Ship Lifting Installation Nominated
Our structural engineering project Ship Lifting Installation Niederfinow (Brandenburg) has been nominated for the German Engineering Award 2024! We are delighted that the reinforced concrete ... more
Our structural engineering project Ship Lifting Installation Niederfinow (Brandenburg) has been nominated for the German Engineering Award 2024! We are delighted that the reinforced concrete ... more
New paths, courageous decisions & responsible action. In the current issue of “nbau Nachhaltig Bauen“, Werner Sobek comments on building in the future: the building industry ... more
Openings in a bridge and mirrored surfaces embedded between two slanted panes of glass – this is all it takes to create new visual relationships between the people on and under the bridge. T ... more
In June 2023, the last of the 28 chalice supports at Stuttgart’s new main station was stripped. In the next step, the so-called “light eyes” will now be closed with a filig ... more
Werner Sobek is convinced that phasing out the emission of climate-damaging gases cannot be achieved by reducing them alone. What is needed is compensation to offset unavoidable emissions. H ... more
Our office in Hamburg has been open since 2019 – it is located right in the centre of the Hanseatic city, in the beautiful Scandinavian House. Many of our projects are within walking distanc ... more
The head of our New York office, Enrica Oliva, has been invited to be a member of the jury for next year’s Metal in Construction Design Challenge. Entrants are invited to submit their ... more
In a new podcast of the THD (Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences), our colleague Dr. Stefanie Weidner explains how architects can ensure more sustainability in an engineering office ... more
In the new ship lift at Niederfinow, a height of 37 m is overcome per lock passage in around three minutes. Thanks to the new vertical lift, even larger cargo ships will be able to navigate ... more
After 14 years of construction, the ship lift in Niederfinow (near Berlin) was officially inaugurated on 4 October 2022. Werner Sobek was responsible for the structural engineering of the 52 ... more
Around 90,000 interested people visited the Stuttgart21 construction site over Easter 2023. For three days, Deutsche Bahn invited visitors to the open construction site at the project penned ... more
Around 200 interested people followed a panel discussion with Werner Sobek, Caspar Schmitz-Morkramer and Detlef Kurth in Stuttgart’s Literaturhaus at the end of September 2022. The org ... more