Tag: planks
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Laing O’Rourke supplies Multiplex with low carbon planks for ‘biodiverse’ high-rise
Laing O’Rourke’s design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) facility will supply 68,000m² of low-carbon concrete planks for a new 36-storey office development at 50 Fenchurch Street in London, where Multiplex is main contractor. Explore Manufacturing’s appointment follows a prior one-year pre-construction services agreement. The concrete ‘Megaplank’ will be manufactured at Explore’s centre of excellence for…
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Laing’s DfMA business to supply Multiplex with low carbon planks for ‘biodiverse’ high-rise
Laing O’Rourke’s design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) facility will supply 68,000m² of low-carbon concrete planks for a new 36-storey office development at 50 Fenchurch Street in London, where Multiplex is main contractor. Explore Manufacturing’s appointment follows a prior one-year pre-construction services agreement. The concrete ‘Megaplank’ will be manufactured at Explore’s centre of excellence for…
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Skanska to use 3,000 slag cement planks in ‘ultra-sustainable’ London project
Skanska is using 3,000 precast slabs made from 50% ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) in its 105 Victoria Street scheme, which the contractor calls “London’s most sustainable office building”. Laing O’Rourke is designing, manufacturing and supplying the precast slabs for Skanska through its pre-assembly concrete manufacturing facility near Worksop, called Explore Manufacturing. Severfield, which is…