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Dr. Karsten Pfeffer Founder & Partner – Managing Director.

Dr. Karsten Pfeffer

Founder & Partner — Managing Director

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  • Studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt
  • Doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Darmstadt with the topic: Bending load and punching behavior of biaxial hollow body blankets”
  • Worked as a structural engineer in various companies, including 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 launch of various Cobiax products, nationally and internationally

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today
  • Managing Director and Partner at Unidome

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Publications on hollow body ceilings

  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.: Wearing behavior of biaxial hollow body blankets. Beton- und Stahlbetonbau 96 (2001), issue 9
  4. Pfeffer, K.: Investigation of the bending and punching behavior of biaxial hollow body ceilings, progress reports VDI, series 4, civil engineering, No. 178. Düsseldorf: VDI Verlag (2002)
  5. Abramski, M.; Albert, A.; Pfeffer, K.; Schnell, J.: Experimental and numerical investigations of the load-bearing behavior of reinforced concrete ceilings with spherical hollow bodies. Beton- und Stahlbetonbau 105 (2010), issue 6
  6. Albrecht, C.; Albert, A.; Pfeffer, K.; Schnell, J.: Design and construction of biaxially stretched reinforced concrete ceilings with flattened rotationally symmetrical hollow bodies. Beton- und Stahlbetonbau 107 (2012), issue 9
  7. Pfeffer, K. Design of a biaxial reinforced concrete ceiling with integrated hollow bodies in accordance with general building authority approval. Structural Engineering KI 05/2017
  8. Albert, A.; Pfeffer, K.; Schnell, J.: Hollow body blankets. Concrete calendar 2017: prestressed concrete, special concretes, Ernst & Sohn (2017)
  9. Albert, A.; Busch, D.; Pfeffer, K.: Hollow body blankets. reinforced concrete focus, BUILDING (2018-10)

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