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FOREWORD | VORWORTE

The wrong piano

Recently, on a rainy winter weekend, while going through my record collection, I came across “The Köln Concert” by Keith Jarret from 1975. It felt like half an eternity since I had last listened to...

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Dear ladies and gentlemen,

the BetonTage greet you for the first time in May and though currenteconomic forecasts  evoke little spring feelings, we with the largest European specialist congress in this sector of industry and a...

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

it is with honor that I write this short note as President of the Inter-national Federation for Structural Concrete (fib) at this gathering of experts at BetonTage on concrete solutions, taking place...

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NEWS | NACHRICHTEN

New innovative precast frost protection

With patented innovations, the Glatthaar Keller company has decisively shaped the construction of basements and ground slabs over the last 40 years. Now, the company has introduced another...

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UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION | TIEFBAU

PRECAST ELEMENT PRODUCTION | FERTIGTEILHERSTELLUNG

EVENTS | VERANSTALTUNGEN

SCHLEIBINGER/OTH

33rd Rheology Conference at OTH Regensburg

In late February of this year, the East Bavarian University of Applied Sciences (OTH) in Regensburg, Germany, held its 33rd Rheological Conference, headed by Prof. Charlotte Thiel. The Conference was...

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SYSTEMS ENGINEERING | ANLAGENTECHNIK

MCT ITALY

RCPA: The Australian Pipe Company

RCPA aspires to be the supplier of choice and market leader in stormwater pipe & associated precast products. The corporate values are communicated as First, Family, Inclusiveness & Innovation,...

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PANEL 1 | PODIUM 1

Day 1: Tuesday, 14th May 2024

Panel 1: Prefabrication – Future of construction

11 Sustainability at the precast plant – New mindset, new plant, new products Nachhaltigkeit im Fertigteilwerk – Neues Mindset, neues Werk, neue Produkte Dr. Jan Wenker, Dipl.-Ing. (BA) Thomas Trieb...

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PANEL 2 | PODIUM 2

Day 1: Tuesday, 14th May 2024

Panel 2: Urban design of living spaces

17 Urban builders can support human health by fostering microbes from nature Unterstützung der menschlichen Gesundheit durch Förderung natürlicher Mikroorganismen im urbanen Umfeld Marco van Es 18...

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PANEL 3 | PODIUM 3

Day 1: Tuesday, 14th May 2024

Panel 3: Economy and law

25 Organizing company succession appropriately – A legal perspective Unternehmensnachfolge erfolgreich gestalten – eine rechtliche Betrachtung Prof. Dr. Christian Bochmann, LL.M. 26 Between the...

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PANEL 4 | PODIUM 4

Improving silo safety, reducing emissions

To achieve the Agenda 2030 sustainability goals, plant operators in all industries must reduce energy costs, lower dust and carbon emissions, mitigate noise, and improve the safety of plants and for...

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How to fasten sandwich panels to concrete

Simple, fast, and economical: The MXC direct fastener from SFS meets these requirements. This new screw is used to fasten sandwich panels to concrete – without the usual steel rail embedded in...

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PANEL 5 | PODIUM 5

Day 2: Wednesday, 15st May 2024

Panel 5: Practice-oriented research for concrete

45 Low-carbon, resource-efficient concrete for precast elements – Workability and early strength CO2- und ressourceneffiziente Betone für Betonfertigteile und Betonwaren – Verarbeitbarkeit und...

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PANEL 6 | PODIUM 6

Day 2: Wednesday, 15th May 2024

Panel 6: Lightwight concrete

53 Sustainability – Greenhouse gas emissions from the production of lightweight concrete Nachhaltigkeit – Treibhausgasemission durch die Produktion von Leichtbeton Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Pohl 54...

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Fire protection with lightweight concrete

With lightweight concrete, a building material was introduced to the world of construction that not only stands out due to high compressive strengths and flexible application possibilities, but can...

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PANEL 7 | PODIUM 7

Day 2: Wednesday, 15th May 2024

Panel 7: Cast stone

61 About the architecture of the Saxonian Aufbaubank (SAB) in Leipzig Zur Architektur des Hauptsitz der Sächsischen Aufbaubank (SAB) in Leipzig Architektin Heidrun Schuhmann 63 Binders for cast-stone...

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PANEL 8 | PODIUM 8

PANEL 9 | PODIUM 9

Reutilization of precast concrete slabs

Since the mid-1980s, the Department of Recycling in Construction at Brandenburg Technical University has risen to the challenge of dealing with sustainability in existing building stock, for the...

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Concrete as a CO2 sink

Although concrete structures have an above-average life-span of up to a hundred years, concrete is still responsible for around 8 % of global greenhouse gas emissions due to the energy-intensive...

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PANEL 11 | PODIUM 11

PANEL 12 | PODIUM 12

PLENUM 2 | PLENUM 2

PLENUM 3 | PLENUM 3

Green architecture in urban design

Land scarcity, increased urban land cover, heavy rainfall events, heat islands, tropical nights, loss of inner-city natural spaces and of the associated biodiversity of flora and fauna: Our cities are...

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PATENTS | PATENTE

Manhole cover

(10) DE102022119127A1(22) 29.07.2022(43) 01.02.2024(57) Der Schachtdeckel mit einem wannenförmigen Unterteil, das einen Boden und einen umlaufenden Rand aufweist, ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das...

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Space module

(10) DE102022119260A1(22) 01.08.2022(43) 01.02.2024(57) Die Erfindung betrifft ein Raummodul, aufweisend einen, vorzugsweise einstückigen, Raumkorpus mit einer Deckenplatte und wenigstens einer...

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Self-locking concrete paving block

(10) EP3957794(22) 13.08.2021(43) 23.02.2022(57) Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft einen Verbundbetonstein (1), der an seinen Längs- (2) und Querkanten (3) mit Distanzhaltern (4, 4‘) und...

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