Concrete more concrete

At this year’s Dornburger Construction Themes, held under the motto “Concrete more concrete,” Dornburger Zement business managers Eckhardt Thomas and Heiko Theuerkauf welcomed more than 120 customers and partners at the company event site in Weimar, Germany.

Thomas Richter (Dr.-Ing.) of BetonMarketing Ost GmbH opened the program of lectures. “New solutions for an old problem” was his title for a compilation of historical and current damage analyses of bridge caps in Germany.

 

Expensive repair

The fact is strikingly apparent that some elements that protect the loadbearing structure from the...

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