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Projects / URBAN RENEWAL STRABAG Units / LEAN INTRODUCTION
A new downtown Focusing on process
for a metropolis optimisation
teams
The
Magazine
of
STRABAG SE
No. 01
2014
10 Cover Story / HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Competing for the best
employees
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02 Contents www.strabag.com
06
News / WOMEN
STRABAG as 18
“employeress”
People at STRABAG / OUR PRIVATE SIDE
“If you can dream it,
you can do it”
Projects / BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERING
A clean job
34
26
STRABAG Units /CONSTRUCTIVE COOPERATION
Partnership working as a model
for the future
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Contents teams. No. 01 / 2014 03
News Projects
05 KUNSTfORUM 30 URBAN RENEWAL
ARTbreak – A lunch break A new downtown for a metropolis
with art at the STRABAG House
32 BUILDING cONSTRUcTION
06 WOMEN POLAND/ZENTRALE TEcHNIK
STRABAG as “employeress” A bridge that sets new standards
06 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 34 BUILDING SERVIcES ENGINEERING (BSE)
connect – The internal A clean job
communications platform
36 OLYMPIc VILLAGE IN SOcHI
07 ELEPHANT PARK Our contribution to athletic success
Under a leafy canopy
37 ScHOOL IN MILOVIcE
08 ANNIVERSARY New life in old walls
“Mister SKB” Günter Lorenz
celebrates 50 years on the job 38 O1NE cLUB
A night club as a new landmark
09 ENcORD for Yas Island
Our network
for a competitive tomorrow 40 HOMESTAKE PROJEcT
Long overdue: Dam repair to European
standards
Cover Story
42 STAff EXcHANGE ZÜBLIN–GILBANE
People at STRABAG / OUR PRIVATE SIDE
10 HUMAN RESOURcE DEVELOPMENT Transatlantic knowledge exchange
competing for the best employees
Specials
People at STRABAG
44 THE fAVOURITE PLAcES
18 OUR PRIVATE SIDE Of STRABAG EMPLOYEES
“If you can dream it, you can do it” Prague: My city
46 AcUPRESSURE TEcHNIQUES
STRABAG Units
Successful self-healing – Doing something
good for yourself
22 LEAN INTRODUcTION
focusing on process optimisation
24 STAff ANALYSIS
Research question: How much time
do we need to get the job done?
26 cONSTRUcTIVE cOOPERATION
Partnership working as a model
for the future
28 TRANSPORT SERVIcES AND
LOGISTIcS (TSL)
Our mission: In the right place
at the right time
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29 QUALITY OPTIMISATION
co-Qualify: In-house coaching
for client satisfaction and success
Specials / THE fAVOURITE PLACES Of STRABAG
EMPLOYEES
Prague: My city
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04 Foreword www.strabag.com
Dear Colleagues,
Employees and Friends,
As a leading European-based technology group for construction
services, what we actually sell are process services by bringing
together people, materials and machines at the right place and at
the right time in order to execute even the most complex construction
projects – on schedule, of the highest quality and at the best price.
Our success rises and falls with how well the many different people
work together as teams. This is reflected in our motto: “TEAMS
WORK.” – our clear commitment to you, the more than 73,000 people
within the group. I would therefore like to take this opportunity to
thank you for the good working relationship.
To acknowledge the important role played by the people within the
group, we felt that “inform” was no longer suited as a title for our
employee magazine. And so you now hold in your hands the first
issue of our new employee magazine, “teams.”
Appropriately, this issue provides an insight into our human resource
development headed by Günter Senoner. The department’s
132 employees are at work every day on different aspects of staff
development, offering qualified support throughout the group. You
can find out more on page 10.
Thomas Birtel
CEO of STRABAG SE After the earnings drop of the year 2012, which had been impacted
by noteworthy non-recurring items, we were able to again report
significantly improved earnings in 2013. Our broad diversification
is proving to still be the best form of crisis insurance. We will therefore
continue to give strategic priority to selectively diversifying our
business activities, maintaining our financial strength and having
an end-to-end risk management system. Our most important asset,
however, is and will remain the quality of our teams: Teamwork –
on a small or large scale; internally or externally; across brands,
countries and organisational boundaries – makes possible what cannot
be done alone. This principle also forms the basis for our innovations.
This year marked the first time that the members of ENCORD met
at the STRABAG House in Vienna to discuss the future of the European
construction industry (see p. 9). As I – and my colleagues on the
management board – see innovation as a key strategic element,
we must all work together to systematically make progress with this
topic within our company.
Your
Thomas Birtel
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News teams. No. 01 / 2014 05
KUNSTFORUM
ARTbreak – A lunch break with art at
the STRABAG House
Every 1st and 3rd (plus 5th) Wednesday of the month, STRABAG
employees interested in the arts meet at 12 o’clock sharp to take
an “art break” together.
Austria. A beautiful woman lies facing us on a mirrored
surface. Her eyes are focused on a piece of broken
mirror she holds in her hands. The exotic beauty in the
image is called Nadège, is the work of Austrian artist
Martin Schnur and was at the centre of the first ART-
break – the new art education concept for all employees
at the STRABAG House in Vienna.
DISCOVERING AND UNDERSTANDING ART TOGETHER
“Nadège #3” by Martin Schnur
The purpose of ARTbreak is to get people interested in
art and to provide a brief insight into what’s going on Better understanding the works that we pass by every
art-wise in the halls and foyers of the Vienna STRABAG day, talking about them and debating their issues and
House and the STRABAG Artlounge on the top floor. impact with co-workers – that is the basic idea behind
The colossal sculptures by Bruno Gironcoli, the exhibits ARTbreak. The critical engagement with the art collection
by the STRABAG Artaward winners in the Artlounge, in the STRABAG Kunstforum in brief, 10-minute guided
the artist-in-residence studio, and the many works of art tours also reinforces the internal communication and
on the walls of the STRABAG House – they all form the enriches the workday immensely.
focus of ARTbreak.
A large portion of the 2,500 works in the STRABAG art
collection are housed at STRABAG’s Vienna headquarters.
Artbreak! 1st,
3rd (and 5th)
Wednesday of
the month
Tanja Skorepa and Julia Schuster guide employees interested in the arts
through the STRABAG House and explain the thoughts and motives
behind the artworks.
CONTACTS:
Tanja Skorepa and Julia Schuster,
STRABAG Kunstforum
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06 News www.strabag.com
WOMEN
STRABAG as “employeress”
Equal opportunities for men and women – made visible through
our company language.
International. “STRABAG as employeress…” Okay, that gender-neutral. This means that, from now on, we will
does sound strange. But the point here is to highlight a always write out the masculine and the feminine form or
change happening within the company – with the aim of use a gender-neutral alternative – in order to acknowledge
shedding some outdated habits: for simplicity’s sake, it both sexes equally and e.g. to address both in our job
has often been easier to simply use the masculine gender vacancies. This is especially important in languages, such
when referring to both men and women. But simpler is as German, that make a gender distinction in nouns: while
not always better. In keeping with our ambitions to recruit “employees”, “colleagues” and “experts” include both
more women to the company, the management board men and women in English, gender neutrality in German
has decided that all official company language should be will now require writing “Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter”,
“Kolleginnen und Kollegen”, “Expertinnen und Experten”.
To acknowledge both Since last year, we have been working hard on increasing
sexes equally, we are now
the visibility of women within the group. But acknowledg-
using gender-neutral
language. ing women is not just a matter of fairness. We are com-
mitted to giving women the same opportunities as their
male colleagues. An ambitious objective – and mindfulness
of language is just one step in the right direction.
CONTACT:
Diana Klein, Corporate Communications
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
connect – The internal
communications platform
Got a problem but no solution at hand? With the new platform, this
should be a thing of the past.
International. A new tool has been available since March
to help us deal with our daily challenges more easily and
more quickly. In the future, the internal communications
platform “connect” is to become STRABAG’s knowledge
pool. If you have a specific question, you can contact
the right “expert” directly or simply keep informed and
up-to-date in your field and specialty area. The communi-
cations platform was created through the cooperation
of several colleagues and will continue to grow through
mutual exchange. The platform does not limit you to
your own organisational entity but allows you to exchange
information and your experience across organisations
and countries. You, too, can make your contribution by
For questions about “connect”, please contact Marc Pühringer,
reporting your experiences and answering questions to Karin Wögerer or Elisabeth Deinhofer (from left to right).
help colleagues deal with an everyday challenge.
CONTACT:
Marc Pühringer, Central Technical Division,
Knowledge Management
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News teams. No. 01 / 2014 07
ELEPHANT PARK
Under a leafy canopy
The elephants at the Zurich Zoo needed a new home – one that was
as natural as possible. A clear case for Timber Construction.
Switzerland. The new Elephant Park at the Zurich Zoo changing, with exciting contrasts between the twilight
was completed back in April 2013 – but such a beautiful areas and the more brightly lit parts of the enclosure.
project simply deserves mention. The plan foresaw
relocating the elephants to an approximately 10,000 m² The curved roof presented an enormous structural
parcel of land outside the existing zoo. Without a doubt, challenge, with an asymmetrical structure that is
the real eye-catcher of the new enclosure is its ambitious self-supporting over more than 80 m. The dome’s
roof structure: a transparent, web-like design that gives relatively flat shape results in enormous horizontal forces,
the new elephant house a light and airy feeling. The roof which called for the highest level of precision during
consists of a laminated shell structure of timber slabs installation: the timber slabs were therefore placed using
and solid wood sections screwed and nailed together in GPS technology. A special loadbeam was also used,
several layers. The slabs were installed into the curved equipped with four motors that could be remotely
roof using a falsework truss and fitted with structural rays. operated separately in order to individually regulate the
A surrounding concrete ring beam with a cross-section length of the chains. Because of the special requirements,
of 400 x 200 mm absorbs the forces and transfers them the loadbeam had to be outfitted with a separate standby
via the pillars into the foundation. Some 22 t of nails and generator. Construction was completed and the elephants
350,000 screws hold the 15.2 m² triple-layer slabs and moved into their new home in April 2013.
550 m³ of gluelam timber together.
“Holes were later sawed out of the timber roof, as the
structure is intended to recreate the elephants’ natural
habitat, namely, a leafy canopy that lets the light shine
through,” explains the technical business unit manager,
Paul Huber. Like in nature, the points of light wander
over the course of the day – the alternating patterns of
light and shadow create an atmosphere that is constantly
The transparent, web-like roof of the new elephant house
is a real eye-catcher.
Holes were sawed into the timber roof after its installation to create
a near-natural habitat.
CONTACT:
Paul Huber,
Timber Construction Switzerland
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08 News www.strabag.com
ANNIVERSARY
“Mister SKB” Günter Lorenz celebrates
50 years on the job
All colleagues came together for a celebration in honour
of the skilled construction equipment operator.
Germany. 1964 was an eventful year in many respects. The 64-year-old Lorenz will never forget his first day on
In Germany, pedestrians were given the right of way at the construction site: it was in the Düren-Merzenich
crosswalks. Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in district in the Eifel region, and much of what is performed
prison. The Rolling Stones released their first LP. And on by modern machines today was still hard manual labour
the advice of a schoolfriend whose father worked as a at the time.
roller operator for STRABAG, a young man by the name
of Günter Lorenz applied for a job and on 24 March 1964 Lorenz is described as reliable, hard-working and
was hired as construction helper at the Düren branch. always willing to lend a helping hand. He will be sorely
missed after 1 May 2014, when he begins his well-
A special ceremony was deserved retirement. Here’s wishing him all the best!
held for “Mister SKB” –
Günter Lorenz owes the
nickname to the special
relationship he had with
his equipment, an SKB
wheel loader – to
commemorate 50 years
of hard work in the
transportation infrastruc-
tures segment of the
Cologne Business Unit.
CONTACT:
Martin Rickert, Cologne/Düsseldorf
Sub-Division
NEWS
IN BRIEF
GIRLS’ DAY 2014 IN GERMANY MIPIM AWARD 2014 GOES TO DANCING TOP AWARD FOR ELEGANT ARCH BRIDGE
A COMPLETE SUCCESS TOWERS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OVER THE RHINE
Germany. Girls’ Day activities were organised France. STRABAG Real Estate has good Austria. The 2014 European Concrete Awards
in March at several locations in Germany. reason to celebrate. Having already won the were presented during the Baukongress 2014
This day is the biggest career orientation day immobilienmanager.AWARD in February, trade fair taking place at the Austria Center
for school-age girls with the aim of boosting the Dancing Towers project development also Vienna in April. A total of 34 projects realised
the image of a career in the technical fields. scored the MIPIM Award in March. The in Europe were submitted for competition.
The Züblin headquarters gave interested MIPIM trade fair in Cannes chose the unique In the category of Civil Engineering, STRABAG
young girls an opportunity to talk to women high-rise duo for its first prize in the category won a fantastic 3rd place as contractor for
working in a technical profession to find out of Best Office and Business Development. the new ÖBB railway bridge over the Rhine.
more about what they do – complete with SRE managing director Thomas Hohwieler The new rail line between Lustenau in Vorarl-
a visit to a tunnel construction site. The day and SRE project manager Matthias Pirschel berg, Austria and St. Margrethen in Switzer-
ended at the concrete laboratory of the proudly accepted the award during a festive land was festively opened in March 2013.
group’s testing laboratory TPA. In Frankfurt, gala in March. The “twisted” high rise building The heart of the line is the impressive arch
the activities included a tour of various standing at the entrance to Hamburg’s bridge over the Rhine with a span of
building construction projects “from the pit Reeperbahn thus gets to take home both of 102 metres – realised by STRABAG AG as
to the penthouse”. The MERK Timber plant these renowned real estate prizes. sole contractor.
in Aichach gave girls an opportunity to get
to know the field of structural timber. And
STRABAG PFS offered some interesting
insights into building services engineering.
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News teams. No. 01 / 2014 09
ENCORD
Our network
for a competitive tomorrow
On 24 February 2014, 20 men and women out of the construction
sector from all over Europe met at the STRABAG House in Vienna –
and they all had the same thing in mind: the future of the European
construction industry.
International. Learning from other companies in the In February 2014, the heads of research, development
industry, exchanging views and networking are necessary and innovation of the ENCORD member companies
prerequisites for progress. These thoughts also were came to Vienna for their first meeting at the STRABAG
behind the establishment of ENCORD (European Network group headquarters. A workshop served as a venue
of Construction Companies for Research and Develop- to debate the success factors for innovation within a
ment) in 1989. The network gives European construction company and as an opportunity to give some examples
companies an opportunity to compare notes on the from the real world. To get the group warmed up, the
subjects of research, development and innovation. The colleagues from Hochtief (“rapid implementation of ideas
18 ENCORD members include some of Europe’s leading is crucial”) and Ballast Nedam (“the best ideas are
general contractors and construction industry suppliers. formed together”) described how they implement their
Zentrale Technik, STRABAG’s Central Technical Division, innovation management internally and benefit from it.
has been a member since 2004.
The main objective of ENCORD is to foster the exchange “INNOVATION IS A KEY STRATEGIC ELEMENT”
of knowledge and experience among its members and
to facilitate the discussion of perspectives and develop- Innovation is one of the topics that our group management
mental opportunities for the construction industry as a board wants to systematically make progress with. For
whole. A special focus is on topics such as sustainable this reason, the meeting was attended not only by
construction, occupational safety, lean construction and the regular group representatives but also by our CEO
virtual construction. A second pillar of ENCORD involves Thomas Birtel and the management board members
its work with funding agencies, in particular the European Peter Krammer and Siegfried Wanker.
Union. ENCORD, jointly with the European Construction
Technology Platform (ECTP), made possible a number
of EU funding programmes for energy-efficient buildings
(EeB) and infrastructure (REFINE).
More interesting
and exciting
information about
ENCORD can be found
at www.encord.org.
Thomas Birtel swapping
notes with other ENCORD
members in order to define
the success factors for
innovation.
CONTACT:
Norbert Pralle, Central Technical Division,
Development and Innovation
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10 Cover Story www.strabag.com
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