Number of civil engineering graduates permanently low

As the Stuttgarter Zeitung reports, Germany is lacking around 2000 to 3000 civil and structural engineers according to Karsten Wischhof of the competency center for professional education and personnel development of the Main Association of the German Construction Industry. And this gap will increase by roughly 1,300 every year.

Design of masonry structures to EC 6 - the next steps

Carola Hauschild, David Ostendorf, Frank Purtak

Appeal process for the drafts to national annexes DIN EN 1996-1-1/NA, DIN EN 1996-2/NA and DIN EN 1996-3/NA runs.

60th Anniversary of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfram Jäger

Ernst & Sohn congratulates you for your 60th birthday and thanks you wholeheartedly for the dedication you have given to the journal Mauwerk and the Masonry Yearbook.

Schulen- und Kindertagesstätten 2011 - Ernst & Sohn special issue

In his editorial to the third edition of the special issue “Schools and childcare centres”, Wolf-Emanuel Linsenhoff from the architectural practice Fromme + Linsenhoff pleads for an “independent examination of the demands placed on the school’s built environment, the so-called third teacher” (after the other children and the tutor).

Boring of the Gotthard Base Tunnel completed

from Geomechanics and Tunnelling 2/2011

On the 23 March 2011, the miners broke through the last few metres of rock in the west bore between Faido und Sedrun. Around five months after the main breakthrough in the east bore, this means that excavation of the full 57 km of both single-track running tunnels of the Gotthard Base Tunnel is now complete.

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.