Company

For over 140 years construction has been HOCHTIEF’s core business. Our service spectrum encompasses classic shell construction and high-end building construction, as well as complex infrastructural projects. We plan and build projects in the transport and energy, social and urban infrastructure segments.

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About HOCHTIEF Infrastructure

In Germany and Europe, HOCHTIEF Infrastructure GmbH creates the foundations for well-planned, sustainable growth—for example by building new building, bridges, roads and railways, tunnels, airports, ports, all the way through to plants for the generation of conventional and renewable power.

Technical expertise

Our projects are technically demanding. We have the specialists whose expertise can take a project through every phase to successful completion. With our services you also benefit from special technical solutions that save you time and money. At HOCHTIEF Infrastructure you will find not only experienced civil engineers but also proven experts for the many specialized areas of construction, from the transportation infrastructure and energy infrastructure all the way to social and urban infrastructure. There are a lot of project around the globe that feature special solutions from HOCHTIEF.

Structure

At regional level, our branches optimally combine all the traditional advantages that Germany’s powerful, medium-sized business sector has to offer with the service spectrum of a construction group with international experience. This means we are close to and flexible in the market, and our clients can count on our reliability. Technical know-how as well as quality, occupational safety, adherence to deadlines and cost effectiveness are the hallmarks of our projects.

Management Board

José Ignacio Legorburo
~~General Manager~~

José Ignacio Legorburo was appointed as a member of the Executive Board and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of HOCHTIEF Solutions in May 2014.

In March 2015, he also took over as General Manager of HOCHTIEF Infrastructure GmbH.

Legorburo, born in 1965, is a very experienced manager with more than 25 years in the European construction sector. Most recently, he headed the ACS construction subsidiary Dragados as European Managing Director and expanded its business within Europe, with a particular focus on the UK. Furthermore he was responsible for other units of ACS like the building key division of construction company Vias. Previously, he worked as a civil engineer, project manager, and later Managing Director in the ACS Group, starting in 1989. Legorburo studied Civil Engineering in Madrid.

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Joerg Laue
~~CFO~~

Jörg Laue has been CFO in the Management Board of HOCHTIEF Infrastructure GbmH since January 2014 and, in this function, is responsible for the areas of Controlling, Contract Management, Digitalization, Finance/Accounting, Human Resources, Legal and Procurement.

The industrial engineer, born in 1972, has almost 20 years of experience in the management of units within the HOCHTIEF Group. In 2012 and 2013, Jörg Laue in a commercial function led the Civil Engineering and Tunneling competence center in Essen. From 2008 to 2012, he was Commercial Branch Manager of the Cologne-based Energy Europe unit. Previously, he had been responsible for three years for large-scale projects in the fields of harbor construction, hydraulic engineering and offshore wind energy of the Infrastructure branch in Hamburg. He had already taken over commercial services management within the Hamburg unit in 2002. Before that, Jörg Laue worked as controller, after having started his career in 1999 as trainee at HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft, with deployments in Germany and abroad. Jörg Laue studied industrial engineering with the specialist field of civil engineering, at Technical University Braunschweig.

Values

We 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 business activities are based on a common corporate culture with shared values. “HOCHTIEF is building the world of tomorrow.” We perceive our projects as active contributions to the benefit of society. Our Group’s values are represented by five guiding principles that also apply to all employees of HOCHTIEF Infrastructure:

Integrity
Accountability
Innovation
Delivery
Sustainability

Our success is based on these five pillars—all underpinned by the precondition of safety.

More information about strategy and values at HOCHTIEF: https://www.hochtief.com/about-hochtief/strategy

Sustainability

We take responsibility towards our employees, clients and business partners. This is why we continuously monitor the impact of our business on the environment and our social environment. We are building the world of tomorrow and helping to shape it responsibly. Our claim: we are promoting the interplay between economy, ecology and social affairs.

Find out more about sustainability, compliance and our commitment: Sustainability HOCHTIEF

Procurement

Purchasing for the projects is coordinated by a central unit within our European business. Besides Governance and Compliance tasks, this central unit also is in charge of negotiating and making available the materials and services required by all units.

HOCHTIEF Infrastructure adheres to the same guiding principles as HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft.

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Supplier portal

Suppliers and subcontractors can register in the HOCHTIEF supplier portal and have the opportunity to present their company and hence their services and products. By registering, suppliers and subcontractors become part of the HOCHTIEF network. They receive information about bid invitations and can make applications for these if they are interested.