Critical infrastructure protection
The National Strategy for Critical Infrastructure Protection (KRITIS strategy) of Germany’s Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BKK) defines critical infrastructures as follows: ‘Critical infrastructures (CI) are organizational and physical structures and facilities of such vital importance to a nation’s society and economy that their failure or degradation would result in sustained supply shortages, significant disruption of public safety and security, or other dramatic consequences.’
The DMT GROUP offers a comprehensive consultancy and services package for critical infrastructures in order to assist global, national and regional key industries with the construction, operation, maintenance and restoration of such infrastructures.
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Our expertise in the area of critical infrastructures is hugely important in menacing situations in particular, as businesses and projects around the world have to be able to manage disruptions and risks safely, such as those caused by COVID-19. Failure safety, security of supply, business continuity and contingency planning are top priorities both nationally and globally.
In this context, DMT has launched an online resource which is designed to assist key industries around the world in maintaining their critical infrastructures by monitoring and managing the key systems and assets. Many of the services within the package can be performed remotely and are also available to global industries and businesses.
Under the catchword ‘Resilience matters’, the service provider DMT offers a comprehensive array of engineering and consultancy services to support the areas of energy, transport, health, water and infrastructure. DMT’s assistance with critical infrastructure facilities encompasses motorways, power plants, mine shafts, health care facilities, waterways, bridges, structures and tunnels – all to ensure that owners and operators have round-the-clock access to expert advice and valid information, and also, if required, 24/7 service that includes a task force. All to help them operate their infrastructures safely under any conditions and thus be able to fulfil their remit of guaranteeing a functioning society and economy.
their remit of guaranteeing a functioning society and economy.
The fundamental requirements for supporting critical infrastructures as an engineering services provider:
Proximity, including globally, thanks to remote expertise, comprehensiveness of the in-house portfolio, expert and equipment redundancy, agility thanks to the ability to adapt to new situations, long-term business relations in the context of system complexities, foresight on the basis of the latest experience, a willingness to change and innovative capacity, as well as comprehensive digitalisation expertise in order to advise on and manage any digitalisation processes concerning critical infrastructures.
DMT assists the operators of power plants who wish to implement the Federal Office for Information Security’s Ordinance on the Identification of Critical Infrastructures (BSI-KritisV) as a precautionary measure and when planning and executing new power plants (or additions) and who are looking to protect themselves from cybercrime.
The starting point is the replacement of control technology systems in the context of planning combined cycle plants and/or power plant conversions. We are here to help them develop concepts and adapt the BSI specifications. In the process, IT security is seen as an aspect of a site-specific security concept, the formulation of which is heavily influenced by the DMT experts.
Contact: Uwe Hofer
Tel: +49 170 383 59 53
Email: hofer(at)energy-engineers.LÖSCHEN.de
Each and every pipeline project entails new and unique challenges
In this specialist field, DMT develops bespoke solutions for the planning, construction, operation and maintenance/repair of lines as a critical infrastructure.
It offers a wide array of services, including feasibility studies, project cost calculation, detailed routing and the initiation of regional planning and planning approval procedures. Other services include the development of regional plans, obtaining permits and, of course, all forms of surveying.
Contact: Stefan Kruse
Tel: +49 2325 63 76 210
Email: stefan.kruse(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Pipeline Enginneering
A secure and uninterrupted raw material supply is essential for reliable supply chains and for maintaining industrial processes.
As an engineering services provider and consultant, DMT has expertise in all areas of mining, from the idea, exploration, financing and cooperation with the regulatory authorities to planning, operation, demolition and rehabilitation. In this way, we facilitate the safe, sustainable and economical exploration, extraction and processing of all raw materials throughout the value chain all the way through to the end product.
Contact: Dieter Wittenberg
Tel: +49 201 172 1455
Email: dieter.wittenberg(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Mining Engineering
In the highly technical segment of plant engineering, DMT provides safety and greater efficiency by means of active consultancy, auditing, evaluation and assessment, the planning and construction of plants, as well as redevelopment and repair during ongoing operations. Regarding process engineering, the focus is on cleaning process gases as well as their energetic utilisation.
Contact: Simon Chhadeh
Tel: +49 201 172 1640
Email: simon.chhadeh(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Plant & Process Engineering
Predictive maintenance is an essential service for plant operators.
DMT has developed a highly accurate online condition monitoring system for this area which can reliably present plant operators with the status of their process facilities at any time via a platform.
The primary advantages for those in charge are far-reaching – it gives them an overview of the condition of their plant at all times, they are warned of damage in good time, stoppages are prevented, the operating times and overhaul intervals are extended, workflows are optimised and employee safety is increased.
Contact: Roman Krähling
Tel: +49 201 172 1197
Email: roman.kraehling(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
The process industry in the areas of steel manufacture, pharma, oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals guarantees society’s basic supply of critical products.
The DMT GROUP assists chemical, oil and gas plant operators with safety issues throughout the life cycle of their technical facilities. This entails special risk analyses and statutory audits being performed, which can then be used for the development of tailored safety concepts.
Contact: Sven Kudernatsch
Tel: +49 30 201 774 57
Email: svkudernatsch(at)encos.LÖSCHEN.de
DMT supports companies and public-sector customers around the world with services that focus on the cycle of water as a sensitive resource. The key factors here are quality, availability and infrastructure.
We produce analyses and studies, offer planning including cost estimation and see to project management and construction supervision.
The tasks range from usage scenarios in arid regions to drinking water and industrial water structures, flood threat management or sediment reduction in the area of shipping and hydroelectric power station and dam construction projects.
Contact: Carsten Pohl
Tel: +49 201 172 1432
Email: carsten.pohl(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Water management
The successful and sustainable development of well systems and the corresponding water infrastructures calls for the collaboration of many different specialist areas.
DMT has the necessary experience, methods and management processes to be able to offer a broad spectrum of planning and consultancy services for the development of safe wells used to supply drinking water and industrial water.
These include the localisation of groundwater reserves, well planning and optimisation, pump control automation, pump cost reduction and the manufacture of rehabilitation wells.
Contact: Carsten Pohl
Tel: +49 201 172 1432
Email: carsten.pohl(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Well systems
Building ground stability and load capacity are essential prerequisites when it comes to planning, constructing and operating trunk roads and motorways. The DMT GROUP ensures that such roads remain stable in the long term.
We offer everything from exploration and analysis to interpretation of the building ground. We also specify the design of the structural engineering measures needed for the foundation of dams, cuttings, tunnels and bridges. DMT offers geotechnical advice on everything from implementation planning and contract awarding to construction execution.
If ongoing operations are disrupted, DMT produces a cause analysis, develops the rehabilitation concept, gives advice on construction execution and guarantees that the work is of good quality.
Contact: Joachim Kowarik
Tel: +49 341 3311 402
Email: joachim.kowarik(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Geotechnics for roads and motorways
DMT employs comprehensive monitoring services to monitor the stability and integrity of various structures and earth situations.
This includes everything from the monitoring concept to installation, operation and management via our online platform Safeguard, as well as recommendations for action in critical situations.
This entails all kinds of data from the fields of geotechnical engineering, geodesy, geophysics, and noise and vibration being used, combined and visualised.
The purpose of all of this is to achieve the best possible reduction of risks for the environment, people and investments, while also fulfilling the operator’s statutory obligations.
Contact: Karsten Zimmermann
Tel: +49 201 172 1968
Email: karsten.zimmermann(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Monitoring
Adverse conditions can develop quickly during tunnel construction due to contamination of the work climate, resulting in hazards which DMT knows how to manage.
For example, we develop ventilation and measurement concepts, install tunnel ventilation and measurement technology, operate and monitor everything using state-of-the-art online platforms, measure dangerous substances and provide tunnel operators with safety officers, if required.
We additionally have such an extensive command of all other safety technology aspects that even the motoring association ADAC draws on our expertise for its tunnel tests.
Contact: Dieter Wittenberg
Tel: +49 201 172 1455
Email: dieter.wittenberg(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Tunnel ventilation
Contact: Bernd Busemann
Tel: +49 3331 317
Email: bernd.busemannn@dmt-group.com
Surface collapses and sinkholes represent a risk which is not to be taken lightly and can cause considerable damage to all kinds of infrastructural facilities, often resulting in the lengthy outage of systems, road and rail networks or power lines. This has a significant impact on people, the environment and the economy.
When these predominantly unforeseeable hazard situations occur, we know how to manage the acute situation as well as how to develop long-term restoration and securing scenarios and implement concrete measures that result in lasting stability against collapse once again.
Contact: Tobias Friedrich
Tel: +49 201 172 1802
Email: tobias.friedrich(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Surface collapses, abandoned mining
To guarantee safety, operations and cost efficiency, we serve mining companies as a one-stop shop for the monitoring, inspection and maintenance of their mine shafts.
DMT monitors, documents and visualises the state of shafts using 3D laser scanning.
Changes and damage are compared with geological models and are entered into databases to guarantee safe operations and to be able to offer prudent recommendations for action in good time
Contact: Daniel Schröder
Tel: +49 201 172 1856
Email: daniel.schroeder(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Shaft surveying
We cover the entire spectrum of mine water management.
With our engineering expertise, we offer comprehensive and sustainable options for the assessment of risks, the treatment and the organisation of the transportation of harmful substances in mines, optimisation of the planning, operation and decommissioning of mines and assessment of the risk of water ingress.
Contact: Carsten Pohl
Tel: +49 201 172 1432
Email: carsten.pohl(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Mine water management
Using an intuitive online monitoring system for complex correlations which features alarm functions, DMT offers database-supported seismicity information for internal or public information portals.
The surveying, geology and geophysics results are standardised in conjunction with thematic maps, geodata services and remote sensing data.
As an example, this allows citizens’ information systems to be provided which meet the information obligations regarding the various stakeholders and also facilitate social licensing.
Contact: Simon Kremers
Tel: +49 201 172 1436
Email: simon.kremers(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Monitoring of induced seismicity
The monitoring and surveying of structural and environmental influences on offshore oil and gas platforms increase the security of supply and can result in considerable cost savings and a longer service life.
To this end, the DMT experts offer planning, installation and operation services for systems for the permanent monitoring of vertical and horizontal movements in order to adapt the production pipelines, boost human safety and facility security, and modify the deposit model.
Contact: Karsten Zimmermann
Tel: +49 201 172 1968
Email: karsten.zimmermann(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Monitoring offshore platforms
If companies are required to or simply wish to prove that their products meet technical fire protection requirements, DMT’s independent product checks afford them market access and secure customer confidence.
Prompted by the pandemic, DMT is now supporting companies with contactless and safe fire protection checks on an original product scale. The service comprises live test monitoring, detailed test photos, assistance with and monitoring of test set-ups, remote access to your measuring system and live transmission of the readings.
Contact: Markus Hill
Tel: +49 231 5333 240
Email: markus.hill(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Fire testing
By intelligently interconnecting different areas of expertise which have evolved over many years, DMT successfully develops tailored and future-proof geotechnical engineering solutions for civil engineering measures relating to essential construction projects.
In relation to health care system properties, its services range from building ground assessments and assistance with tendering processes and contract awarding, through to project management.
Contact: Jens Eich
Tel: +49 201 172 1058
Email: jens.eich@dmt-group.com
Website: Geotechnics for health care systems
There is often a high fire risk in places where large quantities of flammable substances are stored. Our experts assist fire departments and companies in their firefighting operations with explicit experience, special methods and special equipment for specialist firefighting, for example in the case of landfill, waste heap, silo and bunker fires.
Using gas and temperature measuring technology, DMT sees to the swift and lasting extinguishing of fires. We additionally plan inertisation plants, which can also be installed as a preventive measure as part of a comprehensive protection concept.
Contact: Jörg Walter Kayser
Tel: +49 231 5333 234
Email: joerg.kayser@dmt-group.com
Website: Specialist firefighting
DMT is committed to combating COVID-19 and, in collaboration with its air hygiene inspection body, is offering essential PPE mask testing procedures under the leadership of TÜV NORD.
This involves our experts testing protective masks sourced from all over the world in accordance with a simplified certification process which has been approved by Germany’s Central Body of the Federal States for Safety Technology (ZLS). This means the availability of tested protective masks can be drastically accelerated in Germany at acutely critical times.
Contact: Dirk Renschen
Tel: +49 201 172 1372
Email: dirk.renschen(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
Website: Corona protective mask testing
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- info(at)dmt-group.LÖSCHEN.com
- +49 201 172 1078
Links
Country-specific and technical instructions re COVID-19 from the World Health Organization (WHO)
Here, you will find a collection of the WHO’s key technical instructions, contact details and recommendations for measures to tackle COVID-19, arranged by topic.
The OECD on combating the coronavirus (COVID-19)
Learn about what the OECD believes are the impacts and consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for our lives and society, and about the solutions we can find to strengthen our health care systems, safeguard our businesses, maintain jobs and education, and stabilise the financial markets and economies.
An overview of critical infrastructures according to the competent German federal offices
Here, you will find basic information and the projects of Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI), the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) in the area of critical infrastructure protection.
A direct link to recommendations for action for companies and in particular for operators of critical infrastructures.
Up-to-date information about the COVID-19 Occupational Safety and Health Standard of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)* (* Federal Republic of Germany)
Information from the German federal government regarding dealing with the coronavirus in the form of various key points on the topic of occupational safety and health measures. The latest version as amended can be found here (in German).
https://www.bmas.de/DE/Schwerpunkte/Informationen-Corona/informationen-corona.html