The Faculty mourns the loss of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Radenberg, holder of the Chair of Highway and Road Engineering, who died last week at the age of 61 after a serious illness. Prof. Radenberg was a highly esteemed colleague who was dedicated in many ways.

Ruhr-Universität and Tongji University have been working together for more than 40 years. Vice Rector Prof. Dr. techn. Günther Meschke recently attended the inauguration of the new Sino-D-A-CH Center for Smart Civil Infrastructure in Shanghai.

Georg Bus, a doctoral student at the Chair of Road Construction, and his team have developed a method of producing asphalt at lower temperatures using foamed bitumen. In tests and on two rural roads in Germany, the warm mix asphalt showed comparable performance to conventional hot mix asphalt.