The „Striatus“ temporary staircase sculpture installed on last year‘s Biennale in Venice was a solid structure produced in a concrete 3D printing procedure with reduced material and could even be...
The construction industry accounts for a significant portion of greenhouse gas emissions. The Green Deal of the European Union, which envisages Europe to be carbon-neutral by 2050, therefore places...
Goldbeck starts construction of its eighth precast concrete plant in Europe. On the newly developed site in Kirchberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, the company will once again significantly expand its...
The latest edition of the IAB-Tage “Beton” (IAB Concrete Days) held on 9 and 10 November 2022 in Weimar dealt with key topics that will determine the future of the construction sector. About 150...
This article briefly presents a wear map example of a L-shaped blade mounted on a concrete twin shaft mixer. This evaluation was carried out through a method developed by the University of Perugia...
The Ruta 5 highway crosses the country from south to north, joining the cities of Montevideo and Rivera, traveling through the main regions of Canelones, Florida, Durazno and Tacuarembó. Owing to...
Within just four years – from 2018 to 2022 – the total production capacity for precast products was to be increased fivefold: This was the goal set by French precast business CRP. For this purpose,...
The new Munich Criminal Justice Center building is currently the largest building construction project of the Free State of Bavaria. Its façade extending over an area of about 21,000 m² was clad with...
In 1965, Siemens opened a research center in the south of Erlangen, Germany. Since then, thousands of the company’s innovations have been tested and brought to serial production. Since 2014, the site...
Leopold Spenner and Dr. Robert Meyer, the two founders of the Berlin-based start-up Alcemy, have been honored by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) with this year‘s ULI Germany Leadership Award in the...
At the end of 2021, the Finnish company Peikko implemented a pilot project in which a load-bearing frame of concrete elements and slim-floor beams was assembled, disassembled and reassembled. The main...
Recently, Afinitas delivered a new wetcast production plant to the South Korean manufacturer Finnocon to produce concrete blocks in elastic formwork shapes on wooden or steel pallets in multiple...
Building plots are scarce in many towns and communities. But new living space can also be created with an additional story. “In many buildings there is literally still room for expansion upward,” says...
The ANDECE Spanish concrete association presents new reference projects on a regular basis, “Projects with surface-refined precast concrete elements in Spain and France“ were published in BFT...
Within its growing process Florea Grup has been looking for stable and long-term relationships with its partners, accurately selecting the suppliers for new projects. 2018 marked the starting...
KVM is one of the largest Scandinavian producer and supplier of equipment and machinery to the building and construction materials industry. KVM supplies tailor-made solutions for the asphalt and...