Annual contract volume in the mid-size double-digit million-Euro area
Technical, commercial and infrastructural facility management in approx. 1,000 HVB properties in Germany
Vienna, 18 December 2008 On 1 April 2008 STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH (STRABAG PFS), a subsidiary of the listed STRABAG SE Group, will be assigned the facility management for HypoVereinbank AG (HVB). STRABAG PFS will be rendering the technical and commercial facility management as well as all infrastructural services of about 1,000 owned and rented properties of the HVB in Germany.
The annual contract volume comprises a mid-size double-digit million-Euro-figure. About 250 HVB-employees, who have performed the facility management activities in the past, will be taken over by STRABAG PFS and their further employment will be guaranteed until the end of 2012.
„With STRABAG PFS we have found a well known partner in the field of facility management that operates throughout Europe, with whom we are glad to be collaborating in the long term. We are continuing our strategy to concentrating on the core business, streamlining processes and reducing costs sustainably,” says Heinz Laber, Member of the Board and COO of HVB.
„This technically challenging task is the confirmation of our competence to achieve quality and cost optimisation for our clients through professional facility management. The partnership with HVB – together with the new employees – is an important step towards growth in the banking segment of the market,” says Dr. Ludwig Steinbauer, chairman of the Executive Board of STRABAG PFS and Member of Management Board of STRABAG AG Austria.
STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH is the one-stop-shop for facility and property management services. The service portfolio covers real estate management (incl. property management, commercial facility management, space management, leasing and renting), technical and infrastructural management. In Germany STRABAG Property and Facility Services guarantees all customers nationwide presence with six branch offices. The subsidiaries in Hungary and Slovakia are market leaders. With more than 6,200 employees, STRABAG Property and Facility Services provides planning- and management services for properties in the sectors Corporate Real Estate Management, Finance, Public, Information Technology, as well as for data centers. All properties are professionally managed and optimised under the aspect of increasing efficiency and value. www.strabag-pfs.com
STRABAG SE is one of Europe’s leading construction groups. With about 69,000 employees, STRABAG expects to generate a construction output volume of € 13.3 billion in the 2008 financial year. From its core markets of Austria and Germany, STRABAG is present via its numerous subsidiaries in all countries of Eastern and South-East Europe, in selected markets in Western Europe and on the Arabian Peninsula. STRABAG’s activities span the entire construction industry (Building Construction and Civil Engineering, Transportation Infrastructures, Tunnelling) and cover the entire value-added chain in the field of construction. More information is available at www.strabag.com