informissue 24 november 2012 THE TOWERS ARE DANCING SUccessfUL teamconcePT IN HAMBURG CONCRETELY CONCRETE THE foUNDation OF MODERN CIVilisation ZURICH: MY CITY THE faVOURITE Places OF STRABAG EMPloyees THE MAGAZINE OF STRABAG SE Foreword inform 24 FOREWORD DEAR EMPLOYEES, ASSOCIATES AND FRIENDS, Diana Neumüller-Klein, Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations We belong together! So many new companies and so many But you don’t have to start with a megaproject to change the new employees have joined our STRABAG team in the past few world for the better. Start with small steps, perhaps with something years. But it takes time for a sense of togetherness to develop. Let’s in your area. Make a list of things under € 10 which could make work show the world that we’re a team! Our Swiss colleagues have more fun for you and your co-workers. For example, our communi- already taken great steps internally in this direction. Starting next cations colleague in Switzerland sent us chocolates to sweeten up year, they will also send an external signal with a single-brand strategy our day. As you can see, the topic of food is very in with us right that you can read more about on page 10 of this issue of Inform. And now. And in this issue of Inform. In our section “People at STRABAG”, since we’re in the neighbourhood, they’ll show us their favourite we introduce you to some colleagues of yours who have devoted places in Zurich (page 42). themselves to cooking and baking, which for them – after eating – is the most beautiful thing in the world. Some of our other colleagues want to show you something, too, and help you while they’re at it: over 120 elected employee repre- Read more in this issue of Inform about what your colleagues sentatives are there for you when you need them. Find out more have been doing at work or in private. Wishing you plenty of “spying” about how exactly they can help on page 31. Not so much on an enjoyment, individual as on a global level is where our timber construction or central technical employees see their contribution to improving our Your Diana Neumüller-Klein standard of living. Read more about green technologies (page 28) or how a quarry has agreed to barter with nature (page 4). 02 www.strabag.com inform 24 Contents CONTENTS NEWS 04 GIVING BACK TO NATURE Corporate Social Responsibility 05 FIT FOR THE FUTURE Healthcare at STRABAG 06 EUROPE’S CITIES ARE GROWING Celebration time 08 DID YOU KNOW...? STRAkono 09 YOUNG EUROPEAN ART STRABAG Artaward International 2012 10 BECOMING STRONGER New single-brand strategy in Switzerland 11 5 QUESTIONS FOR... Interview 12 DIVERSE UNITY Career news COVER STORY 15 CONCRETELY CONCRETE The foundation of modern civilisation PEOPLE AT STRABAG 23 COOKING IT UP STRABAG employees in the spotlight Strabag UNITS 28 SUSTAINABLE BUILDING = BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE Green technologies 30 CRANE SPECIALISTS AT WORK Crane assemblies in Austria 31 EMPLOYEE COUNSELLING AS A FULL-TIME JOB Full-time employee representatives PROJECTS 32 THE TOWERS ARE DANCING Successful teamconcept in Hamburg 34 HIGH-TECH CANCER TREATMENT New therapy centre in Cracow 35 ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BUILDING Timber construction in Switzerland 36 BRIDGING EUROPE Building bridges in Romania 38 140 YEARS MARGARET BRIDGE Bridge overhaul in Hungary 39 ALPINE AVALANCHE CONTROL Avalanche defence in Austria 40 FLOOD PROTECTION Building dams against high water SPECIALS 42 ZURICH: MY CITY The favourite places of STRABAG employees 44 HOLLAND VS. SPAIN STRABAG goes on a company outing 47 SUDOKU Seeking the puzzle king E VENTS 46 THE OLYMPIC GAMES AT STRABAG Sports events 03 News inform 24 NEWS area with the aim of providing a new home to various species of animal. Unlike had been done in the past, the focus here is more on full land restoration instead of just revegetation. Rather than creating “nature second-hand”, the restoration process should create the right conditions to allow nature to develop of its own accord, in a site-appropriate manner and with a high level of biodiversity. The goal is to restore an area with a total size of 180,000 m² over the coming years. THE LIVING QUARRY As part of the project, students from the technology-focused secondary school HTL Mödling made nests for the animal residents using different types of natural material. Bee hotels and bat boxes were placed in the former quarry in June 2012. Further measures CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY discussed with the appropriate experts will be implemented at a later date. “The thought of giving something back to nature comes GIVING BACK TO NATURE first,” says sub-division manager Erik Zechmann. ANIMAL OBSERVERS Animal observers on our construction sites are nothing No amount of construction could keep a pair of oystercatchers unusual, but these two stories are truly worth telling. from caring for their eggs in the middle of the construction site for They bear witness to a special connection with nature the JadeWeserPort on the North Sea. Three young birds hatched out at the beginning of summer. After discovering the eggs in a sand and the animal kingdom. pile, STRABAG workers carefully moved them to a quieter part of the site and fenced off the area. In the meantime, the young have already flown the nest. It is unsure whether they will return next year. Austria/Germany. Dolomite has been mined from the quarry of Perhaps to check out the new harbour? Mineral Abbau GmbH in Gaaden, south of Vienna, since the 1970s. Today the extraction of material has already come to a close in a part CONTACT: Andreas Mittermeir, International + Special of the area. Divisions, Group Division Building Materials 6V, Sub-Division Stone/Gravel AT/HU/HR/Balkans (RS) MORE THAN AN OBLIGATION CONTACT: Stefan Windhorst, North + West, Group Division Transportation Infrastructures Germany North 6I, The quarry is located within the Vienna Woods protected land- Sub-Division Düsseldorf (DC) scape, making land restoration and revegetation a legal obligation. “But for us, this obligation didn’t go far enough,” explains Andreas Mittermeir, division manager at the Gaaden quarry. A little more than a year ago, planning began on the restoration of the former mining The oystercatcher has found its nest on our construction site (left). A new home for bats and bees 04 www.strabag.com inform 24 News NEWS HEALTHCARE AT STRABAG In brief + + Tunnelling contract at world’s largest copper mine FIT FOR THE FUTURE On 10 July 2012, STRABAG was awarded the contract for a new tunnelling project at the world’s largest copper mine Within the daily work routine, it is easy to lose sight of the in the Chilean desert. The contract is worth € 100 million. Working with a local partner, STRABAG is building several employees’ physical and emotional needs. STRABAG, tunnels to improve the infrastructure of the Chilean copper Building Construction Upper Austria, responded by mine. launching the project “Fit for the Future: Maintaining Work Fitness”. Züblin officially opens new company building in Karlsruhe Austria. Construction is physically strenuous work. STRABAG, The Karlsruhe sub-division on 18 July 2012 celebrated the Building Construction Upper Austria, in 2010 introduced BauFIT official opening of its new office building in Karlsruhe. The (a component of “Fit for the Future”), a programme of measures for seven-storey building creates room for the more than 160 ergonomic work on the construction site for industrial workers. The employees from the sub-division and from other STRABAG programme got its start during construction for the Linz Music group companies. Theatre, providing workers with exercise as well as tips for occupa- tional safety at the construction site. Site manager Daniel Zeller: “I was the first to start with this programme on a construction site and had mixed feelings at the time. But already that evening I received positive feedback. Several colleagues have said they can already notice a change. BauFIT was especially well received by people when done as a group.” To ensure the aims of BauFIT in the long term, STRABAG monitor, working under deadlines or poor eating habits. An external trained internal BauFIT disseminators to observe their colleagues for expert helped to reposition and adjust the desks and office chairs proper working techniques and to provide assistance if needed. The and showed employees a number of preventive relaxation and programme is now being carried out nationwide in Austria. “The stretching exercises. physical exercise of work alone is not enough to maintain work fitness. The actions from the ‘Fit for the Future’ programme offer a basis for Sub-division manager Johann Schmatzer is pleased by the a successful and healthy future for our employees,” believes Jürgen increasing health consciousness and wants to continue along the Bänsch, STRABAG health and safety expert and internal project same path: “It is important for us that such campaigns have a lasting coordinator of “Fit for the Future”. effect, as we are concerned about the health of our workers. The company invests in this initiative and profits from the health of its employees – everyone gets something out of it!” ADMINISTRATIVE FITNESS CONTACT: Jürgen Bänsch, Service Companies, Of course we haven’t forgotten about our office workers. The Central Division TPA, Sub-Division Austria/Adriatic (04) programme also helps to prevent stress from long hours at the Info + + Other initiatives related to “Fit for the Future” include: health days, work ability coaching, clothes drying facilities on large construction sites, exercise using the staircase as a fitness studio, nutrition workshops and spinal screenings. The wrong way and the right way to lift heavy objects 05 NEWS CAPITAL MARKET COMPLIANCE CELEBRATION TIME MISUSE OF INSIDER EUROPE’S CITIES ARE INFORMATION FOR- GROWING BIDDEN! STRABAG and Raiffeisen have a lot in common.