Specialisation:

A specialist in lightweight structures, Mike is a firm believer in a holistic, conceptual design approach, and in engineers’ responsibility to contribute more to “baukultur” - that is the concept of producing quality structures to improve quality of life. He also has an enduring interest in creating free, clean, renewable energy by developing solar thermal powerplants in desert areas.
The main activities of Mike Schlaich are in the field of structural and civil engineering are lightweight structures and solar energy production. He is following his credo not as “l’art pour l’art”. In teaching, research and with his projects at schlaich bergermann partner he rather strives for saving resources by minimized use of materials and for producing clean, economic and renewable energy to improve everyone´s quality of live while at the same time contributing to what in German is called “Baukultur”.
To him, in order to be successful, the built environment should not only arrive at environmental friendliness and low energy consumption during construction and use but ultimately lead to more beauty.
The result of this thinking are numerous lightweight building projects all over the world with renowned architects and a wide range of solar thermal power plants which help to counteract climate change.
At the University, together with a strong team of doctor students, he lays the scientific and research base for such endeavours. His research work includes extradosed bridges, bending and fatigue of strands for bridge cables, carbon fibre tension elements, movable and adaptive structures, as well as the use of new materials such as carbon and infra-lightweight concrete.e result of this thinking are numerous lightweight building projects all over the world with renowned architects and a wide range of solar thermal power plants which help to counteract climate change.

Major Professional Contributions:

Long span and lightweight roofs and bridges

Long span and integral bridges for rail, road and pedestrian traffic

Solar energy plants

Bridges in India (selection)

Akkar-Brücke Sikkim,

Second Hooghly River Bridge, Kolkata

Second Vivekananda-Bridge (Nivedita Setu)

Bardhaman Bridge

Signature Bridge “Yamuna Bridge” at Wazirabad 

West Extension der Yamuna-Bridge at Wazirabad

Markanda Bridge, Haryana

Bridges Delhi Metro, New Delhi

Bagchal Bridge, Himachal Pradesh

Brahmaputra Bridge, Assam

Bassein Creek Bridge

Mumbai Airport Forecourt Bridge, Mumbai

6-lane Greenfield-Brücke Bihar, Kacchi Dargah, Bihar

Chenab Brücke, Kashmir

Mulshi Satara Bridge, Chandani Chowk, Pune,

Elevated Highways in India

Inspection / site supervision of Bridges in India (selection)

Yamuna Bridge at Wazirabad - Site supervision

Yamuna Bridge - Fabrication supervision

Second Hooghly-River-Brücke – Inspektion, Kolkata

Checking of Bridges in India  (selection)

Second Vivekananda-Bidge (Nivedita Setu) 

Second Hooghly Bridge Cable Replacement, Kolkata

Sardar Patel Stadium Gujarat,  Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Buildings (selection)

JNS Jawaharlal Nehru Stadion, Delhi 

Commonwealth Games 2010 National Stadium, Delhi

SPM Swimming Stadium, Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi

Wrestling Hall - Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi

Weightlifting Hall - Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi

Hyderabad Metro Rail Stations, Hyderabad

Gopanpally Campus, Hyderabad

Godavari Augmentation, Godavari

Mobile Space "Germany and India, Mumbai

Kanha Meditation Hall, Hyderabad

ITME Trade Fair at Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Solar Energy (selection)

Photovoltaic Concentrator, CPV System 1, Pune

Parabolrinnenkraftwerk Godawari Green Energy Limited (GGEL)

1 MW Solar PV Cover

25MW with TES Solar Power Plant Gujarat Solar One (EuroTrough), Gujarat, Naukh, Jodhpur 

Further Bridges (selection)

Footbridges in Ditzingen, Oberhausen, Sassnitz, Leer, Greifswald, Rostock, all in Germany

Highway bridges in Geel, Belgium

Ingolstadt, Léon, railway bridges for German Railways  

Ting Kau Bridge, Hong Kong

Further Buildings (selection)

Stainless steel monocoque Pavilion for Porsche in Wolfsburg

Horrem „Station Green“ for German Railways (DB)

Porsche in Leipzig and Audi in Ingolstadt

Control Center for German Aero-space Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen

Extension of Marie-Elisa-beth-Lüders-Haus (check engineering)

Lenné-Triangle in Berlin

Towers (selection)

Max and Moritz Residential Towers in Berlin

Exenterhaus Bochum

Tensegrity Tower at Rostock Fair, Ardex Tower in Witten

Roofs and Façades (selection)

Arc De Triomphe. wrapping for the artist Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Tram Stop at Berlin Main Train Station, Berlin

Cable nets and grid shells for Málaga Airport, Málaga

Höfe am Brühl, Leipzig

Palacio de Comunicaciones in Madrid

Membrane structures for Estadio Olímpico and Arena Vista Allegre (movable) in Madrid

Foil cushion roof (movable), Duisburg

Cable suspended glass roof, Heilbronn

City lightrail, wooden barrel roof for Rostock Fair, Rostock

Steel sculpture `The Mastaba´ by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Consultancy Areas:

Our global presence counts with a multidisciplinary team of more than 190 members engaged in designing and delivering technically sound solutions to a range of engineering problems. 

The heartbeat of our company lies in our Stuttgart headquarters. Berlin extends our presence in Germany, and through Mike Schlaich, strengthens our engagement with research and development as his professorship at the Technical University of Berlin offers our engineers the opportunities to test materials and deepen our theoretical understanding of engineering and the applications of new technologies.

Our involvement in prestigious international projects require that we operate globally and to better serve our clients we have office branches in New York, São Paulo, Shanghai, Paris and Madrid.

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