Functional element instead of “pure”
slab – precast elements with inner life (2)

Figure: Solidian

A world premiere: a footbridge erected with carbon concrete in the German city of Albstadt in 2015 with a dead weight of just under half that of a comparable construction of steel, also prefabricated

Figure: Solidian

Figure: Fenwis

The craft of a pilot into the future:
a methodological view of the future that
faces us

Figure: Fenwis

Figure: Iurii Vakaliuk, TU Dresden

Model design of the construction project CUBE: in the so-called “Ergebnishaus” the pace-setting results of the C³ clusters are intended to be demonstrated on a broad scale

Figure: Iurii Vakaliuk, TU Dresden

Figure: Stanecker Betonfertigteilwerk

The worldwide first double-curved façade: the decorative exterior element with textile reinforcement comes from North-Rhine/Westphalia and bears the name CurveTex

Figure: Stanecker Betonfertigteilwerk

Figure: Solarshell

Solar cells integrated in the glazing of façades are intended to deliver electricity in the future

Figure: Solarshell

Figure: H.-W. Oertel

Five million tons of construction rubble are generated yearly alone in Berlin, with one-fifth of it concrete

Figure: H.-W. Oertel

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

The decades of change have begun: in climate, nutrition, health, digitation, sustainability, migration etc. But profound changes also give rise to many questions. In this second part of the contribution, Thomas Strobel, the pilot into the future, focuses on precast element production: further task and innovation areas.

In the first part of this contribution (BFT 4/2020, pp. 52) we have seen that major global topical trends are acting with full force, with changes taking place at an increasingly rapid pace – also in the precast concrete industry. With the examples of nutrition of the future and serial prefabrication in factories (including bridges), we likewise named the first task and innovation areas to which the users of tomorrow will look. The two following examples – concerning new construction materials and their functional integration into building elements – are meant to encourage early searching for...