Fields of Activity

Concrete and reinforced concrete

• Construction techniques for walls
• Construction techniques for floors
  • solid concrete slabs
  • voided slabs
• Reinforcing elements
  • punching shear reinforcement
  • lattice girders
  • steel supports for concrete members
• Special designs
  • knife-edge bearings
  • spun concrete poles and masts

Prestressed concrete

• Prestressing techniques
  • bonded post-tensioning
  • internal unbonded post-tensioning
  • external post-tensioning
  • in situ grouts and temporary corrosion protection
  • cable-stay techniques
• Construction techniques for prestressed floors
  • prestressed hollow core slabs
  • prestressed floors made of precast elements and in situ concrete
  • prestressed floors with structural concrete overlay

Steel-fibre reinforced concrete

• Precast products and construction techniques
  • electrical substations
  • floor slabs
  • walls
  • prestressed and non-prestressed precast elements

Strengthening of concrete members

• Steel plates / CFRP strips
  • strengthening with externally bonded steel plates
  • strengthening with externally bonded carbon fibre reinforced polymer strips (CFRP strips)
  • strengthening with CFRP strips bonded into slits
• CF sheets
  • strengthening of tanks with laminated carbon fibre sheets
• Textile-reinforced concrete
  • strengthening with textile-reinforced concrete

Fields of Activity

Anchorages and fixings for use in concrete and masonry

• Metal fasteners
• Bonded fasteners
• Plastic fasteners
• Special fasteners
• Powder actuated fasteners
• Anchor channels
• Headed bolts, headed studs
• Scaffold anchors
• Wire rope loop systems

Reinforcing steel and couplings for reinforcing steel

Slab connectors, stair connectors, shear dowels

Stairs

• Stair systems
• Individual components for staircases

Fields of Activity

Bearings

• Bridge bearings
• Bearings in building construction
• Vibration isolation of buildings

Special structures

• Scaffolds and scaffold components
• Free-standing chimneys
• Towers and masts
• Temporary structures

Glass in construction

• Structural sealant glazing systems
• Point-supported vertical glazing
• Overhead glazing
• Linearly supported vertical glazing
• Barrier glazing
• Walk-on glazing

Racking systems

Fields of Activity

Concrete technology

• Concrete constituents
  • binders
  • admixtures
  • additives/additions
  • fibres
  • aggregates
• Special concretes and mortars
  • mass concrete
  • grouting mortars/concretes
  • reaction resin mortars
  • other special concretes

Repair and strengthening of concrete structures

• protective measures for trafficable concrete surfaces
• repair products with special properties

Fibre cement with non-metallic fibres

• Construction products and members
  • fibre cement flat sheet kits
  • fibre cement profiled sheet kits
  • special boards

Fields of Activity

Timber construction

• Timber construction and timber products
  • solid timber
  • modified timber
  • finger-jointed solid timber
  • glued solid timber, glued laminated timber
  • cross laminated timber
  • laminated veneer timber
  • hybrid elements
  • wood-based stressed skin panels
  • mechanically jointed timber elements (e.g. using fasteners)
  • particle boards (organic and mineral)
  • OSB boards
  • plywood
  • solid wood panels
  • fibre boards (organic)
  • gypsum boards
  • solid timber beams
  • I-beams
  • panel construction
  • formwork beams
• Timber fasteners
  • dowel-type fasteners: nails, screws and staples
  • carpentry joints
  • punched metal plate fasteners
  • plane steel plates
  • three-dimensional fasteners, nailing plates
  • other fasteners
• Composite systems
  • wood-concrete composite systems
• Adhesives and glued connections
  • adhesives for load-bearing timber elements
  • adhesives for structural glued connections
  • adhesives for repair of timber elements
  • glued-in fasteners
  • screw-press bonding
• Moisture-variable diffusion-inhibiting layers

Wood preservation

• Preventive wood preservatives without biocides
• Curative wood preservatives without biocides

Non-load-bearing internal partitions

Fields of Activity

Masonry

• Masonry units and bricks
• Masonry mortars
• Prefabricated masonry wall elements
• Construction techniques with shuttering blocks
• Dry masonry
• Reinforced masonry
• Lintels
• Accessories

Earth work and foundation engineering

• Ground anchors
• Soil nailing
• Piles
• Pile couplers
• Soil injections
• Deep-mixing (mixed-in-place)
• Soil reinforced with geotextiles

Waterproofing of buildings

• Waterproofing of buildings and roofs
  • bitumen sheets, plastic sheets, elastomeric sheets
  • liquid applied products such as polymer-modified bituminous thick coatings, mineral sealing slurries, dispersions and reaction resins
• Construction techniques comprising pre-applied flexible sheets that fully bond to the in situ concrete
• Sealing of joints and transitions for waterproof concrete members
  • coated and uncoated metal joint sheets
  • injection hose systems
  • plastic and elastomeric joint sealing tapes, exterior and interior
  • transitions with adhesive properties
  • transitions with built-in parts
• Waterproofing of bridge decks
  • bitumen sheets
  • liquid applied products on the basis of reaction resins
• Expansion joints for bridges

Fields of Activity

Facades

• Exterior wall claddings
  • ventilated and non-ventilated exterior wall claddings made of organic, inorganic and/or composite materials
  • exterior wall claddings consisting of supporting boards with render or bonded cladding panels
• Exterior wall claddings made of insulation composite elements
• Metal plastic composite profiles
• Translucent elements (skylights etc.)
  • translucent elements or systems for roofs
  • translucent elements or systems for walls
• Sandwich panels
  • thermally insulating claddings with separating function
  • thermally insulating roof units with separating function

Load-bearing plastics

• Membrane structures
  • load-bearing membrane structures made of coated fabrics without load-bearing substructures
  • special load-bearing membrane structures made of films
• Swimming pools
  • glass fibre reinforced swimming pool elements
• Water slides
  • glass fibre reinforced water slide elements
• Polymer concrete
  • polymer-concrete containing binders, mostly synthetic (e.g. polymethyl methacrylate)
  • reinforced balcony slabs
• Adhesive bonding
  • adhesive bonding to force-fit two building components together
  • bonded claddings
  • glass-concrete composites
  • adhesive bonding of precast concrete elements
• Strengthening and repair of timber structures
  • products and methods for the repair of timber structures

Fields of Activity

Granting structural design type approvals

Coordination and general policy matters in the following areas:

• stability and structural design
• safety theory in construction
• wind turbines (e.g. DIBt Guideline on Wind Turbines and related comments)
• design loads and actions
• seismic design
• Eurocodes

Evaluation and development of provisions for national technical approvals and European Technical Assessments concerning the resistance-to-fire of structures

Steel and metal construction

• Steel construction
  • anchor devices for personal fall protection systems
  • bulk containers
  • connectors
  • steel framing, space frames
  • tension members
• Light metal construction
  • cold rolled steel girders
  • profiled sheets
  • suspended metal ceilings
• Connections and connectors

Materials for metal construction

• Metallic products and components made of
  • stainless steel
  • thermomechanically rolled fine-grained steel
  • creep-resistant steels
• Welding
  • prefabricated steel and aluminium elements
  • construction products welded using special methods
• Corrosion protection

Composite construction

• Composite components
  • composite floors
  • composite columns
  • composite girders
• Shear connectors