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| Actually, I wanted to take this opportunity to joyfully inform you that after a break of one year due to Corona the Innovation Prize of the Supplier Industry for Concrete Components will once again be awarded within the scope of the 66th Betontage in a few weeks. Just recently, the application portfolios were put on my desk, as a member of the jury of experts. I can already tell you here – the remarkable 26 submissions confirmed the gratifying upward trend. Unfortunately, however, it became apparent how strong the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic still is on our industry events. FBF Betondienst GmbH has postponed the 66th BetonTage congress originally scheduled for February 2022. Instead, the leading event of the concrete and precast industry will take place from 21 to 23 June 2022 at Congress Centrum Ulm/Maritim Hotel Ulm. This decision was made due to the current Covid-19 pandemic spread and on the grounds of the related regulation applicable in the German State of Baden-Württemberg, which was last amended on 20 December 2021. So we still have to be patient, but we are sure that it will be worth the wait. I wish you a good start into a successful and healthy new year. Enjoy this Newletter.
Yours
Silvio Schade
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| 66th BetonTage: New date for the precast industry event | | The multi-day industry gathering usually hosts about 2,300 attendees. “We have been thinking long and hard before making the decision to move the BetonTage to the summer season. We are currently unable to predict if the situation will ease again in February, and are thus not in a position to guarantee that the congress can be held as an in-person event meeting the usual quality standard. This is why we agreed on the new date out of our responsibility towards the attendees and the exhibiting companies,” explains Dr. Ulrich Lotz ...
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| Successful 2021 BIBM Congress in Copenhagen | | After a delay of one and a half years caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the 23rd BIBM Congress took place in Copenhagen from 14 to 16 November 2021. Bureau International du Béton Manufacturé (BIBM), the European precast federation, joined forces with the organizers of BCF - Building Congress Forum GmbH to invite interested industry representatives to the Danish capital. About 350 people from across Europe attended the event and convened in the Tivoli Congress Center under the Covid-19 guidelines and ...
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| Internationalization Award for Peikko | | The President of the Republic of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, has granted Internationalization Awards for the year of 2021. The Award for the Growth Company of the Year was presented to Peikko on 19 November 2021. The annually granted award is a significant recognition to internationally successful Finnish companies. The evaluation criteria focus on international success, profitable growth, promotion of Finnish expertise, and the company’s ethical ...
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| Röckelein modernizes with mixing technology of Eirich | | The world of gardening and landscape construction is the most important pillar of Baustoffwerk Altendorf K. Röckelein GmbH & Co KG. Modern and classic paving blocks in fanciful shapes, colors and sizes can be found here. For ensuring the highest level of artistic freedom in designing the decorative elements, Röckelein has been relying on the quality and reliability of Eirich mixing technology for decades now. The latest generation of the successful R12 series was presented at the last Bauma in 2019. At the end of the trade show days, the face ...
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| Blue concrete blocks from Zeulenroda for Vårbergs Jättar | | “Take it easy like Pelousen Jätte – one of the Vårbergs Giants – that is as of recently now resting on a lawn in Stockholm and on which people are encouraged to romp around on,” as aptly titled by Arte-art, the art magazine, in December of 2020, in reporting on this extraordinary project of the artists Xavier Veilhan and Alexis Bertrand. The wish of the two artists and the city is that the people who live here and visitors to the Swedish metropolis could play, picnic and relax on it. An extraordinary project by the Veilhan-Bertrand team for their client Stockholm ...
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| „IAB Days on Concrete“ in Weimar with special edition | | Resource-conserving and climate-friendly construction took center stage at the „IAB Days on Concrete“ held in Weimar on 10 and 11 November 2021. The two-day specialist conference of the Weimar Institute of Applied Construction Research (IAB - Institut für Angewandte Bauforschung) was one of the first industry events held this year, which was organized as a special edition with actual attendance exclusively. “We are pleased to see so many familiar faces again after such a long time,“ said Dr. Ulrich Palzer, the director of the IAB institute, ...
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| Sustainable architectural concrete – recycled concrete façade for city hall in Korbach | | The new city hall ensemble in the center of the city of Korbach, in the German State of Hesse, was recently completed. The façade elements of the new main building were constructed of recycled concrete, while utilizing demolishing waste from the former existing building. The complete article can be read in “BetonBauteile Jahrbuch 2022,” which is available from the Profil bookstore of Bauverlag. The architects had planned the new city hall complex in three partial projects: rehabilitation of the historic ...
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Figure: Institute of Building Engineering, Poznan University of Technology
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| The impact of sucrose on the process of hardening of cement slurry and mortar mixtures | | For a long time, sugar has been known to have an impact on delaying the process of cement setting and hardening. There is little data contained in the literature on this subject and it is often contradictory. Therefore, this article presents tests of cement slurries and mortars performed to verify this data. Studies were carried out to test the initial and final setting time of cement as well as the flexural and ...
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