In June 2015, Masa will be celebrating its 110th company anniversary. Prior to this key event, Sales Director Frank Reschke met the BFT editors at the publisher’s premises in Gütersloh. He...
Considerable cost savings can be achieved in the manufacture of concrete, sand-lime and clay blocks when using a novel moisture measurement method that works. According to the supplier, product...
Meanwhile they have become the rule: headlines on bridges in Germany being ramshackle or even in danger of collapsing. The root causes for this situation are the corrosion of reinforcing steel in the...
Construction engineer and company founder, Eberhard Schöck, celebrated his 80th birthday on 26 April 2015. Still in a state of good health, he looked back on his lifetime achievement together with...
The introduction of modern magnetic technology in modern precast concrete plants was followed by numerous adapter solutions for connecting and securely fixing in place magnet and form fabric. One of...
Tekla Structures 21 offers improvements in the areas of interoperability, handling of drawings, usability, and performance, thus optimizing the workflows of construction projects. The solution offers...
Quality controls have always played a significant role in the manufacture of concrete products of any kind: whether for civil engineering, building construction, and garden and landscape construction....
Reinforced concrete sandwich panels have become the standard in façade design for commercial buildings as well as office buildings, as they are offering almost unlimited possibilities for design in...
Still in the 1970s and 1980s, pumice, gravel and concrete industries were omnipresent in the region around my hometown Andernach on Rhine in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Gigantic...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is currently one of the most “in” topics in building and will over the middle and long term sustainably change the design, construction and utilization of...
