Cooperation

Joining forces for success!

Due to previous as well as current activities, memberships and offices of the managers, we have a broad network and outstanding contacts.

Thus we can fall back on the support and expertise of large experts and specialist companies even at different fields of activity, if necessary.

Partner

Due to the function of Prof. Ziegler as former chair holder and the long lasting activity of Prof. Aulbach at RWTH Aachen University, we have best private contacts to the several chairs and institutes of civil engineering as well as to related faculties.

In particular because of the contact to the Chair of Geotechnical Engineering (www.gut.rwth-aachen.de) and the Institute of Geomechanics and Underground Technology at RWTH University, we are able to plan, coordinate and control laboratory and technical tests, this includes the monitoring of testing anchors and sophisticated numerical investigations as well.

With the appointment of Prof. Aulbach to the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg (https://fab.thws.de/), ZAI's network of experts has been expanded once again.

Furthermore we dispose of a broad network outside of RWTH Aachen University and FHWS. Thus we can come back quickly and straightforwardly on the support of experts in their own subject area, e.g. reinforced concrete construction or building legislation, if issues go beyond the scope of the geotechnical engineering.

In the field of energy sheet pile walls, we closely cooperate with our partner and patent holder for the thermal activation of steel sheet piles, FET Future Energy Technologies PLC. This applies to the areas of acquisition and project development as well as to planning.

Memberships

ZAI GmbH

  • Research Association for Tunnels and Traffic Systems (STUVA) e.V.
  • Förderverein der Geotechnik im Bauwesen der RWTH Aachen e.V
  • German Geotechnical Society (DGGT) e.V.


 

Prof. Ziegler

Memberships

  • Research Association for Tunnels and Traffic Systems (STUVA) e.V.
  • German Geotechnical Society (DGGT) e.V.
  • International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
  • International Geosynthetics Society (IGS)
    International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM)
  • Centre of International Structural and Civil Engineering Law – Centrum für Internationales Bau- und Tiefbaurecht (CBTR)
  • Ingenieurtechnischer Verband Altlasten (ITVA) e.V. 
  • Förderverein der Geotechnik im Bauwesen der RWTH Aachen e.V.

Held Functions

  • Chairperson of the board of Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities (STUVA) e.V. since December 2003
  • Member of the management board of the German Geotechnical Society (DGGT) e.V. since January 2006
  • President of the special section “Geosynthetics in Geotechnics” of the German Geotechnical Society since January 2008
  • President of the German Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) since January 2008
  • Council member of the IGS since September 2008
  • Advisory board member for the Centre of International Structural and Civil Engineering Law (Internationales Bau- und Tiefbaurecht, CBTR) since July 2004
  • Research group member “Dimensioning of geosynthetics reinforced fills - Berechnung und Dimensionierung von Erdkörpern mit Bewehrungseinlagen aus Geokunststoffen” (Recommendations for Design and Analysis of Earth Structure using Geosythetic Reinforcement – EBGEO)
  • Member of Committee NA 005-05-01 AA “Subsoil-Verification of the safety of earthworks and foundations”, German Code of Practice DIN 1054Member of Committee of Experts “Kunststoffbewehrte Erdkörper” of the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt)
  • Co-Chairman of the Society for the Promotion of Geotechnical Engineering at RWTH Aachen e.V.
  • Studiengesellschaft für Unterirdische Verkehrsanlagen (STUVA) e.V.
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechnik (DGGT) e.V.
  • International Society for Soil Mechanics an Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
  • International Geosynthetics Society (IGS)
  • Internationale Gesellschaft für Felsmechanik
  • Centrum für Internationales Bau- und Tiefrecht (CBTR)
  • Ingenieurtechnischer Verband Altlasten (ITVA) e.V.
  • Förderverein der Geotechnik im Bauwesen der RWTH Aachen e.V.



Prof. Dr.-Ing. Aulbach

  • German Geotechnical Society (DGGT) e.V.
  • International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
  • Chamber of Engineers North Rhine-Westphalia (IK-Bau NRW)
  • Centre of International Structural and Civil Engineering Law – Centrum für Internationales Bau- und Tiefbaurecht (CBTR)
  • Society for the Promotion of Geotechnical Engineering at RWTH Aachen e.V.
  • Society for the Promotion of Friends of the Institute of Geotechnics at Technical University Darmstadt
  • VSVI Association of Road and Traffic Engineers in Bavaria e. V., Member of the Board of the Lower Franconia District Group