About Us

About us

Vision

Water is our element. Clean water and wastewater worldwide, at economical prices, technically robust and reliable. As passionate engineers and technicians, we contribute to human well-being and economic development by designing and implementing customized water treatment projects. We do not see our activity as a job or a business, we see our professions as a vocation and a mission in life. We always work with full commitment and find challenging and unconventional solutions to complex problems and difficult boundary conditions.

Service areas

Saygin & Stein engineering GmbH (S&S) specializes in developing sophisticated and unconventional solutions for complex and critical water engineering problems. In this context, engineering services are provided for the customer. Individual engineering activities (consulting, development, planning, project management, construction supervision, operational support and optimization) as well as complex projects up to the construction of turnkey plants can be carried out as general contractor for the customer. The classic engineering tasks (planning, procurement, construction management, commissioning, operations management and overall project management) are performed with our own personnel. The manufacture and shipment of the necessary components is carried out by the international partner network of suppliers. Construction services and installation personnel are procured on the local market or provided by the customer.

Team

Markus Kurt Saygin

Managing Director and Partner
Dipl. Ing. Chemistry (TU)
Active in water treatment since the 90s, initially as a student employee in his parents' water treatment company. After graduating as a chemical engineer, he worked as a laboratory manager for drinking water quality during an emergency aid mission in the tsunami area in Southeast Asia (Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia). After the one-year assignment in Southeast Asia, various positions with well-known companies in water treatment followed. Since 2014 working as a freelance engineer; founding partner and managing director of Saygin & Stein engineering GbmH since 2022. Since 2006 working for the German and International Red Cross as trainer, team leader and technical specialist for water treatment in disaster relief. Active in various roles for the association Ingenieure ohne Grenzen e. V. since 2008; among others as Head of the Competence Group Water from 2008 to 2016 and as Chairman of the Board from 2016 to 2022.

Björn Christoph Stein

Authorized signatory and partner
Dipl. Ing. (FH) Environmental and Hygiene Engineering
Christoph Stein started his career in the water industry in 2010 as a student assistant at his university. After a six-month internship at the Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), he worked for a decentralized wastewater management company. This was followed by a period at an international plant engineering company in the water technology sector as a project engineer and representative for the integrated management system for occupational safety, quality and environmental protection. After the flood disaster in the west of Germany in 2021 followed a job as deputy section leader for temporary wastewater treatment plants of the DRK (German Red Cross). Since March 2022, active as founding partner and authorized signatory of Saygin & Stein engineering GmbH. Since 2008 active in various roles for the association Ingenieure ohne Grenzen e. V.; among others as head of competence groups (sanitation and the successor group WASH) and a regional group.

Dietmar Hohmann

Technical employee

Clarifier

Mr. Hohmann started his career as a measuring-regulating mechanic. Since 1980 he has been working in the water industry, first as a measuring-regulating-mechanic, since 1986 as a wastewater master. He studied part-time to become a vocational and occupational educator.

After the flood disaster in the west of Germany in 2021, Mr. Hohmann was immediately active as an unattached helper in the acute phase at the Nürburgring. On site, Mr. Hohmann got to know his colleagues Mr. Saygin and Stein; after a coffee together and a plant tour, Mr. Hohmann joined the German Red Cross as a wastewater treatment specialist. Since the foundation of Saygin & Stein engineering GmbH he has been working as a freelancer.

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Memberships

Ingenieure ohne Grenzen e. V.

IHK

Jobs

Currently, all positions are filled. However, we are always working together with other freelancers and companies within the framework of projects and are constantly striving to expand our network. If you are working in environmental or electrical engineering on a freelance or self-employed basis, we would be pleased to hear from you.

Privacy

General notes and obligatory information

Saygin znd Stein GmbH takes the protection of private data seriously.your personal data will be treated confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations.the use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. As far as on our sides personal data (such as name, address or e-mail addresses) are collected, this is as far as possible on a voluntary basis. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Responsible
The responsible person on this website is:

M. Kurt Saygin

Dipl.-Ing. chem.

Krefelder Str. 12

10555 Berlin

Germany

E-Mail: kurt.saygin(a)sas-eng.de

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You have the right to complain to the competent data protection authority at any time. If you wish to exercise your right of complaint, you can do so at the following authority:

Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Friedrichstrasse 219
10969 Berlin

Telephone: 030/138 89-0
Fax: 030/2155050
E-mail: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de

Imprint

This website is an information offer of (information according to § 5 TMG):

Saygin and Stein GmbH

Krefelder Str. 12

10555 Berlin

Germany

Represented by:

M. Kurt Saygin

Dipl.-Ing. chem.

contact:

Mobile: + 49 (0) 179 - 882 51 58

E-Mail: kurt.saygin@sas-eng.de

Value added tax:

Sales tax identification number according to §27 a Umsatzsteuergesetz:

DE 352197205

Contact for questions about the website:

Admin,

e-mail: info@sas-eng.de

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