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On 24th May, Krebs und Kiefer Karls­ruhe celebrated its 25th anniversary to­ge­ther with clients, business partners and friends. After a welcoming spee­ches by Dr.-Ing. Hans-Gerd Lindlar, chairman of the management board of Krebs und Kie­fer & Part­ner GbR, and by Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Wulle, president of the Ba­den-Würt­tem­berg chamber of engineers, the jubilee certificate was presented by Mr. Gerd Stracke, vice-president of the Karls­ru­he chamber of commerce.

During the subsequent celebratory colloquium, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Uwe Konrath, Managing Director of Karlsruher Schieneninfrastruktur-Gesellschaft (KASIG) described the „UStrab Karlsruhe“ project. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Udo Peil of Braun­schweig University gave a talk on current developments in the area of bridge monitoring. 

Dipl.-Ing. Claus Kunz, head of construction at the German Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute, then reported on the repairs to the lock on the Rhine at Iffez­heim. The final visually impressive presentation was a report by Dipl.-Ing. Architekt Jürgen Engel, Managing Director of KSP Jür­gen Engel Architekten, and Dr.-Ing. Jan Akkermann, Managing Partner of Krebs und Kiefer Karlsruhe, on the mega-project to build the new Great Mosque of Algiers.

The event ended with a convivial gathering that gave all the guests the opportunity to share interesting conversations, happy reunions and the general celebrations.

The roots of Krebs und Kiefer Karlsruhe go back to the planning and construction of the new high-speed railway line between Mannheim and Stuttgart. In response to the wish of the client, the Bundesbahn-Direktion Karlsruhe, for greater proximity to the project, the engineering consultancy opened in Karlstraße in 1987. The Forst railway tunnel, the bridges on the major B3 road near Bruchsal, the Bruchsal connecting curve and the Neuenburg tunnel are just a few of the numerous civil engineering structures that Krebs und Kiefer planned, checked or monitored during construction.

These were followed by many structures on the improved Karlsruhe – Basel line, and following the reunification of Germany, by the planning of traffic projects in the German unity program. The team of engineers in Karlsruhe grew steadily; in addition to its main focus on planning and construction monitoring for railway infrastructure, departments for building construction and civil engineering were established.

Today, Krebs und Kiefer has over 60 staff in Karlsruhe who are active in all areas of civil engineering. Local projects in the Karlsruhe area in which Krebs und Kiefer is involved include the construction of Fried­rich-List-Schu­le, the „Ettlinger Tor“ shopping center, new buildings for Volksbank and L-Bank as well as the expansion of the University of Music. Projects of national importance include the Commerzbankarena in Frankfurt, BayArena in Leverkusen and World Conference Center in Bonn.

Outstanding international projects in recent years have included the planning of the world’s largest ship lift at the Three Gorges Dam in China, of the world’s third largest mosque in Algiers and of the new national stadium in Bucharest.

Krebs und Kiefer Karlsruhe’s construction management team is currently involved in the realization of the Stuttgart 21 project in a variety of roles, as well as in construction supervision for the “Kombilösung” project in Karlsruhe. The Karlsruhe office has access to the experience and potential of over 300 Krebs und Kiefer staff at offices throughout Germany.

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