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With a digital monitoring system developed in-house, researchers at TU Graz want to help make costly and potentially dangerous mistakes in concrete work a thing of the past.

By Ute Wiedner What? Can it really float'! Yes. And there are even international competitions. A very successful TU Graz student team with boats they've built themselves.

Assessing old bridges using modern standards is no mean feat. Studies conducted by TU Wien show that many bridges are actually significantly more stable than might be expected, often rendering costly restoration work unnecessary.

At TU Wien, an alternative for resource intensive formwork for the construction of concrete domes was developed.

Today, 54% of the world population live in cities and by 2050, this figure is estimated to reach 66%.

The trend towards urbanization continues - and it has positive effects on our economy, Prof. Edwin Deutsch from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) claims.