Hydraulic Engineering
Hydraulics concerns the taming of water torrents to protect man and property, and its use for mankind in infrastructure. This includes the improvement and construction of navigation canals – together with the appurtenant structures such as locks, impounding structures, weirs, ship-lifting devices, fluvial and maritime harbours, quay walls, ferry jetties and flood alleviation works.
Design tasks in hydraulics are also solved holistically, so that we are confronted with all facets of the subject. Our interdisciplinary project teams led by hydraulic engineers work their way through to the optimal, sustainable solution.
Our list of duties covers all activities such as dam construction, canal invert and side slope stabilisation, the design and specification of reinforced concrete and structural steel components, pumping stations and the related equipment.
In addition we carry out settlement and deformation computations, structural analyses, hydrological studies and the complete service palette for the electromechanical installations. This applies not only to new capital investments, but also to rehabilitation works.
Our wide variety of activities for clients in the public sector, such as the German navigation and water authorities, has equipped us with a good insight into the procedures and organisational systems of government departments.
Monolithic construction methods and complex analyses, such as three-dimensional settlement computations using finite elements provide evidence of our systematic approach and our capacity for innovation.
Main activities in hydraulics
- Open-water channels: river and canal engineering
- Impounding structures and hydroelectric plants (run-of-river and regulated systems)
- Flood alleviation
- Fluvial and marine harbours
- Dams, penstocks, caverns