Drainage and sewer systems are key to ensuring hygienic, environmentally sound conditions in all municipalities and local communities. They are also major assets held by those communities, and are...
During a supervisory board meeting, Nikolaus Peter Wild (61), former chairman of the management board of Schöck Group, was officially seen off; he resigned at the end of 2014. According to an...
Two years ago, I reported at this congress on the difficulties involved in establishing an “indisputable” contract for work. The problems highlighted at that time are still existing. Contracts for...
With a world-wide annual production of more than 10 billion m³ and the respective surfaces, concrete has been the most frequently used building material all over the world for more than a century....
Concrete is a versatile and popular building material that is no longer popular just because of its technical properties. Architects deliberately use concrete as a design element both for interior and...
In 2001, the city of Mannheim commissioned the architect’s office Fischer Architekten GmbH with the design of an innovative commercial area. The requirements of commercial users as well as...
To an increasing extent, specifiers envisage the use of steel fibers instead of conventional steel reinforcement to resist tensile forces in lining segments of tunnels or large sewers. Particularly on...
Five long periods of time have shaped life in Europe since the industrial revolution. Every period lasted about 50 to 70 years. The mechanization, the mass mobility by train, the chemistry and the...
Cast stone is a deliberately used design element which is very difficult to replace in architecture as well as in garden and landscape construction. In projects, where purposeful use is made of its...
In building on existing structures, reinforced-concrete members are frequently placed against existing structural members. This is best achieved with lapped joints.
Until the end of the 1950s,...
