Fichtner Water & Transportation GmbH is an internationally renowned consulting engineering firm specialising in infrastructure projects. The company, which can point to 85 years of professional experience, is based on the merger of the water and sanitation / water management sector of Messrs. Fichtner GmbH & Co KG (Stuttgart) with its affiliated companies Beller Consult GmbH (Freiburg), WTL Wassertechnik Leipzig GmbH and abc - associated business consultants GmbH (Essen).

 

By both concentrating and expanding the available resources, we have created a highly efficient centre of competence and specialised knowledge covering the sectors of water, transportation and environmental engineering. This enables us to perform both national and international project and consultancy tasks for our clients in a most concentrated and successful manner, particularly in the fields of:

• Wastewater treatment plant of San Juan Opico, El Salvador
• water supply and sanitation
• hydraulic engineering
• traffic planning, transportation infrastructure
• environmental engineering
• mining and mineral economics

 

Fichtner W&T's clients - major public institutions, donor agencies and private enterprises in Germany and from all over the world - are served by a multidisciplinary team of about 140 specialised key staff working both at the German offices in Stuttgart, Freiburg, Leipzig, Essen and Berlin as well as in numerous branch offices abroad. Fichtner W&T thus ranks among the most important German consulting engineering firms operating on an international level.

 

Fichtner W&T forms part of the Fichtner Group, Stuttgart, which employs more than 2,000 staff worldwide. Additional professional expertise and resources are thus available to us which enable us to handle also very complex and highly specialised planning and consultancy work which often requires a cross-sectoral approach.

 

Services Offered

Our company provides comprehensive planning, design and technical assistance services required for the implementation and operation of works and installations in the afore-mentioned fields of the civil engineering sector. In addition, our firm takes charge of all necessary supporting measures to ensure the sustainability of each individual project. 

 

Preparatory studies

• project identification
• master plans for development and feasibility studies
• weak point analyses
• socio-economic studies
• environmental studies
• tariff studies

 

Project planning

• inventories and baseline investigations
• topographic and hydrographic surveys, GIS
• development studies
• preliminary, tender and final design studies
• quantities and cost estimates, tendering

 

Project implementation

• tender evaluation
• site supervision and coordination of construction works
• project management
• schedule, cost and quality control
• final handing-over and start-up operation
• operations planning and operational optimisation
• safety and health co-ordination

 

Supporting measures for project sustainability

• community development
• training and upgrading
• community relations
• awareness building
• health education
• technical assistance

 

Management consulting

• institutional strengthening
• creation and organisation of public/private entities
• asset valuation, management valuation
• privatisation consultancy

 

Optimisation of supply networks and maintenance strategies with Opnet

• financial and technical evaluation of water supply, gas and power supply networks (module for the evaluation of district heating networks to follow soon)
• inventories and risk analyses
• determination of rehabilitation requirements
• diameter optimisation and optimal network design
• calculation of network efficiency and demonstration of improvements of efficiency dependent on the available budget for rehabilitation
• integrated asset management