BIM-based project management is currently still under development in infrastructure and engineering construction. Little research has been done to date in particular in the realization phase as to how...
Virtual reality (VR) considers only digital information in a virtual environment. Hence, VR is a tool for planning in a phase “when there is not yet a reality”. In augmented reality (AR) digital...
What are you doing about sustainability? That is today’s urgent question in many sectors of business and also in the construction and buildings sector. Our economic sector alone causes currently 38 %...
For health protection, the presently more than 240 km and/or 8.8 million m² of noise-protection walls already installed in Germany are being continuously extended and replaced. Noise-protection walls...
Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is used for slender structural members with high load-bearing capacity. The wide range of UHPC applications includes structural frameworks, façades, prestressed...
With steel fiber reinforced concrete, not only the fiber volume fraction, but also the fiber orientation has a decisive influence on the mechanical properties. This is especially true for the behavior...
Non-metallic reinforcement made of fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) features high tensile strength and excellent resistance to corrosion. Existing models for predicting the shear resistance of...
The town hall of Korbach has been a central and characteristic point of contact for the town’s citizens for many decades. As the existing building added to the historic town hall in the 1970s was...
In the future, the construction industry will have to resort to alternative building materials owing to the high carbon emissions associated with the cement production process. Using non-corrosive...
The concrete construction concept ensures the quality of concrete construction at ambient temperatures in summer and winter (< +5 °C; > +30 °C). Additional measures are taken, for example, to avoid...
