“Rethinking Sustainability” is the motto the 69th BetonTage. The leading congress of the concrete and precast industry will take place from 11 to 13 March 2025 in the Congress Centrum Ulm. It will...

Reductions of more than two-thirds in CO2 emissions with consistently high quality: researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) are adjusting numerous key factors to make the future...

The Front End Engineering Design represents the detailed technical planning for the GeZero decarbonization project – the first facility of Heidelberg Materials for carbon dioxide capture and storage...

The Gotthard Road Tunnel, one of the most important Alpine crossings and main connection between the region of Central Switzerland and Ticino, gets a second tunnel tube. On behalf of the Swiss Federal...

A fascinating work of art is raising at Europaplatz in St. Pölten since September 2024 – it is far more than just an aesthetic enrichment of the cityscape. The so-called „Windfänger“ (vestibule), a...

Since the adoption of the Federal Climate Change Act in 2019, with requiring climate neutrality in Germany by 2045, the requirements on producers of semi-precast concrete elements have increased too....

Over the past three years, the ReCyCONtrol research consortium, which receives funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, has developed a completely new approach to producing fresh...

Sebastian Müller AG, based in Rickenbach in the canton of Lucerne in German-speaking Switzerland, is specialized in the manufacture of concrete products for the building, civil engineering, road...

Load-bearing capacity and likewise high thermal insulation need not be mutually exclusive. This is proven by the new „KLB Wabenstein“ hollow block of the renowned lightweight concrete manufacturer KLB...

We previously featured the Sustainable Precast Certification (SPC) program that supports the industry on its route toward a sustainable future in our April 2024 issue. At the general meeting of Bund...

The first part of this article published in the BFT 12/2024 issue dealt with fasteners exposed to fatigue loading and explained how to determine their characteristic fatigue resistance. The second...

The approximately 360 precast industry experts attending Engineering Days 2024 at Salzburg Congress are optimistic about the future of prefabrication. On November 26 and 27, the participants discussed...

Pioneer for innovative fiber composite solutionsCG Tec Carbon und Glasfasertechnik GmbH based in Spalt near Nuremberg looks back on successful and over 25 years of company history as a technology...

The market leader for the production of a wide range of precast concrete elements, based near Tbilisi in Caucasian Georgia, has purchased the newly developed ERM-ECO welding line from Austrian machine...

With an investment of €32.5 million, the Vandersanden Group established a new plant in the Belgian city of Lanklaar dedicated to the production of Pirrouet facing bricks. The heart of this pilot...

Betonwerk Carl Plötner GmbH, a renowned supplier for high-quality concrete products, has further increased the efficiency and quality of its concrete mixing plants. For the modernization of the face...