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DE Air monitoring when working in contaminated areas
Air monitoring for gases and vapours often plays an important role in occupational health and safety during exploration and remediation work in contaminated areas. In addition to the monitoring of acute hazards such as fire, explosion and oxygen deficiency with multi-gas measuring devices, chronic hazards for employees must also be assessed using suitable measuring devices. One way of monitoring breathing air quality is to use a [...]
New employee in the Hamburg office: Fadi El Gareb!
Welcome to the team... Fadi El Gareb! We are pleased to welcome our new colleague Fadi El Gareb. Mr El Gareb has been working at the Hamburg site for the Soil / Contaminated Sites department since 01.09.2022. He previously studied geosciences in the Bachelor's and Master's programmes at the University of Hamburg. Mr El Gareb was already employed during his [...]
M&P successfully takes part in the B2Run around the Maschsee lake
In wonderful weather, the M&P team finally got active together again at the B2Run Hannover 2022! 10,000 participants from around 410 companies created a unique atmosphere on the route along the Maschsee and in the Heinz von Heiden Arena. The M&P team "ran for the environment" over a total distance of 6.5 kilometres. [...]
Climate protection: Excursus on emission factors
CO2 footprint in a fast-track procedure: è Recording your company's activity data è Researching reliable emission factors è Calculating your company's CO2 footprint CO2 footprint in detail: (see image) For companies, calculating a CO2 footprint is the first step on the road to climate protection. Emission factors are a core component of the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions: In order to calculate the CO2 footprint of a company [...]
Compaction tests in the field
In order for soil to reach its full load-bearing capacity, it must be sufficiently compacted. Construction measures in earthworks and road construction regularly require control tests to be carried out to check the quality of the construction work. Compaction tests in the field are primarily carried out using load plate load tests and are used to check the load-bearing capacity and deformability. Depending on the magnitude of the loads [...]
Sword or ploughshare? Distinguishing between the effects of war and traces of civilian use in the digital terrain model (DTM)
The analysis of historical aerial photographs from the Second World War is an indispensable aspect of the reconstruction of events that may have led to the contamination of explosive ordnance. However, the informative value of aerial photographs as "objective contemporary witnesses"[1] reaches its limits where the view of the ground was blocked at the time the photographs were taken. Vegetation cover, especially wooded areas, can [...]
Refurbishment of Schaedla dry cleaners on behalf of the city of Heidelberg
The Schaedla dry cleaners were in operation from 1907-1973. After the plant was shut down, the site was rededicated and a retirement home and residential buildings were constructed. After significantly elevated concentrations of LCHCs were detected in the groundwater in the vicinity of the now built-over site, the city of Heidelberg commissioned MuP Umwelttechnik GmbH to investigate the hydrogeological situation in order to [...]
Geostatistical tools in the investigation of contaminated sites
Volatile chlorinated hydrocarbons (VOCs) are potent solvents and were used on a large scale in the past, for example in laundries or metalworking companies. Unfortunately, the necessary care was not always taken when handling these hazardous chemicals. In practice, it is therefore not uncommon in many places for the [...]
Why do companies need CO2 footprints and how do they determine theirs?
Climate protection is one of the most important topics for corporate sustainability. More and more customers, investors and employees are attaching importance to ecological responsibility and ambitious climate targets. What role do CO2 footprints play for companies? The short answer is: what is not measured cannot be optimised. The detailed answer is: With a CO2 footprint, you can identify where and [...]
Turning mining landscapes into safe and attractive landscapes through groundwater modelling
We, #IBGW GmbH, have been contributing for over 30 years with our specialist services, particularly in groundwater modelling, to the creation of safe and attractive landscapes such as Lake Zwenkau (Fig. 2) from mining landscapes such as the current Vereinigtes Schleenhain open-cast mine (Fig. 1). We support both the responsible mining reclamation companies #LMBV and the mining operator #MIBRAG in their [...]
