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BAUMETALL-The leading German metal roofing magazine is proud to announce the launch of our new section BAUMETALL-International. From now on, selected articles will also be available in English for the professional audience. We would be delighted if you would inform your international colleagues and business partners about us and thus enlarge the BAUMETALL community. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to let us know on social media or at redaktion@baumetall.de.​

BAUMETALL serves roofing contractors, general contractors, architects, specifiers, building material dealers and distributors, consultants, engineers, manufacturers and their representatives. The focal points range from classical residential and industrial construction to building damage analyses and reports about the restoration of historical monuments.

The planning and execution of metalwork on roofs and façades are subject to constant change. BAUMETALL always reports on current trends in architecture and contemporary processing techniques. New materials and products are presented as well as processing machines and tools. 

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Dynamic Positioning Function

Jorns has something against deformations and inaccuracies

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The machine manufacturer Jorns has something against deformations at the end of profiles during the bending of profiles or closing parallel open hems: the dynamic positioning function. 

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RAS extends Bendex control system

RAS OpenEditor

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RAS extends the Bendex control system on the Turbo2plus metal folding machines with the OpenEditor. With the additional input method, operators at the machine can individually control each machine movement and program bending sequences entirely according to their preferences.

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The tasks of modern seperation layers

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Due to the recent discussion about undesired noise development on standing seam roofing, BAUMETALL takes up the interesting topic of separating layers and informs about their properties as well as the practical installation. author: Andreas Buck translator: Laura Kornhaaß

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Sound insulation with acoustic separation layers 

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Appropriate installation of acoustic separation layers counteracts the prejudice that "a metal roof is noisy". author: Andreas Buck translator: Laura Kornhaaß

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SOCIAL HOUSING THAT BLENDS IN WITH THE SITE'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

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Social Housing that blends in with the site´s industrial heritage These titanium-zinc roofs and façades are the prove that social housing can certainly look modern and inviting.

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Schechtl´s UK models

Easy segment bending

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The „UK“ models from Schechtl are manually operated bending machines, which are a top seller in the area of segment bending.

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The reinterpretation of traditional local architecture

The floating roof of Zakopane

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Glass, concrete and aluminium in harmony with wood—Jan Karpiel junior and Marcin Steindel have made a statement with “Tatra House” and brought the traditional Zakopane style into the future.

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A modern family home

The detached house of Gliwice

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So simple and yet so beautiful is the house created by Polish architect duo Agnieszka and Grzegorz Ziebik for themselves and their family in Gliwice, a small town in the gateway to Katowice. The large archetypal roof dominates with simple shapes and different size aluminium panels.

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Functional buildings don't have to be plain

The colorfoul heart of campus

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Who better to ask to come up with plans for the school cafeteria than the students themselves? The architects at Stuttgart-based hammeskrause asked the children to create the new cafeteria. The result is a colourful, eye- catching building that turns heads.

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a special bending beam design

Free space due to F-Geometry

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Machines from Schechtl are known for being perfectly matched to the profile geometries of the metalworking trade. For this reason, the machine builders from Edling, Germany attach the utmost importance for having perpendicular free space on the bending beam and to include maximum insert rail widths of 10 to 14 mm for all machine models.

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A single trio of colours and shapes

Hverfisgata-a special residential and commercial building

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Establishing a connection with nature, with lava, with the cliffs and snow plays an essential role for self-taught architect Tryggvi Tryggvason—in his life, in his projects and in his most recent work in Reykjavík.