Deutsch Search Activities Careers News & Media Sustainability Investor Relations About HOCHTIEF Home About HOCHTIEF Strategy Creating sustainable values for all stakeholders Strategy For 145 years, HOCHTIEF has been delivering complex projects for its clients based on its core competence in construction. The Group has undertaken ongoing geographic diversification and incorporated expertise in engineering, mining, and maintenance services as well as greenfield public-private partnership projects and brownfield concessions. On this page Vision Business strategy Goals Values Megatrends Today, HOCHTIEF is a leading infrastructure group in developed markets spanning the full infrastructure life cycle. As a result, the Group has a balanced business profile in terms of cash flow visibility, capital intensity, and margins. Vision HOCHTIEF is building the world of tomorrow In our international target markets, we will achieve a position of market and technology leadership by employing our project management and engineering expertise in the fields of construction, engineering, PPP, and mining. Our thinking and acting are value-based: We stand for integrity, accountability, innovation, sustainability, and delivery. With our experience, technical excellence, and innovative solutions we realize projects that convince our customers and are beneficial to society. Marcelino Fernández Verdes, Chairman of the Executive Board We efficiently deploy existing resources. The knowledge, dedication, and commitment of our employees are the basis for our success. We provide them with safe, challenging and fulfilling jobs. Together we generate sustainable earnings and create value for our shareholders. Business strategy Growth in all areas of expertise Previous Construction Services and mining PPP and concessions Next With our competency spectrum—designing, financing, building, operating and maintenance of transportation and energy infrastructure as well as social and urban infrastructure—we are well positioned to benefit from both public and private construction investments. Our local teams have plenty of experience with realizing complex projects which are successful for all participants. Our most important subsidiaries, whose growth we want to boost systematically, are positioned as follows: Turner, our company for construction management, is the leader for general building in the USA and occupies top places in the construction of green buildings as well as education and healthcare properties and sports facilities in the USA. Flatiron ranks amongst the top ten civil engineering companies in the USA and Canada. CPB Contractors is Australia’s biggest provider in civil engineering and building construction. Leighton Asia is a construction company with leading positions in Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and in selected countries of Southeast Asia. HOCHTIEF ranks among the leading construction companies for civil engineering and building construction in Germany and several neighboring countries. The Spiral New York, USA Look at project Bad Cannstatt Tunnel Stuttgart, Germany Look at project More on our core competencies Customizing living spaces—building, civil engineering and infrastructure construction Broad spectrum of services—services and mining Intelligent solutions for a better life—PPP and concessions Goals We organize our actions strategically 1. Focus on attractive remuneration of shareholders Our strategy is to further strengthen HOCHTIEF’s position in the core markets and to pursue market growth opportunities. At the same time, we rely on cash-backed profitability and consistent risk management. We use the invested capital very carefully and prudently. We focus on an attractive remuneration of shareholders and investments in strategic growth opportunities, in order to create sustainable value for all stakeholders. In our Investor Relations section we explain why HOCHTIEF is an attractive investment. 6 reasons for an investment in HOCHTIEF shares 2. Constantly improving risk management For all our projects, an effective risk management is very important. The stable results in our units show that our systems and workflows function well. We are nevertheless continually improving our risk management processes. We are concentrating on selected, attractive markets, where our know-how and our long-term local presence create good preconditions for performing our core activities. 3. Acceleration of innovation processes through digital developments Drones record construction conditions through overflights. HOCHTIEF works in combination with ACS and the Group’s companies in fostering the transition to the digital future of construction through its joint subsidiary Nexplore. We are pursuing the target of consistently using the opportunities arising for the construction business from digitalization. Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, machine learning, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 are in the foreground here. Nexplore 4. Sustainable out of conviction With its built structures HOCHTIEF creates long-lasting value, which affects the habitats of many people. This involves a great responsibility, which HOCHTIEF consciously embraces. We are consequently always looking for integrated solutions which not only involve economic but also ecological and social aspects. Numerous awards and rankings bear witness to the success of this strategy. For instance, in September 2019, HOCHTIEF for the 14th time in succession received an award for its sustainable company management and, furthermore, was listed as the only German construction group in the internationally renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index (World and Europe). Values How we behave internally and externally value-oriented In our work, we place value on flexibility, innovative strength and excellent quality, in order to stand by our clients as a long-term, reliable partner. We conceive made-to-measure solutions for designing and implementing each of our unique projects. Our five guiding principles Our business activities are based on a common corporate culture with shared values. The HOCHTIEF vision embodies what we aspire and the responsibility we live up to as a Group: “HOCHTIEF is building the world of tomorrow.” We perceive HOCHTIEF’s projects as active contributions to the benefit of society. The Group’s values are represented by five guiding principles that apply to all employees: Integrity Honesty Respect Teamwork Accountability Commitment Partnership Quality Innovation Technical excellence New and better ways Self-reflection Delivery Efficiency Value Achievement Sustainability Safe, fulfilling jobs Valuable living spaces Benefit to society Our success is based on these five pillars—all underpinned by the precondition of safety. Holistic solutions Despite the uniqueness of projects realized by HOCHTIEF, they do have one thing in common: our conviction that trustful, close cooperation with the client right from the outset is the best approach. The high overall quality of our services is above all based on the fact that HOCHTIEF stands for holistic solutions. We always have an overview of the big picture. Modernized schools and city halls How HOCHTIEF overcomes the investment bottleneck through PPP Germany is gridlocked—on roads and bridges and in tunnels. At the same time, the substance of many public buildings, such as schools and city halls, is crumbling. That annoys motorists, teachers, parents and schoolchildren—simply everyone. Read story Cooperation based on partnership HOCHTIEF is committed to long-term cooperation with all important stakeholders. It is based on four important pillars: 1. Fairness 2. Competition 3. Trust 4. Occupational Safety and Health We have formulated the ecological and social requirements placed on our partners in our HOCHTIEF Code of Conduct for Business Partners. "Lister Dreieck" Hanover, Germany Look at project Queensferry Crossing Edinburgh, Scotland Look at project Stanton Territorial Hospital Yellowknife, Canada Look at project Megatrends Solutions for upcoming challenges As a globally operating, diversified company, HOCHTIEF deals with current megatrends. This results in increasingly complex challenges, but also attractive opportunities. Here our main focus is on the opportunities for organic growth, which in particular arise from megatrends, such as globalization, urbanization and digitalization as well as demographic change and climate change. Digitalization Climate change & renewable energies Urbanization Mobility Demographic change Globalization Shaping the future: Solutions for megatrends We established Nexplore in 2018 to systematically exploit the opportunities that digitalization can bring to our construction and services operations in cooperation with leading universities and IT companies. Our pioneering general building projects feature state-of-the-art technology—part of which is Building Information Modeling (BIM) for digital planning and efficient project execution, which has already been deployed in more than 2,300 HOCHTIEF projects. CIMIC’s company Thiess uses automation technology for fleet operation in mines which it operates in Australia. CIMIC was involved in building the rail link for Sydney’s first autonomous railway. Our Group company Turner builds data centers for large U.S.-based groups which handle vast data flows. HOCHTIEF itself, as a sustainable Group, actively works to reduce emissions. Turner has set itself the goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030. Buildings’ resilience and flexible use are becoming increasingly important factors. We are also successful in the construction of flood protection. We build and operate solar parks in Australia. HOCHTIEF completes green buildings and zero-energy projects across the Group. The concept of certified buildings is based on such factors as high energy efficiency to reduce CO2 emissions—an important criterion in the worldwide efforts to limit global warming. Turner is number one in this area in the USA. Our Group companies are involved in a growing number of inner-city highrise apartment buildings that cater to today’s greater need for apartments and offer the full range of modern amenities. The operating companies in all HOCHTIEF divisions are currently involved in modernizing airports to increase capacity, safety, and passenger convenience, with 10 new contracts won in 2019 alone. Leading in the construction of sustainable infrastructure, our Australian Group company CPB Contractors is currently working on numerous public transportation infrastructure projects. CIMIC is handling several work packages for metro networks to optimize the traffic situation in the Australian metropolises of Sydney and Melbourne. We deliver similar projects in our relevant markets all over the world, including in Copenhagen. 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