Construction and demolition waste, at 89 million tons, is the dominant type of waste in Germany in terms of quantity. These wastes are mainly recycled in earthworks and road construction. A major part...
The abandonment of fossil fuels for energy generation results in serious changes in the secondary raw materials economy. In concrete production, this applies most of all to coal flyash, which is used...
Concrete is a multipurpose construction material which can be tailored to have numerous different properties. In most cases, it is optimized with respect to the hardened concrete properties, that is,...
The “steel fiber-reinforced concrete” composite material finds more and more fields of application and is increasingly used for the production of precast concrete elements. For this reason, the...
Existing structural frameworks need to be recalculated in accordance with currently applicable standards owing to building conversion and subsequent changes in load levels. Concrete compressive...
In the past ten years, no stone was left standing in German vacation law; this was ensured collaboratively by CJEU and BAG (the German Federal Labor Court). Certainties, having been true for decades,...
This presentation addresses ordinary interested people who are looking for a simple, comprehensible and successful introduction into the fascinating topic of psycho-physiognomy (PP). Physiognomy...
The DAfStb Guideline on “Ultra-High-Performance Concrete” will significantly expand the range of structural concretes compared to DIN EN 206. Compressive strength and axial post-cracking tensile...
Infra-lightweight concrete (ILC) originally represented an evolutionary stage of structural lightweight concrete (LC) in accordance with DIN EN 206 and DIN EN 1992. This new type of concrete had a...
The company Schöck Bauteile GmbH has released a new design software: Schöck Isolink for concrete façades. The program is now available for download at no charge. The new software has been extended by...
