The Innovation Prize of the Supplier Industry for Concrete Components has been awarded  annually at the BetonTage since 2002. Following the Corona-related pause this year, companies and research...

Goldbeck, one of Europe‘s leading construction and real estate companies, and Trimble, provider of the BIM software Tekla Structures and numerous other solutions for the construction industry, will...

Originally scheduled for the beginning of May, the 2020 edition of the BIBM Congress will now be held from 14 to 16 November 2021 in Copenhagen owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and its repercussions....

The concrete and precast industry will be challenged by ongoing changes in the cement industry. In future, concrete batching will require a better understanding of cement to optimize concrete recipes...

To keep traffic flowing along smoothly at intersections, road planners tend to rely on the construction of roundabouts as an alternative to traffic light systems. To increase the effect of traffic...

The DuroBoard production board developed by Andernach-based Assyx GmbH & Co. KG has been in use in many concrete block production plants around the globe for 15 years. It is produced in all standard...

The company FCN, based in Fulda, Germany, banks for its new BetoPur design slabs on structure, nature and tactile perception – and is therefore very much in line with the “back to the roots” trend...

In 1961, Georg Pfender, who was employed as factory mechanic at Rinninger, a local concrete producer, took the decision to start his own business establishing a small mechanical turning shop –in the...

Based in Bellinzona, Switzerland since 1994, Generale Costruzioni Pizzarotti SA company has a long history. It is in fact totally owned by the Italian Pizzarotti & C. S.p.A, founded in Parma in 1910...

The public utilities company Stadtwerke Essen in Germany already began with renewal of the Wolfsbachtal sewer system in the summer of 2018. By now, most of the comprehensive construction measure has...

With software, automation, and independent machinery, a production plant can be boosted to be an intelligent plant with many benefits. Echo Precast Engineering want to give some insights into how to...

Cortec’s patented MCI Technology designed to protect reinforcing metal in concrete from corrosion is widely used around the globe. Application of MCI products experienced rapid growth in recent years...

Launching the next generation of Vertua admixtures, internationally active construction materials company Cemex remains a leader in the field of sustainable solutions for the construction industry.The...

At the end of May 2021, Germany’s first 3D-printed residential building was realized in Beckum in North-Rhine/Westphalia. But not only the way in which the walls were manufactured is highly...

Beton-Fertigteil-Union (BFU) increased its production output while improving product quality and process reliability by implementing the new B.T. innovation plant design. At the core of this new setup...

The Styrian municipality of Radmer an der Stube is located in an idyllic high valley east of the Gesäuse National Park. The access road to the popular excursion site had to be closed repeatedly,...

The Department of Architecture at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Art in Germany is known for its creative handling of concrete as construction material. Here, teachers again and again...