Functional element instead of “pure” slab – precast elements with inner life (Part 1)

Figure: H.-W. Oertel

Rapid changes required: construction must change in the near future

Figure: H.-W. Oertel

Figure: H.-W. Oertel/BNB

Terrazzo façade panel with pep: made of textile concrete and developed for the Berlin U5 subway (Red City Hall station)

Figure: H.-W. Oertel/BNB

Figure: H-W Oertel

Applications for landscaping products made of recycled concrete. Just recently a freeway, and perhaps tomorrow an attractive flower bed edging.

Figure: H-W Oertel

Fig.: H-W Oertel/Visualisierung: HTW Leipzig HTWK Leipzig

Symbiosis of concrete and solar panels: energy generation on the façade

Fig.: H-W Oertel/Visualisierung: HTW Leipzig HTWK Leipzig

Figure: W+M/Ralf Succo

Non-corroding in-house development by Goldbeck: weight-
reduced deck slab of carbon concrete in a parking building

Figure: W+M/Ralf Succo

With a 360-degree view to other industries, he today sets the course for tomorrow: Thomas Strobel, the pilot to the future from Munich

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Thomas Strobel (56) is an graduated mechanical engineer and business manager of the Fenwis GmbH (www.fenwis.de). He has supported companies and entire industrial branches in their reorientation.

Figure: W+M/Ralf Succo

The decades of change have begun: in climate, nutrition, health, digitation, sustainability, migration etc. But profound changes also give rise to many questions, in particular, for building. In a two-part contribution, Thomas Strobel, the pilot into the future, brings up possibilities and opportunities for change. Read Part 1 here.

Every sector of the economy must and will very soon have to face questions about the consequences of far-reaching future changes in order to make its own contributions to sustainable answers for the needs of tomorrow. The construction industry, in particular, as global factor for galloping resource consumption with high CO₂ emissions will, still in this decade – assumedly faster than thought – have to adapt to enormous challenges. Sustainable buildings, modular construction systems, material innovations and buildings for new utilization scenarios such as vertical farming, are further keywords...