TÜV NORD GROUP

The DMT GROUP, Essen/Germany, a globally active company for engineering services and consulting of the TÜV NORD GROUP, is repositioning itself along the entire value chain and, as a general contractor for deep geothermal energy, accompanies customers from the idea to the finished heating plant and the first kilowatt hour of heat generated.

When planning projects and developing potential sites for deep geothermal heating plants, municipal utilities, energy suppliers and companies are often under considerable time pressure and have to deal with a high degree of complexity on the way to decarbonising their heating networks. DMT provides them with new, comprehensive support models as a general contractor.

DMT’s expertise in the field of deep geothermal energy covers all the process steps required for commissioning a geothermal heating plant: project planning and design with application and approval procedures, public participation, feasibility study, economic feasibility study, risk analysis and funding advice. DMT then takes over the site investigation using 3D seismics as well as the drilling planning, drilling and borehole measurements, data processing and modelling. Finally, the last phase of the project involves the planning and construction of the plant, right up to the connection of the finished heating plant to the grid.

With DMT as general contractor, the effort for customers is minimised. All responsibilities, planning and implementation tasks lie with a single contractual partner, including schedule and budget planning as well as interface management and comprehensive project management. This makes the highly complex path to a geothermal heating plant more manageable for customers and involves considerably less effort on their part − regardless of whether DMT takes over everything completely or parts of the service chain.

DMT has already provided support for a large number of deep geothermal projects, including seismic surveys for GeoHardt GmbH, a subsidiary of MVV and EnBW, one of the largest inner-city 3D seismic surveys ever carried out for Stadtwerke München and the determination of the geothermal potential of the Vienna region for OMV and Wien Energie.

With the increased attention on the part of federal and state politicians for deep geothermal energy in Germany and an improvement in the framework conditions, e. g., in federal funding for efficient heat grids (BEW), DMT is expecting considerably stronger demand for support in project implementation in the coming months and years. This naturally also affects the planning of the capacities that DMT makes available to its customers.

“As soon as the recently submitted BEW funding applications are approved, customers will need advice, site investigation and plant engineering. We have also prepared for this with our capacities. With our setup as a general contractor, we can relieve our customers considerably − and ultimately accelerate the energy and heat turnaround,” explains Maik Tiedemann, Managing Director of DMT.
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With the establishment of DMT Middle East W.L.L. on 10th June 2018, DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen/Germany, expands into the Middle East. The aim is to tap additional market potential in the Gulf region. “With the establishment of the company, we want to meet the constantly increasing demand for our services from the region,” explains DMT Managing Director Jens-Peter Lux. “In addition, the foundation is an important milestone in our internationalization strategy. We have been successfully active in the region from other DMT group locations for many years, but the establishment of DMT Middle East will enable us to serve our customers better and faster with immediate effect”.

The new company will manage the DMT group’s business activities in the region and build up its own capacities. The focus of the new business development will initially be on major infrastructure projects, e. g., in the areas of metro and railway expansion, airport expansion, water supply and disposal, power and supply lines as well as projects for large private and public construction projects.

“In addition to DMT Middle East, TÜV Middle East has long been established in the region and in the service areas of certification and testing within TÜV NORD GROUP. This will support and accelerate our market access in engineering and consulting,” says Jens-Peter Lux. “TÜV Middle East is also a partner in the new DMT branch, which is managed by Murat Akkus, a very experienced engineer and consultant.” (DMT/Si.)

For 278 years DMT GmbH & Co. KG in Essen and its predecessor organizations have been providing services for the mining industry, for 25 years operating under the brand name DMT. DMT was founded in 1990 to tap into new markets outside of the German coal industry. Today DMT operates as a provider of engineering and technical consulting services for the oil and gas market, mining, infrastructure and the process and mechanical engineering market. Due to the new heavy international focus of the brand, the DMT Group generated a higher turnover abroad in 2014 than from domestic sales.

DMT’s roots lie in the early hard coal industry surrounding the Rhine and Ruhr rivers and the founding of the organization Bergamtskasse Graftschaft Mark in 1737. At first solely responsible for the finances of the supervisory mining authorities, a merger in 1864 formed the Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse (WBK) and greatly expanded the company’s focus to include miners’ training, research, testing, and consulting and subsequently developing it into one of Germany’s leading research and testing facilities as safety in mines became more stringent.
As a result of the German mining crisis in the 1960s and the foreseeable decline of the hard coal industry in the decades thereafter, the WBK joined forces with Bergbauforschung Essen and Versuchsgrubengesellschaft in Dortmund in 1990 under the new name DMT. Their mission was to develop and exploit new markets and regions in order to become independent from the German coal industry, and what better initial credential than the cutting-edge technology which had already made German coal mining the safest worldwide? “DMT has fulfilled its mission” explains DMT CEO Prof. Dr. Eiko Räkers. “However, DMT still is and will remain a reliable partner for the German coal industry up to the closure of the last German mines in 2018 and beyond, assisting in all issues related to hard coal mining”. Räkers adds: “Upcoming challenges in Germany include the control of rising mine water, monitoring the after-effects of mining and the rehabilitation and redevelopment of abandoned mining sites”.

With a total of 14 engineering and consulting firms based at 30 offices worldwide DMT has earned the title of global group. Its service portfolio covers exploration, engineering, consulting and geotechnics as well as testing and monitoring. The development and manufacture of diverse industrial measuring systems and test products is a further string to DMT’s bow.

Since 2007 DMT has been a member of TÜV NORD GROUP with over 10,000 employees and offices in 70 countries. DMT forms one division within TÜV NORD GROUP and is a brand in its own right for the natural resources and infrastructure sectors. DMT has established itself as an international engineering service provider and continues to grow and prosper at international level, with the brand “DMT” binding its manifold activities. (DMT GmbH/Si)