having embarked on a completely new path last year with the fully virtual BetonTage congress and exhibition owing to the pandemic, the large number of requests for face-to-face engagement we...
Research, innovation and technology have long combined ecologic, economic and sociologic aspects in the building sector to make building more eco-friendly and more sustainable. The internationally...
The L-mobile forklift management system prevents loading errors and reduces search and loading times at Birkenmeier Stein+Design GmbH.What is currently one of the biggest challenges of outdoor storage...
The Swiss Block AG, being a Swiss market leader in the field of modular concrete block systems, has also been present in Germany now. The SwissBlock products are convincing with a clever system that...
Lanxess, the specialty chemicals group, is the first manufacturer of synthetic iron oxide pigments to offer verified Environmental Product Declarations (EDP) for selected product groups. Together with...
This new concept of pavement laying began with observation and with dialog on the construction site. The Swabian company Probst, as customer-oriented innovation leader, located in Erdmannhausen,...
Patios, in modern architecture, are open spaces in which generously designed exterior outdoor areas homogenously and harmoniously make a pleasing presentation. Clear delineations dominate, with the...
The measuring probe for determining the water-cement ratio already presented for the first time at bauma 2016 has recently been further developed. Apart from the electronics, the new feature is the...
The Eirich Group, with Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich as its strategic headquarters in Hardheim, has been market leader in mixing and processing technology all over the world for almost 160 years now....
Over 5 thousand confirmed visitors; 234 accredited exhibitors; 8 conferences; 27 awards delivered; over 15 thousand square meters of exhibition space. The 4th edition of the GIC/Italian Concrete Days,...
Heist-op-den-Berg is a Belgian municipality in the region of Flandern and also the location of the university of music, lyric and dance as well as fine and applied arts. Up to now the education took...
Eurobend GmbH will be presenting this year at the Wire Show Düsseldorf in the Hall 15, booth No E28 the PLT B K3K6 spacer welding machine for A- shaped spacers and bar supports. This machine is ideal...
In the Iberian Peninsula, the share of industrial construction is less than 1%, compared to 45% in Central and Northern Europe in 2020. Against this background, Grupo Aviantia, one of Spain‘s leading...
Recently, the problem of the ecological situation and the protection of the environment has been discussed all over the world. But 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions come from buildings and...
G&J Industries, a future-driven Belgian family business producing prestressed concrete elements, decided to boost its production capacity by adding an Extruder X-Liner from Echo Precast...
Although climate-neutral concrete construction is possible, it represents a great challenge. The technical approaches to the use of the materials involved here are closely linked to the availability...
For health protection, the presently more than 240 km and/or 8.8 million m² of noise-protection walls already installed in Germany are being continuously extended and replaced. Noise-protection walls...
In order to reduce the CO2 footprint of cement it is necessary to decrease the clinker content significantly, i.e. well below 50 %. To probe into such systems, the use of alternative raw materials...
In 2021, discussions took place on various levels within the German Committee for Structural Concrete (DAfStb) on how to transform the challenges posed by the German Act on Climate Protection and the...
HeidelbergCement is committed to reaching carbon neutrality of its entire product portfolio on the concrete level by 2050. Heidelberg-Cement will work on all levels not only to minimize emissions, but...
Concrete is by far the construction material manufactured in the largest quantities worldwide. Its enormous significance in the context of the current sustainability assessment demonstrates clearly...
The use of recycled chips saves considerable quantities of natural raw materials. Use of recycled chips is therefore an ecologically valuable alternative for processing natural resources. This...
The law on bringing onto the market, taking back and the high-quality recycling of packaging (VerpackG) has been in effect in Germany since 01 January 2019. The Packaging Act replaces the Packaging...
The conventional evaluation of fresh concrete on the basis of flow consistency is frequently not sufficient to ensure proper concrete processing. Subsequent surface finishing may be severely impaired,...
A lot of bridges feature age-related damages. However, it is not always possible to detect such damages in inspections of the external building structure. Internal damages such as the fracture of...
In 2020, a 200-m bridge, constructed in 1934 over the Rhine River near the city of Albbruck in Germany, was rehabilitated with carbon concrete. In the longitudinal direction of the pedestrian and...
Re-analyses of existing reinforced-concrete buildings or structures often reveal shear resistance deficits. This is primarily due to higher loads, for instance owing to heavy-truck traffic or...
The guidelines and standards currently applicable to concrete construction consider the individual processes (design, concrete and execution of the construction work) in separate standards. They are...
The comprehensive “C³ – Carbon Concrete Composite” project [1] funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from 2014 to 2022 includes an in-depth investigation of the...
In the future, the construction industry will have to resort to alternative building materials owing to the high carbon emissions associated with the cement production process. Using non-corrosive...
Making construction with concrete more resource-efficient and climate-friendly is one of the most important goals in civil engineering. Within the DFG-funded priority program 1542 “Concrete light”,...
The existing knowledge of the bond behavior of reinforced concrete cannot be transferred “as is” to textile-reinforced structures. The bond between textile reinforcement and concrete is dependent on...
In CRC/TRR 280, “Design strategies for material-minimized carbon-reinforced concrete structures”, scientists of TU Dresden, RWTH Aachen University and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden...
So far, European standards do not stipulate generally applicable verification rules for the punching shear of slabs made of carbon-reinforced concrete. In addition, regulations on the structural...
The concrete construction concept ensures the quality of concrete construction at ambient temperatures in summer and winter (< +5 °C; > +30 °C). Additional measures are taken, for example, to avoid...
With steel fiber reinforced concrete, not only the fiber volume fraction, but also the fiber orientation has a decisive influence on the mechanical properties. This is especially true for the behavior...
Pre-applied bonded membranes are used as additional or precautionary waterproofing measures for waterproof concrete structures. They can be used especially for geometrically complex, constrained...
Steel fiber reinforced concretes have an enormous potential due to the elimination of labor-intensive and time-consuming reinforcement works. In addition to this, steel fiber reinforced concretes...
Installing conventional reinforcement is expensive and time-consuming. This process step is eliminated by using steel fiber reinforced concrete. However, in general, fibers are not used as the only...
The advantages of precast concrete elements known from industrial construction can also be successfully used in high-rise buildings. Completed projects such as the “Tanzende Türme” in Hamburg or the...
Concreting at high summer or very low winter temperatures poses special challenges for planning and construction. High fresh concrete temperatures lead to earlier slump loss and faster hardening of...
Non-metallic reinforcement made of fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) features high tensile strength and excellent resistance to corrosion. Existing models for predicting the shear resistance of...
Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is used for slender structural members with high load-bearing capacity. The wide range of UHPC applications includes structural frameworks, façades, prestressed...
In aerospace engineering and in the wind park sector, multiaxial structures have long been established as textile reinforcement material. The automobile industry, too, is increasingly demanding...
Carbon concrete is a recent material for which carbon-fiber strands as a composite material in the form of non-metallic reinforcement are inserted in concrete and for which no long-term experience is...
Since the 1930s, numerous prestressed thin-walled building elements, prestressed both with and without bond, have been used in construction worldwide. Examples range from buildings with simple slab...
The CPC-Optima (CPC = carbon-prestressed concrete) modular bridge system is suitable for pedestrian and cycle bridges. This trough bridge design comprises a deck slab and two lateral beams. The beams...
At present, about 70 % of space heating for private households are provided by fossil energy sources. The projected transition for using renewable energies exclusively leads to the fact that fewer and...
The demand for durable bridges with short to medium spans has been increasing in recent years. Concrete is ideally suited for bridges of this kind. For achieving high durability with economical use of...
Wood-hybrid construction has enjoyed growing popularity during recent years, especially owing to the increasing focus on low-carbon, sustainable construction with economy of resources use, as...
When it comes to performance and fast construction time, timber-concrete composite floors systems (TCC floors) are a feasible and resource-efficient alternative to conventional reinforced-concrete...
Adhesively bonded timber-concrete composite structures open up a wide range of new opportunities with respect to achieving a high degreeof prefabrication while ensuring efficient and...
As a result of the imperative need to reduce the environmental impactof concrete production, increasingly complex formulations are used inpractical application with, in some cases, nine to ten...
In the last few years, economic and ecological objectives led to ever more stringent requirements in terms of energy efficiency in building construction. The installation of additional insulation...
Concrete and steel are the most significant structural building materials that leave their marks on our built environment in many shapes and forms, which is why they are also key determinants of...
Any performance-based durability design will inevitably require reliable, reproducible performance criteria. However, there is not yet a uniform or standardized test method for assessing the acid...
Insulation layers consisting of polystyrene or polyurethane are usually incorporated into concrete façades in order to increase their thermal resistivity to ensure compliance with the specified...
The European Union has adopted the Green Deal to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050 and to minimize the use of primary resources. The construction industry is exceedingly resource-intensive and emits...
The town hall of Korbach has been a central and characteristic point of contact for the town’s citizens for many decades. As the existing building added to the historic town hall in the 1970s was...
In the past few years, the requirements related to fair-faced concrete and architectural concrete “seem” to have increased considerably in precast concrete construction. But is that true? It can be...
Structural precast elements are primarily used in classic industrial and commercial construction. In the form of such elements as roof trusses, beams, horizontal members, transfer beams and columns,...
There is a demand for sophisticated sandwich façade elements beyond uniform large-panel construction that offer visual depth and eye-catching textures. Planning requirements increase in line with the...
Concrete is a construction material that comes in a wide range of varieties. Despite industrial production, modern technologies and decades of experience, still today no two parts are the same....
Building fast and in a resource-efficient manner is a challenge of our times. It is imperative to minimize disruptions in infrastructure and CO2 emissions because of construction activities. In the...
Securing urban spaces is one of the most important municipal tasks and is preferably realized by means of mobile vehicle barriers that often resemble a fortress. The newly developed Blockmaxx barrier...
The future climate solution must cover our daily requirements by using renewable energy as much as possible. The development of absorbers for storing heat inside building shells plays a major role...
Unlike in the construction sector, 3D printing technology has already gained much ground in many other industries. In recent years, however, the intensity of research into additive manufacturing with...
Additive production processes provide ample design freedom in combination with utmost precision and a high degree of automation, which is why they may potentially become the key technology in the...
Digital Manufacturing (often referred to as 3D printing) has become a standard process in numerous industries including the automotive and airline industry, in utility manufacturing or even in...
3D concrete printing has the potential to achieve a breakthrough in the construction industry. However, a number of challenges need to be overcome. An important step for transferring the 3D concrete...
Digital fabrication with concrete (DFC) is a dynamic and rapidly evolving area. The variety of approaches used and of the associated opportunities and challenges is overwhelming. This paper presents a...
What are you doing about sustainability? That is today’s urgent question in many sectors of business and also in the construction and buildings sector. Our economic sector alone causes currently 38 %...
Virtual reality (VR) considers only digital information in a virtual environment. Hence, VR is a tool for planning in a phase “when there is not yet a reality”. In augmented reality (AR) digital...
BIM-based project management is currently still under development in infrastructure and engineering construction. Little research has been done to date in particular in the realization phase as to how...
In December 2020, the extension of the U5 subway line went into service in Berlin. Departing from Hönow, the U5 no longer terminates at Alexanderplatz but continues to Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Main...
Sustainable mobility und logistics are among the most important future challenges. Currently electric mobility is in the focus with many innovative vehicle solutions. However, transport systems of the...
On July 14/15, 2021, a flood event caused huge damages in the Ahrweiler district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is above all a tragedy that 134 lives were lost. The magnitude of the...
At the 2015 World Climate Conference in Paris, it was agreed to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions accordingly. Utilizing previously unused industrial or...
Building with concrete has been the subject of critical media coverage ever since the climate policy debate began. Its share of global carbon emissions is relatively high at up to 8 % owing to the...
(10) DE 20 2020 106 060 U1(22) 23.10.2020(43) 03.03.2022(57) Abstandshaltevorrichtung (1) für die beabstandete Anordnung von Beton-Elementdeckenteilen (10) mit einem einen Obergurt (15) umfassenden...
(10) US 2022/0098818 Al(22) 28.11.2019(43) 31.03.2022(57) The present disclosure relates to: a flexible joint connecting device used for sequentially coupling precast concrete segments so as to...
(10) US 2022/0088822 Al (22) 17.01.2020(43) 24.03.2022(57) One aspect of the present invention pertains to methods of forming concrete structures. Another aspect of the present invention pertains to...
(10) US 2022/0098099 Al(22) 10.01.2020(43) 31.03.2022(57) A composite structure includes a concrete matrix and a fiber embedded in the concrete matrix. The fiber includes steel. A surface of the fiber...
(10) DE 10 2020 125 253 A1(22) 28.09.2020(43) 31.03.2022(57) Verfahren zum Herstellen eines Betonhohlkörpers (6), der einen im Wesentlichen rohrförmigen, durch ein Schleuderverfahren in einer...
(10) DE 10 2020 124 552 A1 (22) 21.09.2020(43) 24.03.2022(57) Zusammenfassung: Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zum lageweisen Herstellen von Pflastersteinen (16) aus Beton, welche zur Verlegung...
(10) DE 10 2020 122 776 A1 (22) 01.09.2020, (43) 03.03.2022(57) Zusammenfassung: Die Erfindung betrifft eine Betonschraube (1) zum Einschrauben in ein Bohrloch (2) in einem Bauteil (3) aus Beton. Auf...
(11) AU 2022201170 Al (22) 2022.02.22(43) 2022.03.17(57) A method of protecting steel in a reinforced concrete element is disclosed. The reinforced concrete of the element contains an electrolyte. The...
(11) EP 3 964 337 Al(22) 06.09.2021(43) 09.03.2022 (57) The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a concrete slab (17) comprising:a)providing a pipe (11) and a first flexible form...
(11) EP 3 967 827 Al(22) 07.09.2021 (43) 16.03.2022 (57) Beschrieben wird ein Treppenstufenbetonfertigteil T, aufweisend einen Fundamentabschnitt F und einen Stufenabschnitt S, wobei der...
(11) PL3075504(43) 21.03.2022(57) Es wird eine Vorrichtung (VO) zur Herstellung von Betonformteilen in einer Formmaschine angegeben, die ein Formoberteil (FB) mit wenigstens einem Druckstempel (DS)...
(10) US 2022/0064934 Al (22) 13.08.2021(43) 03.03.2022(57) A factory-built home that is capable of being constructed on a concrete foundation slab is disclosed herein. The home is broken down into a...
(10) US 2022/0064945 Al (43) 03.03.2022(57) A prefabricated concrete form with vertical spacers between fill forming cladding with cut-outs in the spacers having horizontal rebar received therethrough...
(10) US 2022/0074146 Al (22) 18.11.2021(43) 10.03.2022(57) A method of manufacturing a paving block with embedded photoluminescent material, comprising the steps of mixing sand, aggregate, water, and...
(10) US 2022/0081867 Al (22) 19.02.2020(43) 17.03.2022(57) A method of constructing an underwater concrete block structure includes assembling a plurality of concrete blocks into a concrete block...
(10) DE 20 2022 000 056 U1(22) 11.01.2022(43) 03.03.2022(57) Der Schutz-anspruch 1 wird dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es sich um ein Leichtbeton-Fertigteilelement handelt, welches in Form eines...
(10) DE 10 2020 122 516 A1(22) 8.08.2020(43) 03.03.2022(57) Die Erfindung betrifft einen Betonstein, insbesondere in Form eines im Verbund verlegbaren Flächenelementes zur Erstellung eines...
