Dr.-Ing. Roland Leucker

 Professional Development:

• 1984 to 1990:
  Studies on civil engineering at the Aachen University of Technology, During that time student research assistant at Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management
• 1990 bis 1995:
  Research-Engineer at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Aachen University of Technology
• 1995:
  Phd. in Civil Engineering on the subject: "Analysis of unsteady flow phenomena to predict cavitation inception"
• 1995 bis 2006:
  HOCHTIEF AG Essen (Project manager/Engineer for several civil engineering projects, construction manager, senior design manager)
• 01.02.2006 bis 31.12.2007: Deputy Managing Director STUVA e. V., Köln/Cologne
• since 01.02.2006: Head of Department "Tunnelling&Construction Technology" of STUVA, Köln/Cologne
• since 01.01.2007: Managing Director STUVAtec GmbH, Köln/Cologne
• since 01.01.2008: Managing Director
• since 2012: Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Operational Safety of Underground Facilities (ITA-COSUF)
• since 2012: Adjunct Professor at Ruhr University Bochum in the field of "Operation of subsurface infrastructures"

Activities (selection):

• Responsible for managing several research projects and model tests
• Design and calculation of various civil engineering structures (diaphragm walls, sheet pile and bore pile walls for construction pits, steel bridges, caissons, locks, various hydraulic engineering projects, foundations, floatation, coffer dams, underpasses, earth works, tunnelling, placing of ballast on river bed to ensure the blowout safety in tunnelling, processing of tenders, finite-element calculations ...)
• Design manager (tunnel boring machine in slurry operation mode, contract management, planning, and preparation of the tender documents for ground freezing, planning for fire safety and operational upgrading of an urban tunnel under a warehouse
• Construction management (installation and dismantling of ballast on river bed to ensure the blowout safety during tunnelling, ground freezing and cross-passages between tunnels some 40 metre below the water level, fire and excessive operational upgrading of an urban tunnel during operation)
• Research work in several European projects like UPTUN (Cost-effective, Sustainable and Innovative Upgrading Methods for Fire Safety in Existing Tunnels), TUNCONSTRUCT (Technology Innovation in Underground Construction) or L-surF (Design Study for a Large-Scale Underground Research Facility on Safety and Security)

Field of Business:

• Fire protection during construction and operation of tunnels and underground transportation systems

• Civil Engineering, Construction, safety, processes and operational aspects in the field of underground construction

• Waterproofing of underground structures and dams

• Damage and opinion evidence report

Contact:

Telefon: (0221) 59795-0
E-Mail: r.leucker/at/stuva.de