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Planning of the Salzburger Leite car park in Bad Neustadt / Saale with 81° inclined structure on commission of the Kriesche architects' office (2016 - 2019)

12th Colloquium on Parking Structures on February 24 and 25, 2026

TAE – Technische Akademie Esslingen

 

The Parking Structures Colloquium is being held for the 12th time at the Technical Academy in Esslingen. It has established itself as a biennial symposium on the planning, construction, maintenance, and operation of parking garages and underground parking facilities, attracting more than 300 participants. GIVT mbH has been represented at all colloquiums with specialist presentations.

This year, Dr. Ilja Irmscher will give two presentations on the following topics:

Automatic parking systems for cars – a parking technology with great potential when done right.

Common defects in parking structures that are subject to legal action and how to avoid them.

He will also participate in the

expert dialogue “Project Development & Parking Systems.”

The colloquium will take place on

 

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Intensive seminar on bicycle traffic planning and bicycle parking April 22, 2026, in Mannheim

Management Forum Starnberg GmbH

 

On April 22, 2026, the day before the 11th Conference on the Construction and Operation of Parking Garages and Underground Car Parks, an intensive seminar on “Bicycle Traffic Planning and Bicycle Parking” will take place in Mannheim. The seminar will be led by Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Bohle from Planungsgemeinschaft Verkehr (PGV-Alrutz) together with Dr. Ilja Irmscher.

 

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Specialist conference on the construction and operation of parking garages and underground parking facilities on April 23 and 24, 2026, in Mannheim

Management Forum Starnberg GmbH

 

The 11th Conference on the Construction and Operation of Parking Garages and Underground Car Parks will take place at the end of April 2026 in Mannheim in conjunction with two technical excursions. GIVT mbH has provided content and conceptual support for this event since the first conference in Munich in 2016. On the first day, participants will visit properties owned by PBW Parkraumgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH, and on the second day, they will visit the “Turley Parking” public underground car park with its semi-automatic parking systems.

The topic of this year's presentation by Dr. Ilja Irmscher is:

Car parks and underground car parks – indispensable for the mobility transition

 

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Second edition of the manual and planning aid for car parks and underground garages


The second edition of the compendium published by Berlin-based architecture publisher DOM publishers, which has now also been published in English, Turkish and Chinese, has now been released with a new (1st) volume. This is the completely revised and expanded new edition of the successful handbook on car parks and underground car parks, which formulates a practical and highly topical design theory. The planning aid is based on both German and European regulations and also takes into account the recommendations for stationary traffic facilities (EAR 23).
Further information on the book can be found here:

A second volume with numerous implementation details, chapters on mechanical, semi-automatic, and automatic parking systems, as well as important innovative aspects, and a third volume on bicycle parking structures are in preparation.

 

 

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