Construction industry

Innovation: cable robots for construction sites 

Researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UED), the Institute for Applied Construction Research Weimar and the Kalk-Sand Research Association have developed a new type of rope robot. They spent two years working on it. The result is a cable robot that can build a floor from standard sand-lime bricks in just a few hours. It can also move bricks, prevent falls and...

Building: New EPD for sand-lime brick 

There is a new Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for sand-lime bricks. Environmental Product Declarations provide information on the environmental impact and life cycle of individual components. The new EPD was created in accordance with ISO 14025 and the new DIN 15804+A2 standard and includes data records from 52 German sand-lime brick manufacturing plants from 2019. It is valid until 2026. According to information from the...

Digitization: HDB and ZIA call for modernization in construction 

Creating the conditions for more digitalization and less democracy in construction - this is what Tim Müller, Managing Director of the German Construction Industry Association (HDB), and Oliver Wittke, Managing Director of the German Property Federation (ZIA), are calling for from politicians. Among other things, they are proposing a digital completeness check of application documents for...

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