Department I – Structural Engineering
Department I reunites all structural engineering sections and the Structural Design Control Authority.
From concrete and masonry to load-bearing metal, glass and timber constructions, facades and load-bearing plastics, from structural design approvals to issues such as safety theory, fire and seismic design to stability of wind energy plants. Structural design is our focus in Department I. Come rain, hail or snow, structures in Germany are safe, not least thanks to the approval and assessment work of DIBt.
Section I 1 – Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction, Prestressed Concrete Construction
Dr Lars Eckfeldt
Head of Section – Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction, Prestressed Concrete Construction
Phone +49 30 78730-363
Fax +49 30 78730-11363
Email lec(at)dibt(.)de
Fields of Activity
Concrete and reinforced concrete
- Construction techniques for walls
- Construction techniques for floors
- solid concrete floors
- hollow core floors
- Reinforcement
- punching armouring
- lattice girders
- steel supports for concrete components
- Special constructions
- knife-edge bearings
- spun concrete poles
Prestressed concrete
- Prestressing techniques
- bonded post-tensioning
- internal unbonded post-tensioning
- external post-tensioning
- in situ grouts
- cable-stay techniques
- Construction techniques for prestressed floors
- prestressed hollow core slabs
- prestressed floors made of precast elements
- prestressed floors with load-bearing structural concrete topping
Steel-fibre reinforced concrete
- Precast elements and construction techniques
- electrical substations
- floor slabs
- walls
- prestressed and non-prestressed precast elements
Section I 2 – Fastening and Reinforcing Techniques, Stairs
Beatrix Wittstock
Head of Section – Fastening and Reinforcing Techniques, Stairs
Phone +49 30 78730-267
Fax +49 30 78730-11267
Email bwi(at)dibt(.)de
Fields of Activity
Anchorages and fastenings
- Metal anchors
- Bonded anchors
- Plastic anchors
- Special anchors
- Powder actuated fasteners
- Anchor channels
- Headed fasteners
- Anchoring for scaffolds
- Wire rope loops
Reinforcing steel and couplings for reinforcing steel
Load-bearing thermal insulation elements for slabs and shear connectors
Stairs
- Stair systems
- Individual components for staircases
Section I 3 – Bearings, Glass Construction, Scaffolds, Racking Systems
Andreas Schult
Head of Section – Bearings, Glass Construction, Scaffolds, Racking Systems
Phone +49 30 78730-252
Fax +49 30 78730-11252
Email asc(at)dibt(.)de
Fields of Activity
Bearings
- Bridge bearings
- Suspension of buildings
- Vibration insulation of buildings
Special structures
- Scaffolds and scaffolding components
- Free-standing steel chimneys
- Towers and masts
- Temporary structures
Glass in building
- Structural sealant glazing systems
- Point-supported vertical glazing
- Overhead glazing
- Line-supported vertical glazing
- Safety barrier glazing
- Walk-on glazing
Racking systems
Section I 4 – Concrete Technology
Dr Wilhelm Hintzen
Head of Section – Concrete Technology
Phone +49 30 78730-328
Fax +49 30 78730-11328
Email whi(at)dibt(.)de
Fields of Activity
Concrete technology
- Concrete constituents
- binders
- admixtures
- additives
- fibres
- aggregates
- Special concretes and mortars
- mass concrete
- grouting mortars/concretes
- reaction resin mortars
- other special concretes
- Protection and repair of concrete components
- protective measures for trafficable concrete surfaces
- products for repair with special properties
Fibre cement with non-metallic fibres
- Construction products and building components
- fibre cement flat sheet kits
- fibre cement profiled sheet kits
- special boards
Strengthening of concrete members
- Steel plates / CFRP strips
- strengthening with externally bonded steel plates
- strengthening with externally bonded carbon fibre reinforced polymer strips (CFRP strips)
- strengthening with CFRP strips bonded into slits
- CF sheets
- strengthening of tanks with laminated carbon fibre sheets
- Textile-reinforced concrete
- strengthening with textile-reinforced concrete
Section I 5 – Timber Construction
Anja Dewitt
Head of Section – Timber Construction
Phone +49 30 78730-317
Fax +49 30 78730-11317
Email adw(at)dibt(.)de
Fields of Activity
Timber construction
- Timber construction
- panel web beams
- timber frame construction
- formwork beams
- other construction techniques
- Timber products
- particle boards (organic and mineral)
- OSB-boards
- plywood
- fibre boards (organic)
- gypsum boards
- glued products, laminated boards, laminated veneer lumber
- adhesives for load-bearing timber components
- Timber fasteners
- nails, screws and staples
- punched metal plates
- plane steel plates
- three-dimensional nailing plates
- other connectors
Wood preservation
- Preventive wood preservatives
- Curative wood preservatives
Section I 6 – Masonry, Earth Work and Foundation Engineering, Waterproofing of Buildings
Bettina Hemme
Head of Section – Masonry, Earth Work and Foundation Engineering, Waterproofing of Buildings
Phone +49 30 78730-322
Fax +49 30 78730-11322
Email bhm(at)dibt(.)de
Fields of Activity
Masonry
- Masonry units and bricks
- Masonry mortars
- Prefabricated masonry compound units
- Construction techniques with shuttering blocks
- Dry masonry
- Reinforced masonry
- Lintels
- Accessories
Earth work and foundation engineering
- Tiebacks
- Soil nailing
- Piles
- Pile joints
- Soil grouting
- Deep-mixing (mixed-in-place)
- Geosynthetic reinforced fill structures
Waterproofing of buildings and roofs
- Waterproofing of buildings and roofs
- bitumen sheets, plastic sheets, elastomeric sheets
- liquid applied products such as polymer-modified bituminous thick coatings, mineral sealing slurries, dispersions and reaction resins
- Sealing of joints and transitions for concrete building elements with high resistance against penetration of water
- coated and non-coated metal joint sheets
- injection hose systems
- polymer joint sealing tapes, exterior and interior
- Transitions with adhesive properties
- Transitions with built-in parts
- Waterproofing of bridge decks
- bitumen sheets
- liquid applied products on the basis of reaction resins
- Expansion joints for bridges
- supported expansion joints
- nosing expansion joints
- flexible expansion joints
- cantilever expansion joints
- mat expansion joints
- modular expansion joints
- buried expansion joints
Section I 7 – Plastics Construction, Facades
Renée Kamanzi-Fechner
Head of Section – Plastics Construction, Facades
Phone +49 30 78730 -394
Fax +49 30 78730 -11394
Email rka(at)dibt(.)de
Fields of Activity
Facades
- Exterior wall claddings
- ventilated and non-ventilated exterior wall claddings made of organic, inorganic and/or composite materials
- exterior wall claddings consisting of supporting boards with render or bonded cladding panels
- Exterior wall claddings made of insulation composite elements
Load-bearing plastics
- Translucent elements (skylights etc.)
- translucent elements or systems for roofs
- translucent elements or systems for walls
- Sandwich panels
- thermally insulating claddings with fire compartmentation function
- thermally insulating roof units with fire compartmentation function
- Membrane structures
- load-bearing membrane structures made of coated fabrics without load-bearing substructures
- special load-bearing membrane structures made of films
- Swimming pools
- glass fibre reinforced swimming pool elements
- Water slides
- glass fibre reinforced water slide elements
- Strengthening of timber components
- products and methods for the repair of load-bearing timber structures
- Adhesive bonding
- adhesive bonding to force-fit two building components together
- bonded claddings
- glass-concrete composites
- adhesive bonding of prefabricated concrete building elements
- Metal plastic composite profiles
- Polymer concrete
- polymer-concrete containing binders, mostly synthetic (e.g. polymethyl methacrylate)
- reinforced balcony slabs
Section I 8 – Structural Design Control Authority, Metal Construction, Composite Construction
Dr Ronald Schwuchow
Head of Section – Structural Design Control Authority, Metal Construction, Composite Construction
Phone +49 30 78730 -274
Fax +49 30 78730 -11274
Email rsw(at)dibt(.)de
Fields of Activity
- Granting structural design type approvals
- Coordination and general policy matters in the following areas:
- structural design and structural analysis
- safety theory in construction
- structural fire design (resistance-to-fire)
- wind turbines (e.g. DIBt guideline for wind turbines)
- design loads and actions
- seismic design
- Assessment and development of provisions for national technical approvals and European Technical Assessments concerning the resistance-to-fire of load-bearing structures
Steel and metal construction
- Steel construction
- connectors
- tension members
- space frames
- bulk containers
- Light metal construction
- connectors
- profiled sheets
- cold rolled steel girders
- suspended metal ceilings
- Connections and fasteners
Materials
- Materials for metal construction: products and components made of
- stainless steel
- thermomechanically rolled fine-grained steel
- creep-resistant steels
- Welding
- prefabricated steel and aluminium elements
- construction products welded using special methods
- Corrosion protection
Composite construction
- Composite components
- composite floors
- composite girders
- composite columns
- Shear connectors
