Dear ladies and gentlemen,
since the format used last year at the CCU Ulm has proved successful,
we want to use it again and develop it further. We have added many new elements to enable us to offer even better service to our congress participants and to visitors to the exhibition. We are bringing together, in person, congress participants with exhibitors and start-ups,
but will also provide live streaming for all those whose focus is on continuing education for the latest trends in building with concrete construction elements.
With our motto of the 67. BetonTage – “Turning Point in Concrete Construction” – we are accentuating two key concerns. First, we will present all options for radically lowering the CO2 footprint of building with concrete construction elements. This will include new types of cement and concrete, opportunities offered by lightweight structures and alternative binders as well as possibilities of planners and building contractors for building sustainably with concrete. These opportunities will extend all the way to finding options for carbon capture, storage and use. For these possibilities we were able to win Norway, a pioneer in this technology, as guest country.
Secondly, though, we are also self-confident enough to state that we must change the way we are building with concrete. These changes range from the formwork for thick building components at the construction site to streamlined prefabrication that is able to reliably handle alternative reinforcement types. In this way, we can ensure halving resource requirements and, with that the CO2-footprint.
Modular and series-production building with precast concrete elements, moreover, offers every opportunity for these objectives. We will show already completed examples that enable cost-efficient and sustainable housing today – despite the dark clouds hovering over housing construction.
Toward these objectives, we are once again drawing on the entire process chain of construction – including architects, consulting engineers and executing building contractors who ensure increasing utilization of series-production and modular concrete elements.
We are looking forward to examining our common perspectives of future building at the 67. BetonTage.
Yours,
