Press releases

Final Mounting of fibreC high-tech façade at the Soccer City Stadium

The essential phase of the installation of the fibreC panels at

the Soccer City Stadium just started. The Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg is currently the largest and most spectacular stadium construction site worldwide. .

Vienna Design Week 2008

The Design Duo Kram/Weisshaar develops largesize installation made of fibreC for international Design Festival. The Vienna Design Week lets visitors see and feel the multifaceted producing in the fields of product, furniture...

Architectural Bridge Building for the Expo 2008

The British star architect Zaha Hadid has chosen glass fibre reinforced concrete from the Austrian company Rieder to envelope the 275 meters long „Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion“, the new symbol of the Expo 2008 in the northern Spanish...

High-tech façade for the FIFA World Cup™ 2010 in South Africa

The Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg is currently the largest and most spectacular construction site worldwide. For realisation European know-how is demanded. The innovative company Rieder Smart Elements in cooperation with...

Unlimited creative design with fibreC

fibreC is an innovative concrete panel strengthend by glassfibre components. The material provides an ideal solution for modern architecture and interior design. Wolfgang Rieder founder of the company meets with this high-tech...

Company Portrait Rieder Smart Elements

For almost 50 years, the Austrian family-owned company Rieder with headquarters in Maishofen in the province of Salzburg has been known as the leading specialist for innovate and effective solutions for the use of concrete as...

Opera House Bregenz with a new skin made of fibreC

Festspielhaus Bregenz, the cultural and conference centre in Bregenz in Austria now nearing completion after its conversion to accommodate new functions, is characterised by the bold building volumes connecting the different...

Historic winery converted to ‘Winecenter Kaltern’

In Kaltern, a well-known place along the Wine Road of South Tyrol, it is not just delicious wine you can savour. In the newly opened Winecenter Kaltern you can now also enjoy architectural delicacies of the highest quality. The...

Material Flow

A concrete material that is agreeable to the touch, has a natural feel, is sufficiently resistant for external duties and at the same time adaptable to shape: up to now that was a recipe requiring laborious special treatment and...

Simple beauty

Rieder, the Austrian specialist for concrete, presents a basic building material, which boasts both elegance and simple beauty, for use in contemporary architecture and interior design. This material is called "concrete skin", it...