The Bavarian Chamber of Engineers - Civil
The Bavarian Chamber of Engineers - Civil is the public self-regulating body for civil engineers. It incorporates and represents consulting engineers as compulsory members and salaried employees, civil servants and commercially active engineers as voluntary members.
The tasks of the Chamber
Engineers' parliament
- Increasing the standing and influence of the profession
- Protecting the professional title "Consulting Engineer"
- Maintaining lists of
- Compulsory members
- Voluntary members
- Experts
- Engineers licensed to submit planning application
- Engineers licensed to submit proof
- Specialist group work
Forward strategies
Services for members
- Legal advice by the legal department
- Quality management advice
- Export promotion via the clearing body
- German Engineering Journal (DIB)
- Retirement provision via professional pension scheme
- Professional training and further education by the Bavarian Engineering Academy
- Arbitration committee
- Engineering competitions
- Advertising on the Internet
Lobby for public matters
- Maintaining contacts with governments - factions - parties
- Legal initiatives - legal regulations
- Support for authorities and courts
- Promotion of building culture and building technology
- Consumer protection
- Environmental protection
- Engineering studies
- International activities
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Specialist areas
The legal foundation of the Chamber is the Act on the Bavarian Chamber of Engineers - Construction (BayikaBauG). The Chamber Act comprises the following specialist areas:
- Civil engineering
- Surveying
- Water management
- Transport
- Geological engineering
- Noise protection
- Thermal building physics
- Energy technology
- Heating technology
- Air conditioning technology
- Supply technology
- Disposal technology
- Sanitation technology
- Mechanical and electrical installations
- Electrical engineering
- Lighting engineering
- Materials handling
- Storage technology
- Occupational safety at building structures
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Boards
Board of management
- Dr. Heinrich Schroeter, President
- Helmut Schütz, 1st Vice President
- Prof. Dr. Norbert Gebbeken, 2nd Vice President
- Dr. Oliver Fischer
- Dr. Heinrich Hochreither
- Herbert Luy
- Alexander Lyssoudis
- Dr. Ulrich Scholz
- Dr. Werner Weigl
Committees
- Salaried employees and civil engineers
- Building law and expert system
- Education
- European questions
- Specialist groups
- Budget and finance
- Fees and contract law
- Publications
- Audits
- Articles of association and election regulations
- Environment - transport - water Registration committee
- Competition
Working groups
- Activities commissioned by the Chair
- Curator
- Innovations in Civil Engineering
Arbitration committee
Representitives conference
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Compulsory members
Consulting engineers
- Legally protected professional title
- Partners to all parties involved in the construction industry
- Core competencies in planning and building:
- High level of professional qualification
- Autonomy
- Independence
- Trusteeship
- Professional obligations: professional regulations
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Voluntary members
Salaried employees, civil servants and commercially active engineers
- Expertise - competence - responsibility
- Public administration - building industry - engineering offices
- Participation in creating legislation - guidelines - the future of technology
Engineers' alliance: compulsory members and voluntary members - the "Big Chamber"
- Joint professional standing
- Joint tasks and aims
- Working in partnership
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Competent experts in civil engineering
- Specialist areas
- Stability
- Surveying in construction
- Testing technical safety plant and facilities
- Earthworks and foundations (Approval of Registration Committee of the Bavarian Chamber of Engineers - Construction)
- Preventative fire protection (Approval of Registration Committee of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects)
- High technical expertise
- Protection of life, health, property and public safety
- Independent partner of clients
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Chamber work in specialist groups
Expert knowledge of engineering tasks
Constructive civil engineering
- Project/object management
- Surveying, geo-information technology
- Water, wastewater, sewage
- Transport, space planning
- Building physics
- Technical equipment
- Electrical engineering
- Geo-technology
- Site regulations
- Building materials engineering
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Legal advice
- Aims
- Adherence to the HOAI
- Protection of professional titles
- Assurance of planning quality
- Promotion of fair competition
- General advice
- HOAI
- Contract law
- Building regulations law
- Professional law
- Initiation of procedures
- Reminders
- Omissions declaration
- Omissions complaints
- Professional court procedures
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Quality management
- Aims
- Increase quality
- Increase competitiveness
- Increase productivity
- Reduce costs
- Actions
- Continuous process optimisation
- Early fault recognition and avoidance
- Training and motivation of staff
- Risk management
- Control of information flow
- Efficient organisational structure
- Documentation and archiving guidelines
- Advice offered by the Chamber
- Manuals - handbooks
- Seminars/workshops
- Individual advice
- Support during certification
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German Engineering Journal (DIB)
- Organ of the German Chamber of Engineers, public body
- Nationwide channel of communication for engineering issues
- Platform for current professional topics
- Bavarian supplement
- Communication with members
- Presentation of Chamber events
- Information on the construction industry in Bavaria
- Programme of events of the Bavarian Engineering Academy
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Bavarian civil engineers supply
- Provision for old age and all vicissitudes of life
- Professional, public body pension scheme
- Services
- Old age pension
- Increased payments for early invalidity
- Professional disability pension
- Survivors' provision
- Security
- Security in old age
- Support for invalidity
- Insurance of the family
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Engineering academy - Bavaria
- Knowledge lead through further education
- Professional continued and further education
- Current topics from the practice
- Wide-ranging events
- Competent experts
- Universities/technical colleges
- Ministries/specialist authorities
- Planning and building/building industry
- Programme of events published in the German Engineering Journal - Bavarian supplement and on the Internet: http://www.bayika.de/de/akademie/
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Engineering competition
- Guiding principles
- Creative thinking and creative forms
- Innovative engineering ideas
- Cost-saving, functional building
- Types of competition
- Competition of ideas
- Competition of realisation
- Open competition
- Two-phase competition
- Limited competition
- Limited open competition
- Competition on invitation
- Co-operative procedures
- Tasks of the Chamber
- Uniform application of GRW (Principles and Guidelines for Competitions in the Areas of Regional Planning, Town Building and Civil Engineering) in Germany
- Increase in the number of engineering competitions
- Ensuring equal entitlement to participation of engineers and architects
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Professional interest representation
- Legal initiatives
- Model construction regulations
- Expert regulations
HOAI (Fee Ordinance for Architects and Engineers)
- VOF (Services Regulations for Freelance Services)
- Competition guidelines
- Service guidelines
- Administrative reforms
- Deregulation
- Privatisation
- Initiatives in the areas of transport/building, e.g.
- Investment
- Transport infrastructure
- Harmonisation
- Building regulations law
- Initiatives in the area of industry/finance, e.g.
- Supplementary costs
- Company tax reform
- Co-operation on committees
- AHO (Committee of Engineering Organisations and Engineering Chambers for Fee Regulation, registered association)
- Federal Chamber of Engineers
- Supply of information
- Member's magazine (DIB)
- Internet
- Fax
- Brochures
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Environment
- Designing the environment
- Maintaining the Creation
- Sparing the resources
- Securing the future
- Protection of the natural foundations of life
- Sustainable use of
- Water
- Air
- Soil
- Raw materials
- Energy
- Environmentally sound planning and building
- Engineers in the service of the environment
- Supply technology
- Transport
- Water industry
- Monument preservation
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Engineering study
- Planning and building
- Chamber demands
- Practice- and future-orientated teaching contents
- Reduced study duration
- Exchange of experience
- knowledge - practice
- Activities and events offered by the Chamber
- Dialogue with universities and colleges
- Participation in the "Construction Industry" reform project for technical colleges in Bavaria
- Student interest service
- Legal right to receive a pension from the pension scheme
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International activities
- Initiatives
- Harmonisation of legislation
- Unification of standards
- Fair competition
- Equality of market access
- Maintaining the independence of consulting engineers
- Export of intelligent services
- Partnerships with Chambers abroad
- Bozen/South Tyrol
- Upper Austria/Salzberg
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Tyrol/Vorarlberg
- Czech Republic
- Ukraine
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Membership figures
| Members |
1991 |
1993 |
1995 |
1997 |
1999 |
| Total |
1300 |
2235 |
4011 |
4365 |
4767 |
| Compulsory members |
900 |
1360 |
1734 |
1888 |
2008 |
| Voluntary members |
400 |
875 |
2277 |
2475 |
2759 |
| Listed |
|
|
|
|
|
| Those entitled to produce construction drawings |
70 |
1550 |
2517 |
3063 |
3644 |
| Those entitled to give evidence: Stability |
|
|
1954 |
2236 |
2461 |
| Those entitled to give evidence: Preventative fire protection |
|
|
|
|
287 |
| Competent experts |
|
|
|
|
|
| Stability |
|
|
|
102 |
179 |
| Surveying |
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|
|
18 |
91 |
| Earthworks and foundations |
|
|
|
22 |
30 |
| Technical safety Plant and facilities |
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|
10 |
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Contact
Bayerische Ingenieurekammer-Bau
Nymphenburger Strasse 5
80335 Muenchen
Germany
Phone ++49 89 419434-0
Fax ++49 89 419434-20
info@bayika.de
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Bavarian Engineers
Bavarian Engineers offer specialist services associated with many disciplines such as building engineering, building planning, structural analysis, testing structural analysis, project management, facility management, technical equipment and energy, acoustics and thermal building physics, geotechnology and soil mechanics, electrical engineering plant and mechanical engineering conveyance, storage technology, surveying, regional planning traffic, route planning, environmental and waste technology, domestic water supplies, hydraulic engineering and agriculture process engineering for biology and chemistry, automotive engineering, information technology/engineering IT and technical data processing
Bayerische
Ingenieurekammer-Bau
Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts
Nymphenburger Straße 5
80335 München
Telefon 089 419434-0
info@bayika.de
