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Pilot project with recycled aggregates

Figure: Cemex Deutschland

For the pilot project Cemex uses recycled aggregates

Figure: Cemex Deutschland

Figure: Cemex/Armin Okulla

The new research and laboratory building for life sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin

Figure: Cemex/Armin Okulla

Cemex Deutschland AG is supplying approximately 3,800 m² of ready-mixed concrete to Campus Nord of the Humboldt University in Berlin. The awarding authority, the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, asks for a special building material: The new research and laboratory building for life sciences will be built almost completely of a concrete that is manufactured with a proportional amount of recycled aggregates (RC aggregates). For the new building in an architecturally demanding design, Cemex Deutschland has developed a concrete of grade C30/37 with an aggregate fraction...

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