Issue 11/2014

For Zenith this is a real premiere. On the occasion of an open day at the end of October, the company presented its new high-performance Zenith 1.500...

Whether used for public spaces such as golf facilities and hotels or for your own garden – CO33 is the perfect furniture series for anyone fascinated...

Sika Deutschland GmbH presents itself with a new design: in line with the complete new design of its corporate identify, the new website...

Recently, the machine and equipment manufacturers Hess Group, SR-Schindler, Prinzing-Pfeiffer and Hess AAC Systems jointly presented themselves for...

On 1 September 2014 Dipl.-Ing. Dennis Klaas (36) joined the management of Betra GmbH and will from now on support the founder of the company...

At Bauma China 2014, the Liebherr Group showcases the latest technologies and developments in the construction machinery and components segments from...

After the fall of the iron curtain in the early nineteen nineties, the need for upgrading buildings in Hungary was enormous. The demand for...

Since October 8, 2014, the internet presence of Heidelberg ­Cement AG appears in a new design. The website was visually, structurally and technically...

Conversion of the subterranean wastewater treatment plants between the German cities of Dortmund and Dinslaken results in an ecological upgrading of...

German airports are subject to stringent safety and security requirements. This also applies to taxiways and runways, which should be accessible for...

Finger Betonfertigteile and BFS jointly developed the manufacturing process for the Ecoresist liner pipe. This new pipe is resistant to highly...

Since its opening at the end of September 2014, the newly built Gerberviertel has provided attractive new options to the inhabitants of Stuttgart in...

Based on a study of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA), about 17 % of the public sewers in Germany are in need of...

A constructed wetland system for wastewater treatment was built in the course of the rehabilitation of the Woltersburg Mill near the city of...

For Villa Mehl, located in the Lower Bavarian city of Johanniskirchen, a new tower silo system for wheat with a storage volume of around 6.500 m³ was...

A realistic scope of application for UHPFRC and new options for thin-walled precast elements were defined on the basis of the experience gained in a...

Diephaus had presented the coated slab “Patio” already a year ago. The Patio is made entirely of concrete, can be easily and quickly laid in crushed...

Kann presented, among other things, the Vanity Wall at Europe‘s leading trade fair for garden and landscape construction GaLa Bau held in Nuremberg....

“If natural stone isn’t even good enough” – reads the advertising slogan of Gerwing Steinwerke for their Rock Wall stone system. Actually, the visual...

Dry masonry walls have until now consisted primarily of natural stone. The concrete products manufacturer Diephaus Betonwerk, however, now brings a...

Together with his son Klaus, Helmut Holzberger manages the business of WCH Weiler C. Holzberger Industrial Ltda. based in Rio Claro, Brazil. About 140...

D’Agostini, a company located in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil, produces concrete pipes, manholes, pavers and other precast products for...

The fdu group of companies comprising 19 factories in Germany is one of the largest manufacturers of precast concrete elements all over the world....

Helsinki, like many coastal cities, has rediscovered the benefits of waterfront siting and has shifted industrial harbor use to the periphery. The...

In order to play a pioneer role in the precast concrete industry in Shenyang/China, the company Wanrong is aiming at ­improving the production of...

The Radisson Blue Hotel situated near the Hamburg Dammtor Station has been redesigned: it now features a new basement lounge. This rearrangement...

“Building with concrete – sustainably and energy-efficient” – was the motto of the 8th Swiss Concrete Forum held on 25 June at ETH Zürich Zentral. The...

Holcim (Schweiz) AG has been organizing the concrete conference at ETA Zurich for twenty years now. Therefore, this year‘s conference attended by more...

Last year’s Big 5, the biggest construction show of the Middle East, reported impressive record figures that made you forget the crises years of 2009...

After three years, the “All-Russia Conference of Concrete Manufacturers” has evolved into one of the most important trade events of the concrete and...

In an efficient precast element production process, staff on the factory floor receive ready-to-use model information for fabrication directly from...

Designers will soon be able to use AllplanPrecast, the software package provided by Nemetschek Engineering GmbH, to design and position Schöck thermal...

The precast concrete industry is the foundation of many other segments of industry and has gained increasing significance in recent years, not least...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) gets more and more important in structural engineering, in particular, as far as internationally operating...

At present, Cathay Industries is expanding their manufacturing facilities in China, thus increasing the global capacities substantially. Since the...

The latest addition to the RheoCAD range of rheometers for concrete and mortar, the RheoCAD450, is mainly designed for quality control labs and field...

Hebau continues its innovative path with a new corrosion-free version of Microgel. Microgel “free” is a combination of active agents that removes...

Samjung Industries was established in 1992 and is producing steel pallets (Wow Board) for concrete block machines, a new type of steel pallets (Wow...

Pfeifer has seen itself for many decades not only as a manufacturer, but also as a partner of its customers and not only offers the products...

(10) DE 10 2013 003 727 A1 (22) 05.03.2013 (43) 11.09.2014 (71) Schröder, Detlef, Dipl.-Ing., 52062 Aachen, DE (57) Zusammenfassung: Es wird ein...

(10) US 2014/0270990 Al (22) Mar. 15, 2013 Publication Classification (43) Sep. 18, 2014 (71) UTILITY CONCRETE PRODUCTS, LLC, Morris, IL (US) (73)...

(11) DE 10 2013 102 982 A1 (22) 22.03.2013 (43) 25.09.2014 (71) REUSS-SEIFERT GmbH, 45549 Sprockhövel, DE (57) Zusammenfassung: Die vorliegende...

(10) DE 10 2007 015 270 B4 (22) 27.03.2007 (43) 10.07.2008 (45) 18.09.2014 (73) P.V. Betonfertigteilwerke GmbH, 63456 Hanau, DE (57) Hauptanspruch:...

(11) EP 2 775 063 A1 (43) 10.09.2014 Patentblatt 2014/37 (22) 05.03.2013 (84) AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV...

(11) EP 2 772 594 A1 (43) 03.09.2014 Patentblatt 2014/36 (22) 04.02.2014 (84) AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV...