about us

Dr. Florian Kölsch

since 1999 manager and partner of Dr. Kölsch Geo- und Umwelttechnik GmbH
since 2001 appointed with dept. waste and resource management, TU Braunschweig

1983-1990,Studies of civil engineering at Technical University Braunschweig 
1990-1996 research assistant of Prof. Collins at Leichtweiss-Institute for hydraulic engineering (TU Braunschweig)
1996 PhD, Thesis about landfill stability
1998/99 visiting scolar at Massachusetts Institut of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
2002 visiting scolar at Tokyo University
 

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International Partner

LWI, Leichtweiss-Institute, Dept. Waste Management, TU Braunschweig
headed by Prof. Fricke. Our major research partner

UNI ROSTOCK, Institut for Waste Management, University Rostock
Abdallah Nassour is our project partner in North-Africa and Middle East

University of Tokyo, Dept. Geotechnical Engineering.
Prof. Ikuo Towhata is our partner in the German-Japanese Workgroup for landfill geotechnique

COPPE, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Dept. Geotechnical Engineering
Prof. Claudio Mahler supports our reserach in South-America

ITB - Institut Teknologi Bandung. Dept. Environmental Engineering.
Prof. Enri Damanhuri was partner in our EU research project on Leuwigajah

ICP - Ingenieurbüro Czurda + Partner, our partner in international engineering projects. Well experienced in Africa and Asia

Infrastruktur & Umwelt - (Darmstadt) - our major partner in international development projects

ERM - International Consulting based in Frankfurt, another important partner in international projects.

References (selected english only)

Kölsch, Ginter, Fricke (2011): German GHG Mitigation Lighthouse Project MBT Plant Gaobeidian (PR China). In: Kühle-Weidemeier (Hrsg.): Waste-to-Resources 2011, Göttingen: Cuvillier. Download

Fricke, Kölsch (2009): New CDM tools for waste management projects. Proceedings ORBIT 2009 China „Biomass and organic waste as sustainable resources“, Bejing (China) Download

Bauer, Kölsch (2009): Static stability of landfills. CISA (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 12th International Landfill Symposium, Cagliari (Italy).Download

Kölsch (2009): Shear strength of waste. Proceedings HPM 3, Braunschweig 2009 Download

Bauer, Kölsch, Borgatto (2008): Stability analysis according to different shear strength concepts exemplified by two case studies. In: Ueda, Furuichi (eds): Proceedings of the 5^th APLAS, Sapporo (Japan) Download

Kölsch (2008): Deformation and settlement measurements on landfills. 1^st Middle European conference on landfill technology. Budapest Download

Kölsch, Fricke (2006): Community based landfill monitoring. In: Gidarakos, Nikolaidis, Christodoulatos et al. (eds.): Protection and restoration of the environment VIII (proceedings). Technical University Chania (GR). Download

Kölsch, Fricke, Mahler, Damanhuri (2005): Stability of landfills – The Bandung disaster. CISA (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 10th International Landfill Symposium,  Cagliari (Italy). Download

Kölsch, Ziehmann (2004): Landfill stability – risks and challenges. Waste Management World, issue Mai/June, ISWA, Copenhagen. Download

Towhata, Kawano, Yonai, Kölsch (2004): Laboratory tests on dynamic properties of municipal waste. 11^th International Conference Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Berkeley. Download

Kölsch (2003): Monitoring of landfills. 18th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management. Philadelphia (USA) Download
 

Kölsch (2001): Stability problems of landfills – The Payatas landslide. 17th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management. Philadelphia (USA) Download
 

Kölsch (1999): Biological pretreatment of MSW as a measure to save landfill volume and deter birds. 15th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management. Philadelphia (USA). Download

Kölsch, F. (1995): Material values for some mechanical properties of domestic waste. CISA (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 5th International Landfill Symposium, Vol.2, Cagliari (Italy). Download

PhD-thesis

Kölsch, F. (1996): Der Einfluß der Faserbestandteile auf die Scherfestigkeit von Siedlungsabfall. Mitteilungen des Leichtweiß-Institutes für Wasserbau der TU Braunschweig, Heft 133/96, ISSN 0343-1223 (PhD-thesis)

complete list of literature here (update: January 2012)

Contact

Dr. Kölsch Geo- und Umwelttechnik GmbH
Gliesmaroder Strasse 100
38106 Braunschweig, Germany

phone: 0531-209 4133
fax: 0531-288 5851

e-mail: office@dr-koelsch.de

skype: florian.koelsch