Drees & Sommer
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| legal form | Societas Europaea |
| founding | 1970 |
| Seat | Stuttgart-Vaihingen |
| management | Steffen Szeidl, Dierk Mutschler, (board members); Hans Sommer ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board ) |
| Number of employees | approx. 3,700 (2019) |
| sales | EUR 424.9 million (2019) |
| Branch | Real estate industry |
| Website | www.dreso.com |
Drees & Sommer is an international consulting company for the construction and real estate sector with headquarters in Germany. The company's main services are development and process consulting, infrastructure consulting, project management and engineering as well as real estate consulting . Building construction and infrastructure projects of all types and sizes are supported for almost all industries from the first idea through planning and implementation to operation and possible revitalization.
profile
Business areas are, for example, the areas of green building , green development , optimization of existing buildings and cradle to cradle, each from consulting and project management to certification and international green building labels. Another focus of our services is the professional handling of complex large-scale projects with the support of methods such as Building Information Modeling and Lean Construction Management . The company oversaw major projects such as Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Messe Stuttgart, and Building 1 of the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel , which was completed in 2015 .
Corporate structure
The company is a partner-managed European stock corporation (Societas Europaea, SE). All shares are owned by current or former executives who have made particular contributions to the company's success. This makes the company independent of third parties. The individual locations are organized as independent operating units under the umbrella of Drees & Sommer SE. The board consists of two active partners.
history
1970 founded Gerhard Drees , professor of University of Stuttgart and Volker Kuhne in Stuttgart the engineering firm Drees, Kuhne u. Partner who specialized in network planning , production planning , business organization and construction consulting. In 1973 Hans Sommer became a partner, and the office soon took on the name Drees & Sommer . Over the years, both the number of employees and the number of locations have grown continuously. At the beginning of the 1980s, the company organized itself into a partner model in order to take account of the constantly growing number of employees and locations. Individual companies were founded that are responsible for a certain number of employees and organize themselves independently.
In 1991 the Drees & Sommer-Aktiengesellschaft was founded. The individual companies are now united under one roof. Company co-founder Gerhard Drees became chairman of the supervisory board, Hans Sommer chairman of the board. In 2017, Drees & Sommer AG was converted into an SE.
The company was initially entrusted with the project management of Stuttgart 21 . It also prepared the feasibility study and carried out the preliminary project . From 1996 it was involved in the project company DBProjekt GmbH Stuttgart 21 with a share of 10 percent. The stake was sold on August 1, 2001.
Hans Sommer has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board since the beginning of 2008, replacing Gerhard Drees. The company is run by the partners who also own the company. In 2010 the company celebrated its 40th anniversary. From the group of partners, Dierk Mutschler and Steffen Szeidl form the board.
literature
- Hans Sommer: Project management in building construction. 35 years of innovations at Drees & Sommer. Springer Verlag , Heidelberg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-01428-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Drees & Sommer AG becomes a European stock corporation. (PDF) In: www.dreso.com. May 3, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Joachim Drees is the new board member of Drees & Sommer AG. In: www.dreso.com. September 19, 2012, archived from the original on January 21, 2013 ; Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c 2017 financial year
- ↑ a b company profile
- ↑ a b Ariane Rüdiger : Taking the client one step further. In: vdi-nachrichten.com. May 21, 2010, accessed November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ https://www.dreso.com/de/unternehmen/inside-drees-sommer/unternehmensfuehrung/ : corporate management. In: www.dreso.com. 2018, archived from the original on November 12, 2012 ; Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Stuttgart 21 - Bahn founds project company . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 10, 1996.
- ↑ "That doesn't make us grow gray hair yet" . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . October 19, 1997, p. 28 .
- ↑ Michael Isenberg: In Stuttgart21, the railway alone is in charge . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . August 29, 2001, p. 21 .
- ↑ Drees & Sommer celebrates its 40th anniversary. In: www.dreso.com. September 9, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 15, 2012 .