Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Bauer

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Bauer, Managing Director of BAUER Maschinen GmbH, spoke on the topic "Digitalization of specialist foundation engineering equipment as an enabler for more cost-effective construction".

BAUER Maschinen GmbH is the world market leader for specialist foundation engineering equipment. In addition to rotary drilling rigs for the production of piles up to 120 m deep, the product range includes cable excavators, piling rigs, milling systems, well and small drilling rigs as well as rigs for maritime use down to depths of 4,000 m and deep drilling rigs for oil, gas and geothermal energy. With almost 3,000 employees, around 50 subsidiaries and 15 production sites around the world, the company generates a consolidated output of around 700 million euros. BAUER Maschinen GmbH is part of the BAUER Group, which also includes BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH and BAUER Resources GmbH. Whether in process or machine technology, Bauer has played a key role in shaping specialist foundation engineering since the middle of the 20th century. For example, Bauer produced the foundation piles for the 828 m high Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah - which will be the tallest building in the world - is also being built on Bauer piles.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Bauer, worked as a production engineer in Bloomington, Indiana (USA) after studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Back in Germany, he worked as a research assistant at Chair B for Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich, where he completed his doctorate under Prof. Pfeiffer on "Fault diagnosis in aircraft engines". Since 1996 he has held a management position at BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH and BAUER Maschinen GmbH, from 1997 as Head of Development and Design for Machines and since 2005 as Managing Director. In this role, he was initially responsible for the "Development/Design and Production" department; he is currently responsible for the "Research and Development" department and the "PremiumLine", "Well Drilling" and "Piling Technology" divisions. In addition to various other honorary positions, including at the VDMA, he teaches as an honorary professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, is Chairman of the Board of the Forschungsvereinigung Bau- und Baustoffmaschinen e.V. (FVB) and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen "Otto von Guericke" e.V. (AiF).

Status: Beginning of 2018