Institut für Wasserwirtschaft, Siedlungswasserbau und Ökologie GmbH
(iwsö)

Contact

Phone: +49 (0)3643/45 818 47
email: info(at)iwsoe.de
Internet: www.iwsö.de
Location: Coudraystr. 4, D-99425 Weimar
Legal representative: Herr Dr.-Ing. Konrad Thürmer (Geschäftsführer/Institutsleiter)

Object

The object of the company is to promote research, education and training as well as the transfer of new findings into practice, preferably in the fields of water management, urban water engineering and ecology. The purpose is fulfilled above all by new and further developments, by scientific investigations, by theoretical-experimental investigations, by tasks of quality assurance, information, education and training of experts in the fields of water management, urban water engineering and ecology. Furthermore, the object of the company is research, the development of forward-looking strategies, the transfer of information in the field of continuity of watercourses with special attention to fish ladders, fish ladders and downstream fish systems, functional control of fish ladders and fish shooing. The company is responsible for the "Centre of Expertise for Fishing Ladders"

Activities

- Expertises, studies, concepts, planning - physical model investigations in hydraulic engineering - special hydraulic dams, weir systems, sediment - calibration of measuring orifice plates - research on old water management documents - hydraulics and material processes of water treatment plants - fluidic investigations on water management plants - ecology of standing and flowing waters, fish protection plants, fish ladders, fish descent plants - Instream River Training - mining water management, treatment of mining modified waters; Sulphate reduction - lake dynamics and lake remediation, dams - training and further education of specialists in hydraulics, hydraulic engineering, water ecology and water chemistry - model construction, view models, functional models