The April 2005 version of DIN 4149 continues to be the officially applicable German standard for load assumptions and the design and execution of buildings for earthquake resistance. Although the...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) digitally generates and stores relevant data pertaining to a building or structure directly in the design and construction phases. In addition, it creates a virtual...
Stable markets? Something like this does not exist.What we can learn from the case of Readymix. Do you still remember the Readymix brand name? One of the really big brands in the field of ready-mixed...
BuildingIn 2018/19, a new office building was constructed at the original headquarters of the Kühne + Nagel logistics group in Bremen. Its predecessor completed in the 1960s was demolished because it...
In the course of ongoing digitalization in the precast construction industry, three-dimensional building models have almost become standard in structural design in the meantime. These models not only...
In the absence of daylight, subway stations quickly become dark and spooky places. The planners of the new Karlsruhe Metro, the Munich office of Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects, wanted to counter...
Approximately 10 % of the population in Germany is not connected to a communal sewer system and/or to a central sewage treatment plant. They must therefore implement decentral sewage treatment...
Retrofit kits for sewage treatment technology are key components of the industry and are preferably installed in suitable concrete tanks. As a product, they are therefore subject to various...
The judgment issued by the European Court of Justice on 16 October2014 in Case C-100/13 means that, since November 2016, the DIBt has no longer been in a position to grant national technical approvals...
Most of the production processes required for building the unique shell roof in the Stuttgart 21 project were developed from scratch, thus extending building feasibility limits for extremely complex...
