Our certificates

Both Tom and Ingmar hold the following certificates:

• Expert for the technical control of climbing structures (Sachkunde zur Prüfung von Kletteranlagen, Boulderwänden und Klettergriffen nach DIN EN 12572)
• Expert for the control of Personal Protection Equipment Fall Protection (Sachkundiger nach DGUV Grundsatz 312-906, Teilbereich PSAgA)
• Internationally-certified route setters (FLERA, Luxqf2)
• Internationally-certified operator for lifting platforms type 1a, 1b, 3a, 3b (IPAF with PAL licence)
  
  

Our services

Consulting and construction services
HiFive offers consulting and development of climbing wall/gym concepts customised towards your clients’ needs, as well as preliminary planning and support in the preparation and evaluation of the contract award, post-construction assessments and long-term technical control. Additional services that we offer include the selection of material and equipment both for your clients and your gym/wall.


Technical control of your climbing structure
Here we use our internationally-certified expertise to undertake a solid technical control of your climbing structure based on the international standard DIN EN 12752 and provide you with a report of the potential safety issues. The inspection of the climbing facility is based on the specifications of the current standard (DIN EN 12572-1/2:2017-07 Artificial climbing structures – Part 1: Safety requirements and test methods for artificial climbing structures and anchor points. Part 2: Safety requirements and test methods for bouldering walls), the current state of the art and it is also based upon our years of experience.

Control of your Personal Protection Equipment (PPE, PSAgA)
We are internationally-certified experts for Personal Protection Equipment such as harnesses, ropes, quickdraws and carabiners, or other technical devices that are required for working at height. We would be happy to undertake controls of your PPE equipment, and, if necessary, help you find alternatives. We will provide you with a control book to help you with keeping track of your equipment.

Routesetting
As certified route setters we are happy to help you create new routes in your gym to keep your climbers motivated and challenged. Whether you would like to have routes for beginners, difficult routes for competitions, boulders, technical problems or dynamic ones or fun little gems – we are happy to satisfy your clients’ needs.

For inquiries please get in touch. 

References

Among the various projects that we undertook, we would like to refer here to some examples that were the most interesting for us.

Construction example

Among projects for schools and climbing gyms for new walls or extensions of old ones, definitely the coolest project that we realized was the climbing structure on the cooling tower of an old nuclear power plant, which was converted into a family park in Kalkar, Germany. It is roughly 40m high, and it was the highest climbing structure in Europe.

Consulting services

We provide consulting services for gyms, where we analyze their gym structure, development, and we consult gyms on expansions, route setting, hiring decisions, holds selection, courses, and many more.

Technical control of climbing structures and PPE

We are undertaking the technical control of climbing structures and the regular control of personal protection equipment (PPE, PSAgA) at various climbing gyms throughout the region.

The most interesting control is at the national climbing wall Coque on Kirchberg, in Luxembourg. This is the gym designed for national competitions in mind and also a place where we regularly enjoy climbing ourselves.

Route setting experiences

We are internationally certified route setters and we regularly set in climbing gyms around Europe. In addition, we set for the national climbing competitions in Luxembourg, both for bouldering and climbing.

We often set also in gyms for fun cups or competitions, where we also have experience with the organizion of the route setting teams.