Issue 08/2014

The CGS investment fund based in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, now also supports Masa GmbH in its further development. Earlier it had become known that CGS...

According to an actual press release of Masa GmbH the industry participation fund CGS III (Jersey) L.P. (CGS) acquired a majority share in Masa GmbH,...

The winners of the BFT tipping games have been established: The 1st place goes to the tipper with the nickname “aalglatt” from Korschenbroich. His...

The total turnover of the Liebherr Group in the 2013 business year reached approximately the same level as in the previous year. The sales revenue of...

At the end of December 2013, the merger of the machinery and equipment suppliers Hess, Prinzing and SR Schindler creating the Top-Werk Group was...

An office and commercial building is being constructed right in the city center of Hamburg at present. The location of the same at the bank of the...

The Rhine-Hessian family-owned company Weiler celebrated its 60-year anniversary on June 27. The foundation in 1954 and the takeover of the...

Tom Schmidt, Director of Pipe and Precast retired from Besser Company on 30 June 2014. Schmidt’s career began in the Finance Department of Besser...

Bauma Conexpo Africa will move to new premises: The next edition of the international trade fair for construction machinery, building material...

Cargo securing is one of the central issues of transportation. In the sector of concrete inloaders, Faymonville and its PrefaMax is one the market...

On 1 July 2014 the first step of the generational change in the management of the German company BHS-Sonthofen GmbH was successfully accomplished....

Morton Group is developing a greenfield site to build a plant with an annual precast output that enables the construction of buildings with a total...

After years of an economic upswing, rising costs are slowing down productivity and growth in Brazil‘s construction industry. An increased use of...

Aaltvedt Betong AS located in the city of Skien in South Norway has been manufacturing building materials for more than 50 years now and since 1978,...

Construction of the new plant of the New Caledonian LBDP Group was completed in April 2014. It is to produce precast floor slabs and double and...

In mid-June, the first globally organized 1st Concrete Innovation Conference took place in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Around 200 participants had...

Technologically advanced and sophisticated design software is a prerequisite for efficient work in structural engineering, as it is demonstrated by...

Automacad Inc. and Rosetta Hardscapes LLC jointly collaborate on multiple wet-cast start-up turn-key projects, driving the development of cutting-edge...

Solidian GmbH, based in Albstadt, and the CG TEC GmbH from Spalt will, in future, collaborate in the “textile building sector.” Under a common roof,...

In the recent past, textile research also has developed numerous innovations for the construction sector. Textile reinforcement is said to replace...

Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt) has approved textile-reinforced concrete of the Tudalit brand, which is the first-ever national technical...

The German approval body for construction products and types of construction (DIBt)  recently approved the straight Schöck ComBar fiberglass...

Ongoing planning during construction is increasingly becoming standard procedure. CAD solutions for structural design, reinforcement and precast...

Connection elements for connecting steel girders to reinforced-concrete elements should be easy to install and precision-fixed. At the same time, cold...

The coastal resort of Heiligenhafen on the Baltic Sea of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany is one of the holiday spots with the most hours of sunshine in...

(10) US 8,753,103 Bl (22) Feb. 13, 2013 (45) Jun. 17, 2014 (57) A dry-cast concrete block molding machine including an apparatus which successively...

Increasingly demanding requirements for the energy efficiency of buildings result in rapid, far-reaching changes of construction methods. Innovative...

Tekla takes over the business segment construction software as well as the Field 3D technology of SVS Innovations, thus extending its portfolio of...