Durable multi-storey and underground car parks

The DBV guide to good practice "Multi-storey and Underground Car Parks" with the supplementary DBV booklets 42 and 46 are among the publications in the extensive DBV publication collection, devoted to the subject of parking structures, The aim of these publications is, among other things, to provide practitioners working in the field of designing and execution with planning principles, solutions for details, implementation instructions and, above all, measures to ensure adequate durability of parking structures. It summarizes many guidelines for the design and construction of parking structures that have proven their worth in practice. An updated 2022 reprint of the DBV guide to good practice "Multi-storey and Underground Car Parks" based on the January 2018 version will be published shortly. This article presents the DBV publications, their contents, objectives and interrelation and explains the changes made in the updated DBV guide to good practice reprint.