The Middle East is currently faced with an extremely critical situation. Entire states are in the process of disintegration, and individual clans, tribes and local rulers are taking control....
For a long time, it has been quite problematic in legal practice that the regulations governing the contract law for work concerning construction contracts do not provide enough details, and thus they...
The determination of the actual mechanical properties of the materials used in building is a central element in the reanalysis of existing load-bearing structures. Generally, such values can be...
The intention of the public procurement law is to meet the procurement need of a public client at an economical price. In which case is the public client allowed to limit his procurement decision to a...
The priority program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) – within the scope of the project “Lightweight building with concrete” – examines the joining of very slender precast construction...
On the occasion of the introduction of Eurocode 2 DIN EN 1992 “design of concrete structures” including the associated national annexes for building construction and bridge construction in 2012...
Concrete can assume nearly any external shape. The same applies to the reinforcement which is not necessarily limited to rectangular patterns or component surfaces. The question is rather, which is...
In the course of the increasingly stricter standards imposed by the German Energy Savings Ordinance (EnEV), reducing the thermal losses of building envelopes is of great significance. In this context,...
High-performance supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) will be required to improve the technical and environmental characteristics of concrete. These SCMs will substitute conventional binders to...
The collaborative research project entitled “R Concrete – Resource-Saving Concrete – The Next-Generation Material” aims to identify ways to permanently remove standardization obstacles in...
