Issue 10/2012

In the category “Single-Family House”, architect Bart Lens impressed the jury of Wienerberger Brick Award with his project in Gaasbeek, Belgium,...

All types of businesses utilize different management systems to check and control their procedures. Weekly production and target schedules to...

Since 30 May, the Italian city of Asti has boasted another attraction: a modern sculpture designed by the internationally renowned artist Elio Garis...

Schlagmann Poroton, headquartered in Zeilarn, has successfully introduced an energy management system pursuant to the internationally applicable...

In July 2012 Rehart’s fifth production hall was officially unveiled with an opening ceremony coupled with a party for the employees and their...

Under this heading, our new annual “Bricks I Ziegel” will be published in November. We have turned the old Zi ­Annual on its head, and with the new...

The producers of clay pavers and facing bricks have been profiting from the good climate in the construction sector. As reported by the German brick...

… well, you cannot quite do that yet. But there are almost inexhaustible possibilities to use prefabricated clay brick elements to design attractive,...

The economic growth observed with great hope in the first six months of 2011 was overturned in the middle of the year. The economic recovery that had...

The former advertising manager for Zi Brick and Tile Industry International, Manfred W. Kleinfeld, died on 4 September. He was born 1937 in Berlin. On...

On 1 September 2012, Dr Frank Herrmann was appointed CEO of the Schiedel Group, a company of the Monier Group. He succeeds Mario Wallner, who after 14...

Roofs are becoming more complicated all the time, and it takes lots of flexibility on the part of roofers to handle all the advan­ces in storm...

The new Achat 12V curved interlocking roof tile retains the traditional northern-German character of its predecessor, the Achat 12, but has been...

Modern roofs can have numerous roof penetrations – things like roof windows and vent pipes, feed-throughs for solar energy systems, antennas, flue...

Braas has expanded its product portfolio for solar energy systems to include a second in-roof PV system. This new product, the Braas universal...

Research paper conducted by the Research Alliance of the Clay Brick and Tile Industry Regd (FGZ)Project numberAiF 16074 NProject funded byBMWi through...

In Switzerland, efforts invested in rendering the framework conditions of building replacement comparable to those of conventional renovation and...

Two technical developments play special roles in the life‘s work of Franz Schmid: the introduction of tunnel kilns in the 1950s and that of...

This tripartite article describes the basic theory and practice of preparing energy and mass balances for dryers and kilns in the brick and tile...