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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Konrad Spang - Head of the department 2002 - 2022
After studying civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Konrad Spang began his career in the spring of 1980 at Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG in Munich as an employee in the central design office and project manager in the Research and Development Department. From 1984, he spent four years as a research assistant and doctoral student at the Institute of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. At the same time, he worked there as a project manager for consulting tasks in tunnel construction and dam building. In 1988, he completed his doctorate with distinction and received the Leopold Müller Prize from the Austrian Society for Geomechanics for the best research work in the field of geotechnics. From 1988 to 1992, he worked as a project manager and later as a division manager in engineering offices for civil engineering and tunnel construction projects.
From 1993, he was head of the Dresden project center and authorized signatory of Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit mbH, later DB Projekt Verkehrsbau. There he had overall responsibility for the project management of two major infrastructure projects, the renewal of the Leipzig-Dresden and Dresden-Hof railroad lines, each with an investment volume of around €1 billion. Together with an interdisciplinary project team of 50 employees, his range of tasks covered the entire project from planning, financing, construction law, tendering and awarding to construction work under rolling stock and commissioning.
In 2002, Konrad Spang was appointed to the newly established C4 Chair of Project Management in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kassel. Prof. Spang initially established the chair for industrial engineering students and then for all engineering sciences and a variety of other courses. As head of the chair, he was responsible for the training of students from the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and industrial engineering in project management up to and including 2022. In his research, Prof. Spang focused on risk management, partnership-based project management, project optimization and international project management. This was followed by connections to the local economy and the generation of third-party funded projects with leading commercial enterprises and infrastructure organizations, the Federal Ministry of Transport and foundations. In addition, he was involved in consulting and cooperation with companies in the construction and automotive industries as well as client organizations in the transport sector.
Prof. Spang is the author of numerous publications and lectures(see here) as well as editor and co-author of the standard work "Projektmanagement von Infrastrukturprojekten", the 2nd edition of which was published by Springerverlag in 2022. Prof. Spang retired at the end of the 2022 summer semester. Prof. Dr. Timo Braun was appointed as his successor for the summer semester 2023.