At this time of year, the entire staff of BFT International does a lot of traveling – visiting trade shows, meeting with customers and business partners. Recently I was in the German city of Cologne...
LCT GesmbH, the manufacturer of translucent concrete, now takes its lighting concepts to Asia as well. Its floor lamps, made of self-compacting concrete (SCC), LEDs, and plastics, are now protected by...
Established in 2003, MAP Building & Civil Engineering Supplies Ltd, based in Stanton by Dale, United Kingdom, is an Independent Builders Merchant specializing in the supply of heavy materials to...
The members and board of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute announced that they have elected a new Chairman and several new directors to their 2018 board of directors. Standard Concrete...
Rapid International Ltd (County Armagh, Northern Ireland) has recently supplied KwaMhlanga Group (Gauteng province, South Africa) with a new Rapidmix 400CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant for...
Erich Tönnissen GmbH is a medium-sized construction company based in the city of Kleve in the Lower Rhine region of Germany. Since the company foundation more than 50 years ago, the responsibility has...
Beginning on 14 June the ball l will start rolling in Russia. Will Germany, the reigning world champion, be able to defend its title? Or will Brazil, Argentina, France, the European champ Portugal, or...
AT the beginning of 2018, a dream had become true for the May brothers: their new solid lightweight-concrete hall had been finished on schedule and now offered urgently needed space. “This is how an...
The Albvorland tunnel is currently under construction in the expansion of the pan-European high-speed rail network. The building contractor, Deutsche Bahn Netz AG, places higher requirements on safety...
With the new program application for precast girders the series of RIB software solutions with intuitive user prompting and economic dimensioning continues. The new program “Fermo” permits direct...
Climbing, crawling, sliding – at Paulusareal in Bietigheim-Bissingen children’s eyes are sparkling with delight. In the district of Buch a playground was built on around 1,250 m2, the likes of which...
The Spanish company Iverna 2000 S.L. is a producer of a large range of manhole steps, offering 45 different models, adapted to every necessity such as drinking water, non-potable water, harbors and...
At the very latest since the last United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn in November of 2017, the topic of sustainability has again been brought to the center of our attention in the public...
One of the largest tunnel construction projects in Germany is currently underway between the town of Helsa in the administrative district of Kassel and the city of Hessisch Lichtenau in the...
The local designation Aanpak Ring Zuid stands for a gigantic traffic project of great importance to the capital of the Province of Groningen in the Netherlands. Major volumes of traffic that...
In the South African metropolitan region of Cape Town, Cape Concrete Works are manufacturing precast concrete products of all kinds used in the construction and civil engineering industries. In doing...
Straits Construction Group recently commissioned a highly automated factory for the manufacture of precast concrete elements. On five factory storeys wall and floor panels, pre-stressed solid slabs as...
The universally applicable Halfen HEK precast coupler is a practical solution for fast and efficient installation of precast concrete elements. Conventional connections for precast concrete elements...
PreConTech GmbH recently developed an anchoring system for protecting masonry units made of various materials from the impact of seismic and thermal activity and from the effects of wind. The...
The former factory premises of the Paulaner brewery at the Ohlmüllerstraße in Munich was abandoned because of the relocation of the production to Munich Langwied. Paulaner decided to relocate the...
According to Eurobend GmbH the company’s “AMM” and “AKK” series of innovative flexible mesh welding lines covering every mesh application are setting standards in mesh production. Both the AMM & AKK...
The Swabian family-run company, Weckenmann Anlagentechnik GmbH & Co. KG, is one of the most innovative and likewise leading companies in the precast concrete industry. According to their own...
Specialized solutions are needed for satisfying special reinforcement requirements. The use of electrically nonconductive, corrosion-resistant, thermally-insulating reinforcement that is resistant to...
The leading trade show for construction machinery, building materials machinery, mining machinery, construction vehicles, and construction equipment in Africa has with its third event successfully...
The premiere of The Big 5 Heavy took place from March 26 to 28, 2018. More than 5,000 national and international trade visitors used the opportunity for gathering information about the latest trends...
The WP Code of Practice of DAfStb has been published now. This is reason for the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete (DAfStb – Deutscher Ausschuss für Stahlbeton e.V.) and the German Society for...
In March, Filigran Trägersysteme GmbH & Co. KG organized a „floors and walls“ series of seminars. More than a total of 500 planners and staff members of precast factories participated in the seminars...
For the eleventh year in succession, students and experienced designers returned to the classroom together during the Darmstadt Precast Days on March 8, 9, 15 and 16, 2018. Proven experts from...
(10) DE 10 2008 020 834 B4(22) 25.04.2008(43) 29.10.2009 (45) 08.03.2018(57) Pflasterpaket aus Pflastersteinen aus Beton in rechteckiger Qua-derform, die auf kleinsten Rastereinheiten aufgebaut sind,...
(10) DE 10 2016 116 703 Al(22) 07.09.2016(43) 08.03.2018(57) Es wird eine Vorrichtung und ein Verfahren zum Herstellen eines Längsspaltenrostelements aus Beton bereitgestellt, wobei das...
(10) DE 10 2016 118 279 A(22) 27.09.2016(43) 29.03.2018(57) Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft ein Wandelement, das aus mehreren Einzelelementen besteht, die miteinander befestigt sind. Die einzelnen...
(10) DE 10 2016 118 301 Al (22) 28.09.2016(43) 29.03.2018(57) Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft einen Holz-Beton-Verbund-körper (1), aufweisend einen Holzrahmen (2), eine Betonplatte (3), in der...
(10) DE 20 2018 100 273 U1 (22) 18.01.2018(45) 15.03.2018(57) Betonfertigteil (10), insbesondere Betonparkplatzelement (12), umfassend einen Grundkörper (14) mit einer Unterseite (16), einer...
(10) DE 20 2017 107 900 U1(22) 22.12.2017(45) 08.03.2018(57) Sicherheitssystem mit wenigstens zwei bewegbaren, neben-einander angeordneten Betonsperren (10) und zumindest einem Verbundmittel (12),...
(11) EP 3 290 176 Al(22) 26.07.2017(43) 07.03.2018 Bulletin 2018/10(57) A concrete layer having an upper surface and a lower surface, a first fiber layer having longitudinally oriented (102) and...
(11) EP3292254 A1 (57) The invention relates to a permanent form panel (1) for creating, at elevation, a concretecompression floor slab. When the slab is cast, said panel makes up the bottom portion...
(11) US2018087268 (A1) (57) A insulated masonry wall system having insulation blocks between structural and face blocks to provide structures that are strong, inexpensive, avoid thermal bridges, and...
(10) WO 2018/042240 A1(22) 16.08.2017(57) A concrete structure and its production process for marine or river applications comprising a first layer or outer layer of highly porous concrete and a...
(10) WO 2018/042083 Al(22) 02.09.2016(43) 08.03.2018(57) The invention relates to a lifting anchor for lifting a building element, such as a concrete panel, comprising a head part that can be...
(10) WO 2018/037147 Al(22) 25.08.2017(43) 01.03.2018(57) The invention relates to a method for the production of resilient elements for use in construction. The method comprises the steps of: using a...
