KBP 25 years

A good journey Kuehn Bauer Partner

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Kuehn Bauer Partner

A good journey 25 Years Kuehn Bauer Partner

Together with friends of our house, clients, partners and employees, we celebrated our 25th anniversary on 7 July 2006. I think it was a wonderful celebration which lived up to the expectation of its motto: “…sensual dining, joyfull strolling, chat with old and new friends, celebrate and enjoy interesting surroundings...”

To mark the occasion, we would like to present you with this anniversary brochure. Inside you will find comments and explanations of the “good journey”, i.e., our successful evolution, illustrated with images of the day to day life of our firm, in which the quest for innovation, style and perfection is the main objective. In the second part we would like to share with you some impressions of the celebration.

We would like to give you some insight into our know-how, our experience, our attitude and our philosophy. Thereby we would like to respond to frequently asked questions about our path. We even would like to give you an insight into our internal and private contexts, motives and the potential of our evolution. We illustrate this with photographs, announcements and greetings from our clients, friends and business partners.

Finally, we will address a particularly important issue of our journey, namely our onward journey, i.e., my succession and our step into a new era of Kuehn Bauer Partner. The development of our firm over the past decades together with the transfer of my views and behaviour pattern, form the basis for this – for only the one who changes can remain truthful to oneself. This will become apparent in the following contributions and will run through the texts like a “golden thread”.

Our experience, together with our own requirements, will be the future guarantee that we shall successfully fulfil the continuously rising expectations our clients have in us with regard to innovation, quality, dependability and service.

Tradition continues We look forward to continue our journey with you and hope you will enjoy the reading.

Michael Kuehn

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Form and function Creative and documentary photography always held a unique place in the firm culture of Kuehn Bauer Partner, for the medium of photography is a gateway to the art of architecture as well as the visual arts. Moreover, it is a vital means of visual communication and expression, especially for the recording of design models, simulations and collages in the day to day business of our firm.

Initially there is just a need for promotional photographs for the companies involved in the HypoHaus project. However, the dissatisfactory quality of the work of the architectural and industrial photographer who was hired at the time results in Michael Kuehn taking the camera into his own hands.

This necessity became a virtue. As autodidact, Michael Kuehn now intensively takes up all the architectural and industrial photography, next to his tasks as engineer. This results in a special signature style with a keen artistic perception.

In 1985, Professor Rudolph Ortner, who had studied under Kandinsky and Mies van der Rohe, discovers Michael Kuehn for the Munich art scene. His photographic works can be assigned to a combination of Constructivism, Structural and Dimensional Analysis.

Michael Kuehn’s approach to architectural photography reveals an understanding of design, composition, and structure expressed in a contemporary language of form and function. He endeavours to record and communicate the essential and characteristic features of a building.

In 1986 he joins the Professional Association of Fine Arts and participates in numerous art exhibitions. Architects, in particular, value him as architectural photographer. Through his own visual perceptions and creative image design he often succeeds in mirroring the design objectives.

His sure instinct for form and proportion also characterizes his work as an engineer. This is conveyed in his research projects, planning documents and ultimately in the realisation of his projects. As premise applies: The synthesis of form and function is the basis of aesthetics. Specialist knowledge, elegance of style and harmony of balanced parts combine to make this synthesis possible.

Photographs from this period are shown in the following.

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The Beginning of the Journey 1973 – the year of the great oil crisis

The story starts in the early 1970s. At that time Power Plants Heidelberg AG is a pioneer in new technical solutions for more rational use of energy. Michael Kuehn is one of the young pathfinders who, nationwide and internationally, communicates and plans forward-looking innovative technical concepts for architects, engineers, and industrial and energy supply companies.

Power Plants Heidelberg AG entrusts its associate with the technical and organisational management of the HypoHaus consortium. A group of young engineers from different German companies designs and conceptualises in this joint venture an unusual technical concept for the extravagant architectural design of Dr. Walter and Bea Betz for the new construction of the HypoHaus in the Munich Arabella Park.

A technical competition precedes this appointment. Frank Dehli from Heidelberg asks Michael Kuehn to develop a specific technological proposal for the new construction of the HypoHaus. His proposal is then presented to an auction group and internally selected to contribute to the competition. The main focus is on an overall concept for technical supply and disposal, employing system solutions for the rational use of energy.

The overall concept means, that the energy concept does not only pertain to thermal-, cooling, and compartment air engineering to cover the entire range of performance. Moreover, he completely changes the entire technical concept that had been planned including the architectural planning in the subterranean area, which affected about 75% of the entire project. The vast subterranean surfaces are completely restructured by the new technological concept thereby threefold increasing the useable surface. This feat is accomplished by relocating an entire floor ceiling. Two hitherto existing floors are thereby transformed into three levels without additional construction costs. These develop into compact, meaningfully structured and easily accessible technical ranges.

Together with this special proposal, the Hypobank is offered a several billion savings

Builder:

Planning:

HypoVereinsbank AG, MĂźnchen

1974 - 1976

Architect:

Construction:

1975 - 1979 Dr. Walther & Bea Betz, Renovations: MĂźnchen 1998 - 1999

Area:

150,000 m2

Height: 114 m

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The roots

The roots reach back to long before the time the company was formed.

1968 – already before he joins Power Plants Heidelberg AG, Michael Kuehn had established a good reputation as specialist engineer in the industry. The main focus of his activities lies in the planning of hospitals.

In addition, he converts and assembles technical products for an American firm.

These are products for thermal and room air technology. For steam systems these are ventilators and condensate traps and for air conditioning equipment these are dryers and steam moisteners which had to be adjusted to the norms of the German market and the corresponding guidelines. The firm commissions him to search for system solutions for technical supply and disposal concepts in hospital planning. His developments form a colourful mosaic of technical novelties and standard systems. At the beginning these are just concepts and plans. Little by little prototypes emerge, which later became technical standards in accordance with DIN. Central Air Supply, Regenerative Usage of Energy, Energy Supply.

1970 – Michael Kuehn becomes acquainted with Günter Stauber of Stauber Consulting Engineers, which then was a subsidiary of Kraftanlagen Heidelberg AG. Günter Stauber wants Michael Kuehn to reinforce his engineering team. His new assignments are comparable with the ones he had had, but the technical demands are greater due to their complexity and project size. This gives Michael Kuehn the opportunity to develop ad hoc a supply concept for the 2000-bed-project “Klinikum Heidelberg”. The new colleagues, Frank Dehli, Günter Stauber and Dr. Johannes Beckert represent a stroke of luck for him. All topics are passionately and holistically discussed at a high level, rejected, reintroduced and, finally, successfully implemented. This attitude makes it possible that own contributions to the central power regulated air supply becomes the system base for the efficient energy utilisation developed by Power Plants Heidelberg AG. The Domed City in the Arctic 1972 – Michael Kuehn‘s colleague Günter Trapp calls his attention to the futuristic project “The Domed City in the Arctic”. Through a telephone conversation with Prof. Frei Otto of the Institute for Leightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart, Michael Kuehn gets involved as engineer for the required air conditioning technology.

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The roots

The meeting with Frei Otto is invigorating. Michael Kuehn becomes the youngest member of an international research team. His task is to conceive prerequisites for life and work in the arctic in an artificial climate under a several kilometres spanning dome and to find economic methods of resolution for this. The project “The domed City” leads to many international contacts.

It is a very exciting and instructive time.

Climate control study for all-electric supply 1973 – The Hamburg Electric Power AG (HEW) looks for an alternative energy supply concept based solely on electric current for the new administrative district, City Nord in Hamburg. For this purpose, technical supply concepts for typical buildings are to be developed, connection power determined and utilisation profiles simulated. Together with Horst Vicktor of Power Plants Heidelberg AG, Dr. Ing. Lothar Rouvel of the Institute for Energy Industry and Power Plant Technology of the Technical University Munich and Dr. K. S. Schumacher, Michael Kuehn realises this forward-looking project as project manager.

Tehran Towers 1973 – The Economy booms in Iran.

The “Taran|Iran|German|Consult” group plans and realises huge administrative and residential high rise buildings, department stores, hotels and palaces for Reza Shah Pahlavi. After a positive development, the board of directors of Power Plants Heidelberg AG decide with a view of the “Nuclear Power Plant Bushier” project, that Michael Kuehn should establish a subsidiary of Power Plants Heidelberg AG in Tehran. The family is ready, the suitcases are packed.

1975 - The political situation in Iran changes and nervosity is noticable. Ayatollah Chomeini returns from his exile in Paris in 1979.

Back in Munich The HypoHaus, which is then under construction, has considerable organisational, technical and economical problems. As “intellectual initiator” of this project, which is very important for the companies involved, he is asked to restore the lost client satisfaction, to consolidate the project, and to follow it through to a successful conclusion. He requests the collaboration of his friend and colleague Norbert Schmeidl. Together with him, he builds firstly a task force, which then develops into the “Hypo Team”.

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The first milestones Embarking into independence The way of Michael Kuehn into independence is based on trust in his innovative powers and technical abilities acquired over many years. The successful completion of the HypoHaus serves as widely apparent proof. But the actual “key” is the family development, which, paired with the charisma of his wife, Heidemarie, as housewife, mother, gifted cook and charming hostess, leads to people who likewise account for their tasks as established entrepreneurs. Even his employer, Power Plants Heidelberg AG, as well as the partners of the joint venture HypoHaus, support him in his plans. In 1980/81, Michael Kuehn dares to make the move into independence with his own firm.

With the contract for completion, setting-up operation, putting into service and settlement of accounts of the major project, HypoHaus, the basic utilisation of the new firm is secured.

1980 – Anton Rappmannsberger recommends Michael Kuehn to the town of Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber as specialist planner for the new development of a 380-beds-hospital. At about the same time, Edwin Effinger suggests him to Peter C. von Seidlein, architect and partner of the Süddeutscher Verlag (SV). The latter intends to build a large printing plant in Munich. Michael Kuehn and his team look after both projects in parallel, from conception to realisation.

1981 – After an exploratory phase and initial activities of the new firm, the necessary organisational guidelines were worked out. Holger Duffner and Gerhard Höh of Drees+Sommer, the general planner and project managers of the new printing plant SV, become his mentors. They advise him in office organisation, project and personnel structures and even regarding the naming of the engineering firm.

Quality, Quantity and Continuity of the future teams have precedence. A suitable team of engineers is ready. They include Werner Bauer from the Hypo Team. He is to be responsible for technical calculations, MSR planning and operational functions. Michael Kuehn offers him a partnership.

Juli 1981 – Werner Bauer becomes partner of GbR (= Gesellschaft des bürgerlichen Rechts = Civil-Law Association) Kuehn+Bauer.

The first milestones HypoHaus Architects: Dr. Walther & Bea Betz Rothenburg Hospital Architects: Zemsky, Rehle, Hermann, Rappmannsberger New Printing Plant for Süddeutscher Verlag Architects: Peter C. von Seidlein, Winkler & Effinger Olympia Ice Rink Architect: Kurt Ackermann Office and Commercial Building, Munich Architects: Winkler & Effinger Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching Architects: Winkler & Effinger

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25 years and more with the eyes of a business woman Heidemarie Kuehn

In our time it was quite normal after a marriage for children to come into the world and it was just as normal for their upbringing to be taken care of by their mother. We were still very young when we married. After two years the first of three children – a daughter – was born. My husband took care of the support of the small and soon increasing family.

This is why he was rarely at home, and when he did, it was always very late.

As far as I can remember, this rhythm has never changed. His commitment both as employee and as entrepreneur was always equally great. There were hardly any longer breaks or holidays throughout all those years.

The children were exclusively my responsibility. I took care of Latin and English, Mathematics and History. Instead of a living room with a television set, there was only a large kitchen with a beautiful dining table – the meeting point for the family and intense conversations. On weekends the family always was together. In the years from 1973 to 1983 we had the good fortune to be able to live in a farmhouse in the Kitzbühl Austrian Alps. Then the weekends really belonged entirely to the family.

My husband earned well. We were able to afford a corresponding standard of living and to build reserves. Nevertheless, he was always very concerned that there could be periods with little or no income. For this reason we created a second means of support. I was able to work from home as the general agent of an American firm which produces central vacuum cleaning systems and built-in devices around the house and the household.

The children grew up and when the youngest turned 18, I wanted to work together with my husband. So I became an employee in our firm. After acquiring an overview, I looked after personnel and financial administration as well as project controlling. During the planning phase for the Reichstag project (Reichstag: the old parliament building was restored with a new dome after reunification) I provisionally ran our firm in Munich, because, as director of the Reichstag project, my husband had to be present in person in Berlin.

Then, nine years ago, a big dog, a Sivas Kangal, entered our now childless marriage. It is definitely no “business dog”. Thus, I have worked from home since then – and still do so at times today. In return, I work as gardener for our property and am responsible for everything which makes life worth living. Since a few months I have spent a lot of time in the Bavarian State Library. I do research and help my daughter Sara with her doctoral thesis.

The essence of it all Women move wavelike through life. They unconditionally accept their tasks, no matter how diverse, and complete them all out.

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The journey continues Technical overall planning In 1985, within four years of being independent, the company Kuehn+Bauer Consulting Engineers makes a name for itself among the leading engineering firms in Germany. Siemens becomes their foremost client. The firm specialises. Clean rooms technology, needed for the development and manufacture chips, is built up and developed into a special area of work.

1986 – The business activities extend to include production processes, technical overall planning, process engineering and industrial construction.

Entry into data processing and computer aided design become a must. The amount of needed equipment escalates. Discouraging news dampen our good spirits: the board of directors of Siemens stopps a large part of the construction activities. Over night one of Kuehn+Bauer’s most important clients dropps out.

In many cases there are moments ... ... that connect people and continue something. Dr. Ing. Gunter Henn visits Michael Kuehn in his office in the Pfälzer-Wald-Straße 68. First, it is again photography, which connects them and presses ahead with something. It is not before long that an extraordinarily fruitful relationship develops at the planning level. It is followed by a period of longstanding cooperation.

HENN Architekten and Kuehn+Bauer plan and realise together large, complex construction tasks for research, industry and administration. Their cooperation sets amazing dynamics in motion for Kuehn+Bauer, both for the performance and growth of the firm. Both firms are joined through ambition, perfectionism and the will to belong to the ranks of the very best firms. Client satisfaction is to be maintained. Thereunto more people were employed. The office space in Munich-Giesing has long been too small.

Bad Brunnthal No. 3 The change of location leads Kuehn+Bauer into Munich‘s Bogenhausen quarter. The new address is: Bad Brunnthal No. 3, a small alley below St. Georg‘s Church on the right bank of the Isar. This listed estate offers completely new setting and creates an outstanding exceptional working atmosphere.

Michael Kuehn‘s passion for architecture and technology and the good address of this office leads to further contacts, some of them international. Further friendships to ambitious clients and renowned architects develop from these.

The basis for this is due to Michael Kuehn’s respect and sensitivity for the thoughts behind the planning and methods of solutions. He does not just wish to perform the necessary technical connections “from A to B”, but is always interested in good solutions which brought the architectural proposal into harmony with the necessary building function.

These ever high objectives are the driving force for further successes.

The achieved professionalism, in connection with high quality of planning, brings about the consistent growth of the firm. These premises should create continuity and become etiquette.

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Internationality Tokyo, New York, Paris – the three children of Heidemarie and Michael Kuehn, namely Sara, Michael and Cathrin, study abroad.

The investment in the children’s education also gives positive impulses for the engineering firm in the form of business connections and perspectives. In Tokyo, Michael Kuehn meets Valentine Lehr of Lehr Associates in New York. They build a joint venture “Kuehn Lehr Associates Munich, Tokyo, New York”.

A Chinese assistant based in Hong Kong acquires in Bangkok, Taipei and in Germany. Out of this connection grow a number of very interesting, continuative project tasks for both firms.

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A selection of projects from this time: BMW Headquarters in Tokyo; Dusit and Hilton Hotels in Bangkok and Munich; HypoBank in Luxemburg and London; Kempinski Airport Hotel Munich 2, M,O,C in Munich; Restoration of an American hotel in Nagoya.

Legal Form 1988 – Kuehn+Bauer GbR (Civil-Law Association) is transformed into a limited liability company (GmbH). The new firm is now called: Kuehn Bauer Partner Consulting Engineers GmbH (KBP). The partners are Michael Kuehn, Werner Bauer and Heidemarie Kuehn.

Milestones 1990 – The HypoBank expands its headquarters in Munich (HypoHaus Ost). This project is likewise realised with the architects Dr. Walter and Bea Betz. It is an architectural and technical pendant to the existent HypoHaus. This means that the architectural concept is a counterpart to the HypoHaus through the latest technology concepts and technologies. The work station quality and room climate arise through the interplay of architecture, extensions that create space, building services technology and the façade. The premises for the building performance are complex ecological and bioclimatic approaches – controlled outdoor space, windows and roofs that can be opened, natural ventilation, redirection of daylight, safety sound protection through a secondary façade, ventilation at source, cooled ceilings, etc.

1993 – Sir Norman Foster wins the competition for reconstruction of the Reichstag building as seat of the new German Parliament. Foster is general planner and conducts a selection procedure for engineers, consultants and other specialists. Selected engineers are those that are in a position to realise the visionary objectives. Michael Kuehn participates in the competition. His concept is based on the original conception of the architect Paul Wallot and the English engineer David Grove 100 years ago. This allows to take into account all of the technical ideas of the competition, to reach the high ecological targets for CO2 reduction with low energy consumption while supporting the visionary architectural objectives. The firm Foster+Partners thereupon commissions Michael Kuehn with the energy and bioclimatic planning.

In 1994 – The key functions in the planning team are redefined upon conclusion of the first planning phase. After completion of a further selection procedure by the German Federal Building Association, Michael Kuehn receives, on behalf of KBP, the contract for general technical planning for reconstruction of the Reichstag building for the new German Bundestag.

Property planning stays with Foster+Partners. This contract, unique because of its political dimension, exerts a decisive influence on the further development of KBP. 1995 – While the first planning phase for the Reichstag is still in progress in the Bad Brunnthal office in Munich, Michael Kuehn moves to Berlin. There he forms the work group „Planning Association Technology“ and personally directs the extensive planning team. Heidemarie Kuehn directs the firm in Munich.

1996 – The Bad Brunnthal office had become too small. It is being spread out over four sites.

Communication is correspondingly difficult. Efforts are started to relocate the firm under a single roof.

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25 years KBP- „Thoughts of a journey“ Werner Bauer The experience of the past 25 years cannot be projected into the future without qualifications. The fluctuations of the economic cycles in the construction industry are reason enough to work on further thoughts and alternatives. Also for the “consulting engineer” a new perspective is required. New directions are called for to persist in the future. Now is the time for the position of points for the future – the next 25 years.

Norbert Schmeidl KBP is 25 years old - my own journey began long before then. Yet, already my first years of learning and the entry into the business world I challenged together with Michael Kuehn – which has special meaning for me. For many years afterwards, he and I took different trains – but we met again at the Hypo project.

Since then, we have been travelling together.

Günther Hammitzsch Twenty-five years that is a long journey which can only succeed with a brilliant travel guide assisted by faithful companions. This journey was full of experience in every respect and enriching. It produced a lot of impressive evidence of our joint ideas and work.

With this in mind, I would like to continue the journey towards new goals and challenges.

Jörg Mundle My time together with Kuehn Bauer Partner began in 1983, after I had gained some initial professional experience. Today this has been almost a quarter of a century. This time together has been a time of growth. Our goal was and is to convince with quality and to surpass the clients’ expectations.

My wish for the future is further common objectives and visions with previous and new companions.

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SystemsEngineering Michael Kuehn jr.

System Thought and System Action Project success of demanding conceptions will only be achieved through optimal implementation. This fact is not new. Yet, there are hardly any methods of resolution, which define a corresponding, state of the art standard. In awareness of this, we look for and work on methods which can improve this quality. Our method of resolution for this is that of “system thought and system action”. Our intellectual background for this is formed by the way of thinking and the methods for industrial construction developed by the pioneers Konrad Wachsmann and Fritz Haller.

Future Oriented Thinking The realisation of these approaches has, however, been difficult to implement because of the integrative work mode required of all partners in a project. Time and again we could not but ascertained that planning partners, especially the companies which execute the work, were not able or did not wish to support our future oriented thinking, or did so only in part.

Planning Organisation and Process Flows The German ordinance on the fees for architects and engineers (HOAI) defines the framework for planning and realisation. Due to the aforementioned problems, it no longer does justice to the changes that have taken place in today‘s tasks. Our neighbours in Switzerland have progressed their schedule of fees through a modern model of performance. In addition to the complexity of today’s large projects, this model also takes the life cycle of these projects into account. It assumes that all the parties involved in the project – from the final client all the way down to the companies which execute the plans and to the operators – work together in accordance with uniform rules. This results in logical work flows with corresponding processing depths.

Manually Controlled Construction Processes Aware of such conventions, we assessed the extent to which industrial production processes could be prescribed in the case of manually controlled construction processes. In the automotive industry, for instance, production processes are optimised continually. However today‘s planning and construction processes insist on conventional patterns despite new complexities, dynamics, dimensions and recognized financial losses.

Thinking in Systems Therefore we pursued a completely different mode of thinking. We concerned our-selves with the given construction tasks in view of their systems. Thinking in systems aims at recognition, penetration and organisation. This is, in fact, a way to recognize legal requirements and to comply with them. This centres most particularly around the intended later usage process.

As far back as I can remember, my father already started on this in our games with building blocks and later with technical components. This he also applied to his team of engineers.

Since a few years I consistently continued this development. During my studies in St. Gallen, Switzerland, I was able to deepen this knowledge and to contribute a few new thoughts.

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SystemsEngineering We thus introduced a logically consistent approach for processing complex construction projects. We call this Systems Engineering. It became a methodical platform for our projects. The method, which is also described with digital construction, aims to understand and reproduce a given architecture in a modular way. The idea is to describe the building as a comprehensive, integrated data model, beginning with the planning, continuing through construction and on to operation (life cycle model). Buildings are subdivided in such a way that permits them to be represented in software structures and data models. It is thereby possible to define jointly and comprehensively a given architecture as well as complex technical requirements. Systems engineering, as we understand and use it, can lead to changes in the planning process with regard to the perception and development of structures, modules and sets of components.

This is the real entry into industrial prefabrication. The construction process is handled in an integrated continuous fashion, from the strategy to later operation, and is, logically consistent, very precisely realised.

Modular Construction One of the main themes which guide our work is that of industrial prefabrication. It begins with the precedent manufacture of elements, modules and sets of components. It is thus that a kind of industrial production develops with modified logistics (just in time process). In fact, this is nothing new. Indeed, the method has been typical for high grade facades for decades.

Take, for example, Gartner. Through system dependent, exact arrangement of modules in the building, a very high final quality can be achieved with calculated, short assembly times, which is comparable to that employed in industrial manufacturing processes. In this way, construction could become predictable once again. The uncalculated costs for searching, clearing, changing and repairing would disappear!

Production processes in construction are limping far behind those of industry For these reasons, we have been setting a trend since 1998 with our modular construction method for BMW AG’s test buildings for development and tests of engines. On the following pages we try to explain the planning process with an example that starts with the idea and proceeds until construction. Ideas develop into elements which are put together to form modules. These modules fit together to form systems for the very complex test buildings with the required main and secondary functions.

The Culture of Construction Planning and realising complex construction objects still continues to entail risks for all the parties involved. This applies most particularly to the builder and the users. We are very concerned about this and wish to intervene here to contribute our experience to improve the BMW motor test facility in steel construction.

All steel welded construction of the testing cabiculture of construction. nets with more integrated technology in double floor and ventilation house in prefabricated container construction Components - self supporting modular construction; - welded, insulated steel casing; - interior lining with anchorage system; - steel welded foundation with mounting plate - decoupled from vibrations; - freely supporting heavy duty double floor with integral media installation.

Weight per cabin 95 to 140 t; Assembly 6 test cells in 10 weeks.

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Planning under one big roof floating space 1995 – At the turn of the year, Kuehn Bauer Partner moved from the heart of Munich, out of beautiful Bogenhausen, to the new Airport Munich 2, into the Airport Office Park in Hallbergmoos. All four locations in Bad Brunnthal were reunited once again under one big roof. This unique building, designed by the Pritzker prize winner Fumihiko Maki from Tokyo, offered KBP development options “without boundaries”, as Fumihiko Maki explained it when presenting his architectural concept on the occasion of the opening celebration with about 600 guests. He described his concept as that of “floating space”. It is a huge room concluded by a diagonal roof pane of glass and metal panels. Through its development of height – which progresses from 3.0 to 18.0 metres – the space offers room for insertion of displaced functional levels. These form a spatial field of suspense.

Following the example of the highly praised offices of Lord Norman Foster in London, Michael Kuehn develops in Maki’s floating space a layout which reflects the planning work flow at KBP. Development and planning services go through process steps. Quality, quality assurance and adherence to schedules are all object oriented. With that, the office facilities are directly tailored to the needs of day by day planning, with interdisciplinary teams working together at “one table” in dependence on the project. There are also project rooms for temporary, exclusive use for large projects. Employees, project partners and clients receive their fixed conference room here. Every necessary function and auxiliary function has its organisational place under this one big roof. This exerts a positive effect on the coherence of the teams and on the achieved project results. From then on the teams can work consequent in an interdisciplinary and future-oriented manner. The proximity to the airport is likewise proven to be advantageous, given the activi-ties spread out over Germany and Europe.

The commercial and legal components, and not just the engineering services, play an important role, too. Kuehn Bauer Partner have always been and continue to be well advised in all their decisions and activities in this respect by a small team of trusted, reliable companions: attorney Michael Dührssen Munich; Funk Group - L. Funk & Söhne GmbH Munich; Siglinde Heigl Bernried, Hogan & Hartson Raue L.L.P. in Berlin; Dr.-Ing. Werner Preissing in Filderstadt, tax consultants Günther Völkl Munich, Wagensonner - Dr. Luhmann - Breitfeld - Dr. Helm Berlin.

Following the attacks September 11, 2001 the construction industry is faced with a deep slump. Special efforts are undertaken with Daniela Fischer to ensure the economic continuity of the firm. Her ambition and commitment lead to Ms. Fischer being admitted to the executive management as a procurist in 2004. Together with Michael Kuehn, she successfully develops effective work structures and arranges for concerted PR measures.

Our firm survived this depression. Unfortunately, when it moved to Munich-Schwabing, Daniela Fischer left to take up new challenges.

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Under German law, a “procurist”, whose name is entered in the local commercial register, is a holder of extensive commercial powers of attorney.

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Time frames and offices 2006, the move to Park City in Schwabing

Employees and guests praise it as the best planning office After ten years at Hallbergmoos, the great distance to Munich proved to be a strain, literally creating distance and generating costs.

2006 – This distance is overcome by the firm‘s fourth move. A large loft at Wilhelm-WagenfeldStrasse 6 in Park City Schwabing, with dimensions 80 x 30 x 7 metres, offers enough room.

KBP is able to stay true to its philosophy “under one big roof”. The good experience with the unique large room in Hallbergmoos is developed further and can advantageously be applied in the new office. The simple room offers the possibility to develop one’s own profile and implement it. Everything is situated on one level. There are no longer two floors, no more “above” and “below” as in Hallbergmoos.

Our landlords, Thomas Müller and Joachim Markthaler, are very helpful with this project.

They trust and support all the conceptual ideas of Michael Kuehn. The result is a unique, unprecedented spatial concept. It is not due to costly materials and architectural gestures but rather the clear views and modes of behaviour, which reflect the company culture of Kuehn Bauer Partner as the “golden thread”.

Interdisciplinary work, communication and team work are supported just as much as undisturbed work and concentration. Clients and project partners participate directly in the professionalism of Kuehn Bauer Partner. Due to the good experience gained in Hallbergmoos, the office facilities can be used flexibly and are coordinated with our proven planning work flows.

Quite apart from this, everything is designed for the well-being of employees as well as guests. There is a trattoria with spacious, open kitchen embedded in a light, Mediterranean atmosphere for meals together, celebrations and business entertainment. The Illy Bar conforms to the highest Italian standard. In the adjacent café bar all the recent issues of technical periodicals and journals are available for communication and knowledge. The crowning feature of this concept is the garden courtyard. The convertible roofs of canvas provide a certain flair for breaks and discussions. At the inside, there is a catalogued, computer aided technical library at the disposal of the employees.

The special areas of data processing (IT), printing, book binding, design model workshop, studio, warehouse and archives close off a large free space to the west. This is used for regular events and exhibitions. This is another way in which the company culture, defined above, is emphasised.

You will find photographs and explanations on the following pages.

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Team spirit

“Team spirit is a positive social property of a group of people, or team, and is mostly found in sports. The team members stick together so that they will be able to perform a certain task. Thus, for each member of the team, the centre of attention is “US” instead of “ME”.”

KBP’s planning strategy places the project and the client at the centre of attention. This strategy requires project related teamwork. In support of this concept, each project is handled by a team working together “on one large table”, so to speak.

The new open office in Munich supports communication both within each team and between teams. There are lines of sight, networks, distractions and also divides. Willingness to cooperate and team spirit can be supported selectively and the work efficiency of the teams can be optimised. Technical competences and special knowledge of individual team players increase, across disciplines, the impact of the entire team.

There is another aspect besides immediate teamwork on a given project. It is the aspect of being together as human beings. Many of our employees have been with us for a long time – 15 years or more. For this reason, integrating new employees and what the employees have in common takes on special meaning. The various personalities of the employees are not just brought together from technical points of view; rather, individual social aspects are considered, too. Meals taken together and breaks in the bistro likewise emphasise this philosophy. Becoming personally acquainted is also encouraged through small internal celebrations. In this way, cooperation and cohesion are supported and strengthened. This is intended to contribute to a healthy day to day life at work and, of course, the project result, as well as our company culture.

As strong team, our employees also appear at athletic events such as soccer games in Berlin or the company race 2006 in the Olympiapark Munich.

That our efforts are indeed effective is demonstrated not just by the long tradition and success of our firm, but also by the activities which outside working hours the employees undertake together. Over the years a number of marriages have been concluded under the one big roof.

Where other companies (have to) render support by means of seminars and training sessions, we place primary emphasis on communication with mutual respect and uncomplicated, friendly interactions with one another.

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What does the Future of Consulting Engineers look like?

Werner Bauer

The experience of the past 25 years cannot be projected into the future without qualifications. The fluctuations of the economic cycles in the construction industry during the past 10 years, with a slump for more than 5 years, are reason enough to work on further considerations and alternatives. No support is to be expected from the government in the near future because its own finances would be far too weak for this. On the other hand, due to the surplus of office space and the urge of administrations and industry to slim down, hardly any growth is to be expected in the entire German market in the near future.

Over the long term, the German market will be too small for the majority of its engineering firms, so they will have to reorient themselves to the world beyond this country’s borders. The nearby East European market offers possibilities in this respect, especially in the area of industrial projects, where they still have quite a bit of catching up to do. However, the spectrum of services offered in other countries must be reevaluated; for example, an HOAI (= German Fee Structure for Architects and Engineers) offer; that is, one based on the German ordinance on the fees for architects and engineers, will not get a German firm anyplace worth going!

German personnel costs are too high for standard planning services to be offered competently along with those of local engineering firms. Thus we must employ our expertise more efficiently.

For example, as follows: – Creation of technical concepts which introduce innovative solutions that save energy using intelligent automation – Consultancy services for the client throughout the planning and construction periods; that is, more advice and less planning. In detail: representation of the interests of the client on matters of construction (e.g. glazing, solar protection, illumination, construction of walls and floors), of technology (e.g. the technological systems being employed, convenience and operation), and of functionality (e.g. operating and maintenance costs, facilities management) – Comprehensive support of the local planning office hired by the client. Alternatively, look for a partner in the other country for a durable relationship. Longterm strategies need to be established for this step so that the requirements of both the international and domestic markets are met. Alliances strengthen the market position, but over the long term only a merger of the firms ensures common interests and economic objectives.

Before looking for a partner abroad, one should first analyse one’s business at home with its strengths and weaknesses and work out the criteria for selection of a partner.

Our entry into the business model of the above performance profile with support of local planning offices has already been implemented through several successful projects for newspaper printing presses in Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and Venezuela. This experience offers a good initial basis for further tasks. A new perspective is required for the “consulting engineer” to successfully continue the business. Comprehensive training is required for the new tasks, which will make it possible to move away from the HOAI toward successful consultancy work in the short term. New directions and new ways of doing things are called for if we are to prosper in the future. Now is the time to set these directions for the next 25 years.

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Tradition continues Michael Kuehn Jr.

Construction sites have been an important factor in my life ever since I was a child. I recall the many weekends at construction sites planned by my father‘s firm, e.g. the site of the new printing press for the Süddeutscher Verlag in Munich. It is there that I came to understand the interplay of form and function. I accompanied my father when he photographed the specially arranged technical installations and the impressive industrial architecture that enveloped them. But it was not just projects of KBP. Sometimes we drove long distances to study other interesting projects. My father was more interested in the result, that is, in beautifully, completed works. I, on the other hand, thought construction sites were much more exciting.

Later, as an adolescent, I had my first contacts with site management; for example, I was helpful during the completion phase of the clean rooms in the laboratories at MBB (now EADS). Because of the strict hygenic requirements, I had to observe the clothing and safety regulations during assembly.

Thus it was certainly not a coincidence that instead of the international business stud-ies which I had started, I chose a technical direction. I studied at Hofstra University in New York, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. I was then an apprentice at Lehr Associates in New York. My thesis dealt with a reconstruction project in one of Manhattan’s historic steel skeleton skyscrapers erected on Fifth Avenue around 1900.

I calculated, planned and accompanied realisation of the technical facilities, including those for the flagship store of Warner Brothers.

Erika It was in 1991, during my studies in New York, that I met Erika Clemmensen, who was to become my wife. The daughter of an Italian from Genoa and a Dane from Copenhagen, Erika grew up in America. She completed her studies sooner than me and then worked at large insurance companies in Wall Street. It was not long before she was entrusted with the very responsible duties of a senior underwriter. A few years later, after I had completed my studies, we moved together to the „golden midpoint“ between Genoa and Copenhagen, which, of course, is Munich. In 1994, we celebrated our marriage. A short time thereafter we both joined my parents’ firm.

My first tasks Since I had acquired a good command of the English language, my first tasks were also related to projects with international aspects.

Here are just a few examples: Renewal of the HypoBank in London; tenant extensions for Tishman Speyer in the Sony Center in Berlin; reconstruction and renovation of the Hilton City and Park hotels in Munich; reconstruction and renovation of engine test beds at BMW Rover in Gaydon; builder’s representative for the headquarters of Microsoft in Unterschleissheim.

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My very special interest was and continues to be the technical equipment of our firm. My time in the USA also gave me important technical impulses, as a result of which we have become one of the best equipped companies in the area of data processing (IT) and computer aided design (CAD).

Erika’s first tasks After Sir Norman Foster of London received the order to remodel the Reichstag building as the seat of the German Parliament in Berlin, he looked for engineers who would be able to transpose his visionary ideas for the new “parliament building with an ecological message”.

My father filed an application in London with his concept; he received the order, thought it through to the end and, no doubt for this reason, was asked to direct the team of German and English engineers which Foster had selected.

As far back as the acquisition phase in August 1993, we two, my wife and I, were included in this project through intensive email correspondence and supported my father. With that, we naturally came to know all the interrelationships and background information from the very beginning. In 1994 my father even received the order for the complete planning and reconstruction of the Reichstag building as general planner. In addition, he formed a working group.

In 1995, as a supplement to the contract for the Reichtstag, our firm, acting alone and without other partners, was entrusted with the technical infrastructure for the new adjacent parliament buildings on the “Spreebogen”, i.e. on the curve in the River Spree.

My wife learned German very quickly and worked closely with my father. She supported him in all tasks in the management of ARGE, subplanners and technical advisors. In particular, her personal responsibility was in contracts and accounting and, at the beginning, in project management too.

Maximilian and Victoria 1999 – Our son Maximilian was born. My wife decided to withdraw from professional life for a while and to concentrate on our new, small family, which grew larger with the birth of Victoria, our second child, in 2001.

Master’s Studies 2002 – I entered the master‘s programme at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, where I received further inspiration for my professional development. I was most fascinated by applied system theories for holistic thinking and action in management. These encouraged me to further develop the planning methods in use at KBP. Systems Engineering For this reason, I also brought back the “systems engineering” method from St. Gallen. This method aims to structure processes and systems. It facilitates the development of repetitive equal subsystems in buildings and their facilities. Application of this method also results in maintenance of rates of repetitions and equal components which are as high as is consistent with maintenance of individuality. Standards are created with the objective of making technical solutions completely understandable, verifiable and amenable to calculation and, of course, the objective of optimising subsequent operations.

4 ARGE is an association of manufacturers of sanitary, heating and air conditioning products which have their seat in the European Union and market their products in Germany.

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Interestingly enough, this planning methodology builds precisely on the thinking my father had already applied in a practical, visible way as a guideline for his projects Hypo-Hochhaus (Hypo high rise) in 1974, Süddeutscher Verlag in 1982, and the new building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich in Garching in 1993. Back then, his intellectual background developed from the methods of Konrad Wachsmann and Fritz Haller for industrial construction.

New Standards 1998 - KBP also used this planning method to win the international competition for the new engine centre at BMW; today it is called the engine test bed (APF) in BMW’s research and innovations centre (FIZ).

Completely new standards were established worldwide with the system architecture in the form of stackable test beds, which were realised here for the first time. In particular, a new type of prefabrication of subsystems and entire building systems with test bed cells which weigh up to 80 tons each was realised here. Through parallelisation of construction and assembly operations it was even possible to cut overall construction time in half. KBP was entrusted with the entire responsibility for this project. BMW‘s board member, Dr. Burkhardt Göschel, praised our methods and process flows, comparing them with today‘s manufacturing processes at BMW. The Road to Success 2004 - When the second of three construction stages for the APF was being realized, the concept selected in 1998 with its optimised height and area grid structures continued to be the same for all stages of construction. This introduces the possibility of hybrid usages for engine test beds, transmissions test beds, roller test beds, workshops and even a high rack warehouse.

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In the case of this second construction stage with its over 50,000 m2 of gross space, KBP is responsible as general planner for the test beds and as technical planner for the technical supply for the test bed technology. Today, Norbert Schmeidl and I are working together on this special project with its excellent team and latest 3D planning tools to bring it on time and within costs to a successful conclusion.

The Journey Continues As an engineer I concentrate on the high technical standards which I have set for myself and also face the coming challenges of our firm. For this I seek contact with my colleagues and profit from their many years of experience. In the past 12 years I have also really learned to appreciate the advantages of small, independent teams working on the project. These teams are guided by my colleagues and myself in a spirit of partnership.

The awareness of quality and personal motivation of our teams guarantee outstanding results in the areas they are entrusted with. Each problem requires its own solution. Every solution is subordinate to the client, who has his own specific requirements.

Our new office in Munich, in its own special way, has even been able to set „sound“ standards for this.

Together My wife, Erika, has been working in our firm again since the beginning of this year. She supports the KBP management in strategy and economic matters. Her ambition is to contribute to motivation and to become a driving force for KBP. She and I plan to continue the journey together with the old and new supporters of the firm. My father would like to confer the responsibility of the firm to me. We wish to shape, and successfully continue, the tradition he started with his thinking and activities – of course, in combination with our own views.

KBP will stand and build on the extensive experience and fine solution methods of its founders and those who have been with it for many years. We want to secure continuity for our clients with creative solutions that anticipate trends. That is guaranteed by quality, loyalty and the willingness of the entire KBP team to work.

I see our engineering firm as a productive, social system which has to fulfil the tasks that are set. We are dependent on that; however, we can and want to influence that too. To this extent I also regard leadership of the firm as “steering” or “control”. This guidance is an operation of the information processing of the various process flows de-signed for perfect handling of our project tasks. In effect, information processing is the actual decision process.

We would like the philosophy of our success to be the interplay of our organisational form with the service to the client. Hence the following premise will continue to apply: Passion for architecture, technology and innovation.

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Fortunated is He who has a Spring He should give her in grateful reverence a beautiful enclosure – and already he had created a garden. Indeed, a paradise can be created with just water and a protective hedge or wall.

In any case, in the Orient plants are not a must for a garden. Water is everything. It is the symbol of life. That applies to all countries and cultures. Even primitive peoples believed that all life came from water and modern science says that they were right. Water does not need plants, but plants need water. Thus God provided the garden He had created for Adam with a stream that divided into four rivers that flowed in all directions. This laid the basic pattern of gardens for all time. The Koran, too, speaks of four rivers in paradise. These flow with water, wine, milk and honey. That is why Islamic garden yards have four parts, and if there is no flowing water, the missing moisture is symbolized by colourful tiles.

Water means wealth. The first gardens were only possible where there was water. From earliest times, human beings endeavoured to bring water to places that had no spring. The first engineers who succeeded in applying artificial irrigation to produce green stretches in the desert were revered like saints.

For these reasons, the procedure described below for converting waste into energy, raw materials, and “living” water is equivalent to a miracle. However, we do not actually speak of a miracle because these are proven physical and chemical processes. The entire life and economic circulation of our planet rests on continual supply with energy and water. It is here that we see a chance for Earth and for Humanity – Environmental Mission.

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Environmental Mission Michael Kuehn

2005 – At a farm in the German state of Niedersachsen I met some business people, among whom were two Iranians. We were there to develop a project for utilizing waste in Tehran.

The idea was to create energy out of waste. I was interested and noted that the conversion process under discussion did not just allow energy to arise in the form of gas but also generated much heat, raw materials for further processing and – what was the chief attraction for me – a lot of clean water.

Therefore I said spontaneously that there was certainly enough energy in Iran so perhaps the focus should be placed on retrieving water to irrigate this desert region.

That was my entry. The Iranians were thrilled and I had a new topic. Thus I looked for the inventor of this technology and finally met Mr. Jochen Zingelmann. Since then, he and I have been working with Dr. Ernst Depner to realise this wonderful project.

This also made me realize that the developments of our modern industrial society – in-cluding its aberrations – have reached their boundaries and that each of us, within the range of his or her possibilities, bears some responsibility for preserving our environment. Each of us should consider what he or she could and would like to contribute.

While our efforts cannot substitute for the contribution of politics, we can still support political environmental demands with technical solutions that allow politicians to do something for the world in which we live together, without losing face. The technical solutions we propose must deliver ecologically acceptable results under ecologically acceptable conditions. This means, of course, that the manufactured product must be easily marketable through realistic production costs.

The forthcoming acceptance of responsibility for KBP by my son, Michael, together with his wife, Erika, makes it possible for me to redefine my goals. Next to my future activities for KBP, I now see my calling in making a meaningful contribution to the preservation of our environment.

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Procedural Description - Environmental Mission

Environmental Mission Procedural Description Daniela Fackler

The notion of „Environmental Mission“ is backed up by a simple, safe procedure for converting waste of all kinds into raw materials, primary energy and water.

This method has been further developed and improved over many years by its inventor, Jochen Zingelmann, officially appointed expert for old environmental damage, environmental technology and the management of hazardous substances.

It basically consists of a mechanical preliminary stage followed by preparation and sorting of waste, the separation of organic and inorganic components, as well as a gassing procedure which renders the residual portions thermally inert. These procedures are all well known and proven recycling processes and methods for converting waste.

The procedure ensures the complete recycling of waste from households and industry.

Moreover, industrial waste such as paint sludge, sewage sludge, oils and grease, matured timber, refinery residues, chemical waste, etc., can likewise be safely and odour- or residue-free completely recycled. That way waste disposal sites, for instance, would become unnecessary and existing disposal sites would become future raw material warehouses.

Emissions of methane gas, the contamination of soil and ground water through insufficiently secured disposal sites would be totally precluded.

Reliable technologies and plants which have been in use for decades were transferred for this purpose into new structures. The key stage is the energetic stage. It is based on the proven KlĂśckner Humboldt Deutz procedure for gassing charcoal, which has actually been available for about 100 years. It just vanished from sight and from our memories because it was upstaged by the development of more recent transmission technologies and energies for automobiles.

The primary energy generated at the end of the process chain is fed as electric current into the public networks for general supply. The energetic transformation of organic residues reduces the primary energy input and discharge of carbon dioxide by more than 50%. In addition, large quantities of clean water and usable raw materials are gained from across the entire process.

Thus it would be theoretically possible to cover part of the private household requirements for electricity and water domestic use out of its own waste.

In this way, the most important requirements of ecology, namely the prevention of emissions and the protection of resources, could be achieved.

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Words of welcome Michael Kuehn

My welcoming speech I made off-the-cuff, without the prepared manuscript. Instead of the original text for a speech, I prefer, in view of the various contributions in this brochure, to sketch my own expectations and feelings about this anniversary evening.

Joy – I was delighted that so many of my travelling companions as well as many new “passengers” were present, despite the short notice and difficulties with schedules.

Gratitude – At times I was completely overwhelmed with emotion when I realized that so many of my friends and mentors were present. I can hardly describe this feeling - I was grateful that we met in good health.

“A Good Journey – 25 Years KBP”. These were not all happy times, yet it was always a good journey. All too often we are dependent on the good grace of the time at hand. Every day we make the best efforts and hope that this suffices.

Success – I am always humble when someone from our firm or a project team has had the good fortune to meet with success. At such times I try to perceive and even to voluntarily accept that there is always something unreachable, something superior. I would like to impart this mindset to my travelling companions.

Family – My childhood and youth were not smooth, my education was disorganised. But there were always people who helped me. This is the way in which everything always works out in the end. At the age of 23 I started my greatest project, namely my marriage. I would start this undertaking again at any time. We do not have a management approach for this; rather, we try to make the best of each given situation and we trust one another. This is our source of strength for our personal lives and also for my commitment in the consulting engineering firm Kuehn Bauer Partner.

Everyday Life – I do not really distinguish between personal life, profession and everyday life. I try to beautify everything that I do or have to do. This way, I can enjoy it. Often it is little things: my work surroundings, my clients, my colleagues and employees, a wink of an eye, a nice gesture or a friendly word.

Harmony – It is harmony that I feel dependent on. If it slips into a “tilted” position, I fall back at first. But never for very long; then I liberate tremendous powers and counteract it with all the consequences, often to everyone’s surprise.

Work Surroundings – I need beautiful surroundings, everywhere: at home, in the office, while eating, in hotels, while travelling, with my companions, etc.

In this sense, I have been very pleased by the wonderful positive response to our anniversary celebration and our office and am grateful to everybody who helped me.

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A Passion for Architecture, Technology and Innovation.

A good journey — 25 years KBP Press release Kuehn Bauer Partner Consulting Engineers GmbH [KBP] has been active in technical equipment, energy technology, environmental technology and operating technology for the past 25 years. Their services range from individual consulting for company decisions to overall planning of large projects in the areas of administration, planning for hotels and hospitals, research and industry.

They celebrated their 25th anniversary on July 7, 2006 with friends of the firm, clients, their partners and their roughly 100 employees from their offices in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf.

Around 300 guests experienced a very special evening in their new office at WilhelmWagenfeld-Strasse 6 in Munich.

The invitation promised: “Sensual dining, joyful strolling, chat with old and new friends, celebrate and enjoy interesting surroundings….”

Sensual dining – On this evening there was no wasteful dissipation of food; rather, there were culinary delights exclusively prepared from organically grown ingredients from the region.

These were the tranquil foundation of the event.

Joyful strolling – Most beautiful weather allowed the guests to stroll and to converse. They were able to make surprising and interesting discoveries in the new office world of KBP, at local squares, in alleys, in gardens and in the five roofed courtyards. There were prized technical design models, drawings, pictures and films to see. As a contrast to the art of good engineering there were also sculptures and metal pictures of the artist Karin Müller-Wohlfahrt, staged in special lighting.

Chat with old and new friends – The travel guide of 25 years of KBP and of 40 years of development and profession of the Kuehn family as well as the new travel guides of the younger KBP generation met here. There were joyful, surprising, pleasing and touching encounters.

Enjoy interesting surroundings – The new office world is special: a large high hall as flexible platform for the future development of KBP. The guests were treated to exciting insights into the abilities and culture of the firm. celebrate – Moderator Bettina von Websky from the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk led us through the evening. At the beginning, the New York artist Omar Kabir and his group provided for a subtle mood – Cirque du Soleil – and jazzy rhythms.

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The pleasure for the senses which followed was performed by the Brazilian composer, singer and DJ Virgina Nascimento.

Planning and realization of the technical performance for audio, video and show light were all provided by Dipl.-Ing. Martin Werhahn. Rainer Wallraff, who is director of the department for light music at Bayerischer Rundfunk, planned the concept, selected the artists, and directed the evening.

Topics of the evening also included scenes from the “good journey” Scenes of a good, lucky development with many hurdles. The guests were able to feel how the day to day life of this firm, the continuity and the unceasing pursuit for innovations, technical perfection and style in the service of the client, actually works.

It was in the garden courtyard of the new office in Parkstadt Schwabing that Michael Kuehn, who founded the KBP together with his partner Werner Bauer 25 years ago, greeted the friends and illustrious guests. Michael Kuehn thanked the „travelling companions“ who helped him to build this firm and remained true to him, and he thanked his partner, his companions and the employees for their commitment and loyalty. However, his special thanks went to his wife and children, who were and still are the back-bone and source of inspiration for him and the firm.

The special culture of this firm has become tradition. Michael Kuehn has served as an example by passing on his technical and artistic abilities, points of view and even modes of conduct - “... nothing works without qualified and socially competent employees, but also nothing works without rules ...”

Emphasis was placed on two talkrounds.

Talk I had the heading „Environmental Mission“, which is a global environmental project. Here is where Michael Kuehn sees the challenge for his future development: converting organic waste into raw materials, water and fuel gas as primary energy for generating electric power and heat.

Talk II was about KBP – today, for Michael Kuehn will be turning 65 in the autumn of this year and will redefine his goals. His son, Michael Kuehn Jr., has been active in the firm for 12 years and will assume the responsibility beginning in 2007. Together with his wife, who was already in charge of the commercial side of the Reichtstag project from 1994 to 1999, Michael Jr. wants to secure the future of the firm with the present KBP team and to continue to shape it successfully – tradition continues.

The speeches, good wishes, reactions and photographs of the anniversary celebration, and further information on the catering and the works of art that were on exhibit can be found on the following pages.

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Real enjoyment in a natural way “One should see and taste what one eats” Thomas Thielemann

“…sensual dining, joyfull strolling, chat with old and new friends, celebrate and enjoy interesting surroundings…”

Thomas Thielemann realised the culinary part of this motto.

Born in 1964, Thomas Thielemann visited the Steigenberger Hotel School in Bad Reichenhall and completed his apprenticeship as a cook in the Frankfurter Hof Hotel in Frankfurt am Main.

He cooked in hotels in Osaka and Tokyo, worked as sous-chef for Karl Ederer in Munich‘s Glockenbach and as chef in the historic Schlossmühle in Horbruch. In 1993 he went into business for himself with the restaurant „Wirtshaus zum Herrmannsdorfer Schweinsbräu“ in Glonn.

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My love for cooking was imparted to me while I was still being rocked in a cradle. My father’s parents had a large restaurant in the country, my mother’s parents had a bakery and my father was a butcher. When I was just ten years old I already knew perfectly well that I wanted to be a cook. My mother had the most lasting influence on me in this regard. She cooked the way I cook today: pure and unadulterated. She was unable to understand how one could waste food. This is an attitude which I share with her today and which has even become a trademark of my own philosophy of cooking. For me, ecological cooking means using the products as completely as possible.

It was a welcome challenge for me to take over the restaurant in the Hermannsdorf Landwerkstätten after my apprenticeship, the master‘s examination and a few years in the cooking trade.

The basic idea of ecology had a special meaning for me. Ever since the beginning of my work as a cook I have paid close attention to the quality of foodstuffs and tried to confine myself to organically grown ingredients. That does not entail any restrictions on the menu – everything which can be obtained by conventional agricultural methods is also available from organic production. In addition, I also prefer products from nearby over those that are imported. Products which I cannot obtain in Herrmannsdorf are obtained from suppliers in neighbouring towns whose products are oriented to our standards of quality. You won´t find filet or other noble meat cuts in my cooking, nor do I use any exotic or unusual spices. My cuisine is a cuisine which stresses what is simple and fits in with the region from which it arises. In my opinion, the scenery, the mentality of the people and that which they produce form a unit which one should not wantonly disturb through one’s cooking.

For me, foodstuffs are a means of life. We in Herrmannsdorf have a deep respect for nature. We don´t try to increase yields by unnatural means. This is a thought which also finds expression in my cooking. The taste sensation of my guests should be an unadulterated experience – a pure delight!

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Joyfull strolling Karin Müller-Wohlfahrt/Karen LaKar

The artist Karin Müller-Wohlfahrt, who has been signing her works under her pseudonym Karen Lakar since 1996, presented some of her sculptures and metal pictures in the office and inner courtyard at the occasion of our anniversary celebration. Staged in special lighting, these brought out the second part of our theme “sensual dining, joyfull strolling”. Karin Müller-Wohlfahrt about herself and her work philosophy: „for me, art needs space in public just as it does in the private realm. With my paper and wire objects as with the metal pictures I want to reinforce the reality of the given setting. This also applies to the case of KBP’s anniversary celebration: in the five inner courtyards of the office, the centre of the strolls. Art can bind people at a deep level of consciousness, just as it can also separate them. It sets something in motion and that’s what I am after. Rigidity and standstill exclude vitality.”

The metal pictures installed in the plant beds constitute a series of scenes of the world around us as it appears to me.

The existence of all living bodies – human beings, animals, plants – superimpose and pervade themselves in an eternal metamorphosis of coming to be and ceasing to exist. The beholder’s movements, the walking about, set the pictures additionally in motion.

With each step new points of view are revealed. There is only change if I move myself. The boundaries between the picture’s sections disappear in the surrounding space.

This space itself becomes a part of the picture. I also study this dispersal of a form’s boundaries with the paper and wire figures – archetypes of the feminine and masculine.

The Dance of Souls seems to be caught up in an ecstatic release whereas the Capsule of Souls seems to be contracting, rolling up into a circular movement and withdrawing. Yet both penetrate the surrounding space. Their interaction is one of tension and movement. The figures are actors on a stage called Life.

The theme of a human being in its relationships has become a topic of my pictorial work – as creator of costumes and fashion designer and, for 15 years, also as sculptor and painter. The foundation stone of my training was laid in Berlin at the School of Fine Arts in the 1970’s and found its continue – after 12 years of work as a fashion designer and creator of costumes – in England at Portland Sculpture Trust, in the Scoula di Scultura Alex Naef and in Munich with the artist Gisela Drescher as well as in Salzburg at the international Summer Academy.

My work finds its expression in materials as well as in Portland stone, marble, bronze, aluminium, wood, wire and paper and also in worthless waste products.

Diversity follows the principle of exclusion.

The material serves as regards content.

Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, dear fellow travellers

Good evening!

My name is Sara Kuehn. I am the eldest daughter of Heidi and Michael Kuehn. I am an art historian and dealer and specialize in Islamic art. After some time at various other locations, I have been living in Brussels for almost three years. This evening I did not just come to Munich to attend this beautiful celebration with you; rather, I also wanted to take the 25th anniversary celebration of Kuehn Bauer Partner as an occasion on which to tell you a bit about the background of this firm and its history. I would like to invite you to the first stages of the Kuehn Bauer Partner journey. The guiding idea for the “GOOD JOURNEY” did not just start 25 years ago; actually, it began in 1963. That is when my parents married and they have been working together creatively ever since. The development of the firm as it is today actually began back then even though my parents were not aware that this was, in fact, the beginning of the good journey.

I was born in Murnau on 27 December, 1966. My father drove my mother to the clinic in Murnau early in the morning and then went on to Garmisch Partenkirchen to inspect one of his first construction sites. This was a school of the Congregation of the Poor School Nuns. He returned to the clinic in time to take part in the delivery at 2 p.m. My father always combined business with personal matters. It was much the same with my brother Michael. He arrived two years after me on the way to the construction site of the Traunstein hospital in Steinhöring. My sister Cathrin came two years after that, likewise in Steinhöring, but here I am not able to tell you which of my father‘s projects was involved, even though I am quite sure there must have been one.

We three spent our childhood in a courtyard in the Netzegaustrasse in Munich, together with 40 other children. My mother always kept her eye on us, there was no television, but after school there was always something good to eat. I enjoyed this time and conversed with my mother for hours after the meal. But our father also told us children about the difficulties which beset life at times. Already in his youth he himself had to overcome many hurdles.

After a very difficult childhood and youth marked by illness in the years just after the war, my father took evening courses, which he financed himself, to earn his high school and university diplomas.

Perhaps you are wondering what that has to do with Kuehn Bauer Partner. Well, my mother was a first rate cook and also knew how to be an excellent hostess. This lead to good intensive meetings on which my father was able to build. We children never understood what our father actually did. Only one thing was for sure. It was always about big, difficult projects. Today I know that he was a managing employee at Kraftanlagen Heidelberg AG. His main project was the HypoHaus in Munich. It was through this project that my father also got into professional photography. This went so far that he was admitted to the “Professional Association of the Fine Arts” and his photographs were on display in public exhibitions.

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I believe that hospitality, art and engineering are the three pillars on which the “Kuehn” firm stands. There were not just lots of children at the courtyard in the Netzegaustrasse. The parents of these children were all about the same age. I remember that we had a great social structure which also led to business ties. For example, architect Effinger and his family – Mr. Effinger was the one who advised my father to form the firm we have today and also actively supported him in this endeavour. I also remember that our friendship with the Rappmannsberger family developed from earlier work together before 1970. Through their encouragement and consulting, both, Mr. Effinger and Mr. Rappmannsberger – completely independently of each other – made essential contributions to my father‘s decision to go independent. He also received advice on the commercial aspects from his supervisor and colleague Mr. Petrak, who, due to illness, was unfortunately not able to join us today.

From another period of time farther back I cann tell you about Mr. Stauber. Mr. Stauber’s engineering firm was hired to plan the 2000 bed Klinikum Heidelberg and took on my father as project leader. This work together developed into a lasting partnership. Thus Mr. Stauber, in addition to Mr. Effinger, Mr. Rappmannsberger and Mr. Petrak, was also one of my father‘s mentors and supporters who encouraged him to set up his own firm. Unfortunately, Mr. Stauber has been ill for a number of years and is therefore unable to be with us this evening. I wish to greet him cordially, as well as Mr. Petrak and Mr. Rappmannsberger, and thank them for their help.

On this basis, my father ventured to make himself independent, but not without first creating an appropriate basis for the new firm. It was Mr. Schmeidl, his colleague, companion and friend since 1960, with whom he has been forming this firm from its inception until this very day. Mr. Bauer came along as a partner from the Hypo Team.

After we children were able to fly out into the big wide world – I flew out in advance – my mother Heidi devoted herself entirely to the firm together with my father. She has been business partner as well as personnel and finance director at my father’s side from the beginning.

She ran the firm alone in Munich during the Reichstag period. The success of this firm over many years built on the continual personal sacrifices of my parents and steady personal commitment.

As a witness and travelling companion on this long path, I can say without exaggerating that the enterprise Kuehn Bauer Partner would not exist today had it not been for the personality, the charisma and the personal commitment and enthusiasm of my father, as well as his technical knowledge, many years of experience and perseverance. Today I wish to express my admiration to him and my mother and to congratulate them with all my heart for this tour de force and their success.

I wish you all very cordially, especially my parents, my brother, Michael, and his wife, Erika, and of course my sister, Cathrin, too, a continued good journey and, above all, very good health!

Once again, I wish you a beautiful evening!

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