Selected chapters from the German concrete yearbook are now being published in the new English ""Beton-Kalender Series"" for the benefit of an international audience. Since it was founded in 1906, the Ernst & Sohn ""Beton-Kalender"" has been supporting developments in reinforced…
Was Britain's postwar rebuilding the height of midcentury chic or the concrete embodiment of Crap Towns? John Grindrod decided to find out how blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass. On …
Liquid stone: new architecture in concrete
Unter dem Schwerpunktthema Brücken behandelt der Beton-Kalender die Einwirkungen nach Eurocode 1 auf Brücken sowie den Entwurf, die Bemessung und Konstruktion von Massivbrücken nach Eurocode 2, welche gemeinsam mit ihren Nationalen Anhängen 2013 verbindlich eingeführt wurden. Si…
Whether you love or hate brutalist buildings, this book will explain what it is about them that elicits such strong feeling. You will understand the true power of concrete and of mammoth-sized buildings, but also some of the more subtle aspects of brutalist buildings that you ma…
Due to increasing traffic flows the extension of transport infrastructure with rail roads and high speed lines is an ongoing process worldwide. Ballastless track systems with concrete slabs are used more and more. Following the first trials in the 1970s and more than four decade…
Sustainable concrete construction: proceedings of the international conference held …
by Dhir, Ravindra K., Dyer, Thomas D., International Congress Challenges of Concrete Construction, Dundee,), Halliday, Judith E., International Conference "Sustainable Concrete Construction", Dundee, Scotland, International Congress "Challenges of Concrete Construction", Dundee, Scotland)
There is no substitute for concrete that can be used on the same engineering scale. Its sustainability, exploitation and further development are necessary for a healthy economy and environment worldwide. Concrete must keep evolving to satisfy the increasing demands of all its us…
