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...
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 This standard will be superseded by DIN EN 1998-1 (Eurocode 8) [2, 3] and the corresponding...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...
