2005

S1.E1 ∙ "Spillerne", Fra spade til videnskab - 1860-1940

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Describes the work of Danish companies Christiani and Hansen, Hoffman and Sons and Rasmussen and Schiøtz on developing harbor construction, coastal protection and road works in Denmark. Further outlines the development of the structural engineering education at "Polyteknisk Læreanstalt".

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S1.E2 ∙ Morgenrøde: Guldalderen - 1917-1940

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Details the rise of Danish engineering companies between the first and second World War, with the construction of the caissons for The Little Belt Bridge by Monberg and Thorsen, the construction of two railways in Turkey and Trans-Siberian Railway spanning more than 2,000 km by Kampsax, and the construction of the harbor of Gdynia in Poland by Højgaard and Schultz.

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S1.E3 ∙ "H-planen" - 1936-2000

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Describes H-Plan project developed by the engineering and entrepreneur companies Christiani and Nielsen, Højgaard and Schultz and Kampsax for a motorway network that spans across the entirety of Denmark, with connections across Oresund and The Great Belt. Details how the plan was implemented between 1950 and 2000 by the Danish state.

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S1.E4 ∙ "Krigsår", Offentlige arbejder - for hvem? 1940-45

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Details the period between 1940 and 1945 where Denmark was occupied by Germany, and the choices that entrepreneur and engineering companies had to make whether or not to work for the German occupiers and the ensuing fallout in the Danish courts.

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S1.E5 ∙ "Byggeriet industrialiseres", Modul- & systembyggeri 1950-1980

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Describes how the Danish housing crisis in the 1950s was solved by the development of industrialized modular housing construction. Details how the solution was proposed by engineering advisers and implemented by entrepreneurs using factories specialized in the production of modular housing using unskilled labor.

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S1.E6 ∙ "Drag ud", International ekspansion - 1950-2005

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

After the 1980s, Denmark has lost grasp of their international engineering dominance, with only two companies still being successful internationally. COWI, an engineering consultation business, that provide engineers in advisory roles to foreign entrepreneurial companies, and Pihl and Son, a contracting company.

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S1.E7 ∙ "Fusioner, værdier, produktivitet", Patriarkernes Fald - 1990-2005

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Outlines the future of Danish entrepreneurship and engineering, and how the focus has shifted towards raising productivity through partnering, "trimbyg" and construction management, and how times have changed for smaller companies who cannot afford to compete with the larger dominating companies.

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