WHAT-WE-DO: Due to the greater supply of jobs, many people are still moving from the countryside to the cities. As a result, living space in the cities has already become scarce and is facing a steadily increasing demand. Building land is also still in high demand and therefore correspondingly expensive.

In order to avoid high investments for new building plots and their development, real estate companies are now increasingly relying on a new model for gaining living space: adding more floors to existing apartment buildings.

The construction of additional storeys generates additional building loads for which the existing foundations are usually not designed. Our branch in Hagen therefore investigates both the subsoil conditions in the immediate vicinity and the building fabric and foundations of existing buildings that are planned for an extension. The aim of the investigations is to test the building's structural safety, taking into account the additional loads, and to develop structural engineering solutions for the realisation of the extension.

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