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Celebrating 30 Years of IKT: “Sewers for the 21st Century” International Conference

Posted 21. September 2024
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Held to celebrate IKT – Institute for Underground Infrastructure’s 30th anniversary, on September 11th and 12th, 2024, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, the event brought together IKT’s research collaborators with sewer and urban drainage network owners from around the world.


30 Years of Sewerage Research at IKT – Institute for Underground Infrastructure: What was, what is and what is yet to come

Posted 06. August 2024
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When a group of far-sighted experts founded a new research institute for sewerage technology in 1994, they could hardly have imagined how important the topic would become over the next three decades. Prof. Dietrich Stein from Ruhr University Bochum, Dr. Rolf Bielecki, Senior Construction Director from the Hamburg Building Authority, and Jürgen Wilms from Hochtief AG had recognised something that is undisputed today: Germany’s, and the World‘s sewerage infrastructure needs…


IKT attends the China-Europe Trenchless Technology Conference

Posted 05. April 2024
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IKT’s Managing Director, Roland W. Waniek, and Scientific Director, Prof. Dr. Bert Bosseler, have attended the “China-Europe Conference on Pipelines and Trenchless Technology” at the end of March 2024, where they presented the latest IKT research results on the subject of pipe liner quality. The event was organised by Prof. Dr. Jingguo Cao from the Tianjin University of Science and Technology.


CIPP quality: Lessons learned from 25 years of research and testing

Posted 22. November 2023
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CIPP liner quality: What is the essence of two decades of IKT’s research? Prof. Dr. Bert Bosseler, our Scientific Director, and colleagues identify the key factors that are crucial for the quality of the world’s most popular rehabilitation process for sewer pipes, Cured-in-Place-Pipes (CIPP).