At the 18-story residential tower on Mahatma-Gandhi-Platz in Munich-Freiham, glass-fiber-reinforced concrete elements weighing up to 1.6 t define the facade. For the thermally separated fastening of...

Every project begins with decisions made at the design table. Load paths are defined, details are refined, and solutions are carefully chosen to meet both structural and practical requirements. Yet...

Approximately 120 participants gathered on October 8 for the BFT Mixing Technology Forum at Kortmann Beton in Schüttorf. Eight technical presentations and a tour of the modernized production facility...

The growing pressure on cities to redesign traffic routes and make it easier for more people to switch from cars to bicycles calls for new, practical solutions. The Munich flat curb is a new form of...

The facade of the Teatro Borsoni in Brescia features large-format precast concrete elements with a three-dimensionally textured surface. To manufacture them, Camuna Prefabbricati developed a special...

With the commissioning of a new ERM-ECO/158 mesh welding system from the Austrian machine manufacturer EVG, SAKO Stahl is expanding its reinforcing steel production. The system enables the fully...

In the university town of Siegen, the “Schleifmühlchen” junction serves as a major distribution point for surrounding inner-city junctions and adjacent urban areas. As early as 2002, the city of...

Summer is the time when decorative concrete shines, and concrete contractors are busy laying and stamping elegant patterns on sidewalks, patios, driveways, and pool surrounds. But what happens to the...

In Srem, western Poland – approximately 45 kilometers south of Poznan – one of the country’s most ambitious municipal housing projects demonstrates how modern multi-story residential construction can...

Few buildings in the world are as famous as the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. For more than 140 years, the structure has been considered one of the world’s most extraordinary architectural projects....

The product line of Eurobend GmbH includes sustainable solutions and a wide range of automatic mesh welding and reinforcing steel processing machines for the greatest majority of precast concrete...

Hardly any other topic in the concrete industry is as hotly debated as mixing technology. Is a planetary mixer the right choice for my product, or would a disc mixer, counterflow mixer, twin-shaft...

By implementing Idat Revit Precast, Hormipresa has taken a decisive step towards fully BIM-based precast engineering. The Autodesk Revit-based solution is gradually replacing the company’s existing...

In modern concrete and building materials development, the quality of testing technology is increasingly decisive for subsequent success on an industrial scale. Especially in the laboratory, where...

Anhanguera Construção Industrializada is modernizing its precast concrete plant in collaboration with the European machinery and software manufacturer Progress Group, thereby expanding its product...

In its 65th year of existence, Teka Maschinenbau GmbH has set another significant milestone in its successful corporate development: The family-run company from Edenkoben was honored as a “Hidden...

Managing production processes at a precast concrete plant requires close coordination between the various departments. Olympus Precast in Utah, USA, relies on the AheadSuite software from the Progress...