help SMEs comply with legal obligations.

For further information, you can find here Construction Products Europe’s summary on the regulation.

Official text of the Delegated Regulation (EU) No 157/2014

International Energy Agency’s Roadmap on Technology Roadmap for energy efficient building envelopes

The Brussels launch of the International Energy Agency’s Roadmap on Technology Roadmap for energy efficient building envelopes took place at the beginning of February 2014. The publication was published online in last December and its main focus is the building envelope.

In its conclusions, the report attributes 40% savings in heating and cooling thanks to improvements of the building envelope. Also, the paper contains an action plan to all key stakeholders in order to achieve the mentioned savings.

For further information, you can find here the summary of the Roadmap.

Furthermore, you can find here the full publication.

Live from the European Union

European Commission’s winter forecast published

On 25 February, the European Commission published its winter forecast, which foresees the continuation of the economic recovery. However, the recovery is muted and reflects the impact of the economic crisis in terms of deleveraging pressures, funding constraints as well as internal and external adjustment needs.

For further information on national forecast please visit the webpage dedicated to the forecast.

European Economic Forecast- winter 2014

News in brief

National award winner projects

At the British Precast Award 2013, joint Project Award winners were Decomo UK for Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, and Thorp Precast for the new Cooperative Head Office in Manchester.

We presented the Emirates Arena in our November 2013 edition. In this edition, we present Thorp Precast’s winner. A new co-operative headquarters won the price, which is a 15 storey commercial office building. There are 3 structural cores formed with insitu concrete, these are then joined together with structural steel, the steel was supported for the first two floors by architectural white Portland mix precast columns approximately four metres tall. The steel was then fitted out with precast coffer units (Approx. 2000) typical weight about 4t, both steel and concrete were detailed in Tekla and collaboration was made between the structural steel and precast concrete sub-contractors.

If you would like to read more about the building, the whole article can be found here.

Agenda

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