Objectives of the association

Partnerships

Quality assurance through the GSV quality seal

Guidelines

Informational booklets

Standards

Promoting research and development

Conferences, Specialist publications

Partnerships

Promotion of a spirit of partnership between formwork users and suppliers

Committee work in the national and international context

Cooperation with other specialist associations

Experience exchanges between designers and users

Quality assurance

Creation of practical requirement criteria for the inspection of formwork

Awarding the GSV quality seal to formwork that meets these criteria

External monitoring of production and use of certified formwork

Guidelines, informational booklets

GSV guideline “Quality criteria for rental formwork”

GSV instructional booklet “Rental formwork”

GSV guideline “Guideline for granting the GSV quality seal for frame formwork for vertical components” (walls and columns)

GSV guideline “Handling and maintenance instructions for formwork systems”

Standards

DIN Deutsches Institut für
Normung e. V.

CEN European Committee for Standardization

GSV Academy

Knowledge transfer

Organiser of the TUD-GSV symposiums at the Technical University of Darmstadt

Co-organiser of the Kassel construction seminar “Formwork”

Participation in construction seminars

Knowledge transfer through in-house training

Courses

Research, development

Research projects

Support of dissertations and theses

Support of technical and engineering education

Membership

Requirements: companies and individuals who develop, construct, design, distribute, manufacture, market and/or use formwork.

The members make available all matters relating to the construction, design and use of the formwork to the association.

Members

Requirements for membership