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A modern sewage sludge incineration plant is to be built on the site of the Munich Gut Großlappen sewage treatment plant in the next few years. As a result, additional piping capacities are necessary. For the construction of a further installation channel, the Munich branch of PORR Spezialtiefbau was commissioned by the Saaldorf-Surheim branch of PORR to construct a watertight construction pit…

On the A10 motorway between the Erkner junction and the Spreeau triangle, the Berlin/Eisenhüttenstadt branch of PORR is replacing the existing concrete surface with an asphalt superstructure over a distance of around 5,200 metres in the direction of the Barnim triangle. The maintenance work, commissioned by Autobahn GmbH des Bundes's north-eastern branch, is scheduled to be completed by December…

Our apprentice Lara from Münster has passed her two-and-a-half-year- apprenticeship as an industrial business management assistant with flying colours and was honoured for her excellent final grades. She is among the best in her year at both the Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Construction Industry of North Rhine-Westphalia. Would you like to know what Lara's highlights of her…

In August 2022, the Construction and Property Service of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (BLB NRW) awarded PORR Hochbau West the contract for two state-of-the-art, turnkey laboratory buildings on the campus of the Technical University of East Westphalia-Lippe in Lemgo. A good two years later, the building for the Life Science Technologies department on Bunsenstraße was handed over. This will…

Advancing the green transformation in steel production: PORR Spezialtiefbau is realising the special civil engineering works for the first direct reduction plant at thyssenkrupp in Duisburg in a joint venture with Implenia. The consortium was commissioned with the pile foundations in the form of Franki piles, a subsoil improvement using CMC columns, as well as with the construction of one of the…

PORR Tunnelling is carrying out the conversion of the Rudolf-Fettweis-Werk (RFW) Forbach on behalf of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG. The aim is to transform the existing storage and run-of-river power plant into a modern pumped storage power plant. After the access tunnel reached the power plant cavern on schedule in September 2024, another milestone has now been reached: the energy discharge…

A group of female students from Chernihiv Polytechnic National University in Chernihiv, Ukraine, visited the Rhine-Main region as part of a week-long study programme. The aim of the programme was to exchange expertise with future civil engineers and architects, as well as to promote international knowledge transfer and networking among young talents in the construction industry. One of the…

231 new rental apartments are being built in the Havelufer Quartier in Spandau, Berlin. The project is being realised by PORR's building construction Region East on behalf of HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH. The new build will comprise around 12,000 m² of living space and is set to be completed by December 2025. The project prioritises social, ecological and economic sustainability in order to…

The Oldenburg branch of PORR Spezialtiefbau in the northern region has a home field advantage in the construction of the replacement Huntebrücke. On behalf of the Adam Hörnig Baugesellschaft from Aschaffenburg, it is producing 260 environmentally friendly and slender Frankipiles NG® for the foundations of 14 bridge pillars. The first construction phase lasted from June to September 2024. PORR…

Work on the Elbe crossing of the SuedLink, ElbX, is progressing under challenging conditions: the underwater concrete base has been installed in a 25-metre-deep construction pit. This step is a central milestone on the way to tunnelling under the Elbe. Since the start and finish shafts are in groundwater, the construction pits for the shafts must be waterproof and stable.