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SOUTH KOREA REPRESENTATIVE
July, 2010 - Kassel & SOUTH KOREA
Soon, the services and developments of G.tecz will be represented by our new Agent in SOUTH KOREA.
Cement bonded High-Tech materials, based on local raw materials, will be available soon.
>> Interested? Please contact us: contact@gtecz.com
AUSTRALIA REPRESENTATIVE
July 2010, Kassel & Australia
Soon, the services and developments of G.tecz will be represented by our new Agent in AUSTRALIA.
Cement bonded High-Tech materials, based on local raw materials, will be available soon.
>> Interested? Please contact us: contact@gtecz.com
Doreen Westphals NEW Online-SHOP & Quantz
Doreen Westphal, the famous Designer from Amsterdam & Eindhoven opened her new ONLINE SHOP. Next to her beautiful bags and accessories, the new QUANTZ products are available.
UHPC for a bridge construction in The Netherlands
06.05.2010 Kassel
>> Ultra-hogesterktebeton (uhsb) is een innovatieve betontechniek voor slank en duurzaam bouwen. De techniek is beproefd in brugprojecten in Duitsland, Frankrijk en Korea. Nederlandse bouwpartijen aarzelen nog, vanwege de hogere kosten en het ontbreken van regelgeving. Om de aarzeling te overwinnen, heeft het Cement&BetonCentrum initiatief genomen voor uhsb-casestudies. <<
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JEROME MAGAZINE - Reporting about UNH and G.tecz
04. May 2010
Jerome, a magazin located in Kassel is actually reporting about the support of the UNH (Business Trade Association in North Hessen) on the Inkubator, that is located at the University of Kassel. The Inkubator is an institution that supports spin-offs of the University of Kassel.
G.tecz, that was a kind of spin-off of the university, is also member in the UNH and talked with the editor about their success in founding a company. ...
Concrete Design Competition 2010 - Kassel Students made it
26. April 2010
Two students from the architecture faculty of the University of Kassel, Ljuba Tascheva und Boris Koch made it. The students were members of the last years project 'ConcreteAdvanced' held by Thomas Teichmann and Gregor Zimmermann.
Congratulations to the winners.
Upcoming: The Students of the projects and G.tecz are preparing a book, that will contain all the Kassel-projects. Please stay tuned.
G.tecz - UHPC for the museum MUZKKKA in Rotenburg / Germany
26. April 2010
The museum MUZKKKA, located in Rotenburg, gets a new outbuilding. The project team - Principal Rotenburg, Dietz Architects, Bollinger and Grohmann and G.tecz - are developing a holisitc solution. Architecture, construction and material are well optimized and are building a 'unit'. The material, that will be used for the building, is a UHPC based on the Quantz-technology by G.tecz - A special cast-in-place UHPC.
UMAS Ltd. is representing G.tecz in Turkey
March 2010 - Kassel, Germany - Istanbul, Turkey
In cooperation with UMAS Ltd., G.tecz established a representation in Istanbul. Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Roesner is structural engineer, educated at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and is domiciled in Istanbul since six years. Mr. Roesner is familiar with the Turkish construction industry and your contact person Turkey.
Reflective Concrete - BlingCrete
03.2010 Kassel, Germany
Reflecting concrete, named BlingCrete by the developers, is a development of the research group - Hering Bau, University of Kassel - Prof. Klussmann and G.tecz. It's an especially by G.tecz developed Ultra High Performance Concrete that includes glass elements. By the architectural and design optimized arrangement of those glass-elements, the material is reflecting under direct illumination. The material applications can be architectural tunnel- or facade elements up to guidance systems for pedestrians.
The research-project is promoted by the German Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand: Design Development by Prof. Klussmann; Material Development by G.tecz; Production technology and application by Hering Bau.
UHSB BRIDGE CASESTUDY started in The Netherlands
20.02.2010 - Cement&BetonCentrum - s'Hertogenbosch
The first UHPC Bridge Casestudy started in The Netherlands. The project is initiated by the Cement&BetonCentrum and supports the innovative development of UHPC structures and buildings. G.tecz takes the leadership role in developing the UHPC:
De vorig jaar aangekondigde casestudies voor Ultra-Hoge-Sterkte-Beton beginnen nu concrete vorm aan te nemen. De eerste case die wordt uitgewerkt door een integraal ontwerpteam betreft de helixvormige op- en afritten van de te bouwen fietsbrug over het Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal bij Nigtevecht. De brug met een overspanning van 120 meter gaat uitgevoerd worden met een stalen boog en een kunststofcomposiet brugdek.
Het ontwerp van de brug is gericht op duurzaamheid. De helixvormige opgangen verkleinen de landschappelijke 'footprint' en spelen in op specifieke criteria voor duurzaam inkopen van kunstwerken. UHSB lijkt aan alle eisen van ontwerp, gebruik en beheer tegemoet te komen.
Het initiatief voor UHSB-casestudies komt van het Cement&BetonCentrum, ter bevordering van de toepassing van deze innovoatieve betontechniek in de Nederlandse infrastructuur. Er is een pool gevormd van architecten- en ingenieursbureaus, bouwbedrijven en toeleveranciers die willen pionieren met UHSB. Uit deze pool worden teams gevormd voor integraal ontwerp. De aanvankelijke opzet om een viertal teams tegelijkertijd te laten werken aan diverse cases is verlaten. Het blijkt bijzonder lastig om geschikte cases te vinden die in tijd en fase gelijk lopen. Het uitwisselen van waardevolle leerervaringen zal nu minder snel verlopen.
Voor de eerste casestudy is een team gevormd van Romein Beton, Haskoning, Gtecz en De la Rive Box. Deze laatste is de initiator en ontwerper van de brug. Haskoning maakt het constructief ontwerp; Romein Beton doet de detail engineering en productievoorbereiding. Het Duitse bedrijf Gtecz verzorgt voor de betontechnologische adviezen.
De keuze voor UHSB in dit brugproject is vooral ingegeven door de wens tot slanke constructies op een minimaal grondvlak. De transparantie van het bouwwerk moet een minimale inbreuk op het landschap verzekeren. Het idee voor een helix is onder andere voorgelegd aan de Fietsersbond, die enthousiast was over comfort en veiligheid. Ook voor veel andere fietsbrugprojecten zou de helix een goede optie zijn.
Het ontwerp zal leiden tot inzicht in de economische haalbaarheid van UHSB, alsook de voordelen op het gebied van duurzaam bouwen. De doorlooptijd van deze casestudy is een half jaar. Het Cement&BetonCentrum verwacht later dit voorjaar met een tweede casestudy te kunnen starten.
Beton- und Stahbetonbau Magazine - developments in ultra high performance concrete
Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, a German construction and building magazine, is writing about the newest G.tecz technologies. Topics are the development of sustainable UHPCs. For example - it's possible to use local raw materials, to reduce the silca content and to design a UHPC with a phenomenal slump result, a high compressive strength and flexural strength of about 24 MPa without fibres.
December SPECIAL 2009
> concrete optimization
> scc optimization
> blueCONCRETE optimization
>> starting 4.500,00 Euro
QUANTZ LETTERS & SLOGANS to ORDER
Dez 2009 - Kassel, G.tecz
You can now order the by Manuela Greipel and PROFORMA designed QUANTZ letters or slogans.
The letters and slogans will be individually produced regarding your 'text' ideas and are coming with an design and installation concept.
Please contact:
CONCRETE LACE by Doreen Westphal
Nov 2009 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This material, designed by Doreen Westphal, is made from Quantz (developed by G.Tecz) and different suspensions. The suspensions are cast inside the lace-shaped concrete tiles.
Applications:
Gauzes for hotels, auditoriums and public buildings, window treatment or room dividers for private homes, decorative interior and exterior wall coverings, visual dividers for large spaces like restaurants, parking garages or urban gardens.
Sizes:
Standard size is 320cm in Height/ and 75cm in Width. But Concrete Lace is also available in any custom size, application or atmosphere.
Hotel Artemis Amsterdam
Concrete Design Competition - Valerio Olgiati
Valerio Olgiati in conversation with Siebe Bakker, part 1 on 'one idea'. 4th Concrete Design Comeptition - MONOLITHIC, exploring versatility
Coming soon - Siebe Bakker interviewing G.tecz
STYLEPARK - CONCRETE
STYLEPARK, the international design-plattform published a new category - CONCRETE. G.tecz is showing the new material Quantz.
Concrete Advanced - Project WS09/10
October 2009 - University of Kassel, Germany
Monolithic - That's the topic of the new ConcreteDesignCompetition in 2009 and topic of the lectureship of Dr. Thomas Teichmann and Dr. Gregor Zimmermann during the winter-semester 09/10. Next to advanced concrete technologies and design studies, the students will build 1:1 prototypes of their ideas for the competition.
>> www.concretedesigncompetition.de
BETONART - Ultra Yüksek Performasli Beton
July 2009 - Article BETONART by F-U-R and G.tecz
betonum ince duvarli ve karmasik formlarda üretilmesi icin yapilan deneylerden biri de F-U-R ve G.tecz firmalainin ortaklginda yürütüldü ve Utrect'te Materialexoperience Fuari'nda sergilendi. "Barbeton" ismini verdileri bankoda tasarimcilar, Ultra Yüksek Performasli Beton (UHPC -Ultra High Performance Concrete) kullaniyorlar ve böylece yüksek akiskanlik, celikle kiyaslanabilecek bir dayaniklilik ve yüzey kalitesinde seramik benzeri pürüzsüslük elde ediliyor.
CONCRETE - ADVANCED > LECTURES at the University of Kassel
winter semester - University of Kassel, Faculty of Architecture, Lectures
Thomas Teichmann and Gregor Zimmermann will lecture at the architecture faculty in Kassel, winter semester 2009. Topics will be 'old' and new technologies in concrete design but also tips n tricks, applications and facing concrete. Another focus are experiments. The class will use new prototyping technologies at the University to produce moulds that will be casted in the G.tecz laboratories. The experiments are a preparation for the 4th concrete design competition, starting september 2009.
UHPC - A SMART MATERIAL
28.05.2009 - IBA and ARCH+ WORKSHOP for the IBA 2013, Hamburg
More than 60 architects, engineers, scientists and designers meet to discuss together with the IBA organization and the magazine ARCH+ about smart materials and their possibilities and advantages for the building industry.
One of those new smart materials is UHPC: High performance with high-tech methods, produced with local raw-materials, extremely durable and sustainable. 56% raw-materials and 30% energy could by saved by using UHPC for constructions. This comes with a CO2 reduction up to 32%. The G.tecz-UHPC is the new outstanding material for sustainable constructions, facades and design-objects.
concrete lace by Doreen Westphal
22-27. April 09 - Milan
Doreen Westphal, a famous designer from Amsterdam, is presenting a collection of fine design pieces made of QUANTZ - the brand new cement-bonded high-tech material from G.tecz.
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WORLD OF CONCRETE
3 - 6 Feb. 2009 - Las Vegas
Meet us during the WORLD OF CONCRETE in Las Vegas. Interested in details? Please contact us for scheduling.
mail: contact@gtecz.com
NIGHT OF CONCRETE 2008
19. Nov. 2008 - 20:00 - 24:00 p.m. - NAi Rotterdam
G.tecz is speaker at the night of concrete in Rotterdam. Topic: Architectural innovations coming from UHPC.
Further speakers are: Joop Paul (ARUP), Manfred Grohmann (Bollinger und Grohmann), Maurice Nio (Nio architects) ...
Topic 'Spin-off'
06. June 2008 - 9:00 am - University of Göttingen, Germany
As part of a lecture, G.tecz is referring about the topic: spin-off of an university.
"LEISTUNG LOHNT SICH" - IHK panel discussion
20. März 2008 - 17.00Uhr - Ort: IHK Hauptverwaltung Kassel, Kurfürstenstraße 9, 34117 Kassel
IHK Kassel organized a panel discussion with the topic: Performance is worthwhile itself. Invited are Caroline Paar Kauffrau, Karoline Beck, Sven Fischer as well as Thomas Teichmann und Gregor Zimmermann.
SECOND UHPC SYMPOSIUM KASSEL
5. -7. März 2008 - Kassel
Membrane concrete grid shells are based on pneumatic formwork and were a research topic at the dept. structural design at the architecture faculty kassel. Gregor Zimmermann will present this new construction method at the SECOND UHPC SYMPOSIUM Kassel.
MATERIALITY - GEOMETRY
10. Jan. 2008 - Städelschule Frankfurt
DESIGNED MATERIALITY - Lectures at the Städelschule ARCHITECTURE CLASS in Frankfurt. One lecture in january will be held by Gregor Zimmermann: MATERIALITY - GEOMETRY.
Staedelschule Frankfurt