Issue 01/2023

Dear readers, while writing this editorial, the first words that came to my mind were inflation, gas crisis, shortage of material and skilled labor, followed by the  generally poor prognoses for the...

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...

In the middle of October 2022 a conference of “Construction Goes Circular” was organized by Peikko Group, together with partners Iscowa, City of Lahti and Green Building Council Finland. Some 180...

The 2nd ModularesBauen congress was held in Aachen in September 2022. The event was co-hosted by Aachen Building Experts e. V. Its members include various institutes of RWTH Aachen University as well...

The largest university sports center in Lithuania is located in Kaunas. It is part of the Vytautas Magnus University and was named after Valdas Adamkus, the former President of Lithuania and Honorary...

Having acquired Südwest-Keller, a company based in the German State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bürkle Group headquartered in Sasbach in the Baden region is pleased to welcome this attractive new member...

An open house that preserves the past but also invites people to meet - this was the basic idea for the new town archive in Oberviechtach. It was implemented as a monolithic sculpture cast from Liapor...

Wherever substances hazardous to water are filled, handled or stored, they must be prevented from getting into the groundwater. De-icing salt is one of these substances: if it seeps into the...

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...

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...

With careful planning, the concrete plant of Thomas Beton, Lürschau was successfully modernized during ongoing operations. An Ammann Elba CBS 120 SB concrete mixing plant was connected to an on-site...

Rheological measurement in the mixer presented by Ei-rich demonstrates a technology that has been shortlisted as one of the finalists for the bauma Innovation Prize. Eirich has integrated the function...

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,...

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 Syntheton rotor straightener with double bender, is a sophisticated processing center for reinforcing steel from coil. The patented extremely fast diameter change and the bending tool change...

The company Brüninghoff, a leading manufacturer of wood-concrete composite floor slabs (WCC floor slabs) in Europe, has further optimized the production process of these elements and is stepping up...

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...

After a break due to the pandemic, the Engineering Days event took place on November 29 and 30, 2022 at the Congress Haus Salzburg. More than 420 experts from the precast concrete industry learned...

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...

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...

High-quality, sophisticated results in concrete construction essentially depend on the design and quality of formwork systems. After all, like a skeleton, they give the poured concrete its structure....

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...

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...

(10) US 2022/0325540 A1(22) 05.06.2020(43) 13.10.2022(57) The invention relates to a form element (1), an arrangement comprising such a form element (1) and a method for forming at least part of a...

(10) DE 10 2015 017 166 B4(22) 05.05.2015(43) 23.03.2017(45) 20.10.2022(57)  Randschalungselement (1) mit einer als verlorene Schalung dienenden Schalungsplatte (2) zur Herstellung einer Betonplatte,...

(10) DE 10 2021 006 575 A1(22) 07.04.2021(43) 13.10.2022(57)  Anlage (ANL) zur Herstellung von ultra-hochfestem Fertigbeton oder daraus gefertigten Produkten, mit folgenden Komponenten: befüllbare...

(10) US 2021/0238848 A1(22) 19.04.2021(43) 05.08.2021(57) A method of constructing a prefabricated wall structure comprising orienting interspaced stud molds having an H-shaped channel shape cross...

(10) EP 4 074 910 A1(22) 15.04.2022(43) 19.10.2022(57) A retaining system (1) for constraining two precast elements (51, 52) for buildings, comprises a first anchoring insert (2; 32) associable with a...

(10) US 2022/0314490 A1(22) 20.06.2022(43) 06.10.2022(57) A mold assembly and method for molding two concrete blocks in face-to-face non-contacting relationship forms blocks having smooth front faces....

(10) WO 2022/217652 A1(22) 28.04.2021(43) 20.10.2022(57) A fabricated leveling composite radiation energy-saving concrete wall and a construction method therefor. The fabricated leveling composite...

(10) DE 10 2021 108 917 A1(22) 09.04.2021(43) 13.10.2022(57) Eine Vorrichtung zur Herstellung eines Betons umfassend (i) einen Zementvormischer zum Anmischen einer Zementsuspension (ii) zumindest...

(10) DE 20 2022 104 198 U1(22) 25.07.2022(45) 20.10.2022(57) Vorrichtung zum Einschalen einer Betonstruktur in einem engen Raum, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie ein Innenschalungsfach (2) mit jeweils...

(10) EP 4 079 970 A1(22) 22.12.2020(43) 26.10.2022(57) A precast concrete foundation (100; 200) for a wind tower (140; 240), comprising a slab (110, 120; 210, 220a, 220b), a pedestal (130; 230) and...

(10) JP2021130910(22) 18.02.2020(43) 09.09.2021(57) Provided is a manufacturing method of a structure 1 having multiple wall modules 11. Each of the multiple wall modules 11 has a vertical wall part...

(10) US 2022/0316210 A1(22) 05.08.2020(43) 06.10.2022(57) A method of constructing a reinforced concrete floor structure or wall structure, including: fabricating a precast panel substantially from...

(10) CN114455933(22) 28.02.2022(43) 10.05.2022(57) The invention relates to the technical field of novel building materials, and particularly discloses an aerated concrete block, a preparation method...

(10) CN114704025(22) 23.03.2022(43) 05.07.2022(57) The invention relates to a prefabricated concrete wallboard structure, and belongs to the technical field of building wallboards, the prefabricated...