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Dr. Karsten Pfeffer Founder & Partner – Managing Director.

Dr. Karsten Pfeffer

Founder & Partner – Managing Director

Resume
  • Studied Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt
  • Doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Darmstadt on the topic: Bending and Punching Shear Behavior of Biaxial Hollow Slabs
  • Work as a structural engineer in various companies, including also for BubbleDeck & Cobiax
  • Co-founder of the Cobiax brand
  • Managing Director at Cobiax / Invention and development of several Cobiax product lines (Pro-Line, Eco-Line, Slim-Line, and CLS) / Responsible for obtaining national building authority approvals / Responsible for the successful market introduction of various Cobiax products, both national and international

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Today
  • Managing Director and Partner at Unidome

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Publications on the subject of hollow slabs

  1. Pfeffer, K.: Structural behavior of biaxial hollow slabs. International PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering. Editor Konrad Bergmeister Vienna. Institute of Structural Engineering University of Agricultural Sciences, Supported by fib. Vienna (2000)
  2. Pfeffer, K., Schnellenbach-Held, M.: Punching Shear Capacity of Biaxial Hollow Slabs. International Workshop on Punching Shear Capacity of RC Slabs. Royal Institute of Technology Department of Structural Engineering, Stockholm (2000)
  3. Pfeffer, K; Schnellenbach-Held, M.: Structural behavior of biaxial hollow slabs. Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction 96 (2001), Issue 9
  4. Pfeffer, K.: Investigation into the bending and punching shear behavior of biaxial hollow core slabs, Fortschritt-Berichte VDI, Series 4, Civil Engineering, No. 178. Düsseldorf: VDI Verlag (2002)
  5. Abramski, M.; Albert, A.; Pfeffer, K.; Schnell, J.: Experimental and numerical investigations into the structural behavior of reinforced concrete slabs with spherical voids. Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction 105 (2010), Issue 6
  6. Albrecht, C.; Albert, A.; Pfeffer, K.; Schnell, J.: Design and construction of bidirectionally spanned reinforced concrete slabs with flattened rotationally symmetrical hollow bodies. Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction 107 (2012), Issue 9
  7. Pfeffer, K. Design of a bidirectional reinforced concrete slab with integrated hollow bodies according to general building authority approval. Constructive Structural Engineering CI 05/2017
  8. Albert, A.; Pfeffer, K.; Schnell, J.: Hollow core slabs. Concrete Calendar 2017: Prestressed Concrete, Special Concretes, Ernst & Sohn (2017)
  9. Albert, A.; Busch, D.; Pfeffer, K.: Hollow core slabs. Reinforced Concrete Focus, BAUWERK  (2018-10)

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