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BRANDENBURG GATE
• Work started in 1788 and ended in 1791
• Sponsored by King Frederick William II of Prussia
• Designed by the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans
• The purpose of the project was to implement a sign of peace
• The uniqueness of the project comes from the design. The gate consists of twelve Doric columns, six to each side, forming five passageways
• Time was fixed and cost could be traded off -
LUDWIGSKANAL
• Named after King Ludwig I of Bavaria
• Built between 1836 and 1846
• Linked the Danube basin with the Rhine basin
• Waterways such as this were important transport routes before railways became common place
• King Ludwig was determined to make this canal operational so the performance of the project was fixed, while cost was optimised, and the delivery date was traded-off -
NEUSCHWANSTEIN CASTLE
• Neuschwanstein Castle was built between 1869 and 1886
• It sits on a rugged hill near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany
• Eduard Riedel worked on the architecture of the building
• Julius Hofmann worked on the construction project of the castle
• The castle was built for the King of Bavaria
• The project priority was constrained on the quality
• Since the project was extensively based on borrowed funds cost was enhanced and Time was accepted -
FIRST AUTOMOBILE
• The first commercial fuel powered motor was created by Carl Benz
• The motor ran for the first time on New Year's Eve in 1879
• Benz motors sponsored the project
• The automobile was developed between 1885 and 1886
• The project purpose was to make motorised transportation
• Benz went on to develop a lightweight one-chamber two-stroke unit auto fuelled by a gas motor, with a yield Of 0.75 hP (055 kW)
• Performance was fixed as it is the first automobile and time could be traded off -
CHILEHAUS
• Built between 1922 and 1924 in Hamburg
• Designed by the German architect Fritz Hoger
• Ten-story rakish office block that takes up 6,000 square meters at ground floor level
• Considered an excellent example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of design
• Features dispersed block pilasters
• Sponsored by shipping magnate Henry B Sloman
• Quality was fixed as Mr Sloman wanted only the best design and for that he traded off the cost -
AIRBAG
• The first auto airbag development was patented by the Engineer, Walter Linderer
• The project started in 1951 and ended in 1953
• Linderer’s airbag was based on a compressed air system, which either released by bumper contact or by the driver
• Even though Linderer applied for a patent first, the American John Hetrick actually got the patent first
• Priority for this project was on the delivery time, and the quality was traded off -
SCHIERSTEIN BRIDGE
• Started in 1959 and ended in 1962
• Funded by the German government
• Designed by the architects Leonhardt und Andrä
• The purpose of the project was to develop the Rhine-Main region’s road infrastructure
• To deal with the difference in elevation between the two sides of the river, an elevated bridge structure with 31 piers spanning the Mombach floodplain was required.
• The performance was fixed and cost was traded off -
BREAKER HYDRAULIC
• Project started in 1966 and completed in 1967
• Sponsored by the German company Krupp (now Atlas-
Copco)
• It was invented by Alain Desmeules
• The first hydraulic breaker was "Hydraulikhammer HM 400"
• The uniqueness of a hydraulic breaker is that its powerful
percussion hammer can be fitted to an excavator for
demolishing concrete structures or rocks
• The quality was fixed as its a new product and cost was traded
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BERLIN WALL
• Berlin wall between the West Berlin and East Berlin was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East German) government
• The project started with a wire fence and concrete block wall in 1961
• Improved concrete wall was built between 1965–1975
• The wall was 140 Kms (87 miles) long.
• The wall was built to prevent the people fleeing from East Germany to West Germany so time was fixed and cost could be traded off. -
SMARTCARD
• The project started in 1976 and was patented in 1978
• Helmut Gröttrup along with Joseph Mayer invented the smart card
• DAT EGE was the sponsor of the chip card project
• The purpose of the first Smart card was develop a credit or id sized car with embedded circuits that can process data
• Unique because it was the first such card
• The project’s quality was fixed because the card simply had to work and be patent-able, while delivery date was optimized, and the cost was traded-off -
SMS -SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE
• Project was started in 1985 and was completed in Nov1987
• The SMS idea was sponsored by Franco-German GSM
collaboration
• F.Hillebrand and B.Ghillebaert invented it
• The purpose of SMS was to transport messages on the signalling
paths needed to control the telephone traffic during periods when
no signalling traffic existed
• SMS is unique in that it can be implemented in every cellular base
station simply by updating its software
• The time was set fixed and cost could be traded off -
MP3
• Project started in December 1988 and was completed in June 1989
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Company sponsored it
• Karlheinz Brandenburg, Bernd Kurten and Ernst Eberlein are known for the innovation
• MP3 compression achieves 75 to 95% reduction in file size
• Unique project because it uses psychoacoustic models to reduce the precision of components less audible to human hearing
• Quality was fixed as it had to improve on all existing systems and the cost of development was traded off -
MAGDEBURG /ELBE WATER BRIDGE
• Started in 1997 and completed in 2003
• Designed by Ingenieurbüro Grassl GmbH Beratende Ingenieure Bauwesen
• Sponsored by Bilfinger Berger SE
• Largest navigable aqueduct in central Germany
• Allows large commercial ships to pass between the Rhineland and Berlin without having to descend into and then climb out of the River Elbe itself
• The project’s quality was fixed because the bridge had to work, while the cost was optimized, and the delivery date was traded-off to achieve that. -
ALLIANZ ARENA
• The project started in October 2002 and got completed in May 2005
• The architect behind the Allianz Arena was Herzog & de Meuron ArupSport
• The project was funded by Allianz Arena München Stadion GmbH and the German government
• The purpose of the project was to provide a football stadium in Munich with a seating capacity of 75,000
• The stadium is unique because it is the first stadium in the world with a full colour changing exterior
• The quality was fixed and cost was traded off -
BMW CENTRAL BUILDING
• Started in March 2003 and ended in May 2005
• Funded by BMW AG Munich Germany
• The project was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects
• The purpose of the project was to have a centralized building for BMW
• The uniqueness in the project was the offices, meeting rooms, and public relations facilities are all built around elevated conveyors, creating an interesting relationship between the employees, the cars, and the public
• The cost was fixed and time could be traded off
