At the recent BetonTage held in the German city of Neu-Ulm, it became clearly evident that there is no shortage of good innovative products among the representatives of the European precast concrete...
„The days are over when we just chose a concrete mixture from our list of formulations for a project!“ Dr.-Ing. José Colan waves aside. „On the contrary, every project brings about completely...
During the past two years, the German precast industry has benefited from a solid overall trend in the construction sector, particularly in the residential segment. Against this backdrop, numerous...
When concrete comes into contact with especially aggressive liquids or types of air as occurs, for example, in wastewater, its otherwise high durability is considerably diminished. The prototypes for...
Gigantic construction work was known to be underway in southern Russian Sochi already many months before the mega event Olympic Winter Games 2014 were kicked off. Villages built to accommodate the...
For the construction of the 32.9 km long Koralm railway tunnel, the Austrian National Railways (ÖBB) decided to use the excavated materials for upgrading the aggregates to be used in concrete...
Unfortunately, graffiti quite rarely appears to be art. Mostly, it is vandalism and provocation through slogans meant to attract attention - and besides using inappropriate places. Spray paints,...
Owing to the fact that clamp silos have to be reliable in the long-term, a new, nation-wide ordinance on facilities for handling substances hazardous to water is being developed at present in Germany....
