Under the motto "Shaping Transformation", the 68th BetonTage took place at the Congress Centrum Ulm from May 14 to 16, 2024. This year, the leading congress of the concrete and precast concrete industry focused on the challenges and opportunities of the ecological and digital transformation of the construction industry. What contribution can the concrete industry make to this? What impetus can the industry provide and where is there still a need for action? The presentations from science and practice covered a range of topics from lightweight construction and efficient production processes, including digitalization, to serial construction and the circular economy. As usual, the congress was accompanied by an exhibition from the supplier, machinery and software industries.
On the "Concrete in structural design" panel, Professor Torsten Leutbecher presented current approaches to the bending and shear force design of bending beams made of steel fiber-reinforced ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) in two lectures.