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PORR expands infrastructure division in Germany

PORR is adopting the voluntary pay increase recommended by the German employers' associations with retroactive effect from 1 May 2024, which will increase collectively agreed wages and salaries by five percent in the West and six percent in the East. The training allowance will also increase.

Working on construction sites is dangerous, especially at height. In order to protect the construction site team, PORR ensures early detection, elimination and prevention of accident hazards with comprehensive and tried-and-tested occupational safety concepts. Having recently passed the surveillance audit for SCCP certification on the Horb High Bridge with flying colours, the construction site of…

A new milestone in the "PFLEGEN & WOHNEN WILHELMSBURG" project in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg was celebrated on 24 April 2024: The topping-out ceremony for "Haus Linde" marked the completion of the shell of the care facility. The event was celebrated together with the client HSI - Hamburger Senioren Immobilien GmbH, the operator PFLEGEN & WOHNEN Hamburg GmbH and PORR.

PORR and STRABAG are taking over the Vienna General Hospital operational management and construction projects of the Vienna General Hospital (AKH Betriebsführung und Bauprojekte des AKH Wien), the Austrian project development business of VAMED and Austrian thermal spa holdings. For PORR, this represents the expansion of a strategically important business sector: the company has been involved in…

The A66 Salzbachtal Bridge infrastructure project in Wiesbaden is making great strides forward. ARGE PORR / Plauen Stahl Technologie is realising the replacement construction of the bridge on behalf of the federal motorway company Autobahn GmbH. The penultimate advance of the northern Salzbachtal bridge was safely completed in mid-April.

Within just under two years, the PORR Berlin branch was commissioned by the Lakeward Group to construct seven turnkey buildings with a total of 395 rental flats, eight commercial spaces and a daycare centre on two construction sites in Berlin's Alt-Hohenschönhausen district. The south construction site was handed over to the investor in September 2023 and the north construction site in November…

Parents and children in Bremen-Osterholz can rejoice. The PORR building construction team is handing over the new, sustainable daycare centre on Osterholzer Heerstraße a few weeks earlier than planned.

A reshuffle is underway in the PORR Supervisory Board: Long-standing Supervisory Board member Iris Ortner is succeeding Karl Pistotnik as Chair from 30 April 2024, with Pistotnik taking on the role of Deputy Chair.

A new rail transhipment facility with six tracks and four gantry cranes will be built at the Wilhelm Kaisen container terminal in Bremerhaven by 2025. PORR Verkehrswegebau has also been on board since March 2024. On behalf of EUROGATE KV-Anlage Bremerhaven GmbH, the Osnabrück-based team is constructing the areas to the right and left of the new railway tracks.