Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

New paths are created by walking them, which represents a conviction already held by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. More than 100 years later, his words have not lost their validity in the land of poets and thinkers. Until recently, DIN 1053-4 excluded approval for construction methods based on prefabricated masonry made of concrete and lightweight concrete installed with thin-bed mortar. Now, after extensive preparatory work, the Federal Association of Lightweight Concrete has obtained a general building authority approval. Since February, wall panels made of lightweight concrete, concrete blocks or planar concrete elements are considered to be as applicable as conventional wall systems.