Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 4
3. Engineers in the Building Sector 6
4. Designing Life 9
5. On Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Problem- Solvers and Designers
6. Civil and Building Engineers – the Emergence of the Professions 14
7. Networks of Engineering Expertise 20
8. Women Pioneers of the Big Modern Building Sites – How They Became Who They Are 26
9. On the Education of Engineers 30
10. Engineering Aesthetics 36
11. ENCLOSURE + SPACE
12. Arch and Shell Structures
13. Creating Spaces: Linking Aesthetics and Structure 43
14. On the Development of the Zeiss-Dywidag Shell Construction System 44
15. Form Finding – Graphical Tools, Experiments and Models, Numerical Methods 47
16. Computer-Based Processes for Biomimetic Structures 51
17. Structural Design and Form Finding Processes 58
18. Tensile Structures
19. Wide and Light 65
20. Lightweight Textile Construction – Development of Simulation Methods from the 1970s to the Present 66
21. The Spoked Wheel for Ring Cable Roofs in Lightweight Construction 71
22. Lightweight Construction in Motion 75
23. Building Construction – Focus on Timber
24. Exploring New Dimensions with Timber 77
25. Material and Design – Is Hybrid the Future? 82
26. Towers and High-Rises
27. Aiming High 87
28. Pushing the Limits 89
29. The Buttressed Core 94
30. WATER + ENERGY
31. Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal
32. Water in Cities 99
33. Water Transitions in Cities of the Future 100
34. Sewage Becomes Heat Energy 105
35. Emscher Conversion: Ecological Restructuring of a Wastewater System 106
36. Functional and Protective Structures
37. Protection and Safety, Water and Energy Supply 109
38. Protection from the Forces of Nature 110
39. Reinforcing Reservoir Dams: the Sylvenstein Dam Pilot Project 114
40. Challenges in the Discourse Between Technology and Society 116
41. Engineers as Entrepreneurs – Influences on the Development of Civil Engineering and Society 119
42. The TUM Hydro Shaft Power Plant Innovation 124
43. Offshore Wind Turbines
44. Wind Becomes Energy 127
45. Electricity from the Sea 128
46. The Energy Transition as an Assignment for Civil Engineers 130
47. Floating Wind Farm – Hywind Scotland 133
48. Floating and Self-Erecting: TELWIND 134
49. Flexible Membrane Wings for Wind Turbines 135
50. The Role of Environmental Engineers in Limiting the Side Effects of Modern Technology 136
51. MOBILITY + TRANSPORTATION
52. Construction of Roads and Railways
53. Gaining Access 141
54. Record Heights: the Zugspitze Cable Car 145
55. Slab Tracks for Rail Traffic 147
56. Beam Bridges
57. Bridges into the Future 151
58. Integral and Semi-Integral Bridges 152
59. Ulrich Finsterwalder and the Development of Cantilever Construction 154
60. Improving Quality and Efficiency through Procurement Procedures Involving Supplemental Offers and Alternative Proposals 157
61. Tunnel Construction
62. Below the Water and Through the Mountain 161
63. The Development of Tunnel Construction and Tunnelling Machines 162
64. Traversing Mountain Ranges 166
65. Geodesy – a Breakthrough Success 168
66. Using Tunnels for the Extraction of Geothermal Energy 171
67. Cable and Suspension Bridges
68. Overcoming Distances 175
69. Linking Continents 176
70. Spanning Farther 178
71. Shortening Journeys 180
72. Traffic Technology
73. New Mobility 183
74. Mobility and Traffic as Dynamic Fields for Engineers 184
75. Diagonal Crossings: Oxford Circus 188
76. Cooperative Systems 189
77. Outlook
78. Future Challenges for Civil Engineers 192
79. Appendix 198