Issue 06/2015

Still in the 1970s and 1980s, ­ pumice, gravel and concrete industries were omnipresent in the region around my hometown Andernach on Rhine in the...

Construction engineer and company founder, Eberhard Schöck, celebrated his 80^th birthday on 26 April 2015. Still in a state of good health, he looked...

In June 2015, Masa will be celebrating its 110^th company anniversary. Prior to this key event, Sales Director Frank ­Reschke met the BFT editors at...

BASF unveiled its largest construction chemicals plant in India at Nellore (Andhra Pradesh, South-East India). This is BASF’s fifth construction...

The family company of Paul Wolff celebrates its sixtieth anniversary in June. On Friday, 12 June, the manufacturer of waste containers and storage...

Considerable cost savings can be achieved in the manufacture of concrete, sand-lime and clay blocks when using a novel moisture measurement method...

Quality controls have always played a significant role in the manufacture of concrete products of any kind: whether for civil engineering, building...

In many industries , the moisture content of raw materials is crucial to achieve the required finished product quality, which also applies to...

The introduction of modern magnetic technology in modern precast concrete plants was followed by numerous adapter solutions for connecting and...

In early 2014 , the management of Drössler Group decided to replace its formwork equipment as part of the company’s production line extension...

After a construction period of slightly less than twelve months, an inauguration ceremony was held to commission a new precast plant at Ulyanovsk,...

The reduction of noise emissions in the precast concrete factory is becoming increasingly important. The construction ­company Hönninger has now...

Over the next five years, Thailand is planning several major railroad construction projects as to provide a better link between the metropolises and...

Nemetschek Engineering invited about 100 guests to the city of Salzburg, Austria, on April 23, 2015 to celebrate an „Evening in the Mountain“. An...

The construction sector is still waiting for the fourth industrial revolution. BIM would allow the user to plan and manufacture precast concrete...

Reinforced concrete sandwich panels have become the standard in façade design for commercial buildings as well as office buildings, as they are...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is currently one of the most “in” topics in building and will over the middle and long term sustainably change...

Tekla Structures 21 offers improvements in the areas of interoperability, handling of drawings, usability, and performance, thus optimizing the...

Betonsteinwerk Hermann Meudt is one of only a handful of specialized companies in Germany that produce flat curbstones. A new board machine and...

Software developer I-Theses bvba from Belgium organized the Floor Office Conference on 18 and 19 March 2015 with the theme ‘Learn, Improve,...

The 10th Intermat show closed its doors on 25 April 2015 with visitor numbers of 183,000 recorded during its six days, including 131,624 identified...

Meanwhile they have become the rule : headlines on bridges in Germany being ramshackle or even in danger of collapsing. The root causes for this...