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...
Issue 02/2016New construction of the Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism at Königsplatz in Munich. Permanent exhibition, temporary exhibition, seminar rooms, conference room, library, administration
Over the last few years, the requirements on bridge structures have considerably increased owing to the growing traffic volume and they are due to become even more stringent in the years ahead. A not...
Since February 2005, the freeze-thaw resistance of concrete pavers had to be determined in the modified slab test in accordance with DIN EN 1338. Some clients favor the CDF method even though there...
A judgment delivered by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) entails a profound change for Germany in the approval of construction products bearing the CE marking:
In an ECJ judgment against Germany...
Overview
The aim of the current research project on highly stressed joints in tunnel construction, undertaken by the Department of concrete structures at TUM, is to experimentally verify the approach...
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...
