If you know of any other websites that may be of interest to our visitors please let us know here - Thanks.
New concrete building design tools and ideas
Smarter Homes, NZ
NZ Govt funded website giving independent advice.
www.smarterhomes.co.nz/
Concrete 3
NZ Concrete industry initiative promoting the sustainability benefits of
concrete.
www.sustainableconcrete.org.nz/
Concrete Thinker, US
A resource to help design professionals make sustainable design a reality
through the durability, versatility and energy performance of concrete.
www.concretethinker.com/
Portland Cement Association, USA
US Industry funded and very thorough.
www.cement.org/homes/
Concrete Home Magaine, USA
www.concretehomesmagazine.com
Concrete Homes Council, USA
www.concretehomescouncil.org
Sustainable Concrete, UK
The website is designed to inform and assist those interested in knowing more
about concrete, its sustainability and how it can be used in sustainable design
and construction.
www.sustainableconcrete.org.uk
CCCA, Australia
The Australian Cement Concrete & Aggregates body has some excellent Tools
such as The Briefing, Best practice advice on topics such as Passive Solar
design, Concrete Heating in Floors, Colour and Texture in Walls, Exposed
Flatwork, etc
www.concrete.net.au
Architecture design ideas in Concrete
opus C
Concrete Architecture & Design is the international journal
for concrete architecture and design. opusC is published bimonthly with over
22.000 copies worldwide. (CCANZ has copies of the magazine available to loan
from their library in Wellington.) See some sample images from the magazine.
www.opusc.com
C+A, Australia
Architects Magazine from Cement & Concrete Association of Australia - great
stuff
www.concrete.net.au/CplusA/
Concrete Quarterly, UK
The British Cement & Concrete Association Magazine can be
downloaded in full here
www.concretecentre.com/ (back to 1947!)
Coloured Concrete Works, Germany
Lanxess (our pigment supplier) has an design initiative website
www.colored-concrete-works.com
Landscape Architecture Design Ideas with Concrete
CCCA, Australia
The Australian Cement, Concrete & Aggregates publishes a
design ideas newsletter 3 or 4 times a year, view back issues here:
www.concrete.net.au
Good concrete practice
New Zealand Concrete Society
The objects of the Society shall be to encourage a greater knowledge and
understanding of all aspects
of structural and architectural concrete and to support their development and
use where appropriate.
www.concretesociety.org.nz
New Zealand Ready Mixed Concrete Association
The New Zealand Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NZRMCA) strives to promote,
aid, foster, research,
develop and protect the interests of the Ready Mixed Concrete Industry within
New Zealand.
www.nzrmca.org.nz
New Zealand Cement and Concrete Association
www.cca.org.nz
New Zeland Master Concrete Placers Association
The industry body has some good info.
www.mcpa.org.nz
