Projects
Selected ongoing activities
- Expert opinions for asphalt constructions and technical construction contract matters
- Consulting and providing of expertises concerning all matters relating to asphalt and block pavements
- Support for damages and claims in collaboration with well-known law firms
- Several PPP-projects: development of computationally dimensioned designs for the construction and maintenance of traffic area pavements and technical consulting on site; e.g. BAB 1 Bremen - Hamburg, BAB 6 Wiesloch - Weinsberg, BAB 3 Würzburg - Nürnberg, B 189 OU Kuhbier (since 2006)
- Several logistics centres: development of computationally dimensioned designs of the pavements (since 2011)
- Port of Bavaria: development of a computationally dimensioned design of the pavement in the course of the new construction of inland container ports in Aschaffenburg and Regensburg (since 2019)
- Layers on large bridges: BAB 40 newbuildung of the rhinebridge at Duisburg-Neuenkamp (2020 bis 2025)
- Steelwind Nordenham GmbH: development of a concept of the storage area pavement on ground with low load-bearing capacity, used to store offshore foundations exhibiting up to 2,500t weight (monopiles); project management, implementation planning, and processing of the construction (since 2019)
- In addition to public road authorities and municipalities, further clients are several well-known companies of the asphalt industry and the "Deutscher Asphaltverband" (dav, German Asphalt Producers Association)
Selected completed activities
- Lower Saxon Federal State Authority for Road Engineering and Traffic Development, division Osnabrück: expert advice on the consistent establishment and handling of construction contracts and surveillance of construction materials in the field of asphalt works during the completion of the Emsland-motorway BAB 31 between Wietmarschen and Ochtrup, even in the context of the first implementation of compact asphalt on a test section (2002 to 2004)
- Lower Saxon Federal State Authority for Road Engineering and Traffic Development, division Osnabrück: expert advice on the concept creation for the high-quality reuse of the reclaimed asphalt, the consistent of establishment and handling of construction contracts and surveillance of construction materials in the field of asphalt during the basic renewal of the motorway BAB 30 in connection with the first execution of a double layered porous asphalt surface course and the execution of a cold paved asphalt subbase layer (2002 to 2007)
- Motorway Authority of Southern Bavaria: expert advice on the consistent of establishment and handling of construction contracts and surveillance of construction materials in the field of asphalt during the eight-lane extending of the motorway BAB 9 between interchange Neufahrn and interchange München-Nord with an double layered porous asphalt surface course (2004 to 2005)
- Carrying out a research project of the German Federal Ministery of Transport (BMVBW), supervised by the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) with the topic “Evaluation of structural examinations attending the manufacture and installation of asphalt pavement for ultra-heavy loads” (in collaboration with Prof. Pätzold, Nienburg; 2002 to 2004)
- Lower Saxon Federal State Authority for Road Engineering and Traffic Development, division Verden: expert advice on the consistent establishment and handling of construction contracts and surveillance of construction materials in the field of asphalt works during the basic renewal of the motorway A 1 between the national border to Hamburg and the three-leg interchange “Horster Dreieck” in connection with the first-time application of a low-noise surface course made out of mastic asphalt MA 5 S (2005 to 2007)
- Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, State Ministry for Urban Development and the Environment: investigation on the fields of application, serviceable life, and maintenance of low-noise asphalt surface courses in the course of the six- or eight-lane extending of the motorway BAB 7 (2006 to 2007)
- further development and enhancements of asphalt constructions: such as compact asphalt, development of a structural and contractual concept for the application of double-layered porous asphalt surface courses, thin asphalt layers on spray seal, hot on hot, and emulsion-bound base courses (since 2001)
- Bau-ARGE A 1 Hamburg–Bremen (PPP-project): expert advice in the field of asphalt and block pavements for the six-lane extending of the motorway BAB 1 (2006 to 2012)
- Lower Saxony Ports, branch Brake: development of a computationally dimensioned design of the pavement of the quay “Niedersachsenkai” (northern extension, port Brake (2007 to 2010)
- EUROGATE Technical Services: expert advice and support for the realisation of the pavement of the container terminal Wilhelmshaven (in a consortium; 2009 to 2013)
- Carrying out a research project of the German Federal Ministery of Transport (BMVBW), supervised by the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) with the topic “Evaluation of structural examinations attending the manufacture and installation of asphalt pavement for ultra-heavy loads with the corresponding results of the current ZEB – first update” (2009 to 2014)
- Lower Saxon Federal State Authority for Road Engineering and Traffic Development, division Wolfenbüttel: expert advice on the reconstruction of the three-leg interchange “Braunschweig Südwest” of the motorway A 39 relating to construction of a porous asphalt surface course on a mastic asphalt sealing in the open track as well as on 5 bridges (2010 to 2012)
- AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH, plant Hamburg: repair and reconstruction of the runway and the aprons (2011 to 2016)
- DEGES GmbH: eight-lane extending of the motorway A10, three-leg interchange Nuthetal to three-leg interchange Potsdam: technical advice in the context of the implementation planning and the construction of the asphalt pavement, exhibiting both a porous asphalt surface course and a low-noise mastic asphalt surface course (2014 to 2020)
- Lower Saxon Federal State Authority for Road Engineering and Traffic Development, division Verden: motorway BAB 7, noise precaution at the junction Ramelsloh, both carriageways: technical advice in the connection with the first paving of a porous asphalt surface course on an cement concrete pavement (2011 to 2013)
- Lower Saxon Federal State Authority for Road Engineering and Traffic Development, division Verden: motorway BAB 27 between Langwedel and Verden, carriageway to Hannover: development of a reconstruction concept for the cement concrete pavement damaged due to alkali-silica reaction and technical advice for the award and the execution (2010 to 2011)
- Lower Saxon Federal State Authority for Road Engineering and Traffic Development, division Verden: motorway BAB 27 between Uthlede and Bremerhaven-Süd, renewal of both carriageways: development of a computationally dimensioned design for the asphalt pavement on ground with low load-bearing capacity and technical advice for the award and the execution (2011 to 2014)
- Agency of Roads, Bridges and Water, Hamburg: motorway BAB 25 between junction HH-Neu-Allermöhe-West and national border to Schleswig-Holstein (after junction HH-Curslack), both carriageways: technical advice on the planning and the construction of the asphalt pavement with a porous asphalt surface course (2010 to 2013)
- Agency of Roads, Bridges and Water, Hamburg: motorway BAB 1 between the national border to Schleswig-Holstein (interchange HH-Ost) and junction HH-Billstedt, both carriageways: development of a computationally dimensioned design of the asphalt pavement with a porous asphalt surface course and technical advice for the award and the execution (2011 to 2014)
- Lower Saxon Federal State Authority for Road Engineering and Traffic Development, division Oldenburg: motorway BAB 28 between Hude and interchange Oldenburg-Ost, carriageway to Oldenburg: expert advice on the consistent establishment and handling of construction contracts and surveillance of construction materials in the field of asphalt works during the basic renewal in connection with the application of a low-noise surface course made out of mastic asphalt MA 5 S (2011 to 2012)
- Road Construction Department of Saxony-Anhalt, branch South (Halle/Saale): motorway BAB 9 between Leipzig-West and Bad Dürrenberg, carriageway to Munich: development of a reconstruction concept for the cement concrete pavement damaged due to alkali-silica reaction and technical advice for the award and the execution (2012 to 2013)
- Road Construction Department of Saxony-Anhalt, branch South (Halle/Saale): motorway BAB 14 between Löbejün and Altmödewitz: development of a computationally dimensioned design for the renewal of the asphalt pavement and technical advice for the award and the execution (2013 to 2014)
- Port of Spelle-Venhaus: development of a computationally dimensioned design of the pavement for a multifunctional extension of the port located at the Dortmund-Ems-Canal (2012)
- Port of Wolfsburg-Fallersleben: development of a computationally dimensioned design of the pavement in the course of the new construction of the inland container port on the Mittelland Canal (2013)
- HHLA Hamburg: technical advice for the repair and reconstruction of the area trafficked by automatic guided transportation vehicles (AGV-area) of the container terminal Altenwerder (2014 to 2018)
- J. Müller AG: development of a computationally dimensioned design of the pavement in the course of the new construction of an inland container terminal in Bremen (2019)
- Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG): development of a maintenance-concept for the track areas of the tram system of BSAG (2014 to 2015)
- Steelwind Nordenham GmbH: development of a concept for the pavement of the transshipment and storage areas, used to store offshore foundation exhibiting up to 1,500t weight (monopiles) and project management, implementation planning, and management of the execution of the construction (2012 to 2015)
- Hansestadt Stade: technical advice for the maintenance of the urban road network and supervision of the construction (2011 to 2018)
- Nordenham City: development of the industrial park Blexen: project management, site management, on-site construction supervision and contract management (2015 to 2016)
- Brake (Unterweser) City: Heavy maintenance of the Weserstraße; technical advice, site management, on-site construction supervision and contract management (2018 bis 2020)
- Several regional courts: judicial expert opinions on asphalt technology issues. This includes also numerous expert opinions in the field of storage areas of biogas plants. (since 2004)
- Several regional courts: expertise used as qualified submissions of the parties in the context of actions (since 2011)
- Several higher regional courts: expertise used as qualified submissions of the parties in the context of appeal proceedings (since 2013)