Originally scheduled for the beginning of May, the 2020 edition of the BIBM Congress will now be held from 14 to 16 November 2021 in Copenhagen owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and its repercussions....

During concrete production and transport, quantities of residual concrete accumulate every day, for example, when cleaning the mixing plant and truck mixers or in the case of concrete being returned...

The first things visitors note of a house are the building entrance and the driveway to the garage. The luminous LED paving stones of Lucem provide these areas with a lasting impression in the...

Frequently, polystyrene foam is added to structural elements made of concrete for reducing their weight. It is commonly known under the trade name Styropor (Styrofoam), but the product is not easy to...

Vattenfall aims for fossil-free energy generation within one generation. In Berlin, the locations of the power plants play a central role. An important building block towards the climate neutrality...

In the November 2020 edition of BFT International , we reported that MBCC Group has emerged from the former BASF construction chemicals business after its acquisition by Lone Star Funds, and commenced...

Building with precast elements is currently the trend. Compared to conventional in-situ concrete construction, construction processes of this kind can usually be considerably shortened. Here, the...

Time pressure in intra logistics is increasing more and more: Loading of trucks must take place in tightly defined time frames, safety and environmental standards must be met and customer requests...

Priamos by GTSdata aims to not only create a digital network between machines and individual processes but to also enable their digital integration into a comprehensive company network with connectors...

The concrete producer Rehm Kies- & Betonwerk GmbH & Co. KG, with its headquarters in Lottstetten, Germany, has for more than 50 years successfully engaged in recovering, conditioning and selling sand...

A South African bridge-widening project to upgrade Berg River Boulevard and Oosbosch Street in Paarl/Western Cape is due for completion in August 2021. It includes the widening of the 20m long...

PT Bonna Indonesia, a specialist provider of Reinforced Concrete steel Cylinder Pipes (RCCP) and a subsidiary of Consolis, a European leader in precast concrete solutions, is providing 7 kilometers of...

The Department of Architecture at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Art in Germany is known for its creative handling of concrete as construction material. Here, teachers again and again...