The 68th BetonTage, the leading congress of the concrete and precast concrete industry and the largest specialist congress in this field, took place in Ulm from May 14 to 16, 2024. On 16 May, Thilo Schmidt gave a presentation on the joint research project “air-Kon-Matrizen” entitled “Resource conservation in foundation slabs with optimized void formers”.
Together with Andrej Albert and the Chair of Concrete Structures of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Schmidt presented innovative approaches to conserving resources in the construction industry. The lecture focused on the advantages of optimized void formers in foundation slabs.