Fields of Activity

Concrete and reinforced concrete

• Construction techniques for walls
• Construction techniques for floors
  • solid concrete floors
  • hollow core floors
• Reinforcement
  • punching armouring
  • lattice girders
  • steel supports for concrete components
• Special constructions
  • knife-edge bearings
  • spun concrete poles

Prestressed concrete

• Prestressing techniques
  • bonded post-tensioning
  • internal unbonded post-tensioning
  • external post-tensioning
  • in situ grouts
  • cable-stay techniques
• Construction techniques for prestressed floors
  • prestressed hollow core slabs
  • prestressed floors made of precast elements
  • prestressed floors with load-bearing structural concrete topping

Steel-fibre reinforced concrete

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

Fields of Activity

Anchorages and fastenings

• Metal anchors
• Bonded anchors
• Plastic anchors
• Special anchors
• Powder actuated fasteners
• Anchor channels
• Headed fasteners
• Anchoring for scaffolds
• Wire rope loops

Reinforcing steel and couplings for reinforcing steel

Load-bearing thermal insulation elements for slabs and shear connectors

Stairs

• Stair systems
• Individual components for staircases

Fields of Activity

Bearings

• Bridge bearings
• Suspension of buildings
• Vibration insulation of buildings

Special structures

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

Glass in building

• Structural sealant glazing systems
• Point-supported vertical glazing
• Overhead glazing
• Line-supported vertical glazing
• Safety barrier glazing
• Walk-on glazing

Racking systems

Fields of Activity

Concrete technology

• Concrete constituents
  • binders
  • admixtures
  • additives
  • fibres
  • aggregates
• Special concretes and mortars
  • mass concrete
  • grouting mortars/concretes
  • reaction resin mortars
  • other special concretes
• Protection and repair of concrete components
  • protective measures for trafficable concrete surfaces
  • products for repair with special properties

Fibre cement with non-metallic fibres

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

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

Timber construction

• Timber construction
  • panel web beams
  • timber frame construction
  • formwork beams
  • other construction techniques
• Timber products
  • particle boards (organic and mineral)
  • OSB-boards
  • plywood
  • fibre boards (organic)
  • gypsum boards
  • glued products, laminated boards, laminated veneer lumber
  • adhesives for load-bearing timber components
• Timber fasteners
  • nails, screws and staples
  • punched metal plates
  • plane steel plates
  • three-dimensional nailing plates
  • other connectors

Wood preservation

• Preventive wood preservatives
• Curative wood preservatives

Fields of Activity

Masonry

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

Earth work and foundation engineering

• Tiebacks
• Soil nailing
• Piles
• Pile joints
• Soil grouting
• Deep-mixing (mixed-in-place)
• Geosynthetic reinforced fill structures

Waterproofing of buildings and roofs

• 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
• Sealing of joints and transitions for concrete building elements with high resistance against penetration of water
  • coated and non-coated metal joint sheets
  • injection hose systems
  • polymer 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
  • supported expansion joints
  • nosing expansion joints
  • flexible expansion joints
  • cantilever expansion joints
  • mat expansion joints
  • modular expansion joints
  • buried expansion joints

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

Load-bearing plastics

• Translucent elements (skylights etc.)
  • translucent elements or systems for roofs
  • translucent elements or systems for walls
• Sandwich panels
  • thermally insulating claddings with fire compartmentation function
  • thermally insulating roof units with fire compartmentation function
• 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
• Strengthening of timber components
  • products and methods for the repair of load-bearing timber structures
• Adhesive bonding
  • adhesive bonding to force-fit two building components together
  • bonded claddings
  • glass-concrete composites
  • adhesive bonding of prefabricated concrete building elements
• Metal plastic composite profiles
• Polymer concrete
  • polymer-concrete containing binders, mostly synthetic (e.g. polymethyl methacrylate)
  • reinforced balcony slabs

Fields of Activity

• Granting structural design type approvals

• Coordination and general policy matters in the following areas:
  • structural design and structural analysis
  • safety theory in construction
  • structural fire design (resistance-to-fire)
  • wind turbines (e.g. DIBt guideline for wind turbines)
  • design loads and actions
  • seismic design
• Assessment and development of provisions for national technical approvals and European Technical Assessments concerning the resistance-to-fire of load-bearing structures

Steel and metal construction

• Steel construction
  • connectors
  • tension members
  • space frames
  • bulk containers
• Light metal construction
  • connectors
  • profiled sheets
  • cold rolled steel girders
  • suspended metal ceilings
• Connections and fasteners

Materials

• Materials for metal construction: 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 girders
  • composite columns
• Shear connectors