Water reuse in countries with drought and water shortage is necessary in order to provide sufficient water quantity for public, agricultural or private use. In addition to the use of rainwater, the...
Since the spring of 2013, manufacturers of small concrete wastewater treatment plants from all parts of Germany have joined forces to form a joint working group aiming to offer a platform for lobby...
Standardization orders (also referred to as “mandates”) that the European Commission issues to the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) contain a basic framework and are complemented by...
Issues (“Hefte”) 220 and 240 published by the German Committee for Structural Concrete (DAfStb) have been widely used in engineering practice ever since their first editions appeared. These guidelines...
Machine beds and frames are primarily manufactured from welded steel components, gray cast iron, or natural hard stone. Since the 1980s, epoxy-resin-bound polymer concrete and mineral casting...
High-performance materials need to be used to an increasing extent if the construction industry intends to truly respond to global issues such as resource conservation, sustainability, primary energy...
The cement industry generates about 6% of global CO2 emissions that are primarily caused by the production of Portland cement clinker. A reduction in the clinker content of cement and concrete and its...
For the first time in Europe, Progress Maschinen & Automation installed a fully automated production line for reinforcement cages with automatic feeding of longitudinal bars at the concrete pipe...
