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24-414: GBF may refer to: Bilfinger , a German firm, stock symbol G.B.F. (film) , 2013, US Gaikundi language , native to Papua New Guinea Gain before feedback Gay best friend Georgian Basketball Federation Graduate Business Forum , US Grassroots Business Fund , US Gundam Build Fighters , Japanese anime series Topics referred to by

48-488: A break with the construction group's years-long push for internationalization, which it declared over. Its stock market value halved over the past two years, largely due to previous project acquisitions and purchases (such as in Sweden between 2015 and 2017). The company withdrew from unprofitable business areas in some markets (Sweden, Norway and Romania ) and has since focused largely on Switzerland and Germany. Here, Implenia

72-515: A result of numerous acquisitions and disposals, is no longer a traditional construction company but instead a provider of services for industrial plants, power plants and real estate. In financial year 2019, revenues came from industrial and engineering services in the Chemical & Petrochemical (30%), Energy & Utilities (15%), Oil & Gas (30%), Pharma & Biopharma (10%), Metallurgy (5%) and Cement/Other (10%) industries. The ownership of

96-546: Is Chairman of the Board of Directors. The company generated sales of CHF 3.6 billion in 2023 and employed over 9,000 people. It is headquartered in Opfikon, Switzerland. Implenia's business areas are divided into four divisions: Real Estate, Buildings, Civil Engineering and Specialties. In particular, BBV Systems GmbH, Building Construction Logistics GmbH, Implenia Holzbau, Implenia Fassadentechnik GmbH, Planovita and Encira form

120-649: Is a Swiss real estate and construction services company with activities in development and civil engineering in Switzerland and Germany . Implenia is also active in tunneling and related infrastructure construction in Austria , France , Sweden , Norway and Italy . The Group was formed at the beginning of 2006 from the merger of Basel -based Batigroup Holding AG with Geneva -based Zschokke Holding SA. The headquarters are located in Glattpark ( Opfikon ) in

144-514: Is active as a real estate developer and manager, as well as in building construction, civil engineering and specialist businesses such as timber construction and facade technology. In the rest of Europe, the focus is largely on tunnel construction, as in Austria, France, Sweden, Norway and Italy. As part of this accelerated restructuring, Implenia announced plans to lay off around 750 people and cut 2000 full-time positions by 2023. This transformation

168-530: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bilfinger Bilfinger dates back to 1880 when August Bernatz founded Bernatz Ingenieurwissenschaft as an engineering business: it became known, from 1886 as Bernatz & Grün and, from 1892, as Grün & Bilfinger when Paul Bilfinger replaced Bernatz as partner. During the Second World War , Grün & Bilfinger employed Jewish slave laborers from

192-633: The Kovno Ghetto in occupied Lithuania where it was known for its brutal harassment of the Jewish slaves. In 1970, Grün & Bilfinger acquired a majority stake in Julius Berger-Bauboag AG, itself a merger of two companies, Julius Berger Tiefbau AG and Berlinische Boden-Gesellschaft AG, both founded in 1890. The combined business, fully integrated in 1975, finally took the name Bilfinger & Berger Bauaktiengesellschaft. In 1994

216-923: The Felix Platter Hospital project in Basel and an ETH student residence in Zurich. Implenia acquired the leading Swiss real estate service provider Wincasa in May 2023. Implenia's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is André Wyss. Also on the Executive Board are Stefan Baumgärtner (CFO), Adrian Wyss (Head Division Real Estate), Jens Vollmar (Head Division Buildings), Erwin Scherer (Head Division Civil Engineering), Anita Eckardt (Head Division Specialties), Claudia Bidwell (Chief Human Resources Officer) and German Grüniger (General Counsel). Hans-Ulrich Meister

240-792: The Swiss stock exchange was 6 March 2006. In 2010, Implenia had acquired the Norwegian Betonmast Anlegg, a Norwegian infrastructure specialist. Since March 2015, the German Bilfinger Construction (now renamed Implenia Construction) with activities in Germany, Austria and Sweden has also been part of the Group. The acquisition of Bilfinger Hochbau followed in 2016. On 27 October 2020, Implenia announced an accelerated restructuring starting in 2021, marking

264-464: The acquisition of Razel Company took place. In 2001 the business changed its name to Bilfinger Berger AG. In 2005, Bilfinger bought all shares of Babcock Borsig Service Group from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG. In 2008 the company sold Razel to group Fayat for 137 million euro. In October 2009 the company acquired directly MCE Beteiligungsverwaltungs GmbH itself, a business based in Linz focused on

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288-633: The business as at 31 December 2019 was as follows: Major projects have included: In March 2009, a building collapsed in Cologne due to the nearby construction site for the Cologne Stadtbahn Nord-Süd-Stadtbahn (in German) . The collapse is suspected to be caused by the construction works, and to several irregularities. In June 2020, Bilfinger reached an out-of-court agreement that settles all civil claims arising from

312-703: The canton of Zurich . Implenia is one of the 500 largest companies in Switzerland . Implenia was created out of a series of mergers between Swiss regional construction companies, but ultimately from the 2006 merger of Batigroup and Zschokke Holding. In mid-1997 Preiswerk Holding AG merged with Schweizerische Strassenbau- und Tiefbau-Unternehmung AG (Stuag) / Stuag Holding AG and Schmalz AG Bauunternehmung / Schmalz Holding AG to form Batigroup Holding based in Basel. Batigroup's core competencies centered on traditional construction activities, including road construction, poured asphalt, civil engineering, tunnel construction and building construction. The basis of Zschokke Holding

336-765: The collapse of the city’s municipal archive building. Several other construction projects are suspected to have been conducted with irregularities: the Düsseldorf Stadtbahn Wehrhahn-Linie (in German) , the Nuremberg–Munich high-speed railway and the Bundesautobahn 1 . In November 2018, Bilfinger was sued by Christopher Steele , who alleged that the company owed €150,000 for an investigation into Bilfinger's activities in Nigeria and Sakhalin . Implenia Implenia

360-671: The company's total output volume of €8,123 million and EBIT for the services division amounted to €297 million. In November 2011, Bilfinger acquired 98 percent of shares in Neo Structo Construction Private Ltd., located in Surat, India, for a purchase price of €47 million. In 2010 Bilfinger became a Societas Europaea (SE). In December 2014 Bilfinger signed a deal to sell the construction division to Switzerland's Implenia AG. It had once been Germany's second largest builder. In June 2016 Bilfinger announced

384-555: The design, construction and maintenance of facilities in the process industry and the energy sector. In June 2010, a prospectus was issued with the aim of listing Bilfinger Berger Australia on the Australian Securities Exchange via an initial public offering . In July 2010 the listing was abandoned with a trade sale to Lendlease agreed in December 2010. In 2010, services contributed to 80% of

408-496: The division's units. Implenia is also active in the management of properties in Switzerland through its real estate service provider Wincasa. Major projects involving the company include: Construction defects at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, which was built by Implenia and still being completed under great time pressure for the 2008 European Soccer Championships , led to ten years of legal proceedings against

432-495: The former Executive Board members. The settlement with a total volume of €18.2 million ends the assertion of claims of for damages by Bilfinger. Bilfinger SE is a Deutsche Börse SDAX index traded, leading international industrial services provider. The portfolio covers the entire value chain from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, maintenance, plant expansion as well as turnarounds and also includes environmental technologies and digital applications. Bilfinger, as

456-418: The largely complementary business areas, Zschokke and Batigroup began talks about a possible merger in summer 2005. Following these discussions, the intention to merge to form Implenia was announced publicly on 15 November 2005. Finally, the shareholders of Zschokke and Batigroup approved the merger at simultaneous AGMs held on 2 March 2006. ZB Didumos AG, founded as a placeholder company for the future company,

480-451: The sale of the facilities management and real estate business to Swedish financial investor EQT. In February 2018 the company announced that it would seek damages from the former directors of the company after alleged breaches in compliance and a series of acquisitions that failed to create shareholder value. After securing shareholder consent in June 2020, Bilfinger reached a settlement with

504-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title GBF . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GBF&oldid=1168698456 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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528-569: Was completed ahead of schedule. In May 2021, Implenia completed the acquisition of BAM Swiss AG, a healthcare construction services provider in Switzerland headquartered in Basel. With this acquisition, Implenia took over BAM Swiss AG's current projects such as the planning and realization of the Aarau Cantonal Hospital, the BSSE in Basel – a modern laboratory and research building for biosystems science and engineering – as well as

552-484: Was renamed Implenia AG in the course of the merger in 2005. The headquarters of the new company became Zurich. The shares of Zschokke and Batigroup were delisted from the SIX Swiss Exchange after close of trading on 3 March 2006. The merger was completed by exchanging shares for the new Implenia shares, the value ratio being set at 65 (Zschokke) to 35 (Batigroup). The first trading day of Implenia shares on

576-661: Was the construction company Castor, Hersent et Zschokke, founded in 1872 in Aarau by Conrad Zschokke (1842-1918), which was transferred to the public limited company Conrad Zschokke in 1909. Through acquisitions and mergers, in 1982 the joint-stock company Heinr. Hatt-Haller and in 1997 Locher & Cie AG, among others, became part of Zschokke Holding, whose headquarters were most recently in Geneva. In addition to building construction, Zschokke acquired in particular general planning, general contracting and real estate management. Due to

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