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Excavation pit Poppelsdorfer Allee, Bonn

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WHAT-WE-DO: On Poppelsdorfer Allee, in the heart of Bonn just a few hundred metres from the main railway station, Swiss Life Asset Managers Deutschland GmbH is developing the former Zurich Versicherung site into a residential quarter with around 280 new residential units. M+P Ingenieurgesellschaft in Cologne was commissioned by the client to demolish the building and construct the [...]

Virtual water - Or: How much water we really use!

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The average German citizen consumes around 120 litres of drinking water per day. However, the production of food and consumer goods also consumes water. If you add this water to our consumption, then a German citizen uses around 5,300 litres of virtual water plus 120 litres of drinking water every day. Did you know that enjoying a cup of coffee is only possible because water is used to [...]

With the cargo bike to the construction site

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You know how it is in a big city with short appointments. Just a quick trip to the building site to take samples or to the environmental agency to look at expert reports and then you're stuck in a traffic jam at the end of the working day or spend 20 minutes looking for a parking space. This has been a thing of the past at the Hanover site for some time now, as a total of three company bikes are now available for such trips. [...]

Welcome to the team... Paul Kempe!

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We are delighted to welcome Paul Kempe as a new employee at Mull & Partner's Osnabrück office. Mr Kempe was already able to gain his first experience as a working student at Mull & Partner Ingenieurgesellschaft in Osnabrück during his master's degree in "Soil, Water, Contaminated Sites", specialising in contaminated sites. Since 18 October 2021, he has now joined our team in his new role as [...]

WHO tightens limit values for outdoor air pollution

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NEWS: In its guidelines on outdoor air quality, the WHO recommends drastically reducing some of its limit values from 2005, as there are still health risks even with the reduced values. Air pollution is seen as one of the greatest environmental threats to human health alongside climate change. Reducing air pollution could minimise the risk of stroke, heart disease, lung cancer [...].

Expert appraisal support for the expansion of the Weddel loop

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WHAT-WE-DO: The so-called Weddel Loop stretches between Weddel and Fallersleben. The electrified line between Braunschweig and Wolfsburg is an important part of both local and long-distance passenger transport as well as freight transport. In order to increase local transport capacity on the line and make travelling more flexible, the section is being upgraded to two tracks. The plans dating back to the 1990s [...]

We consider occupational health and safety right from the start.

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NEWS: In its latest analysis of accidents at work in 2020, the German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the industrial sector found that the number of accidents in 2020 fell by an average of 11.4 % across all economic sectors compared to 2019. A closer look reveals a very different distribution in the individual economic sectors. For example, [...]

M&P develops redevelopment concept for the former Hagen-Haspe railway station site

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WHAT-WE-DO: As part of a large-scale remodelling project, the former railway station site in Hagen-Haspe is to be developed as a future industrial estate. M&P Hagen was commissioned by Area52 GmbH from Ennepetal to carry out an assessment of contaminated sites and to draw up a remediation concept in advance of the construction work. Back in 1999, M&P carried out a historical survey and a detailed investigation of the former [...]

Welcome to the team... Kordian Korynt!

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We are pleased to introduce our new colleague Kordian Korynt. Kordian has been working at the Hamburg site for the Soil and Contaminated Sites department since 1 October 2021. He previously studied geosciences in the Bachelor's and Master's programmes at the University of Hamburg. During his studies, Kordian had already been working as a research assistant for M&P in Hamburg since 2018 and was already able to [...]

Deadwood in bodies of water

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NEWS: Deadwood fulfils many important functions in watercourses. It serves as a habitat and food source for a variety of organisms, it leads to a reduction in flow velocity and differentiation of the current in the watercourse and thus to the formation of near-natural structures in and around the watercourse. Studies have shown that deadwood generally leads to an improvement in structural quality, regardless of the type of watercourse [...].