Ben Bates and his father Bob were surrounded by growth. As the founders of Bates Pipes and Products, they were churning out wetcast concrete pipe, box culverts and other underground infrastructure...

Building with precast concrete elements is an established process. The design and execution of floors is often a virtually philosophical question. As frequently preferred solutions, they are often...

Every three years the congress of the Federation of the European Precast Concrete Industry (BIBM – Bureau International du Béton Manufacturé) will take place in a different European country. The last...

From October 2018 to March 2019, Swiss-based Favre Betonwaren AG installed a comprehensive new production facility for self-compacting concrete (SCC). At the Däniken headquarters, SCC has long been...

The TDSK Holding Group is a Russian group of companies specialized in house building in Russia. With its 21 companies and a total of 3,700 employees, the group is able to implement projects of any...

C&G Pigment, a leading marketing company for inorganic pigments, has registered a subsidiary in Leverkusen, Germany. The company establishes a European presence to market its product portfolio from...

In 2019, BWE Bau Fertigteiltechnik GmbH, a company of the Zech Group, relocated its Wiefelstede production facility to Lemwerder.BWE Bau is manufacturing quite different two-dimensional precast...

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...

The company Nevoga, in Freilassing, Germany, has been active since 1958 in developing and producing plastic profiles and plastic spacers. In the course of time, keeping abreast of the requirements of...

The principles of quality concrete production and efficient manufacturing processes forms the Canadian supplier of concrete tanks and sewer applications, Tanks-A-Lot, business philosophy, that lead...

The decades of change have begun: in climate, nutrition, health, digitation, sustainability, migration etc. But profound changes also give rise to many questions, in particular, for building. In a...

For an extension of the building of Vienna music house, including staircase and elevator, the architectural office Rahm Architekten was searching for a building material, enabling a perfect...

The number of customer complaints in consequence of discolorations of concrete block pavements has increased considerably, first of all, because of the ever increasing importance of the visual...

This year, Precast Software Engineering GmbH based in the state of Salzburg is celebrating even three anniversaries: The team has been developing solutions for the precast concrete industry for 30...

Efficient basement waterproofing of residential and commercial buildings is one of the strengths of the well-proven SynkoElast joint tape and the SynkoElast crack control profile made by B.T....

“In Finland, nearly all structural and precast-unit design and detailing is done with Tekla Structures software,” says Markku Räisänen, head designer at Betset, which is one of the largest precast...

Industry calls for concepts with a focus on highest efficiency and maximum reliability. MBK, manufacturer of reinforcement mesh welding machines for the construction, concrete and precast industries,...