For the past 50 years, Pfeifer has been supplying industrially manufactured lifting anchors to the precast construction industry. Thread systems originate in the development of an anchor sleeve and a...
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Reinforcing steel in coils – Current specifications and new developments
Betonstahl im Ring - Aktuelle Anforderungen und neue Entwicklungen
Dr.-Ing. Michael Schwarzkopf
Precast floor...
Can entitlements to benefits be effectively
excluded in the future?
The use of provisos governing the discretionary nature of payments and their revocation in employment contracts aims to exclude a...
Since the early 1990s, concrete tanks for three-compartment septic tanks have been manufactured of quality-controlled reinforced-concrete components using concrete grade B 45. After 25 years in...
Working with and at the European standard for small wastewater treatment plants EN 12566-3 for seven years, amending it the first time in 2009 and adding a second amendment, that will be published in...
Two-way precast floor slabs require an overlapping joint of the load carrying reinforcement in both directions. As the overlapping reinforcement lies within the in-situ concrete, special detailing of...
For several decades, precast slabs with cast-in-situ infills have been successfully used in building construction and, more recently, in civil engineering. These precast elements are usually produced...
At RWTHAachen University currently a pavilion is realized with a load-bearing structure consisting of four large-sized concrete shells. As reinforcement a non-corroding high strength textile fabrics...
Who is not familiar with the situation: having to carry thick product catalogs and data sheets to the construction site. In order to avoid such trouble, Sika developed the new „Product Finder App“...
Generally accepted, internationally recognized methods (CIF and CDF) exist for testing the freeze/thaw resistance of concrete at high water saturation rates irrespective of the simultaneous action of...