Dear Readers,What does the BFT International media brand stand for? This question could be simply answered as follows: “For technical information about and from the concrete sector and, of course, for...
Flexstren introduces a new way to give flexural behavior to concrete products, overcoming steel reinforcing limitations (cover requirements, and steel corrosion). Concrete products manufacturers can...
The architecture of the „Prager Karree“ building complex in Berlin‘s Stadthafenquartier interprets the architectural tradition of the two-story base area in a contemporary fashion. The slender façade...
A three-story complex in the interior court of the Mercure Hotel in Munich, with room for twelve guest rooms, is connected through a walkway to the existing building, where the most important basic...
Aga CAD Ltd, the developer of advanced technologies for building information modelling and management, is proud to introduce BIM tools that generate detailed reinforcement for concrete walls and beams...
Saying goodbye to his daily professional life at Masa GmbH and heading into a well-deserved retirement, Masa would like to thank the long-time employee Mr. Shahryer Anwar Jamil Djaff for all the years...
By appointing Oliver Rauter as new managing director, the Hess Group is investing equally in continuity and its global growth plans. Oliver Rauter is thus succeeding Tobias Hess and returns to the...
After more than 5 years as head of the design and development department, the managing partners Hermann and Wolfgang Weckenmann appointed Martin Schatz (48) as another member of the management team of...
As a system partner to the concrete block industry, the Frima machine manufacturing company based in Emden, Lower Saxony/Germany conceives complete systems, ranging from the concrete block machine to...
The company Bacher Beton GmbH is one of the largest concrete manufacturers in the Ingolstadt area. Already for more than 100 years Bacher GmbH is successful in the field of structural and civil...
In the concrete sector, the preparation of concrete – the environmental-friendly construction material with a future –takes place in a wide range of intensive mixers. Trough mixers in the form of...
Adhesions and wear that occur at transition points and on discharge funnels, mostly result in unscheduled downtimes. Cost-intensive repairs on the greater part of the production processes can be...
Since the introduction in 2005 of the “mixer with sequence automation and process data control,” initially known as the “mixer with university control,” more than 50 institutions around the world have...
Henn has developed the conceptual design for the first building made of carbon-reinforced concrete in the world, the so-called Cube. The experimental building with a size of 220 m² combines laboratory...
Located in the Araucanía Region, the new wind farm in charge of the Company Acciona is made up of 61 wind turbines that were mounted on precast reinforced concrete towers. In other words, a...
Since the foundation of mbk Maschinenbau GmbH by Georg Pfender, in 1961, the company – with its technical expertise, ingenuity, high quality standards and close cooperation with customers – has...
A new fully automated Bamtec Evolution production line was put into operation at the production site of the Atterer Stahlcenter GmbH steel processing company; the system was supplied by Progress...
Beaver Gulf is one of the largest precast factories in the region, with a capacity to produce over 2.5 mio. m² of precast panels per year, located in Dubai. Beaver Precast Gulf called upon the precast...
Global growth and urban densification need ever growing material resources and energy. For Kimmo Lintula, partner and CEO of K2S Architects, local means to follow a culturally and socially more...
The ongoing rehabilitation of the nationwide water supply and sewerage network often requires a change from one pipe system and/or cross-section to another while having to accommodate different...
Sand is the second most traded raw material after water. Since the demand for sand – among others in the concrete industry – is growing faster than suitable sand resources can be found, sand is...
(10) DE 10 2018 007 942 A1 (22) 08.10.2018(43) 09.04.2020(57) Die Erfindung betrifft ein System aus quaderförmigen Betonformsteinen für Gartenmauern, wobei die Betonformsteine im versetzten Zustand...
(10) DE 10 2018 217 141 A1 (22) 08.10.2018(43) 09.04.2020(57) Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft einen Druckkopf (1) zum Drucken dreidimensionaler Strukturen aus Beton sowie ein Verfahren, bei dem...
(10) DE 20 2019 005 140 U1 (22) 17.12.2019(45) 16.04.2020(57) Bauteil, dadurch gekenn-zeichnet, dass dessen Verwen-dung die Rissbildung in Beton-elementen durch eine thermisch direkt beaufschlagte...
(10) DE 20 2019 106 863 U1 (22) 10.12.2019(45) 16.04.2020(57) Schalungskonstruktion (1) zur Herstellung eines Betonbauteiles, umfassend ein Verbindungselement (2) und eine Anzahl damit fest...
(10) DE 20 2020 000 195 U1(22) 20.01.2020(45) 30.04.2020(57) Der Schutz-anspruch 1 wird dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es sich um ein Stahlbeton-Fertigteilelement handelt, welches im Schnitt eines...
(11) EP 3 633 108 A1(22) 03.10.2018(43) 08.04.2020 Bulletin 2020/15(57) In an assembly of concrete blocks for covering a dyke for protection against wave attacks, comprising at least two concrete...
(11) EP 3 636 845 Al(22) 09.10.2018(43) 15.04.2020 Bulletin 2020/16(57) A slab (1) includes a concrete front layer (2), a back structure (3), a rigid insulation segment (4) being sandwiched between...
(11) EP003640410A1(22) 16.10.2019(43) 22.04.2020 Patentblatt 2020/17(57) Es wird Transportanker (1) für Stahlbetonwände mit zwei voneinander beabstandeten Wandschalen vorgeschlagen. Dieser...
(11) EP 3 643 853 Al(22) 25.10.2019(43) 29.04.2020 Patentblatt 2020/18(57) Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft eine Schalung zur Herstellung von Betonsäulen, Stützen eines Bauwerks oder ähnlichen...
(11) GB 2578197(22) 19.08.2019(43) 22.04.2020(57) The floor panels comprise precast concrete panels 10 Each panel has a reinforced precast concrete slab having an upper surface 12 and downstands 18,...
(10)US 2020/0116021 A1 (22) 15.05. 2018(43) 16.04.2020(57) Pre-cast segment for a reinforced concrete tunnel includes an arcuate structure having reinforcement and a cement agglomerate to cover...
(10) US 2020/0123759 Al (22) 20.12.2019(43) 23.04.2020(57) System used as a building material. A platform, is formed from joined, substantially coplanar boards with connector plates partially embedded...
(10) US 2020/0123775 Al (22) 28.05.2018(43) 23.04.2020(57) A pre-stressed concrete structure comprises a steel wire or a steel strand. The steel wire or steel strand has been pre-tensioned before...
(10) US 2020/0131754 Al (22) 14.11.2019 (43) 30.04. 2020 (57) The present invention is a modular structural building method consisting of prefabricated, precast, composite reinforced concrete raised...
(10) WO 2020/069685 Al(22) 03.10.2019(43) 09.04.2020(57) On the contact surfaces, the panel (1) is provided with tongues (2) and grooves (3) with a cavity (5) open from above. Inside the panel (1),...
(10) WO 2020/074617 Al(22) 09.10.2019(43) 16.04.2020(57) The invention relates to a method for producing a concrete double-wall element comprising two spaced-apart concrete shells (2a, 2b) that are...
