How to dispose of waste? This question is not only the subject of discussion on a small scale, but also represents a challenge at the national level – especially when it comes to radioactive waste. The town of Krško in eastern Slovenia is the focus of a major project: the construction of a repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. ...
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Schrobenhausen/Germany – A long-established tradition continues: For more than 35 years, BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH has been hosting the “Schrobenhausener Tage” lecture series. In April it was time again. This year’s motto: Focus Construction Site – stay tuned to Geotechnical Solutions. A total of roughly 300 guests attended from Germany and abroad, including participants from Japan who didn’t want to miss ...
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BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH is dedicated to more than just foundations. The company has set itself the goal of establishing the sustainable construction site as a standard and making a key contribution to a green future. Just last summer, the company was awarded the DGNB certificate for sustainable construction sites. Now another sustainability milestone has been achieved: On February 23, Florian ...
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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 ...
Read More »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 ...
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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 ...
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The Schwarze Pumpe industrial area in the city of Spremberg in Brandenburg covers a total of 720 ha and includes the former industrial site Spreewitz in the neighboring Free State of Saxony. Today, around 80 companies with some 4,250 employees are located in the area where lignite has been refined into briquettes, coke and city gas and converted into electricity ...
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