Practical guides from railway construction supervision, planning and infrastructure construction, written by Edoé Lassey, construction supervisor and managing director of LND Ingenieure GmbH.
Railway
What a Bauüberwacher Bahn does, which legal foundations apply and how construction supervision works during ongoing railway operations. A practical guide from construction supervision.
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Railway
What a Technischer Berechtigter is responsible for on a railway construction site, how the role relates to the Betra 4.2 and what qualification it requires.
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Railway
What a Betra governs, how it comes about and what role it plays in safe construction within live rail operations.
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Railway
What responsibility the safety supervisor carries on the railway construction site and how they secure the work site against train traffic.
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Railway
Why work near the overhead line requires a switching application, how the process works and what responsibility the switching applicant carries.
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Railway
What building submission authorisation means in the railway environment, what it is needed for and who must hold it.
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Planning
How the nine service phases of the HOAI structure a project and what role site supervision (service phase 8) plays in railway construction.
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Safety
When a safety and health coordinator is required, what duties the client carries and what is added in railway construction.
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Basics
Three terms that are often confused. Who does what, and why is the distinction particularly important in railway construction?
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Railway
What signalling and control technology comprises, why its planning determines the safety of rail operations and which interfaces are critical.
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Railway
How a railway installation goes into operation after the construction work, what approval is needed for this and what role construction supervision plays.
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Railway
Why railway work is almost always carried out next to traffic, what hazards this brings and what a viable safety concept looks like.
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Basics
What project control delivers, which client tasks it takes on and how it differs from project management.
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Railway
What distinguishes specialist construction supervision from general construction supervision and why, in railway construction in particular, the individual trades need their own specialist oversight.
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Renewable energy
What approvals a photovoltaic installation needs, how rooftop and ground-mounted installations differ and what matters in planning and grid connection.
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Renewable energy
Which procedure wind energy installations go through, what assessments are required and why early planning determines success.
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Railway
What overall site management delivers, how it differs from local construction supervision and why large railway projects need both levels.
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Basics
Why acceptance is the central turning point of every construction project, what legal consequences it triggers and what forms there are.
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Basics
Why variations affect almost every construction project, how they arise and how sound variation management limits costs and conflicts.
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Road traffic
What construction supervision delivers in road and civil engineering, what matters with materials and weather and how traffic can be secured during the work.
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Digitalisation
How Building Information Modeling is changing construction supervision in railway projects, what role the as-built model plays and where the method reaches its limits in practice.
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Energy
How wind and solar parks are connected to the power grid, which steps the grid connection involves and what role construction supervision plays at the substation.
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