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Revision as of 06:49, 31 May 2020
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| Company type | GmbH |
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| Industry | Construction company |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Headquarters | Herne, Germany |
Key people | Dipl.-Ing. Michael Müller, company spokesman
Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Kranz Dipl.-Kfm. Gerhard Wilwerding |
| Products | Civil engineering and power plant construction
Infrastructure building Universal construction Special construction |
| Revenue | €350 million (2009) |
Number of employees | 1096 (2009) |
| Website | www.heitkamp.de |
The Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH located in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia is involved in specialized construction work in different construction business areas.
History
Today's Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH has its origin in the civil engineering company E. Heitkamp, which was founded in Herne-Wanne in 1892 by Engelbert Scharpwinkel, referred to as Heitkamp. Initially, towards the end of the 19th century, the company built canals and roads for the farmers in the neighbourhood.
1902
The son of E. Scharpwinkel, Heinrich Heitkamp, assumed the management of the still young construction company and expanded the field of activity by, amongst others, entering the mining business which was the characteristic industry in the Ruhr area at the time. In the following decades, the construction activities were expanded beyond the limits of Herne: Civil engineering, track and infrastructure construction as well as mining services became the main pillar of the company. At that time the projects included, for example, the new construction of the Herne railway station, the construction of the Chemische Werke Hüls in Marl, earthwork, canal and regulation work for the Emschergenossenschaft and the Lippeverband, the beginning of motorway constructions as well as numerous shafting sinking activities for regional coal mines (Shamrock Mine, Unser Fritz Mine and others).
1946 to 1963
After World War II, the "E. Heitkamp Tiefbaugeschäft in Wanne-Eickel“ – as it was called at the time – was renamed into “Bauunternehmung E. Heitkamp GmbH” in 1946. In addition to Heinrich Heitkamp senior, the participators included his sons Heinrich and Robert. Following the removal of debris, the field of activity was expanded to include other areas. Buildings for government agencies and the Deutsche Bundesbahn were constructed and in the early fifties, the company started providing special mining services with underground track constructions. In 1957, Heitkamp entered the power plant construction sector by executing a contract for the Westerholt power plant owned by Hibernia AG. For the first time, refuse dumps were used for the construction of dams and roads. Heitkamp participated in the complete expansion of the Ruhr expressway from Essen via Bochum to Dortmund as well as in the new construction of the railway line between Gelsenkirchen and Haltern am See.
This was followed by a participation in the construction of the Henrichshütte 2 steel plant in Hattingen as well as the power plants “Brassert” in Marl and “Springorum” in Bochum. A patent was issued on 28 May 1958 for the track-tamping machine developed by Heitkamp for underground track construction. In 1960, Heitkamp entered the tunnel construction sector when the company built the Erbscheidt tunnel in the course of the Bigge dam construction. In addition, Heitkamp was awarded contracts for the construction of the Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany) at the “Hardthöhe” in Bonn. At this time Heitkamp employed about 4000 people.
1964 to 1980
In 1964, Robert Heitkamp took over the sole management and expanded the family company in the next decades to become one of the largest construction companies in Germany. In the same year, Heitkamp built the first natural-draught cooling tower for the power plant in Ibbenbüren. This was followed by 53 cooling towers in Germany and another 38 cooling towers worldwide (including Australia, America, Africa, Greece, Spain, Netherlands etc.). In 1995 and in the course of the largest individual contract in the history of the company, Heitkamp built two natural-draught cooling towers for the Lippendorf power plant, amongst others, and in 1998 the highest natural-draught cooling tower in the world reaching 200 m at the Niederaußem power plant.
1970 to 1981
Heitkamp participated in national and international construction projects that included, amongst others, power plant and nuclear power plant projects, infrastructure, civil engineering, structural engineering as well as hydraulic engineering and mining projects.
Heitkamp participated, amongst others, in the construction of the nuclear power plants in Brunsbüttel, Phillippsburg I and II and Brokdorf as well as internationally in the construction of nuclear power plants in Austria (Tullnerfeld / Zwentendorf) and Switzerland (Gösgen-Däniken). Thanks to the experience gained in the construction of nuclear power plants, Heitkamp, along with the companies Hochtief AG and Dykerhoff & Widmann AG, was awarded the contract to build the reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf. The construction, however, was stopped in 1989 for political reasons.
In Germany, important infrastructure projects included the participation in the construction of the subways in Berlin, Hanover, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Stuttgart and Munich as well as work on the Bundesautobahn 42, the Emscher expressway and the Bundesautobahn 45, the so-called “Sauerland line”. Internationally, Heitkamp was involved in road construction projects in Yemen (Sana's – Taiz and Taiz to the Red Sea), in the subway construction in Vienna and took over the technical lead management during the construction of the first channel tunnel connecting Dover with Calais, which was later interrupted for political reasons.
National hydraulic engineering projects at that time included the participation in the construction of the Obernau dam and the redirecting of the Ruhr at Neheim. International projects included the construction of the Hofuf drainage project in Saudi Arabia and the construction of a drainage tunnel in Venezuela.
Heitkamp expanded its civil engineering activities – in this case turnkey construction services. Bridge structures (e.g. the 3-bay road bridge "Zum Fürstenmoor“ in Hamburg-Harburg, the Emscher bridge in Dortmund-Deusen, the Annener Berg bridge in the Witten-Annen area) as well as the involvement in the construction of the underground parking at the Cologne cathedral and most tunnel projects in the course of the Bundesbahn high-speed line Kassel-Würzburg clearly show Heitkamp's participation in civil engineering projects. Heitkamp was also involved in the construction of the Olympic site in Munich.
During that period, Heitkamp was also involved in the construction of the "Technische Rathaus” in Frankfurt, the construction of the Parkstadion Gelsenkirchen, buildings for the Technical University of Berlin, work for the airport extension in Frankfurt and Hanover Langenhagen, the construction of the Lower-Saxon state parliament in Hanover, hotel constructions (Hotel Penta and Hotel Steigenberger in Berlin) and the construction of hospitals for the Federal Insurance Fund for Miners in Recklinghausen and Bochum as well as the Clinical Centre in Münster.
In the mining sector, Heitkamp was involved in the construction of the shaft tower with reinforced concrete for the “Consolidation 3/ 4/ 9” mine in Gelsenkirchen and the construction of the new “An der Haard” mine in the Recklinghausen district. At this time, Heitkamp also began with the removal, marketing or stockpiling of tailings from the Ruhr area mines.
The railway construction division executed, amongst others, a contract for the construction of tracks for the Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer-Eisenbahn AG. Internationally, it participated in the renewal of the railway line between Riyadh and Dammam in Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Alfred Herrhausen became the first chairman of the newly created advisory board.
1981 to 1999
In 1981, the company employed approx. 8,500 people and achieved a turnover of approx. 1.1 bn DM. Robert Heitkamp retired from the operational business and passed the management chair to his son, Prof. Dr. Dr. Engelbert Heitkamp.
Until the German reunification in 1990, Heitkamp expanded the field of activity in the areas of refurbishment, modernization and redevelopment of structures. One of the first modernization projects included the two city hall towers in Marl in Westphalia.
Another main pillar was added to the already existing activities: The formation of the subsidiary Heitkamp Umwelttechnik GmbH in 1985.
Because of the widespread introduction of mobile phone networks, Heitkamp built stations for the C-net of the Deutsche Bundespost and later for the private D-net.
Heitkamp participated in the realization of the Eurotunnel between Calais and Dover and nationally in the construction of subway and urban railway projects, e.g. in Dortmund. For the Deutsche Bahn, Heitkamp realized several engineering works in the area of the new line Cologne – Rhine/Main.
During that period the construction projects included, amongst others: – The coating of the outer shell of the natural-draught cooling tower at the cogeneration plant in Völklingen; – The natural-draught cooling tower for the nuclear power plant Isar 2 in Landshut; – The Hoheward railway tunnel at the Hoheward waste tip in Herten; – ICE train wash facility for the Deutsche Bundesbahn in Hamburg-Eidelstedt; – Subway structures, amongst others, in Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Duisburg and Berlin; – Participation in the construction of the A 560 motorway, the Hennef by-pass and the Bundesautobahn 57 motorway between Goch and the Dutch border; – Participation in the construction of the interim storage facility for fuel elements in Ahaus; – An apartment hotel, administrative building, a medical centre with supermarket at the Ungererpark in Munich; – Construction of the administrative centre for the Veba Oel AG in Gelsenkirchen-Scholven; – Participation in the construction of the Daimler-Benz administrative centre in Stuttgart-Möhringen
After the German reunification in 1990, Heitkamp participated in construction projects for the five new federal states and established offices in Chemnitz, Dresden, Erfurt, Magdeburg, Potsdam, Halle and Rostock.
Some examples include, amongst others, the rebuilding of the new synagogue in the Oranienburger Straße in Berlin, the coating of the natural-draught cooling tower in Rostock, the participation in the Markt Nordseite development in Weimar, reconstructions in the Dutch district in Potsdam, the participation in the Siemens Microelectronics Center in Dresden but also the lowering of the Rheinufer-Tunnel in Düsseldorf and the extension of the Bundesautobahn 2 motorway in the Bottrop area.
Mining construction activities included, amongst others, the coke-side dust removal for the Zollverein coking plant in Essen as well as different reconstructions in the mining sector in the Erzgebirge.
In 1999, Heitkamp merged with Deilmann-Haniel GmbH. The construction activities of both companies were combined in the Bauunternehmung E. Heitkamp GmbH while the mining activities were combined in the Deilmann-Haniel GmbH. The civil engineering projects of Bauunternehmung E. Heitkamp GmbH were also merged to make up the legally independent subsidiary Heitkamp Erd- und Straßenbau GmbH.
2000 until today
In 2001, the activities of former Railway Construction Division were transferred to the independent subsidiary Heitkamp Rail GmbH.
The following construction projects are examples of projects carried out by or with Heitkamp: – The so-called "Bügelbauten“ (bridging structures) at Berlin Hauptbahnhof; – "Gläserne Manufaktur“ (transparent factory) of Volkswagen AG in Dresden and the Zollernhof in Berlin for the ZDF TV Studio; – Construction of the National Bank building in Riga, Latvia; – Construction of the double "water-saving" lock in Hohenwarte; – Modernization of the former Mannesmann high-rise building in Düsseldorf; – Construction and modernisation of the "Marstallplatz Munich“ complex at Maximilianstraße (Munich); – Construction of the new Cologne – Rhine/Main line of the Deutsche Bahn; – Construction of a university building including a library for the University of Malmö in Malmö, Sweden.
In 2005, the civil engineering departments of the Bauunternehmung E. Heitkamp GmbH were combined to make up the independent subsidiary Heitkamp Ingenieur- und Kraftwerksbau GmbH.
Due to a massive drop in orders in the mining sector and the increasing competition in the German construction industry, Heitkamp-Deilmann-Haniel GmbH decided at the end of 2005 to take drastic restructuring measures. In the course of these restructuring measures, the ATON GmbH acquired the international and parts of the national special mining sector – today's Deilmann-Haniel International Mining and Tunnelling GmbH. The Dutch group of companies Heijmans acquired the Heitkamp Rail GmbH. In addition, the Turnkey Construction Office in Ratingen closed along with the offices in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart.
In 2008, the Heitkamp-Deilmann-Haniel GmbH was renamed into today's Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH.
The Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH combines now the following four business areas: – Civil engineering and power plant construction (Heitkamp Ingenieur- und Kraftwerksbau GmbH) – Infrastructure building (Heitkamp Umwelttechnik GmbH, Heitkamp Erd- und Straßenbau GmbH) – Universal construction (domoplan GmbH, Heitkamp ProjektPartner GmbH) – Special construction (BuM Beton- und Monierbau GmbH, Bergsicherung Schneeberg GmbH, Bergsicherung Ilfeld GmbH)
Currently, the largest project abroad involves the construction of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland. In the sector of infrastructure building, it is the participation of the Heitkamp Erd- und Straßenbau GmbH in the construction of the Lake Phoenix in Dortmund-Hörde as well as the 6-lane extension and modernization of motorways – including the Bundesautobahn 1 and Bundesautobahn 2 (including the redevelopment of the Kamener Kreuz), the Bundesautobahn 40 and Bundesautobahn 42 motorways – that deserves special mention.
In February 2009, Jürgen R. Thumann, a great-grandson of the founder of the company, took over the majority of the shares in the Heitkamp Group and has ever since been the chairman of the board of directors.