Ladies and gentlemen, participants in our Congress,
“Let’s make music as friends” was the motto of the American director Leonard Bernstein. The greatly diverging interests of the individual parties involved in construction projects, however, cannot be so easily applied to the building sector. At the same time, it’s worthwhile to promote efforts, structures, and tools that create a priority for our common goal: to provide high-quality construction while observing the constraints of cost-effectiveness. One contribution toward this goal is a body of regulations, the preparation of which constitutes an essential part of the activity of the German...
