Climate change and torrential rain in Germany
Challenges for the construction industry
In Germany, global warming is likely to result in increasingly extreme weather events, more frequent and heavier precipitation, and extended heat and drought periods, combined with a generally higher pressure on the climatic water balance owing to increased evaporation. Furthermore, Germany has entered a new era of record-high temperatures in the wake of simultaneously exceeding the 40°C threshold on 25 July 2019 at an unprecedented 25 weather stations operated by Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD; German Meteorological Service) and the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces. Against this backdrop, we...
