Issue 03/2011

The brick cross positioned on the roof of the listed housing complex at De-Haen-Platz in Hanover has been custom-built from around 1 100 clinker...

Christian Wagner’s family has a traditional involvement in ceramics. His grandfather ran his own little brickyard, and his father, Max Wagner of...

The family-owned and ‑operated enterprise dws-prefab used to be exclusively focused on constructing carcasses for multi-storey and individual...

When is building efficient? An activity is described as efficient when it has been well thought out and is performed “effectively and quickly”. To...

Over the six days of the Bau 2011 trade fair, approximately 238 000 visitors streamed into the New Munich Trade Fair Centre – that’s around 12% more...

Exactly 10 years ago, at the “Bau” 2001 trade fair, Schlagmann exhibited the world’s first masonry brick with a heat-insulating core of natural...

A decade ago, at “Bau” 2001, Schlagmann introduced a perlite-filled brick called the Poroton T9. Bucking the trend toward increasingly filigreed...

Wolfgang Jung (65) has stepped down as Managing Director at Ziegel- und Betonwerke Lücking as of 31 December 2010 and instead has joined the...

The Brüggen-based company Gebr. Laumans GmbH & Co. KG bid farewell to its sales manager Peter Boerner in December 2010.

On 1 January 2011 Dr Suikai Lu was appointed to the management of ArGeTon GmbH, international supplier of rear-ventilated clay façades.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Friedrich Heyder, Coblenz University of Applied Sciences, WesterWaldCampus in Höhr-Grenzhausen died on 23 January 2011 following...

There are several examples of renowned Spanish architects who are reinterpreting façade ceramics for their projects and defining these as a prominent...

The requirements for planning and building houses have developed strongly in recent years. Besides structural-physical qualities, a faster, less...

With ClickBrick, the Dutch clay brick manufacturer Daas Baksteen has developed a new product that allows ­facing bricks to be stack-built dry, i.e....

At their factory in Steyerberg, CRH Clay Solutions makes prefabricated elements for façades. In addition to clay masonry units from the neighbouring...