Technical test and research institute

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TÜV AUSTRIA TVFA
Prüf- und Forschungs-GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1815
Seat Vienna , Austria
management Gerhard Höltmann
Branch material testing
Website http://www.tvfa.at

The TUV AUSTRIA TVFA Testing and Research GmbH , formerly known as Technical Research Institute, or TVFA , is an independent testing - and Research Institute in cooperation with the TÜV AUSTRIA Group and the Vienna University of Technology , based in Vienna.

activity

The activity of the TVFA consists in the testing and monitoring of technical components and systems, research and development in the field of material testing and component testing and component safety . Since 1996 the TVFA has been a state - accredited testing and inspection body as well as a certification body with corresponding quality management (EN ISO / IEC 17020, 17025, 1765).

Core activities:

history

The establishment of today's TÜV AUSTRIA TVFA was in connection with the opening of the Polytechnic Institute Vienna in 1815. The emergence of the TVFA Vienna can be traced back to two chairs, “Mechanical Technology” and “Mechanics and Machine Science”. The decisive factor were the developments through the management of the pulpits and the foundation of the framework laws passed by the Reichsrat in 1910 with regard to the authorization of "technical research, testing and material testing institutes"

J. Arzberger was the first director of the TVFA Vienna. The chair “Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering” was the nucleus of today's TÜV AUSTRIA TVFA under the full professor and its first board of directors. In 1899 the chair for mechanics and mechanical engineering was divided into three chairs.

Ludwig von Tetmajer and Bernhard Kirsch set milestones in the years 1901 to 1923. With the simultaneous decision of the professors to expand the mechanical-technical laboratory into a research institute, which was attached to the chair for technical mechanics I and building materials, Ludwig von Tetmajer took over as the founder of the TVFA and Bernhard Kirsch, as the board of directors, acted as guide of today's TÜV AUSTRIA TVFA.

Another division of the institute into the areas of "Technical Mechanics I" and "Building Materials Science" took place under the chairman Paul Ludwik . The lectures on "Mechanical Technology for Civil Engineers" and "Building Materials Theory" were ceded to Franz Rinagl in 1924, who succeeded Paul Ludwik as director of the technical research institute and managed the institution from 1934 to 1945. In 1949, Alfons Leon focused on the documentation of research activities to the outside world and the name of the technical research institute was changed to "technical experimental and research institute".

Adolf Slattenschek led the TVFA Vienna from 1952 to 1971. Adolf Slattenschek had to wait for a replacement. A circumstance that was also related to the status of a technical testing and research institute, which is not contained in the "University Organization Act 1975" (UOG). The interim management by Karl Lötsch since 1961 was handed over to Thomas Varga for health reasons in 1978, who was also appointed professor for welding technology and applied materials science.

With the introduction of the “Accreditation Act BGB1. No. 468/1992 “the legal basis was created to put the research institute system on a pan-European level. In 1980 the TVFA Vienna received its own statute as a special university institution based on UOG and was separated from the Institute for “Mechanical Technology I” and “Building Materials”, which was renamed “Institute for Materials Science and Materials Testing”. In 1986 the division into five departments of the TVFA Vienna was approved and implemented. With the introduction of the University Organization Act (UOG 93) in 1999, the institute conference of the TVFA Vienna elected Heinz-Bernd Matthias as director of the TVFA Vienna with effect from December 1, 1999.

In February 2000, a new organizational structure was introduced in accordance with the unanimous resolution of the Senate of the Technical University of Vienna on January 24, 2000. From February 2006 Paul Linhardt led TVFA WIEN. On October 1, 2008, the TVFA Vienna was reorganized into the Technische Tests- und Forschungsanstalt GmbH. Stefan Burtscher and Veronika Mares were responsible for the management from October 1, 2008 to May 1, 2017.

On May 1, 2017, the majority takeover of TVFA Wien by the TÜV AUSTRIA Group took place. Gerhard Höltmann and Joachim Rajek have been responsible for the management ever since.

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