The presentation is related to recent tendencies and strategies in the European and German code development. In addition to the remarkable modifications in the fields of seismic hazard and description...
All standards for small wastewater treatment plants are still in process and it can be assumed that the judgement of the European Court of Justice has some influence on the content of the stan-dard EN...
Frequently occurring defects on concrete block pavements
Many of the claims that arise in connection with concrete block pavements are concentrated on very few causes of damage. Among them, aside...
Sandwich walls and core-insulated double walls with increasingly thick thermal insulation layer are widely used in building practice. They enable cost-effective and convincing energy-saving solutions...
Design and construction in German earthquake areas had previously been governed by DIN 4149 [1]. This standard will be superseded by DIN EN 1998-1 (Eurocode 8) [2, 3] and the corresponding...
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...
