Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

The need to reduce CO2 emissions and resource consumption poses major challenges for the construction industry. With regard to concrete construction, increasingly complex concrete compositions using CO2-minimized binders, recycled aggregates and various mineral additions and chemical admixtures are coming into focus. This rapidly increasing complexity leads to a greater sensitivity of the concrete or the processes associated with concrete production and application to unpredictable fluctuations both in the properties of the concrete constituent materials and in terms of process boundary conditions (e.g. humidity, temperature). Digital sensor and quality control systems are central elements to counter these fluctuations, so that safe and sustainable concrete construction can also be guaranteed in the future.