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....

The Styrian municipality of Radmer an der Stube is located in an idyllic high valley east of the Gesäuse National Park. The access road to the popular excursion site had to be closed repeatedly,...

Curetec Energietechnik GmbH, founded in 2010, is a leading supplier for the development, installation and maintenance of special systems for concrete hardening. Most recently, the company has been...

The former industry’s slogan “Concrete – it depends what you make of it” has been interpreted in hardly as many different ways and in so many variations as by Erwin Voit. He is the founder and...

The manufacturer of prestressed concrete floor slabs, the company Elbe delcon GmbH – Elbe Decken, celebrates, in the summer of 2021, its 25th anniversary. The plant was founded in 1996 by the building...

The long-standing motto of „The world is in motion. We provide stability.“ is now completed by „Now, even more permanently“. Because the new Philipp permanent fixing system (PB system, see Fig. 1)...

For its tunneling projects, Strabag AG relies on custom machines delivered by Progress Maschinen & Automation, a member of the Progress Group. For a project in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Strabag...

Ultra-high-performance concretes are regarded as the construction material of the future. In coloring them, however, it must be ensured that the specified compressive strengths of over 150 MPA...

Increasing time pressure, changes to the construction project at short notice, cost efficiency, ever more complex projects, higher demands on architecture and an increasing number of participants...

Coloring concrete has long since ceased to belong into the “new concrete technology” category. Some important parameters should be taken into account in the process, such as the color of the pigment...

The quality requirements placed on concrete products – such as pavers, slabs, block steps, palisades or masonry blocks – are increasing continuously. Whereas functionality used to be the only...

In working with precast concrete elements, problems during transport and storage often arise. Wooden beams, for example, as commonly used for stacking precast elements, leave marks or impressions on...

Stockholm’s northern silhouette has changed. For a few years now, the sky has been dominated by two spectacular high-rise building façades that have attracted the architectural world’s attention far...

What are the topics small- and medium-sized businesses in Germany are concerned with? What challenges must SMEs overcome? What current problems need to be solved? On the occasion of a visit at B.T....

Among the MCT concrete distribution system solutions to optimize the flow of concrete on precast factories, the smartest tool is the concrete spreader type BR, one of the best results of the research...

In the town of Aitrach in the German State of Baden-Württemberg, Marbeton, a regional precast producer, constructed the company’s new head office building composed of precast architectural concrete...

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...