With 9 manufacturing sites in Europe, the United States and the Pacific, and more than 3,500 employees, Leonhard Kurz Stiftung GmbH & Co. KG is a world market leader in hot stamping technology. This technology is used for foil lamination in...

Building services defects, which caused extremely high energy usage and a high rate of disruptions in all of the building services, were the reason for comprehensive retrofitting measures at the Kreishaus (district office) in Siegen....

Stimulus plan extended through 2011

“Plan d´investissement special,” or PIS for short, is the name of the stimulus plan implemented by the Belgian government from 2004-2008 to encourage the retrofitting of public buildings, and which now has been...

84-meter-tall chimney with MJ UNI TOP scaffolding

The Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen) operates a gas heating plant for research purposes. It is used for testing methods of using gases to generate...

If being an entrepreneur means doing something and taking every opportunity that presents itself, then Joachim Schröter, from Eberswalde, is a model entrepreneur. The proprietor of Schröter Gerüstbau started from scratch in 1990 as a one-man...

“Time is money,” they say, and the same is true for subsidized housing. In Longwy, Lorraine, more than 300 apartments in five building complexes are being constructed within 9 months as part of a subsidized housing project. All five buildings are...

In 1912, the water tower in the Mannheim district of Waldhof-Lutzenberg was converted into a school. After being damaged in the Second World War, the school was initially renovated in a very basic way, and then more thoroughly from 1977 to 1978....

It is not only the Scaffolding Association that has just celebrated its 60-year anniversary, but Witte GmbH from Cologne was also founded 60 years ago. Regrettably, is has not been passed down if the grandfather of today’s owners, the Döring...

The St. Jacob’s Church in Stettin is the largest Church in Pomerania. It has been built in several stages from the 13th to the 19th century and was partly destroyed when hit by a bomb during the Second World War in 1944. Choir loft and steeple have...

Directly situated at the old-established boulevard “Unter den Linden“, at the corner  Friedrichstraße, in the center of the federal capital of Berlin, the ”Grand Westin“, a five-star superior top-class hotel presents itself. 359 rooms and...

Anton Muckel Gerüstbau from Linnich receives the order

Today, most of the modern sugar refineries for the processing of sugar beets are located in Poland, Germany, and France. Nevertheless, the number of sugar refineries in Germany has...