Bierrum

Bierrum is a British civil engineering and construction company, that has built all of Britain's concrete cooling towers at the country's power stations since 1965.

History[edit]

It was founded by Hans Bierrum (or Hans Bjerrum), a Danish civil engineer. He built his first cooling tower in the 1930s. Hans Bjerrum, born in Hellerup, competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Belgium; he died in 1979 in London. The company has also been called Bierrum International.

Bierrum and Partners Ltd (00339806) was founded on 30 April 1938.^[1]

Ownership[edit]

It is part of Beroa Technology Group GmbH (BTG) of Ratingen-Lintorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.^[2]

Structure[edit]

It is headquartered in Central Bedfordshire, around one mile east of the M1, close to the Greensand Ridge Walk.

Products[edit]

It has designed and built cooling towers (køletårn in Danish) and chimneys nationally and internationally.^[3] It demolishes chimneys incrementally, with its Bierrum Rig.

References[edit]

^ Companies House
^ Beroa Group
^ "History of British coal-fired power stations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2016-10-07.

External links[edit]

Bierrum

[1] Companies House

[2] Beroa Group

[3] "History of British coal-fired power stations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2016-10-07.

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