Dear readers, in our August issue I had already formulated similar words of greetings and, as the year 2020 is nearing its end, had originally planned to again concentrate more on technical topics....
Manufacturers of precast concrete elements are faced with the challenge to produce large quantities of uniform high quality at an increasingly faster rate. At the same time, the elements are becoming...
The Kerkstra precast company is manufacturing double-tee slabs and large-sized façade elements, among others, at their Trenton factory near Detroit/USA. The removal of formwork early in the morning...
Nowadays ZPB Kaczmarek is a renowned manufacturer of paving stones and accessories for road construction and civil engineering. The company is well known throughout Poland and has a reputation for...
With the new Extruder E9 and Modifier E9, hollow core producers will be able to reduce concrete waste by enabling concrete recycling during production. Sustainability has always been a priority of the...
At the Melaten Campus of RWTH Aachen University, the Aachen branch of the North Rhine-Westphalianbuilding and real estate management agency plans to build a new center of digitally networked...
Courtesy of the American Concrete Institute, www.concrete.org, this paper focuses on strategies for enhancing fire resistance of high-strength concrete structures, written by Venkatesh Kumar R. Kodur,...
(10) WO 2020/109735 Al(22) 28.11.2019(43) 04.06.2020(57) The invention relates to a device and an associated method for producing a perforated concrete structure having a single or multiple offset on...
(10) WO 2020/107060 Al(22) 22.11.2019(43) 04.06.2020(57) A bed of recyclable molding casting medium is first laid down and then cut away to produce a mold for a concrete component or an element of...
(10) WO 2020/098805 Al(22) 16.11.2019(43) 22.05.2020(57) An attachment between adjacent concrete-based prefabricated modules in a single storey of a multi-storey modular building is provided. A first...
