Issue 11/2012

Björn Brandt is the new area manager of machinery and plant engineering for the constructions materials industry at the concrete plant expert Vollert...

After a long and fulfilling working life, Peter Aicheler, the managing director of Aicheler & Braun GmbH (Tübingen-Hirschau/Germany), will retire from...

A combined sewer has recently been rebuilt in the German city of Oldenburg. Egg-shaped reinforced-concrete pipes manufactured by Berding Beton GmbH in...

In his welcoming speech of the 18th ibausil conference held in Weimar, Professor Dr.-Ing. Horst-Michael Ludwig addressed two of the major trends in...

After a company history lasting for more than 100 years now, Deutsche Kahneisen Ge- sellschaft based in Berlin changes its name and with immediate...

The increasing demand for the Bisomark masonry elements with built-in insulation forced Bisotherm GmbH to expand its production line at its facilities...

English, Russian, Spanish, German, Lithuanian, Polish – prior to the start of the “International Symposium: Innovative Concrete Technology,” a mix of...

When the newly constructed precast plant in the Russian city of Shakhty was officially commissioned at the end of September 2012, this was also a...

In October 2011, the operating company of Frankfurt Airport, Fraport AG, commissioned a global innovation in infrastructure construction, comprising...

It is only 43 m long but unique all over the world: the new storm sewer at Hofmühlenstraße in the town of Stephanskirchen close to Rosenheim...

Damage to structural concrete components with high compressive strengths was investigated at the Institute of Building Materials Research at RWTH...

On second October, 2012, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) established a new representative office in St. Petersburg, Russia. On this occasion, a...

At Agrarzentrum West, the agriculture center in the town of Imst/Tyrol (Austria), Silikal coated a floor covering 1,500 m² with methyl-methacrylate...

The research institute of Vereinigung der Österreichischen Zementindustrie (VÖZfi - the Austrian Cement Industry Association) invited to a colloquium...

Mimi Rainero Coles, Sales and Business Development Manager with Permatile Concrete Products Co. in Bristol, Va., has been appointed National Precast...

In a cooperative project, AEG Haustechnik and Lithonplus Steinmanufaktur have developed a perfectly matching bond system, focusing on keeping...

With the new Booster product range Sauter Plersch AG has set new standards in concrete processing. Fully condensing plants are more efficient due to...

Airports are huge infrastructure projects that however require powerful underground structures in order to manage the airborne traffic successfully....

In Wörgl, Austria an apartment complex is built that is, by request of the building owner, completely planned and designed as a BIM model (BIM -...

Unico is an efficient manufacturing system for the production of monolithic manhole base sections with variable channels and connections used in...

Concrete elements freshly made need continuous ventilation to avoid discoloration of the surfaces owing to differences in the drying process. That is...

In most cases, precast concrete plants are not designed on the drawing board but result from development and investment processes lasting for many...