As of 1 July 2013, in accor-dance with the Construction Products Regulation that will enter into force on that day, all testing and certification bodies must be newly recognized and notified. In...
The Concrete Show 2012 in São Paulo/Brazil was a complete success for the concrete and precast concrete industry. The fair halls were packed with booths of the exhibitors from the whole world:...
On the basis of the design proposed by award-winning architects Barkow Leibinger, the “Tour Total” office building, a development managed by CA Immo, is being constructed behind Berlin Main...
In the village of Wolthausen, located 10 km northwesterly of Celle in the German state of Lower Saxony, the owner of a historic mill operates a hydro power plant. The plant consists of a turbine and...
In the spring, after 15 months of construction, the new headquarters of RAG Montan Immobilien was inaugurated on the site of the former coking plant of the Zollverein, a UNESCO world heritage site in...
Today, designers need to meet a large number of carefully coordinated requirements when designing state-of-the-art buildings. During the last couple of years, the focus has been not only on design...
Harsco Infrastructure has developed an app for the calculation of the concrete pressure being suitable for iOS and Android. This application allows calculating the appropriate climbing rate of...
The 10th International Conference for Concrete Block Pavers, ICCBP 2012, will take place in Shanghai/China from 24 to 26 November 2012. BFT International talked to Mr. Du Jiandong, secretary general...
Peikko comes out with a new punching and shear reinforcement system called “PSB-F”, which is especially designed for the requirements of precast concrete factories and has been granted the...
The 4th User Conference „Textile-Reinforced Concrete in Theory and Practice“ will take place in Dresden on September 27 and 28, 2012 organized by the German association Tudalit. Numerous speakers...
