The Company
Creating sustainable value
- Sustainable projects increasingly the preferred choice of HOCHTIEF clients
- Sustainability as value driver
- CSR strategy integral to HOCHTIEF corporate strategy
HOCHTIEF is a leading international provider of construction services, with integrated capabilities spanning the entire infrastructure project, real estate and facility life cycle. Serving the market for over 130 years, our company today offers a portfolio of services in four primary modules: development, construction, services, and concessions and operation. The established HOCHTIEF global network places us on the map in all of the world’s major markets. We believe that sustainable development is attained through the interaction of economic, sociocultural and environmental factors. The challenge we face lies in convincing clients of the benefits and efficiency of sustainable solutions. Backed by HOCHTIEF’s sustainable construction expertise, we are increasingly successful at mastering that challenge: Energysaving and resource-conserving projects are the preferred option for increasing numbers of our clients. This trend can be clearly seen at our US subsidiary Turner, which is steadily expanding its green building activities.
Corporate strategy built on sustainability
By implementing our strategy, which embodies sustainability in many ways, we create value for investors, clients, trading partners and the company. The huge importance of sustainability in business corporations is confirmed in research by URS . This network of architects, engineers, technicians and natural scientists commissioned a survey of over 2,200 mergers and acquisitions experts to find out how investors rate companies that operate by sustainable principles. The findings leave no room for doubt: Over 80 percent of respondents believe that sustainability directly enhances value.
With high-margin services and a track record of delivering solutions tailored to the needs of each client, we invest in tomorrow’s markets and drive ahead expansion in highgrowth regions. Notable activity areas include renewable energy sources and energy efficiency. By maintaining clear
focus in this way, we lay the foundations to master new challenges.
Project life cycle solutions
A cornerstone of the HOCHTIEF strategy consists in providing service along the entire length of the infrastructure project, real estate and facility life cycle. Clients, HOCHTIEF and ideally the environment too consequently benefit from partnership-based dialog beginning long before the construction phase.
Life cycle management at HOCHTIEF is closely tied to the production process for our projects. To give some examples for each phase:
- Development: HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung produces a real estate development plan, acquires the site and sets the planning approval procedure in motion. It is possible at this stage to positively influence the future operating costs, for example, in terms of energy consumption.
- Planning: Together with architects and the responsible authorities, the project is designed and planned incorporating investment and urban planning requirements.
- Marketing/leasing/sales: Working closely with reputable brokers, the space is rented out or sold to final investors.
- Finance: HOCHTIEF assembles a financing plan and helps implement it.
- Construction planning: HOCHTIEF Consult performs the structural calculations and is responsible for executing the plans.
- Construction management: HOCHTIEF Construction develops a site plan, ensuring such vital factors as health and safety and a smooth workflow.
- Procurement: HOCHTIEF’s procurement function obtains materials, systems and services, and directly subcontracts other work.
- Construction: HOCHTIEF Construction builds the development, in whole or part.
- Logistics: HOCHTIEF’s subsidiary Streif Baulogistik takes charge of functions such as site setup and access control, and may provide cranes and other construction machinery.