Kuno Boll

Kuno Fridolin Boll (born January 29, 1922 in Heiligenberg ) is a German civil engineer.

Boll attended boarding school in Meersburg with his Abitur in 1940 and was then a soldier. He was in the Russian campaign (most recently as an orderly officer of a general) and as a prisoner of war. After his release, he completed an internship at the E. Steidle construction company in Sigmaringen . He studied civil engineering at the TH Stuttgart . He wrote his diploma thesis on the advice of Fritz Leonhardt on the design of a prestressed concrete bridge (since prestressed concrete was not taught at the time, he received private lessons from Wolfhardt Andrä ). In 1950 he became structural engineer and site manager at Baresel AG (including a prestressed concrete bridge over the Kocher, the Konstanz-Staad ferry port with buildings). In 1953 he came to Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner (LAP), where he designed prestressed concrete bridges and other prestressed concrete structures (which at that time still met with resistance from the testing offices). After a test contract for the Friedrich Engelhorn House of BASF in Ludwigshafen , he turned to high-rise construction. His projects include the WDR archive building in Cologne, the Thyssen building in Düsseldorf, the Bayer skyscraper in Leverkusen, the ward building of the Cologne University Hospital and skyscrapers in Hamburg such as the Finland building, the Unilever building, the IBM building and the Hammerbrook building and Spiegel publishing house (for which he then designed unrealized steel core columns). He also developed a method for the safe dimensioning of concrete silos after damage had occurred due to errors in the concrete processing. At the Pedagogical University in Ludwigsburg, he first used the Liftslab process in Germany in the early 1960s (lifting ceiling method, lifting process of the shuttering scaffolding) in order to save costs in the manufacture of the shuttering for floor slabs. This was repeated in the new building for the regional tax office in Münster. With these buildings he stepped out of the shadow of Leonhardt. At LAP he was still involved in the planning for the Olympic Games in Munich at the end of the 1960s. In 1969 he opened his own engineering office. A first major order was the Aachen University Hospital . An early foreign project were water towers in Riyadh, in which the shaft was concreted on site and the rest was assembled with prefabricated concrete parts and pulled up on the shaft.

In 1966 he became chairman for Württemberg of the Association of Consulting Engineers (VBI). In 1982 he became president of the VBI.

literature

• Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004

Web links

• structurae