Against the backdrop of its “Climate Action Plan 2010”, the city of Mannheim was planning an entirely new tram line, construction of which began in December 2012. The “Stadtbahn Mannheim Nord”...
The UEFA Euro 2016 recently concluded after four weeks packed with excitement. As we all know, Portugal landed their first ever European Championship, while the German team was defeated in the...
To date, it has been a time-consuming and cost-intensive venture for companies to provide information on the environmental impact of their products. The ECO Platform now provides a remedy for this...
Ratec, founded in 1994, has established magnet shuttering in precast concrete production and has been a key driver of this technology for over 20 years. At bauma 2016, Ratec presented their latest...
The Panama Canal has been expanded by adding a dual three-stage set of locks each both on the Atlantic and on the Pacific side of the canal. Covering a length of over 1.5 km each, these are currently...
From now on companies can submit their application to the 2017 Innovation Prize for structural concrete products of the supplier industry. We again look for exemplary innovative products, methods and...
Precast concrete construction becomes more and more important, not least in the wake of the current discussion about the shortage of affordable housing space. Politics but also the construction and...
As of now Hunklinger offers a complete one-man joint filling system that is a logical complement of paver laying by means of the paver laying clamp. The racking system of the joint filling system...
It has been known since the 1940 s that deliberate air entrainment increases the frost and freeze-thaw resistance of hardened concrete. This is why the air content of fresh concrete and its...
In Germany, the modernization of existing precast plants has become extremely common because many producers are currently using aged equipment whilst the construction industry is booming. However,...
