NEWS: WHAT'S HAPPENING AT GRASSL
As usual, a lot and everything at the same time. With roughly 700 projects per year things never get boring: Structures are put into operation, construction projects introduced or design competition entries presented. Take a look behind the scenes.
On 20 February 2024, our authorised company representative, Dominic Reyer, held a presentation about the replacement of the bridge over the Main River at Horhausen at the bridge construction symposium in Leipzig, one of the leading events for civil engineers..
Read more … 24th bridge construction symposium in Leipzig
The long-awaited relief for commuters and lorries in the Cologne region has finally become a reality. Lorries can once again travel on the A1 over the Rhine River, which had not been possible since September 2016. Yesterday, 4 February 2024, at 1.40pm...
Read more … A1 Leverkusen opened to traffic
On 11 January 2024, Martin Grassl, our managing partner, had the privilege of acting as jury member for the renowned Ernst & Sohn Ingenieurbaupreis to select this year’s award recipients...
Read more … Ernst & Sohn Ingenieurbaupreis
To win the 11th Hans Grassl Award, in the winter of 2022/2023 the civil engineering master’s students of the Technische Universität Braunschweig specialising in steel construction were given approximately six weeks to design a bridge...
Read more … Hans Grassl Award 2023
On Monday, 16 October 2023, at 6 a.m., route 4405 was able to be opened again for rail transport after several days of track closure. During the track closure, the entire superstructure of the old bridge had to be demolished, the steel construction of a...
Read more … Faster from Karlsruhe to Basel
The widening of the A8 motorway segment at Pforzheim (Enztalquerung) is underway. The Enztalquerung is one of the two remaining motorway segments in Baden-Württemberg still to be widened to six lanes. To remove this traffic...
Read more … Widening of the A8 motorway
On 16 October 2023, the first sod was cut for the B1 cross-town link in Brandenburg an der Havel. In their speeches, Dr Ina Bartmann (Chairwoman of the Board of Landesbetrieb Straßenwesen Brandenburg), Guido Beermann (Minister for Infrastructure and State Planning...
Read more … Sod cutting ceremony
The Okavango River Bridge in Botswana is one of the projects that have gained an award of merit by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC). The Okavango River flows into an inland delta...
Read more … International award
On 5 September 2023, the last two segments of the northern superstructure of the Leverkusen Bridge over the Rhine River were installed, once more linking the two shores of the river.Together with all participants...
Read more … Superstructure connected in Leverkusen
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 30th anniversary celebration of our Berlin office in 2021 had to be cancelled. All the better to celebrate it during this year’s project days in lovely weather in the beautiful surroundings of Lake Schwielow. On 14 and 15 September...
Read more … Project Days 2023
An important milestone for the long-awaited construction of the Rahmede Viaduct has been reached: on Thursday, 5 October 2023, the first sod was cut for the viaduct on the A45.
Dr Volker Wissing (Federal Minister for Digital and Transport), Dr Michael Güntner...
Read more … Cutting of the first sod
During the 45th assembly of delegates of the Bundesvereinigung der Straßen- und Verkehrsingenieure (BSVI), the Deutsche Ingenieurpreis Straße und Verkehr award was handed out agai...
Read more … Truss arch bridge is Baukultur