August 2011
Please visit us at our SOFiSTiK seminar und workshop in Paris on 9/16/2011 (Registration/
Program)
May 2011
Have a look at the SOFiSTiK presentation in french.
January 2011
ABES SA (South Afrika) a new partner.
September 2010
5 years ABES IT. Thank you to all customers, partners and friends.
May 2010
Welcome Guido Altersberger as new colleague.
December 2009
Kick-off for our sales activities in England with ABES UK.
October 2009
SOFISTIK expert discussion with the topic bridgebuilding on 29.10.2009 in Linz.
(Program,
Announcement)
June 2009
official release of new version for all customers.
What has to be considered?
May 2009
Opening of footbridge in Waidhofen/Ybbs. We thank DI Erhard Kargel for the cooperation.

Presentation of the new version SOFiSTiK2010 in Nuremberg during a user workshop. We thank the 180 attendees for their coming.
January 2009
Cooperation with
Lafarge bzgl
DUCTAL

We are glad to welcome Alexandra Kraus in our team.
December 2008
completion of Suspension bridge over the river Rhine representing a connection between Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Please contact
Bänziger und Partner * for detailed information.
Project: „Energie-, Fuss- und Radwegbrücke Buchs-Schaan“
November 2008
Customer visits in Switzerland, France, Finland, Thailand.
Conference: Norway*
We thank all attendants for coming to the seminar in Riga. We look forward to meeting you again in 2009.
October 2008
User workshop and presentation/discussion of program features. Riga, 23.10. and 24.10.2008
Program [*.pdf]
Registration [*.pdf]
August 2008
During autumn 2008 we will organize international user meeetings. Please contact us for detailed information regarding location and dates.

Visiting clients in Australia, Switzerland and France.
Juli 2008
ABES is happy to have a minor contribution to the olympic games in Bejing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletes_Alley
April 2008
Cooperation with
Garambone
startet for software distribution in Brazil.

The yearly SOFISTIK seminar took place in Hannover and we could welcome 158 attendants. The topics for the talks can be viewed under www.sofistik.de/seminar2008 English translations are partially available, please get in touch with us in case you wish to receive PDFs for the presentations.
March 2008
Our compliments to Leonhardt, Andrä and Partner for winning the 1sr prize of the german bridge building award (www.brueckenbaupreis.de) in the category of foot- and bicyclebridges. This project was presented at the SOFISTIK seminar 2006 by DI Wolfgang Strobl. You can download his seminar-article here [*.pdf]*


ABES company excursion on 14.3.2008
January 2008
Client visit in Ethiopia, Egypt, Sweden, France, Portugal, Finland
and Australia.


New release preTee – Analysis and design of precast pre-tensioned beams with onsite casted concrete slab [*.pdf]
Dezember 2007
The ABES / BALLOON christmas festivities will be on December 14th - invitations are being sent out.
Oktober 2007
Co-operation between Autodesk and SOFiSTik concering REVIT was started - more information here.
September 2007
On September 28th, 2007 we could welcome 80 guests for
our seminar "Finite
Elemente im Ingenieurbau - Theorie und Praxis".


August 2007
ABES presented the geotechnic - and tunnelling features of SOFiSTiK
and FIDES DVP at the interantional euro:tun2007
conference in Vienna.
July 2007
SOFiSTiK celebrates the 20th anniversary together with
long-time companions.
New tutorial movies for SOFiPLUS
and SSD.
June 2007
Agreement with new representative for Indochina - Vietcotech
in Vietnam.
We look forward to welcoming Sabine Resch in the ABES team.
May 2007
International partner meeting of SOFiSTiK in Nuremberg. Presentation
of turnover in 2006 making it to best year ever for SOFiSTiK AG.
Gernot Margreitner joins the ABES software development team.
February 2007
Cooperation with GIPAC
startet for software distribution in Portugal.
January 2007
New SOFiSTiK package for PT slabs available. AutoCAD based geometry
and tendon modelling (SOFiPLUS), load combiantion, reinforcment design,
design code checks. Download here.
December 2006
Christmas festivities in our office premises for staff, clients and
friends.

July 2006
Paul Pieringer joins the ABES software development team.
June 2006
FFG approves RELAS research project. ABES IT cooperates with Schimetta
Consult and IC Konsulenten.
May 2006
Cooperation started with M.I.O. of Paris for the software
distribution and localisation in France.
ABES is appointed as the premium SOFiSTiK representative for Switzerland.
April 2006
FFG approves CABD research project.
February 2006
ABES Pircher & Partner GmbH and ABES
Advanced Bridge Engineering Systems PTY LTD, Sydney
announced their cooperation in the field of software development and
software distribution.
Isabella Beringer joins the ABES team.
January 2006
Foundation of ABES
ZT-GmbH by the same members (Johann Wagner, Martin
Pircher, Georg Pircher). ABES ZT-GmbH offers professional consulting
services in all fields of the civil engineering.
December 2005
Elisabeth Pinter joins the ABES team.
Official
opening for friends and clients on December 9th, 2005
(*.pdf)
November 2005
Contract signed with 3Bau
from Switzerland for co-operation for the calculation of the first
extradosed bridge in the Baltic countries.
Oktober 2005
ABES IT signed an agreement with SOFiSTiK
for international distribution and development co-operation.
ABES IT was founded by Georg Pircher, Johann Wagner and Martin Pircher.
The company activities:
- Engineering software development
- International distribution and support
- Calculation centre and engineering services
* Please note, that these are external links leading you to our co-operation partner SOFiSTiK