Steinbeis Innovation Center FiberCrete (FC)

Saving resources has become immensely important to the construction sector in recent years. This has fueled demand for strong but lightweight materials, since classic building materials offer limited potential when it comes to sustainability. This is where new composite materials offer major advantages. FiberCrete, the Steinbeis Innovation Center, develops and produces fiber- and textile-reinforced construction materials, as well as efficient technologies for producing such materials. In doing so, the focus lies in material composition, dimensioning, and defining parameters.  FiberCrete provides you with comprehensive support from initial concepts to actual implementation: FiberCrete Chemnitz - innovation in construction.

• Construction material development: high-performance concrete, fiber- and textile-reinforced concrete, lightweight concrete, self-compacting concrete, building concrete, alkaline activated systems, natural fiber-based composites
• Formwork design involving special requirements
• Technology development and optimization
• Production and quality control
• Material and component testing: Mechanical testing, thermography, rheology, durability, chemical assessment, nondestructive testing
• Advisory services on concrete technology and training
• Preparation for approvals in individual cases involving unregulated construction materials
• Drafting of expert reports for renovation projects (e.g. parking garages) 

Development and implementation:

• Free-form street furniture in lightweight concrete with integrated functions
• Module-based, large-scale formwork system for molding precise, pourable, and malleable high-performance concretes
• Free-form facade components made from fiber-reinforced building concrete
• Sustainable sandwich ceiling system in concrete-based lightweight construction using renewable materials
• Cement-free, textile-reinforced casting compounds for industrial floors subject to significant chemical stress
  

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• FlexCore – Flexible, Resource-Saving and Cost-Effective (Transfer 1/2024)
  Steinbeis experts help develop additive manufacturing technology for complex precast concrete elements
• AAWS – Innovative and Climate-Friendly (Transfer 3/2023)
  Steinbeis experts at FiberCrete develop cement-free concrete for use in the base elements of maintenance holes
• A Nice Place to Take a Seat (Transfer 1/2023)
  Steinbeis experts develop fair-faced concrete street furniture with added functionality
• Made possible by betolamina®-cast: intricate facades made with concrete (Transfer 3/2019)
  A Steinbeis team from Chemnitz joins forces with FIBER-TECH products and Medicke to develop innovative facades using a new kind of fiber concrete
• Straight from Research into Practice: Facade Components Revisited (Transfer 3/2018)
  Steinbeis experts at FiberCrete develop fiberglass- reinforced construction concrete
• Standing Strong (Transfer 3/2017)
  Steinbeis experts develop cement-free casting compound for industrial floors subject to strong wear and tear
• Out of the development department, into the world of business (Transfer 2/2014)
  A free-formed façade made from fiber-reinforced concrete panels on a high-rise building in Frankfurt