about us

Dr. Florian Kölsch
Studies of civil engineering at Technical University Braunschweig 1983-1990,
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

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

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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 is partner in our EU research project on Leuwigajah

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

References (selected english only)

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. 18^th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management. Philadelphia (USA)

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

Kölsch, Reynolds (2000): Biological pretreatment of MSW as a measure to save landfill volume and deter birds. The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management.

Kölsch, Reynolds (1999): Birds shun pretreated waste. WasteAge30, No. 10, Atlanta (USA): Intertec Publishing

Kölsch (1999): Biological pretreatment of MSW as a measure to save landfill volume and deter birds. 15^th 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)
 

Contact

Dr. Koelsch Geo- und Umwelttechnik GmbH
Geysostraße 21
38106 Braunschweig, Germany

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

e-mail: office@dr-koelsch.de

skype: florian.koelsch