Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus und Partner GmbH

What Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus und Partner GmbH does

Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus und Partner GmbH (operating as 'kup') is a German engineering consultancy headquartered in Leinfelden-Echterdingen near Stuttgart, founded in 1994 as a privately held GmbH under managing directors Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Lang and Dipl.-Ing. Armin Durach. The firm specializes in hydraulic engineering and water management consulting, with stated service lines spanning numerical modeling, GIS-based visualization, field measurement, and consulting/planning for flood protection, water ecology, water rights procedures, and water resource management. A publicly listed team of approximately 19 engineers combines disciplines across hydrogeology, environmental sciences, and geography.

Name

Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus und Partner GmbH

Legal name

Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus und Partner GmbH

Website

https://kobus-partner.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus und Partner GmbH is a Stuttgart-area German engineering consultancy founded in 1994, providing numerical modeling, GIS visualization, field measurement, and water-management planning services to municipalities, public authorities, water suppliers, and engineering firms in Germany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hydraulic Engineering Consulting

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Water, Wastewater & Hydraulics Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Water Quality & Watershed/Hydrologic Modeling (SWMM/HEC-RAS, Flood/Runoff/Nutrient) (EUAHAKAF), Hydraulic Modeling & System Optimization (Calibration, Minimum Night Flow, Demand Analysis) (EUANAKAM), Design & Engineering for Renewal/Expansion (Pipelines, Pump Stations, Treatment Plants) (EUANALAD), Water Supply & Wastewater Utilities Administration (BPAIACAG)

Keywords

• Hydraulic engineering consulting
• Water management services
• Numerical modeling solutions
• Groundwater measurement services
• Flood protection planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Leinfelden-Echterdingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting and Planning Services: Professional engineering services for water management topics including flood protection concepts, water ecological concepts, water law procedures, and water management planning. Services provided to municipalities, public authorities, water suppliers, and engineering firms.
2. Measurement Services: Field measurement services including groundwater monitoring, flow and discharge measurements, groundwater exploration, and data management. Measurement data integrated into model considerations and used as basis for engineering consulting.
3. Numerical Modeling Services: Application, coupling, and extension of numerical models for groundwater, surface water, lakes, water balance, wind and weather, and CFD modeling. Models based on finite difference, finite volume, or finite element methods.
4. Visualization Services: GIS and web-based mapping solutions for visualization of measurement and model data. Includes custom web-GIS applications and database systems.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The company provides engineering consulting and planning services for hydraulic problems involving natural water bodies and technical installations. Core offerings include numerical modeling (groundwater, surface water, lake, CFD), field measurement services (groundwater monitoring, flow measurements), GIS-based visualization through the proprietary kupmaps Web-GIS platform, and consulting on flood protection, water rights procedures, and water resource management for municipalities, water utilities, and public authorities.

Product overview

Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus und Partner GmbH (kup) is an engineering consulting firm founded in 1994 specializing in water management and hydraulic engineering. The company offers a portfolio of interconnected services centered around numerical modeling, visualization, measurement, and consulting/planning. The core offering is kupmaps, a proprietary web-based database and mapping system that integrates with GIS platforms. Services span groundwater modeling (using FEFLOW, MODFLOW), surface water modeling (Hydro-AS-2D, HEC-RAS), lake modeling (Delft3D, AEM3D), CFD modeling, and specialized aquathermal energy services (lake and river thermal energy extraction). The company also provides field measurement services (groundwater monitoring, flow measurements) and water management consulting including flood protection and water ecological planning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• kupmaps: Web-based database and mapping system developed by the company for visualizing measurement data, model data, and document management.

Products and services

• kupmaps Web-GIS Platform Proprietary web-based database and mapping system developed by the company for visualizing measurement data, model data, and spatial information, featuring a geodatabase, map application, document management, and project planning capabilities. Built on PostgreSQL/PostGIS with SharePoint and OpenStreetMap integration.
• Numerical Modeling Services Application, coupling, and extension of spatially and temporally resolved numerical models based on finite difference, finite volume, or finite element methods for hydrological and hydraulic processes across groundwater, surface water, lake, and CFD use cases.
• Field Measurement Services Field measurement services including groundwater monitoring, flow and discharge measurements, groundwater exploration, and comprehensive data management with validation and database organization.
• Consulting and Planning Services Water management consulting covering flood protection concepts, water ecological concepts, water law procedures, and water management planning, including public relations and participation concepts for infrastructure projects.
• GIS Services Geographic Information System services using ArcGIS products from ESRI and open-source QGIS for capturing, organizing, editing, analyzing, visualizing, and presenting spatially-referenced data.
• Aquathermal Energy Services (Aquathermie) Engineering services for heat energy extraction from surface water using the high heat capacity of water for heating and hot water preparation via heat pumps and district heating networks.
• Lake Thermal Energy Services (Seethermie) Lake water thermal energy extraction using intake and return structures with heat exchangers, with physical impact analysis through prognostic lake models.
• River Thermal Energy Services (Flussthermie) River water thermal energy extraction using intake and return structures, with potential and hydrodynamic impact analysis through two-dimensional hydrodynamic models.

Quantifiable outcome

• Improved flood risk management through comprehensive flood protection concepts and heavy rain risk management
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• FH-DGGV (Fachsektion Hydrogeologie e.V.)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership in the Hydrogeology Section of the German Society for Geosciences. Employees participate in the Calibration and Forecasting Working Group and the Hydrogeology of Arid Areas Working Group.
• DWA (Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall e.V.)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership in the German Water Association. Employees participate in the Lake Modeling Working Group, Groundwater-Lake Interaction Working Group, and Bog Rewetting Working Group.
• Altlastenforum Baden-Württemberg e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership in the Brownfield Forum of Baden-Württemberg for exchange on contaminated site issues.
• EAWAGcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner in Interreg III project SeeWandel-Klima for modeling climate change and neobiota impacts on Lake Constance. Swiss aquatic research institute.
• University of KonstanzcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner in SeeWandel-Klima project for climate change impact modeling on Lake Constance.
• University of InnsbruckcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner in SeeWandel-Klima project for climate change impact modeling on Lake Constance.
• Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in SeeWandel-Klima project using the BodenseeOnline model system as basis for extended modeling of climate change and neobiota impacts.
• Steinbeis-Mediationsforum e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership in mediation forum for dispute resolution in technical projects.
• Partner Firms for Drilling and GeophysicsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLong-term cooperation with partner firms for drilling operations requiring heavy equipment and geophysics specialists.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Ramboll: Ramboll is a large international engineering, consulting and architecture firm with significant water, environment and climate adaptation capabilities - competing with kup on municipal flood protection, water law and water resources mandates at the upper end of the project size range.
• Arcadis: Arcadis is a global design and consultancy firm with a substantial water and climate adaptation practice - a broad incumbent providing hydraulic, flood risk and water resources services that overlap with kup's municipal and water authority offerings.
• AFRY (formerly Pöyry): AFRY is a large European engineering, design and advisory firm with a strong water and environment practice covering water supply, wastewater, hydrology and hydraulic engineering - a broad incumbent that competes for larger municipal and industrial water projects where kup also bids.
• Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech is a global consulting and engineering firm with deep water resources, groundwater and surface water modeling practices - a broad incumbent whose service portfolio directly overlaps with kup's groundwater, surface water and water rights services.

Direct peers

• Deltares: Deltares is a Dutch applied research institute for water, subsurface and infrastructure offering consulting, modeling software (iMOD, Delft3D) and applied research - directly comparable to kup's groundwater, surface water and lake modeling services and to its research partnership model.
• Björnsen Beratende Ingenieure: Björnsen is a German engineering consultancy specializing in water resources, hydraulic engineering, water supply and wastewater - a directly comparable specialist competitor serving municipalities and public authorities in Germany.
• Hydrotec (Technische Hydraulik, Beck, Hartig & Partner): Hydrotec is a German engineering firm focused on hydrology, flood protection, hydraulic modeling and water management consulting - a closely comparable specialist competing in many of the same tendered municipal flood and water rights projects.
• Ingenieurgemeinschaft für Landwirtschaft und Wasserwirtschaft (ILW): A small/mid-size German water engineering consultancy offering hydrology, hydraulic and water management services to municipalities and agricultural clients - comparable in scale and service mix to kup.
• DHI A/S: DHI (Danish Hydraulic Institute) is a direct peer: an international consulting and software firm providing hydraulic modeling, water resources and coastal engineering services - including MIKE Powered by DHI modeling tools that overlap with kup's groundwater, surface water and CFD modeling offerings.

Others

• EAWAG: EAWAG is a Swiss aquatic research institute that is both a research partner of kup (SeeWandel-Klima) and an adjacent player in lake modeling and aquatic science - included as a peer because it is both collaborator and partial competitor for applied lake/water research mandates.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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