1/2010 - Sievert AG

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quick-mix
Making up ground!
Since April 1, 2010, Dr.-Ing. Maik
Wefer has been a member of the
team in the quick-mix marketing
department, where he serves as
product manager for “tiles/floors”
and “innovative building materials”.
These fields are expected
to be considerably expanded in
the coming years.
Dr.-Ing. Maik Wefer (34) studied
construction engineering at Leibniz
University in Hannover (LUH) from
1996 to 2001 and then worked at the
North German Center for Material
Science of Cultural Objects (ZMK)
until 2005. In that year, Dr. Wefer
moved to the Institute for Building
Materials at the LUH, where he was
working on hardened and readymixed
concrete technology until
joining quick-mix. Dr.-Ing. Wefer is
married and the father of three sons
(6, 4 and 2 years of age). In his free
time, he likes to play soccer and study
historical structural designs.
Renovation work is among the most
frequent, as well as most difficult,
areas of construction work. Building
up or evening out substrates are
especially demanding tasks because
they often call for tailored solutions.
In addition, time for work on existing
buildings is often very limited, so that
fast and sure products are needed
for such jobs as producing screed,
for instance. An excellent product for
“making up ground” is the new quick
setting binder for screed, ESB Estrich-
Schnellbindemittel spezial. You can
walk on it after about eight hours and
lay ceramic floor tiles after only about
three days. ESB Estrich-Schnellbindemittel
screed binder meets the demands
of specialist tradespeople and
building materials retailers for keeping
construction times down to
a minimum.
“The opportunities on the market
for our new product, ESB spezial,
are quite good,” says Dr.-Ing. Wefer.
“Both for renovation as well as for
construction sites with deadlines that
would otherwise be nearly impossible
to meet.
One current example of this is the
fire brigade building of the Dierdorf
association of municipalities (VG) in
Rhineland-Palatinate. Built around 35
years ago, the screed in the vehicle
hall had been severely worn down
by heavy mechanical loads. Together
with the composition floor layer and
representatives of VG Dierdorf, our
Salesmen Heinz Knieper and Sascha
Schoblocher provided some on-site
consultancy. The challenge of this
project was that the fire engines have
to be ready to go at all times. Hence
the construction time had to be kept
as short as possible.
Despite this requirement, the existing
screed was first completely teared out.
Due to the thickness of the existing
screed (28 – 50 mm), it was planed
to produce the new composite screed
using ESB Estrich-Schnellbindemittel
spezial and our H4 bonding bridge.
This way, VG Dierdorf only had to
wait about a week, despite this complicated
procedure, before applying a
special coating to the screed produced
with ESB spezial in the vehicle hall and
then move their fleet of vehicles back
into the fire station.”
Two pros when it comes to tiles and natural stone: Heinz Knieper (at left) is a master bricklayer
who has been working for quick-mix for 28 years with a great store of experience in
solid construction and screed laying – TVB at tubag in Kruft until the end of 2003, and since
2004 TVB for quick-mix in Kruft in the field of tile and natural stone technology as well as
standard mortar and bulk goods. Sascha Schoblocher (right) is Dipl.-Ing. Landespflege (graduate
in landscape architecture) and a trained landscaper. He has been working as TVB for
tubag gardening, landscaping, road building and natural stone technology since 2009.