Züblin

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Ed. Züblin AG

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 1898
Seat Stuttgart , Germany
management Board:
  • Jörn Beckmann
  • Ulrich Klotz
  • Edgar Schömig
  • Harald Supper
  • Alexander Tesche
  • Ulrich Weinmann
  • Jörg Wellmeyer
Number of employees 14,755 (2019)
sales 4.6 billion euros (2019)
Branch Construction company
Website www.zueblin.de

Züblin House in Stuttgart
Züblin construction site 2013: Züblin provides shell of double office tower of the new building of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt finished
The Rhein Galerie Ludwigshafen
New construction of the Opernturm in Frankfurt, September 2010
Züblin construction site 2008: Züblin crane on a construction site in Hamburg
Züblin construction site 2004: New Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart

The Ed. Züblin AG , based in Stuttgart, is a German construction company with branches and subsidiaries in Germany and abroad. The core markets are Germany and the Benelux countries . The headquarters are in Stuttgart. Züblin is part of the Austrian Strabag group . In the 2019 financial year, the company generated total output of EUR 4.6 billion for the group. The company has a share of 24 percent in foreign construction work. The number of employees is 14,755.

history

In 1898 the “Engineer Bureau for Cement-Iron Structures” was founded by the Swiss engineer Eduard Züblin in Strasbourg / Alsace . 14 years later the sole proprietorship was transformed into "Ed. Züblin & Cie. Limited partnership ”, and the“ Ed. Züblin & Cie. AG ”was completed in Zurich . In 1919 “Ed. Züblin & Cie. Aktiengesellschaft ”with German staff from the headquarters in Strasbourg (including Ludwig Lenz ). The company's headquarters were in Stuttgart. The company name (company) was renamed “Ed. Züblin Aktiengesellschaft "changed.

After Walter Bau went bankrupt in 2005, the Federal Cartel Office approved the takeover of the majority of shares in Züblin, of which Walter Bau was the parent company, by the Austrian construction group Strabag in order to avoid “serious damage to Ed. Züblin AG to avert ”. In 2006, Züblin AG took over structural engineering and civil engineering from the German Strabag AG, including Dywidag Bau GmbH.

In 2011, Züblin acquired the BFB Behmann Feuerfestbau GmbH in Bremen and Schwedt / Oder. Behmann is a medium-sized group of companies with a construction output of around € 20 million in the fields of refractory construction, chimney construction and technical insulation and complements the already existing activities of the Züblin company Ooms-Ittner-Hof. With effect from July 1, 2012, the two Behmann companies were merged into OOMS-ITTNER-HOF GmbH. The company now operates worldwide under the name “Züblin Chimney and Refractory GmbH”.

With retroactive effect from January 1, 2011, Züblin acquired the NE Sander Group, thereby strengthening its steel construction activities. The company is primarily active in the design, manufacture and assembly of steel bridges, hydraulic steel structures as well as high-rise steel and industrial structures. The production of ship components, the construction and renovation of crane systems as well as repair and maintenance work are also part of the range of services. In 2011, the company also acquired parts of the insolvent Wolfer & Goebel Bau und Projekt GmbH, Stuttgart, thereby securing almost 100 jobs.

With the acquisition of the business activities of a timber construction company by Stephan Holzbau GmbH, a subsidiary of Züblin Bau, the entry into structural timber engineering began at the end of 2011. Züblin Bau also took over employees and essential assets of Merk Project GmbH at the beginning of 2012. With further acquisitions (2012: acquisition of timber construction activities from Merk-Project GmbH, 2013: acquisition of Metsä Wood Merk GmbH), the range of services in this business area was expanded.

In 2016, Strabag acquired the minority shareholders and has held 100% of Züblin since then.

In 2017, Züblin updated the logo and changed it from black and yellow to the red, white and black colors of the Strabag Group. Also in 2017, the subsidiaries Josef Riepl Unternehmens für Ingenieur- und Hochbau GmbH, Regensburg, Xaver Bachner Bauunternehmung GmbH, Straubing, Eberhard Pöhner Unternehmens für Hoch- und Tiefbau GmbH, Bayreuth, and Dywidag Bau GmbH, Munich, were merged and renamed. From October 2017, the four companies will officially operate on the market as Züblin Bau GmbH.

2019 Acquisition of parts of Weimer GmbH as part of an asset deal on January 1, 2019.

2019 Acquisition of the Swabian building technology provider HUMMEL Systemhaus GmbH & Co. KG as part of an asset deal.

Business activity

The range of services includes all construction-related tasks: from complex turnkey construction, engineering, bridge and tunnel construction, special foundation engineering, construction logistics to public-private partnerships . The core business of Züblin is divided into the three business areas turnkey construction , civil engineering as well as plants and special areas.

Turnkey construction

Here the company bundles all domestic and foreign building construction activities. Züblin's activities include: new construction, expansion and building in existing buildings. Are realized z. B. residential complexes, hospitals, schools and universities, industrial buildings and hotels. Züblin has also built and expanded various penal institutions. The core countries are Germany, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Civil engineering

In this division, Züblin plans, coordinates and builds technical structures (including power plants, tunnels, special civil engineering, hydraulic engineering).

Works and special areas

  • Timber engineering (ZÜBLIN Timber GmbH, Aichach)
  • Steel construction (Züblin Stahlbau GmbH, Hosena)
  • Remediation of contaminated sites in the areas of groundwater, soil and soil air purification, pollution remediation, dismantling (Züblin Umwelttechnik GmbH, Stuttgart)
  • Refractory and industrial chimney construction (Züblin Chimney and Refractory GmbH, Cologne)
  • Heating, cooling, ventilation, air conditioning and sanitary technology, MSR technology and media supply (Züblin Gebäudetechnik GmbH, several locations)
  • Management of almost 20,000 parking spaces in over 50 parking garages, shopping centers, hospitals, etc. (Park Service Hüfner GmbH + Co. KG, Stuttgart)  

Holdings

The company has stakes in the

  • Züblin International GmbH
  • Züblin Spezialtiefbau GmbH
  • Züblin Stahlbau GmbH
  • Züblin Umwelttechnik GmbH
  • Züblin Building Technology GmbH
  • SF expansion GmbH
  • Züblin Timber GmbH, Aichach
  • Blees Kölling-Bau GmbH
  • Züblin Bau GmbH
  • Strabag Real Estate GmbH (formerly Züblin Development GmbH)

Züblin House, Stuttgart

The Züblin house is the company's headquarters in Stuttgart-Möhringen . The prefabricated reinforced concrete office building was built from 1983 to 1984 according to plans by the architect Gottfried Böhm and the civil engineer Jörg Schlaich . The glass-roofed inner courtyard is used several times a year as a location for music events and plays, known as "Summer in the Züblin House".

In addition to the Züblin house, the company's headquarters in Stuttgart include two further office buildings. All three buildings are certified by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) . In 2009, Züblin received the silver certificate for the Z-Zwo office building from Eike Becker_Architekten (built in 2002). In November 2014, the Züblin House (bronze certificate) and the Z3 office building (gold certificate) were certified. This makes Züblin the first company based in Germany to have received DGNB certification for all buildings at its headquarters.

Incidents

The company or its subsidiaries are to be brought into connection with the following incidents:

Use of forced labor

From August 22 to November 24, 1944, Züblin, in collaboration with the SS, employed 1,700 Hungarian Jewish women between the ages of 14 and 46 as forced laborers in the expansion of Frankfurt Airport , who were imprisoned in the Walldorf subcamp. Becoming known and approaching the Züblin company, they always refused to make amends. Compensation payments, an official statement of apology or regret were always refused. Since 1991, however, Züblin has been indirectly involved in the compensation fund for Nazi forced laborers .

Former CEO

Well-known completed construction projects

literature

  • Senta Everts-Grigat, Karlheinz Fuchs: Züblin - 100 Years of Construction Technology 1898–1998. Ed. Züblin AG, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-00-003696-2 .

Web links

Commons : Ed. Züblin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zueblin.de: Board of Directors
  2. ↑ a b c [1] , accessed on August 8, 2018
  3. ↑ Report of the Bundeskartellamt on its activities in 2005/2006 and on the situation and development in its area of ​​responsibility, p. 33. (PDF; 2.2 MB) German Bundestag, June 15, 2007, accessed on February 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Annual Report 2012. Ed. Züblin AG, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; Retrieved September 9, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Press release: Züblin strengthens steel construction activities and acquires the NE Sander Group. Ed. Züblin AG, June 28, 2011, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 1, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Press release: Züblin acquires parts of the Wolfer & Goebel construction company. Ed. Züblin AG, July 29, 2011, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 1, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Annual Report 2013. Ed. Züblin AG, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 3, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Press release Züblin: Züblin unifies brand identity in Bavaria. Retrieved December 14, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Züblin takes over medium-sized craftsmen . econo.de. November 1, 2018. Accessed June 1, 2020.
  10. ↑ Fabian Hesse: Züblin takes over smart home providers . auingenieur24.de. April 21, 2020. Accessed June 1, 2020.
  11. ↑ Press release: DGNB certificates for the Züblin-Haus and Z3 ( Memento from October 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ a b When the water came through the wall. In: sz.de. May 17, 2010. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Amsterdam Metro North-South Line. In: zueblin.de. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Cover on. In: spiegel.de. August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Rastatt tunnel. In: zueblin.de. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  16. ^ "The victims from Hungary". Retrieved July 17, 2011 .
  17. ↑ a b Forced laborers at Züblin? It's clear! Responsibility? No thanks! Züblin and forced labor. In: haGalil . 1998, accessed July 17, 2011 .
  18. ↑ a b "The Züblin Company and the Compensation of the Victims". Retrieved January 23, 2017 .