Issue 05/2015

Some months ago, the European Union filed a complaint against the Federal Republic of Germany by charging that Germany had violated the Construction...

At this year’s Bau trade show, Schöck, the precast element producer, presented its new service offering to product users for the first time: effective...

H-Bau’s new corporate design could already be seen at the Bau trade show. The capital letter “H” in typical dark green symbolize strength. The new...

The campus buildings of the new Agricultural Faculty of the University of Bonn are located between the former German capital city of Bonn and the...

Thomas Naunheim has become new technical manager at Glatthaar-Fertigkeller based in Schramberg/Germany. Since 2009, the Koblenz-born engineer has...

The Pongratz family enterprise, headquartered in the German city of Freising near Munich, based on its many years of experience, is regional market...

In 2015, the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA) invited to the IconXchange for the second time. In San Antonio an editor of BFT...

The Sülzle Group, with its company Sülzle Stahlpartner, took over the bending operation of Max Schön GmbH located in the city of Lübeck on 30 March...

Located in the southwest corner of the greater Chicago area, Joliet, IL is end of the line for two routes of the Metra, Chicago‘s commuter train...

Brian Budnik has assumed the role of Director of Molds upon the announced retirement of Gary Stevens in June 2015. Budnik has assumed all of Stevens’...

The new “Connectivity” app from BASF will keep all those up to date who are interested in news from the construction industry: The online magazine...

Factory visits to two pipe manufacturing plants in close proximity were organized by the fair organizer immediately before the Precast Show in...

On 26th March Apilion Machines + Services GmbH in Kehl, southwest Germany, opened its doors for existing and potential customers to come and view a...

The Göttingen University Hospital (UMG) with its workforce of around 7,500 and 1,460 beds is one of Germany’s leading clinics. Situated in a...

Charcon Industries are not only manufacturing structural precast components for industrial and office buildings, residential developments as well as...

The Paul Wolff GmbH company with locations in the German towns of Mönchengladbach and Ditzingen offers a broad range of concrete containers for...

AB Finja Prefab, a Swedish producer of concrete elements, has been manufacturing precast elements for a particular type of house for over 20 years....

The program of this year’s Precast Show in Orlando, Florida, also included a visit to the factory of Leesburg Concrete Company, Incorporated (LCCI)....

The company M. Busch GmbH & Co. KG once again commissioned the general building construction specialist Lehde, located in the German city of Soest, with the construction of a shipping and storage hall covering an area of 2.500 m². The cost for the construction project amount to around 1.1 million euros. The groundbreaking ceremony took place at the beginning of the year; the building is scheduled for completion at the end of May 2015. M. Busch manufactures brake disks and brake drums for...

Within its Ortolan range of concrete release agents, MC-Bauchemie has introduced four new product categories into the marketplace – Ortolan Classic,...

At the beginning of 2015, a new construction project of the Dresden private all-day secondary school was completed by the owner/developer, the IBB...

This year’s Colloquium “Rheological measurements on mineral building materials” was already the 24th event of this series organized by the Eastern...

It couldn’t really get any better: potential demand for the product being offered certainly exists, political framework conditions are right, and the...

Performance optimization of concrete mixers is an issue of great significance in many industrial technologies. Using functional models for rheological...

(10) WO 2015/039869 Al (22) 3. September 20l4 (03.09.2014) (43) 26. März 2015 (26.03.2015) WIPO I PCT (71) GROZ-BECKERT KG [DE/DE]; Parkweg 2, 72458...

(10) US 2015/0075090 Al (43) Mar. 19, 2015 (73) ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Glenview, IL (US) (57) An edge lift anchor for embedment into a concrete...

(10) DE 10 2008 046 476 B4 (22) 09.09.2008 (43) 11.03.2010 (45) 12.03.2015 (73) Probst Greiftechnik Verlegesysteme GmbH, 71729 Erdmannhausen, DE (57)...

(10) US 2015/0072038 Al (22) Nov.17, 2014 (43) Mar. 12, 2015 (57) A machine for and method of manufacturing concrete U-wall type construction blocks...

(10) DE 20 2015 100 064 U1 (22) 08.01.2015 (45) 12.03.2015 (57) Betonmischung zur Herstellung eines Betonerzeugnisses mit einem stoßdämpfenden...

(10) DE 10 2007 026 346 B4 (22) 06.06.2007 (43) 24.12.2008 (45) 05.03.2015 (57) Trennstreifen, welcher einen Gehweg von einem Radweg abtrennt,...

(10) DE 10 2013 008 358 B4 (22) 16.05.2013 (43) 20.11.2014 (45) 19.03.2015 (57) Bodenelement zur Ausbildung eines Bodens in einem Tierstall,...

It is necessary to hydrophobize architectural concrete, but unfortunately quite too often products are chosen that are inappropriate for this purpose,...

The Swabian company Form + Test located in southwestern Germany develops and manufactures testing machines and systems for all applications in...

Impact plates of new modular design cater to increasingly cost-consciousness companies without cutbacks in the quality of reliable wear protection. In...

For some years now, in particular, building construction has not got around architectural concrete. A challenge of this construction method: The...

No matter whether large-scale façade elements or narrow balustrade strips are concerned – Jordahl balustrade anchors JBA are already embedded in the...

The new presidential palace with numerous side buildings was built in Abu Dhabi on 150 hectares. A large plaza in front of the palace measuring about...