Short profile
STUVA is an independent, non-profit research institution. It was founded in 1960 and today has more than 230 members. For the processing of contracts from private clients STUVAtec - Studiengesellschaft für unterirdische Verkehrsanlagen mbH (Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities Ltd.) was set up separately in 1996 as a 100% subsidiary of STUVA. Our fields of activities include fundamental research and special analyses, focusing mainly on the areas of underground construction and railway and road transport. Owing to their wide-ranging experience and knowledge gained from many years of research work, STUVA and STUVAtec are also consulted for many object-related analyses and expert reports at home and abroad.
At our headquarter in Cologne there are three experimental halls covering a total area of approx. 2.000 m². Our research and experimental results are made available to the public in various ways:
- The international magazine "Tunnel", our official journal; 8 issues per year, bilingual (German/English)
- Book series "Forschung + Praxis, U-Verkehr und unterirdisches Bauen" (Research + Practice, Underground Transportation and Buildings)
- STUVA research reports
- Reports published by 3rd party institutions
- Internet
Every two years in autumn the STUVA conference takes place with various main topics from the fields of tunnelling and underground construction. The conferences are each attended by approximately 1,500 tunnelling experts from more than 30 different countries. At an accompanying special exhibition, construction companies, consultants, machine suppliers and component manufacturers present their products and services to a specialist public.
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STUVA engineer Dirk Boenke receives doctorate
After successful examination on December 15, 2010, Dr.-Ing. Dirk Boenke has been awarded a doctorate in Engineering Sciences. In his dissertation entitled "New methods for assurance of mobility for senior citizens in road transport", he elaborated recommendations for action for the achievement at municipal level of transport planning meeting the needs of all generations. The mobility of...
Professor Manfred Bandmann’s retirement
In October 2010 Professor Manfred Bandmann gave up his active work as Chairman of the Board of Directors of BG Bau and took retirement. From 2001 to 2009, alongside his main activities, he also sat was on the Board of Directors and Advisory Council of STUVA. In November 2009, to mark his retirement, Professor Bandmann was appointed an honorary member of STUVA. This appointment is an expression of...
Dr Helmut Grossmann turns 65
Earlier this year, Dr Helmut Grossmann took retirement after 20 years of employment with STUVA. He graduated in civil engineering from the Technical University of Hannover in July 1971, following which he was Research Associate at the Institute of Transport, Road Engineering and Planning at the TU Hannover until 1975. In 1977 he completed his doctorate there on the subject “Einfluss von...
