Changes in the board of management of the Drees & Sommer AG

Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Schwiede was appointed as deputy chief executive by the supervisory board of the Drees & Sommer AG.

In addition to this, he will be responsible for all operative companies in Germany from 1 July, 2004.
Ralf Schwiede came to Drees & Sommer in Stuttgart as project manager in 1992, where he initially cooperated in the realization of airport projects and administration buildings. In East Germany Ralf Schwiede at first was responsible for the Drees & Sommer branch in Erfurt from 1993 and from 1997 as managing director for the newly established Drees & Sommer Leipzig GmbH with offices in Erfurt and Dresden. Despite difficult conditions he developed the office in Leipzig into a successful company.
In April 2001 Ralf Schwiede was appointed as member of the board of management of the Drees & Sommer AG and took over the responsibility for the construction project management in Germany as well as for the areas of IT and quality management.

According to his own wish Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Oesterle left the board of management of the Drees & Sommer AG on 1 April, 2004. Within the company group he will concentrate in the management of the DS-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft for integral construction consultation and planning GmbH on the equity holdings and the development into a qualified general technical planning. Like until now he is responsible for decisive impulses for the further development of DS-Plan within the context of practice-oriented research and development.
Eberhard Oesterle, who has been at Drees & Sommer since 1984, attaches special importance to cross-industrial sector work in order to achieve optimal solutions for complex technical tasks. This applies particularly to the networking of facade, space conditioning and heat insulation, with which he has been dealing for more than 15 years intensively and for which he has mad decisive contributions. Within the context of his dissertation at the University Stuttgart he developed a simulation procedure for the energetic optimisation of buildings, the application of which led to high savings for several hundred of buildings. Eberhard Oesterle is honorary professor at the University Stuttgart and cooperates as member of the board of management of the VDI in an honorary capacity.