Issue 06/2014

In Year Six following the global economical and financial crisis, the Russian construction industry continues to grow. This is what the current...

A plain ashlar of unpretentious color that exudes both massiveness and compactness – one of the basic thoughts of the Berlin architect José Gutiérrez...

Architectural concrete is without doubt a trendy construction material. Indisputable indicator: wallpapers, tiles and PVC floorings by now imitate...

In future, HeidelbergCement will appear in public well-arranged, with a new typography and an ever stronger presence of the corporate color green....

Liebherr-Mischtechnik GmbH based in Bad Schussenried has been engineering and manufacturing concrete mixing plants for 60 years now. The ring-pan...

To develop new ideas and meet the increasing demands of concrete quality, Beton- und Naturstein GmbH & Co. KG has installed a Pemat mixer of the very...

A new generation of the established MPS system for the control of concrete mixing plants has just been unveiled by Liebherr and is already available...

Concrete recipes are usually prepared by trial-and-error experiments. This work shows how systematic experimentation ­followed by the development of...

In the German town of Limburg, Weton Massivhaus GmbH has recently built a turnkey villa using lightweight concrete blocks. The residential house...

Inshaa Precast, a precast concrete component manufacturer in Saudi Arabia, is investing in a premium tilting table production line for expanding the...

At the end of last year, the Kraft company located in the German town of Lindern expanded its product portfolio by rack systems for storing concrete...

The Construction Congress that is held every two years was organized, in 2014, for the first time by the Austrian Construction Society (öbv) as...

Only a few people on the hallways, but a lot more visitors in the stand areas: this is how it looked like in many halls at the Munich exhibition...

Building Information Modeling provides many benefits, which also applies to precast plants. Yet BIM is associated with a range of specific...

The OGS company has introduced the OGSiD 10 version of its ERP software onto the market. The new version is based on a web application, with the...

In the construction industry, it is usually not possible to process customer orders according to a “one-size-fits-all” approach. When customizing the...

The upcoming FIFA World Cup in Brazil will take place in twelve stadiums. Six of them were primarily designed by German ­architects and engineers....

The reparable signal wear protection plate developed and manufactured by Pucest protect GmbH offers not only long service lives, thanks to its...

As of 2021, all new buildings have to be constructed in conformance with the European requirements for the lowest-energy building standard. The...

With the market launch of Sicorol Pearl, Fabrino based in the German city of Memmingen provides a new surface protection for concrete. The name gives...

It is widely accepted that concretes with identical slump flows can show large variations in viscosity. The complete characterization of such complex...