Grosse Bergstrasse, Hamburg-Altona
The building at Grosse Bergstrasse is the first multi-story, inner-city IKEA store in Hamburg-Altona. IKEA considers this store to be a pilot project. Concreting...
In Köln-Deutz, an inner-district of Cologne, the Rhine Boulevard, as it is popularly known, is currently under reconstruction. The project involves a section of the Rhine embankment about 300 m...
In times of growing awareness regarding environmental protection, the parties issuing an invitation to tender also increase the requirements on production and assembly of sewer and manhole parts....
In building construction, reinforced concrete floors are frequently used as installation space for building services. Horizontal line distribution is one of the major causes for cross-sectional...
For those responsible only a few years remain to implement the decision taken by politics on June 11, 2011 on a gradual abandonment of nuclear energy. The last eight of the presently operated nuclear...
Concrete is a construction material that – in the context of positive social perception and of the enormous development of its material properties in recent years – is also increasingly used as an...
For decades, cement and concrete have proven their worth, in particular, because of the fact that the quality control of the production process and use is regulated without loopholes, and it is...
After several decades of research, the practical application of steel fibre reinforced concrete is no longer subject to a case-by-case approval but now follows the guideline “steel fibre reinforced...
Structural concrete components with inclined and/or curved surfaces are becoming increasingly popular in contemporary architecture (Fig. 1). Such concrete structures have long been the state of the...
Nowadays, about 20 % of the EU population are exposed to noise levels in excess of 65 dB(A). 90% of this noise is caused by road traffic [1]. In Germany, about 2.8 million people are permanently...
