What do experts say about the Noah water protection systems?
Dr. Sänger
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The recent flood of last year showed that there is an urgent
need for reliable, rapidly deployable, mobile flood protection
systems.
It is totally unacceptable that we have to use sandbags again
and again.
Noah GmbH has developed such a system. We tested prototypes of
our system in the Hubert Engels Laboratory for Hydraulic
Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics of the Dresden
Technical University and found that it is stable and tight up to
a water level of 1.20 metres.”
Statement by Dr. Hans-B. Horlacher, university professor,
certified engineer, managing director of the Institute for
Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics of the
Dresden Technical University
Dr.-Ing. Arnd Hartlieb
Scientifically tested“
The system created by Noah Water Secure Systems has proven
itself to be fully stable at the considerable full water level
of 1.38 m (...) and even with an overflow of several centimetres,
in a load test carried out at our Institute. With regard to
impermeability, the system also met the requirements of a mobile
flood protection system.”
Testing Facility for Water Construction
and Water Economics
Oskar-von-Miller-Institut
Technical University of Munich
Project Manager
Dr.-Ing. Arnd Hartlieb
Director of Testing Facility
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Strobl
Dr. Sänger
Interview with Dr. Sänger, managing director of DBI – EWI
GmbH, an independent engineering company for specialist
construction, hydrology and environment.
In addition to his work in the engineering firm, Dr. Sänger is a
member of important expert bodies in the field of sealing in
earthwork, hydraulic engineering and landfill construction (e.g.
the expert advisory committee of BAM Berlin for the approval of
plastics waterproof sheeting and in Working Group 2.3 of DGGT
“The Use of Asphalt in Hydraulic Engineering and Geotechnology”).
