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A lot has happened since the southern Salzbachtal bridge was built on the A66 in Wiesbaden: The reinforced concrete work for the two Aartalbahn superstructures was completed on time. Since the end of May, the steel structure of the southern superstructure has been lying on the bridge piers and on the abutments. The reinforced concrete work on this steel structure has begun. The southern cycle…

Since 2016, an Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) depot of the U.S. Army Europe has been located in Eygelshoven, the Netherlands. Equipment is stored in air-conditioned warehouses with an area of almost 42,000 m2 as well as on more than 4,600 m2 of paved parking. In February 2023, BBGS in Kaiserslautern, Germany, was awarded the contract to renew the power grid including lines, subdistributions and…

Another building block for the energy transition

In Münster-Gremmendorf, Wohn + Stadtbau GmbH is currently realising the York-Quartier - a residential quarter with a total of 753 flats, 477 of which are publicly funded. Oevermann Hochbau, a PORR company, took on the shell construction and facing work on this construction site.

Ryan Hamilton emigrated from Australia to Germany four years ago for love. Here he started an apprenticeship as a special civil engineering technician at Stump-Franki and completed it with extraordinary success: He was awarded the prize for best apprentice in Germany by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Today, Ryan works as a special civil engineering contractor at his training company in the…

Where paper and later ploughs were once manufactured, an urban quarter for up to 1,500 people has been under construction since 2021. At the end of 2020, PORR Hochbau Region Süd was awarded the contract by project developer ehret + klein for the turnkey realisation of two of the total of 11 construction phases. The implementation planning for architecture and building services was carried out by…

A vital step forward in the energy transition

As part of the Donau expansion between Straubing and Vilshofen, the harbour basin in the port of Straubing-Sand is being deepened. In the invitation to tender issued by the Zweckverband Hafen Straubing-Sand, the Stuttgart-based Stump-Franki subsidiary secured the contract for Lot 1, which comprises the reinforcement of the existing sheet pile wall with 1076 permanent grouted anchors. The German…

On 14 June 2023, as part of the "German Construction Industry Day" in Berlin, the newly introduced DGNB certificate for "Sustainable Construction Site - Special Civil Engineering" was awarded for the first time to seven specialised civil engineering companies. Stump-Franki Spezialtiefbau GmbH, a subsidiary of PORR, is one of the award-winning companies. It received a preliminary certificate with a…

In addition to over 35 locations in Germany, PORR also opens up international opportunities for its employees: this was experienced by students on the dual course in civil engineering at the University of Applied Sciences 21 in Buxtehude. They visited our mother company, the PORR Group, in Vienna and learned that PORR stands for international and innovative career prospects.