Dear European colleagues,
On behalf of the European precast concrete industry, I welcome all participants to this special “60 years of BetonTage” conference. Time moves on, years pass by, and our...
In November 2015, the membership meeting of Betonverband Straße, Landschaft, Garten (SLG – German Concrete Association Road, Landscape, Garden) elected a new executive board. Florian Klostermann,...
Be it roads, water and wastewater, or new functional systems: a multitude of emerging requirements will add new practical options to the future of civil engineering. Textile-reinforced concrete is one...
Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear readers,
Have you ever asked yourself what the reasons for success are? Or have you ever googled the term “success”, which is what most people do nowadays? You will...
Energy storage systems are becoming increasingly important in the course of expanding generation from wind power and photovoltaics in order to resolve the residual load issue in electricity grids....
Concrete needs to exhibit a high freeze-thaw resistance to ensure long service lives, particularly in the case of concrete products used in road construction. This characteristic is primarily achieved...
On 28 March 2014, the new EU legislative package on procurement was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The most extensive reform of the EU procurement law since 2004 comprises three...
Introduction
In the end, a sustainable use and maintenance of the infrastructure is an intergenerational duty, which is only fulfilled inadequately by the public sector owing to several reasons, as...
The ongoing discussion on closed-loop recycling is increasingly focusing on the construction industry which uses significant amounts of mineral resources and counts among the large waste producers. In...
Introduction
Seven partners from research, industry and standardization (see Fig. 1) have joined forces to accelerate the transfer of innovative materials from the laboratory scale to practice. The...
