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DE Welcome to the team... Paul Kempe!
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
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
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.
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
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!
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
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 [...].
Insect protection in autumn
NEWS: Colourful flower beds, flower strips and wildflower meadows - in spring and summer, many people now contribute to insect protection. But even in autumn there is still a lot you can do to protect insects and help them overwinter. Although insect activity decreases from October onwards, many are still foraging on sunny days. In [...]
We protect animal and plant species
WHAT-WE-DO: Environmental construction supervision (UBB) has the task of enforcing authorisation requirements on construction sites and ensuring that no prohibitions under Section 44 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatschG) are triggered. This paragraph prohibits Stalking, catching, injuring or killing animals of specially protected species or taking, damaging or destroying their developmental forms from the wild, wild animals [...]
Keeping heating costs under control with renewable energies
NEWS: With the headline "Heating costs are rising", the media has been full of scary news for many property users these days. The articles reported average cost increases of 44 % for oil heating systems and 13 % for gas heating systems for 2021. The heating cost index is regularly published by the German Tenants' Association (DMB), co2online and the Association of Municipal Companies [...].
