Bridges to Japan - exhibition 14. April - 31. May 2011 - Munich

Bridges to Japan have existed for a long time. 2011 was named the year of friendship between Germany and Japan.

Dedicated to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.

Athens Heart Shopping Mall Piraeus Street 180, Athens (GR), Job Report

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Bernd Stimpfle

Temporary covered areas in Greece are seen as an open space, and so allow a higher usage of the land.

geotechnik – the new concept

Editorial from geotechnik 1/2011.

Jürgen Grabe

Last year the German Geotechnical Society (DGGT) decided to let their journal geotechnik from now on be published by Ernst & Sohn in Berlin, a  subsidiary of Wiley-Blackwell.

Message from the President of the fib

from Structural Concrete 1/2011

We all believe that concrete is an excellent structural material; indeed, we all know that concrete is an excellent structural material.

Sustainability

Editorial from Structural Concrete 1/2011

Koji Sakai

Reducing greenhouse gases has become an issue of global importance.

Wind parks in the German Bight – a challenge for geotechnics

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Gerd Gudehus

The foundations for offshore wind energy plants (OWEP) in the German Bight, with water depths of up to 30 m, are a challenge. Waves more than 20 m high can turn over meters of sandy ground, they tilt and lift embedded structures and can lead to capsizing.

Of vision and genius - The forgotten alternative design by Johann Wilhelm Schwedler for the first Rhine Bridge at Cologne, Germany

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Alexander Kierdorf

The competition on the first Rhine crossing was won, with a suspension bridge construction, based on his brother's preparatory designs and closely following the rules, by young engineer Johann Wilhelm Schwedler from Berlin.

Structural Engineering Award 2010 - Project Reports

Five projects received equivalent awards, two of which were described in detail in our Stahlbau journal.

• Thomas Klähne, Oliver Einhäuser, Henry Ripke, Ramona Löser-Fimmel
  New building of the Lange Brücke in Potsdam, Germany

• Christof Diekmann, Uwe Heiland, Bernd Thauern, Ulrich Weyer
  Widening and reconstruction of the Kennedy-Bridge in Bonn, Germany

The development of earth pressure shields: from the beginning to the present

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Martin Herrenknecht, Markus Thewes, Christoph Budach

The development of earth pressure shields started in 1974. The processing of the ground into an earth pressure support medium originally required that it mostly consisted of mixed and finegrained soil with at least 30 % silt and clay.

Building physics in the course of time

Editorial from Bauphysik 2/2011

Gerd Hauser

At the end of the 1960s even civil engineers and experts were unfamiliar with the term building physics. Since then this discipline provides an essential contribution to the design, usage and changes in usage as well as the reconstruction and demolition of buildings.