Dear readers of BFT International, I am delighted to be allowed to write the editorial for the BFT as a guest author. Just recently, Bauverlag – represented by its committed owner Michael Voss and by...
Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research (WKI) and TU Braunschweig have developed a sandwich element with wood-foam core and a thin cover layer made of textile-reinforced concrete. It...
The larger the buildings, the higher the shear forces that act at points on reinforced-concrete slabs. To prevent punching of columns through concrete slabs, punching shear reinforcement, commonly in...
A commercial building being large as well as prestigious has opened now in Heilbronn. The Möbel Rieger furniture store expects a high level of customer and supplier traffic at the latest location...
The precast plant Fuchs Fertigteilwerke GmbH is a family-managed company with a long tradition and more than 60 years’ experience in the manufacture, sale, marketing and development of structural...
The starting shot has sounded for the competition for the 2020 Innovation Prize of the Supplier Industry for Concrete Components. The competition organizers are looking for innovative products,...
At present, 25,000 concrete tunnel segments are being manufactured in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. After completion of the works, more than 300,000 people will benefit from this: the second...
Lucem has now successfully managed to produce translucent concrete panels with a smooth surface that is similar to fair-faced concrete. Lucem is presenting this innovation at the Architect@work show...
The BetonTage, the annual meeting place of the industry for manufacturers of structural concrete elements and concrete goods, and their market partners, will take place from 18 to 21 February 2020 for...
The South Korean precast market relies on outstanding technology for the most efficient and flexible concrete distribution & casting systems. Interconstech Co., Ltd. has been making a new history of...
Betonwerk Jungwirth GmbH based in Lower Austria is striking a new path when it comes to the extension of their pallet circulation plant in the municipality of Rappottenstein. The plant was...
Following the two previous installations of mesh welding lines at Vimco INC, located in Philadelphia, PA, their third welding line, type PL AKK was the latest Eurobend installation of this machine...
If a company wants to be successful in the long run, it will have to respond to the demands of the market. The Engel & Leonhardt precast plant is fully aware of this. The manufacturer of structural...
BIM is not a software program, but nevertheless requires special tools: BIM Viewer, Model Checker and BIM Project Spaces. What are they able to do and what should you know about them if you want to...
Heckholzhausen, with only 900 inhabitants, is the smallest of four districts in the community of Beselich in Germany. When the community center was rehabilitated, in 2016, the decision was made to...
On the site of the former freight train station in Bad Cannstatt, Germany, a new 25-hectare residential and industrial estate, NeckarPark, is currently under construction. The site was acquired in...
The company Karl Bachl GmbH & Co. KG looks back on a long, successful company history. Starting in 1926, initially with a brick plant, a corporate group with a workforce of by now around 1,800 in...
The BT Master SC (Brick & Tile Master for Scanning and Sorting) is the modification development of a successful concrete and heavy clay products inspection system, the BT Master, which has been tested...
Established in 1986, the mission of Samcrete Building Systems was to introduce and implement innovative building system solutions and new building products in the Egyptian construction market. Backed...
With the new facility in Urmitz near Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, KANN is now operating the 21st production site in Germany. A state-of-the-art finishing line for concrete block slabs, supplied and...
Public invitations to tender increasingly make low-emission construction works a prerequisite for contract awards. Increasingly strict pollutant and sound emission limits are now being imposed,...
The VDZ gGmbH, the Research Institute of the Cement Industry, in Düsseldorf, Germany, reports the results of the IGF 17996 N research project “Transferability of results from laboratory testing...
The Civil Engineering Department of the University of Cape Town (UCT) has embarked on a research program, which aims at improving the performance of South African permeable paving installations....
(11) EP 3 517 698 Al(22) 29.01.2019(43) 31.07.2019 Bulletin 2019/31(57) The invention relates to a floor slab, which is intended to form a flooring deck. The floor slab (26) includes cast concrete...
(11) 2570578 A(22) 26.07.2017 (43) 31.07.2019(57) Formwork for constructing a floor system in a building, the formwork comprising: a plurality of pre-cast concrete joists positioned in a generally...
(10) EP 3 505 685 A1(22) 25.07.2017(43) 03.07.2019 Bulletin 2019/27(57) The present invention relates to a concrete block construction method and a guide member for installing the concrete block, in...
(10) WO 2019/133406 A1(22) 20.12.2018 (43) 04.07.2019(57) The disclosed system divides the precast and cast-in-place construction into vertical and horizontal components. The vertical components are...
(10) WO 2019/138221 A(22) 09.01.2019(43) 18.07.2019(57) A cuboidal foundation block (1) for use in construction includes a first support surface (11) for supporting a structure assembled on the block,...
(11) EP 3 511 487 A1(22) 16.01.2018(43) 17.07.2019 Patent-blatt 2019/2957) Eine Schalungs-ankeraufnahme (1) für eine Betonschalungs-ankerung umfasst ein Ankergewinde (2) zur Aufnahme eines...
(10) EP 3 508 655 A1(22) 14.11.2018(43) 10.07.2019 Bulletin 2019/28(57) A foundation system (1) and method of installing the foundation system. The system including plurality of modular slabs (3, 3A,...
(10) DE 20 2019 002 230 U(22) 21.05.2019(45) 11.07.2019(57) Pflastersteinsystem, vorzugsweise aus Beton, dessen Einzelsteine im Grundriss gesehen eine gerasterte Rechteckform besitzen, ohne oder mit...
(10) DE 10 2018 101 064 A1 (22) 18.01.2018(43) 18.07.201957) Die Erfindung betrifft einen Bordstein (1) aus Beton mit (a) einer Verkehrsseite (66), (b) einer Rückenfläche (20), die der Verkehrsseite...
(10) DE 10 2016 113 190 B4(22) 18.07.2016(43) 18.01.2018 (45) 25.07.2019(57) Verfahren zur Herstellungvon Betonabstandhalterkörpern unter Verwendung von Gussbeton, zumindest einer Gussform und in die...
(10) DE 10 2018 100 354 A1 (22) 09.01.2018(43) 11.07.2019(57) Die Erfindung betrifft einen Betonstein (10) mit einem Formkörper (20), der aus wenigstens einer Mi-schung von Zement und einem Zuschlag...
(10) DE 10 2018 101 164 A1 (22) 19.01.2018(43) 25.07.2019(57) Die Erfindung betrifft einen Formeinsatz (1) für einen Formrahmen, wobei der Formrahmen zusammen mit dem Formeinsatz (1) zu einer Form...
(10) DE 20 2019 102 308 U1 (22) 24.04.2019(45) 04.07.2019(57) Rohrmodul (1) zur Ableitung von Abwasser mit einem Kanalrohr (2), wobei das Kanalrohr (2) eine Rohrinnenseite (8) aufweist, mit...
(11) EP 3 508 282 A1(22) 19.12.2018(43) 10.07.2019 Patentblatt 2019/28(57) Die Erfindung betrifft eine Betonmasse, die aus wenigstens einer Mischung von Zement und einem Zuschlag gebildet ist, zur...
(10) DE 10 2018 101 178 A1 (22) 19.01.2018(43) 25.07.2019(57) Bei einem Betonrohr mit einem eine Innenauskleidung bildenden Kunststoffrohr, wobei das Betonrohr an einem Ende eine Muffe und am anderen...
(10) DE 10 2018 101 708 A1 (22) 25.01.2018(43) 25.07.2019(57) Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft einen aus Mörtel oder Beton geformten Mauerstein oder ein Fertigbauteil, welcher(s) in seinem Inneren...
