Dear readers, in our August issue I had already formulated similar words of greetings and, as the year 2020 is nearing its end, had originally planned to again concentrate more on technical topics....
Martin Dalbert became Managing Director of SR Schindler Maschinen-Anlagentechnik GmbH in Regensburg on October 1st, 2020. Martin Dalbert has been supporting SR Schindler in sales and organizational...
The start-up Aeditive has developed a 3D process for printing concrete construction elements by robot. The company Kuka is researching further automation in construction. The construction industry...
Peri, the German distributor of Cobod’s 3D construction printers, revealed the project in Beckum at a press conference on September 29, 2020. This milestone for the future of the German construction...
The OLAS system from the company Werne & Thiel Sensortechnic was designed for rugged everyday use on concrete and gravel washout systems and is being systematically further developed. The already...
MBCC Group has emerged from the former BASF Construction Chemicals business after its acquisition by Lone Star Funds and started operations as of October 1, 2020. The transaction between BASF and Lone...
In 2016, the Association of German Concrete Engineers VDB, published in its series, the book “Betonprüfung kompakt – Die wichtigsten Untersuchungsmethoden in Wort und Bild” (Concrete Testing Compact –...
With the new Extruder E9 and Modifier E9, hollow core producers will be able to reduce concrete waste by enabling concrete recycling during production. Sustainability has always been a priority of the...
Manufacturers of precast concrete elements are faced with the challenge to produce large quantities of uniform high quality at an increasingly faster rate. At the same time, the elements are becoming...
At the Melaten Campus of RWTH Aachen University, the Aachen branch of the North Rhine-Westphalianbuilding and real estate management agency plans to build a new center of digitally networked...
The municipality of Nordheim – also called „gateway to the Zabergau region“ – is situated just about 15 minutes by car from the city of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg/Germany. The proximity to the...
“Träume brauchen Sicherheit” (“Dreams Need Security”) was once the advertising claim of a big German insurance company appealing to one of the most fundamental human needs. When it comes to security,...
Sela Concrete Products Ltd. was founded in 1986 in Ashkelon in Israel as a company specialized in the production of paving stones, curbstones, combined flooring tiles and other concrete products.In...
The Kerkstra precast company is manufacturing double-tee slabs and large-sized façade elements, among others, at their Trenton factory near Detroit/USA. The removal of formwork early in the morning...
The ThermoPin anchor system is a connecting anchor with DIBt approval for core-insulated double walls and sandwich walls with self-supported and supported facing layer. The corrosion-resistant...
Nowadays ZPB Kaczmarek is a renowned manufacturer of paving stones and accessories for road construction and civil engineering. The company is well known throughout Poland and has a reputation for...
The Thai construction industry has grown rapidly over the last 20 years. A pioneer in the industrial pre-production of precast concrete elements in Thailand is DSC Product. At the beginning of 2020,...
Courtesy of the American Concrete Institute, www.concrete.org, this paper focuses on strategies for enhancing fire resistance of high-strength concrete structures, written by Venkatesh Kumar R. Kodur,...
Eurobend GmbH offers a comprehensive line of automatic machines covering every precast application: From the entry level welding lines producing simple reinforcing elements to complete lines producing...
It was in the year 1980: the entire machinery and plant-engineering sector had for some time already undergone an immense transformation process. Manual work was increasingly replaced by automation...
(10) US 2020/0199896 Al (22) 19.12.2019(43) 25.06.2020(57) Buildings are constructed using the tilt-up technique from concrete elements that have contours that are at least partially curved. The...
(10) WO 2020/051218 Al(22) 04.09.2019(43) 12.03.2020)(57) A combined anchor and fastener that includes an anchor baseplate having at least one throughbore extending between a top surface and a bottom...
(10) US 2020/0157760 Al(22) 24.01.2020(43) 21.05.2020(57) Concrete foundations for supporting towers and other structures under heavy cyclical loads are described. Some or all of the major concrete...
(10) DE 10 2019 118 371 A1 (22) 08.07.2019(43) 09.01.2020(57) Die Erfindung betrifft eine Bauplatte mit Bewehrungskäfig, mit längsgespannter Bewehrung, die an den Plattenenden mit volumetrischen...
(10) US 2020/0157814 Al (22) 22.01.2020(43) 21.05.2020(57) A composite foam and concrete wall includes a foam layer having a top surface, a bottom surface, a left wall surface and a right wall surface...
(11) EP 3 690 159 A1(22) 07.04.2016(43) 05.08.2020 Patentblatt 2020/32(57) Bei einem tragenden, aus Beton erstellten vertikalen Gebäudeteil, insbesondere einer Stütze, mit einer oberen Auflagefläche...
(10) US 2020/0149302 Al (22) 19.01.2020(43) 14.05.2020(57) A lifting anchor assembly that is configured to be embedded in a tilt-up concrete structure includes an anchor member that has a central...
(10) WO 2020/075195 Al(22) 10.10.2019(43) 16.04.2020(57) A system and method for manufacturing composite prestressed concrete (PSC) beams using Basalt Fibre Reinforced Polymer (BFRP) bars as a...
(11) EP 3 647 499 A1(22) 15.10.2019(43) 06.05.2020 Bulletin 2020/19(57) Concrete structure comprising at least one parallelepipedic concrete block (1) that includes two opposing bases (1a, 1b), two...
(10) WO 2020/098805 Al(22) 16.11.2019(43) 22.05.2020(57) An attachment between adjacent concrete-based prefabricated modules in a single storey of a multi-storey modular building is provided. A first...
(10) WO 2020/097718 Al(22) 12.11.2019(43) 22.05.2020(57) There is described a system for preventing accumulation of meltable precipitation on a surface. The system generally has: a concrete slab...
(10) WO 2020/093078 Al(22) 05.11.2019(43) 14.05.2020(57) Es wird ein Verfahren zur Herstellung von Betonfertigteilen mit Hilfe von Gussformen (6) beschrieben. Um ein Verfahren dahingehend zu...
(10) WO 2020/107060 Al(22) 22.11.2019(43) 04.06.2020(57) A bed of recyclable molding casting medium is first laid down and then cut away to produce a mold for a concrete component or an element of...
(10) WO 2020/109735 Al(22) 28.11.2019(43) 04.06.2020(57) The invention relates to a device and an associated method for producing a perforated concrete structure having a single or multiple offset on...
