Tag Archives: Bauer AG

A long-established tradition: For more than 30 years, BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH has been hosting the “Schrobenhausener Tage” event. This traditional event was held in early June this year under the slogan “B.sustainable: Sustainability in specialist foundation engineering.” What made this event unique: After a three-year break, it was finally possible to welcome the guests personally again in Schrobenhausen. In the ...

Sankhuwasabha District, Nepal – The Arun River in Nepal flows from Tibet through the Himalayas into China. Of all Nepalese river basins, it has the largest area covered in snow and ice. A new hydroelectric power plant is currently being constructed on this river, and it is expected to produce up to 900 MW of electricity. BAUER Engineering India Pvt. ...

Since the mid-1980s, hardly any other method has changed specialist foundation engineering as markedly as the development of diaphragm wall equipment. One milestone in this process was the introduction of the first Bauer trench cutter, which was used in 1984/85 to seal the Brombach Reservoir in Franconia (Figure 1). In just four months, this innovation conceived by Bauer engineers was ...

BAUER Technologies Ltd, the UK subsidiary of BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH, Schrobenhausen/Germany, is now a leader in the field of sustainable resourcing and has been accredited with the sustainability certificate BES 6001. BES 6001 is a certification method developed by Building Research Establishment (BRE) England. This “Framework Standard for Responsible Sourcing” outlines a framework for company leadership, supply chain management, as ...

Seafloor massive sulfides are a valuable mineral raw material found at the bottom of the deep sea. The “Vertical Approach” is a method for extracting seafloor massive sulfides using the trench cutter method, an established technique in specialist foundation engineering that is operated and supported in the deep-sea environment from a ship on the open sea. As a relatively small-scale ...

Schrobenhausen, Germany – What started as an idea is now reality: At this year’s in-house exhibition with the slogan “BAU ERLEBEN,” BAUER Maschinen GmbH is presenting the new eBG – the first electric drilling rig manufactured by Bauer (Figure 1). The equipment relies on electrical power instead of a diesel engine, so it does not require any fossil fuels, and ...

One of the largest gold deposits in the world is located on the volcanic island of Niolam, the main island in the Lihir archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The mine was discovered in 1982 and the sought-after precious metal has been extracted in open-cast mines for nearly 25 years – now reaching a depth of up to roughly 300 m ...

Red Dog Mine, one of the world’s largest zinc mines, is located in the north-west of Alaska, around 170 km north of the Arctic Circle and nearly 1,000 km to the north-west of Anchorage. The mine has been operating since the late 1980s with around 10 % of the world’s zinc extracted here in open-cast mining. Its location in the Arctic ...

On 17th June 2019, BAUER Maschinen GmbH, Schrobenhausen/Germany, together with a joint venture partner successfully completed the first 228 m cutter bulk sample on FalCon project in Canada. This depth has never been reached by a trench cutter in any commercial application worldwide before and proves that Bauer cutter technology cannot only be used in specialist foundation engineering, but is ...

Located in the idyllic Koenigs-winkel region between Fuessen, Pfronten and Schwangau in South Germany, the Forggensee lake stretches over an area of about 15.2 km2. It is Bavaria’s fifth largest lake and Germany’s largest water reservoir by surface area. The reservoir through which the River Lech flows generates electricity and provides flood protection from the water produced from melting snow ...