The variety of offers available, as well as the demands placed on concrete products prefabricated in plants, have enormously increased in past decades. At the same time, the claims and legal disputes...
To meet global sustainability goals and combat climate change, we must take a critical look at the materials that shape our modern lives, including the plastic packaging of our food, the rare earths...
Imko develops and produces moisture-measuring technologyfor a large variety of applicationsin construction, soil and bulk solids since 1984. Their most prominent solutions are the instrumentations of...
Precast prestressed-concrete floor slabs are characterized by long spans, low reinforcement ratios and lightweight, material-saving construction methods. What eco-balance do they offer in comparison...
Following the announcement of global climate targets to reduce carbon emissions, clinker-reduced concretes (also known as eco-concretes) are becoming increasingly important in the construction...
Although concrete structures have an above-average life-span of up to a hundred years, concrete is still responsible for around 8 % of global greenhouse gas emissions due to the energy-intensive...
Construction material Ducon (DUctile CONcrete) combines ultra-high-strength concrete with spatial micro-reinforcement to produce an innovative, ductile and load-bearing high-performance concrete. For...
BuildingsDuring a period of three years, after cornerstone laying(in 2019), three new buildingswere erected in the heart of Bonn, Germany, where the Bonn Center formerly stood. A 23-story high-rise...
Dyckerhoff Weiss has given building and design with concrete ever-new impulses for more than 90 years. With the sort differentiation “Strong types from Dyckerhoff Weiss”, it was already possible in...
Overpressurization incidents regularly occur when filling storage silos from tanker trucks, but many of them go unnoticed. However, each such incident poses a significant hazard to people, the system,...
