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16 Jun 2022 09:00
The Precast and Masonry Expo 2022 hosted by UK Concrete, MPA Precast and MPA Masonry returns after a 2-year hiatus to a new home at the Coventry Building Society Arena on Thursday 16th June.
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02 Jun 2020
British Precast are now updating 'The Little Green Book of Concrete'. The pocket-sized book outlines what precast concrete can offer the architect, the engineer, the client, the financier and the insurer by summarising one hundred advantages of using the material.
15 May 2020
This week, MPA launched two new pocket guides, for Managers and Employees, which are bespoke to our sector. They are specifically designed to support members in keeping employees, contractors, suppliers and customers safe as site operations adapt to the restrictions of COVID-19 and become COVID secure.
30 Mar 2020
As a result of the guidance provided by the Government and Public Health England, all APA members will cease Aircrete product production as soon and as safely as possible while continuing to review the situation to act accordingly.
01 Mar 2020
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has launched UK Concrete, a new public and political advocacy vehicle for the UK’s concrete industry.
21 Feb 2020
Today Dr Hafiz Elhag, Sustainability Manager at British Precast puts our two sustainability awards for 2020 in the spotlight.
21 Feb 2020
In January 2020, British Precast held discussions with research students and senior staff at Loughborough University’s School of Architecture Building and Civil Engineering and toured their industrial scale research laboratory. Recent research focusing on off-site fabrication of concrete components using 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) and samples of products and test manufacturing were on show and the University is advancing a number of projects, including work under the 'Transforming Construction’ arm of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
07 Feb 2020
Matt Butcher, Sustainability Executive and Secretary of British Precast Architectural and Structural puts the Digital and Manufacturing Excellence award in the spotlight.
31 Jan 2020
As part of our Awards In Perspective series, British Precast Marketing Executive Bradley Cooke-Catcheside explores three reasons the British Precast Awards are a marketing opportunity not to be missed.
20 Jan 2020
Diabetes is an invisible condition posing often unrecognised health and safety risks to companies. Civil and criminal liability could follow if steps have not been taken to identify and eliminate the risk.
10 Jan 2020
Head judge Professor Jacqueline Glass, Professor in Construction Management at University College London, outlines her hopes for the British Precast Best Practice Awards 2020.
Note to Editors
British Precast is the trade association for precast concrete manufacturers and members of the supply chain. The main aims of the federation are to promote precast concrete in the construction market and to disseminate information, through a range of industry representation and by shared knowledge, to add value to its member companies. With a growing membership of over 60 precast concrete manufacturer members, and more than 100 supply chain organisations, members' interests are continually developed through our team of dedicated professionals who have extensive connections with organisations in the UK and worldwide.
British Precast is an affliate of the Mineral Products Association (MPA), the trade association for the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, dimension stone, lime, mortar and silica sand industries.
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