FOR EMPLOYEES AND FRIENDS OF THE BAUER GROUP COMPANIES

BAUER REVIEW39

2009

In the late summer of 2009 work

began on the tunnel beneath

Munich’s Central Ring Road

(Mittlerer Ring) in the south-west

of the city. Bauer is constructing

piled walls by the top-down

method as well as installing

other retaining structures.

ContentsStatus report 3Bauer on the Americancontinent 4Official opening of BAUER-Strasse 1 18Building in Germany 22In-house exhibition 2009 30Equipment in customer projects 32Deep-level drilling rig 33Employees from far and wide 34Bauer projects worldwide 36News in brief 43

Geographical breakdown of total Group revenues

in EUR millionGermany 380 (25 %)

Other 111 (7 %)

Europe (other) 140 (9 %)

Middle East 236 (16 %)

EU excluding Germany 306 (20 %)

America 181 (12 %)

Far East 173 (11 %)

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As it entered 2009, the BAUER Group was emerging from arecord previous year, yet facing up to the challenges posed bythe most severe economic crisis of the post-war era. As always

at this late stage of the year, we are taking the opportunity to reviewthe progress we have made thus far.Business in 2008 was outstanding; it was a year of superlatives all-round. We increased our total Group revenues by 26.4 percent toEUR 1,527 million and after-tax profit improved by 44.5 percent toEUR 107.5 million – clearly surpassing our planned targets. Our Con-struction segment made particularly pleasing progress, increasing itsrevenues by over 32 percent. Our Equipment segment likewise suc-ceeded in maintaining the high levels of recent years. The recently established Resources segment utilized its first full year in businessto stabilize its structures.However, 2008 was also a year which saw some extremely bad newstoo. We were of course keeping an eye on the subprime crisis in theUSA right from the beginning. We saw with mounting concern howthe threatening clouds gathered as the year progressed. The spirallingloss of confidence in the banking system then culminated in the col-lapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank. By then the capitalmarkets had all but dried up, and the financial crisis was turning intoan all-consuming global economic crisis. It was clear that the problemswould hit most of our customers hard, and so would inevitably affectour business. Occasional crises are part and parcel of the industry inwhich we operate, and we are used to confronting the challenges they

pose, but we were well aware that an economic crisis on a globalscale would certainly leave its mark in a painful way. We were alsoconfident, however, that our international presence placed us in astrong position to withstand such an event.The marked decline in orders received from late 2008 onwards wor-sened dramatically through 2009, especially in our Equipment seg-ment. Operations were relatively unaffected in the early part of theyear, but as the year went on the crisis became increasingly pro-nounced in terms of falling revenues. Overall, our 2009 revenues aremore than 15 percent down, at around EUR 1.3 billion. Profit has beenhit much more severely, dropping to around a third of last year’s. Nev-ertheless, in view of the considerable turbulence that has occurredwe can be reasonably satisfied.The crisis has forced us to make some tough cuts in our business, justas is the case in other companies. In the Equipment segment, we hadto let almost all temporary agency staff go, and most of our permanentworkforce was put on short-time working in the second half of the year.All the other segments are likewise adjusting their costs to the changedsituation in order to remain profitable in future. These measures entailsome painful remedies which are sadly unavoidable. One small consola-tion is the fact that the miserable state of affairs is no fault of ours, yetwe – like many others – are having to suffer its effects.The current crisis is, however, showing that we have been pursuingthe right strategy in our business over recent years. The Equipment

segment is facing the toughest conditions. Our customers are re-sponding to the crisis like virtually all others. The first thing they didwas to drastically cut their capital investment. This has led to a dra-matic decline in machinery orders. The collapse is most severe in rela-tion to the smaller equipment forming part of the standard inventoryof all specialist foundation engineering companies. By contrast, thereare some good prospects for sales of large-size machinery purchasedfor specific projects. The many economic stimulus packages being im-plemented by governments around the world are even in some casesdriving a boom in large-scale infrastructure projects. Our new deep-level drilling rigs may well bring us additional business over the comingyear. The Construction segment is currently a key stabilizing factor for

us. Though business is declining somewhat after the growth seen lastyear, and some markets are tough, there are also some regions inwhich positive progress is being made. Some very large projects inprospect may well rapidly improve the picture. In the Resources seg-ment – at present still our smallest segment – there are even goodprospects for growth. The products and services it supplies areneeded even more in times of economic weakness. Environmentaltechnology, the mining of natural resources and water are issueswhich are of particular importance at present. We expect to see signi-ficant growth in this area over the coming years. As you can see, our three business segments have enjoyed very mixedfortunes so far in 2009. Our established strategy is proving particularlybeneficial in such a difficult phase. To draw an engineering parallel: eventhough the balance may shift, three supporting pillars are still the moststable system. In recent years the Equipment segment has proved tobe our strongest segment; at present Construction is helping to stabi-lize our business; and with Resources we now have a third pillar.Of course, the situation is certainly not a comfortable one. If we sitback and do nothing we risk permanently damaging our business. Aproactive approach, taking opportunities as and when they arise, willhelp us to emerge strong again from the crisis. We are making use ofthis time to perfect existing methods and develop new products andprocesses, and to enhance staff training. All in all, despite the difficul-ties faced, we believe that the lasting impressions of 2009 will not allbe bad when we look back. I would like to thank all employees fortheir efforts and commitment through these difficult times. I wouldalso like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and busi-ness partners most warmly for their cooperation and support. I leaveyou with a sincere wish for us all to have the confidence to believe inour strengths. We will face further challenges in 2010.

Status report

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500

20072006200520032002 2004

Development of total Group revenues by segment

in EUR million (segments after deducting Other/Eliminations/Consolidations)

Total1,527

Resources131

Equipment713

Construction,international495Construction,Germany188

2001

1,000

2000

1,500

Total1,527

2008

Bauer on the American

continent

From the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego

T he discovery of America can betraced back to 1967 as far as theBAUER Group companies are con-

cerned. That was when the first licencefor the Bauer anchor – at the time not yet10 years on the market – was acquired inthe USA. A specialist foundation engi-neering company was carrying out an-choring works in Washington and Boston,and soon afterwards also in other citieson the east coast.Bauer began carrying out its own con-struction projects in the USA 15 yearslater, as part of a joint venture with spe-cialist foundation engineering contractorRaymond. Subsequently the Schroben-hausen-based business established itsown local arm, Bauer of America, to carryout its projects, and since 1992 it hasalso operated subsidiary Coastal Cais-son, located in Florida.Gradually contracts began to come infrom outside of the USA. In 1991 thecompany built the foundations for thenew terminal at Vancouver Airport in

Canada, on a vibro compacted large area.The up-and-coming Equipment segmentthen also began to achieve success onthe North American market. Bauer’s ma-chinery sales operation has been firmlyestablished in America since 1998, andnow operates its own in-house produc-tion and service facilities.Following the map further southwards,the countries of Central and South America may not have the economicpower of the USA but they do offer theirown business opportunities. The devel-opment of the Panama Canal in recentyears has been a major construction proj-ect which has attracted a great deal ofpublicity worldwide. The small country atthe narrowest point between North andSouth America is the ideal base for ad-vancing operations all the way down intothe northern regions of South America.Wherever Bauer know-how is in de-mand, opportunities are regularly arising.Indeed, Bauer has to date also workedon projects in Mexico, Chile, Argentina

and the Caribbean. Recently Brazil hasemerged as a growing market offeringbright prospects for the future.The American market – North and South– provides potential for large-scale proj-ects as well as posing some major tech-nical challenges to Bauer’s specialistfoundation engineering operations. Thevast distances alone are a barrier to bid-ding for even simple, routine foundationprojects or excavation pit works. Onelook at the map illustrates the scale ofthe challenge: in Canada, the USA andBrazil, for instance, the American conti-nent is home to three of the five largestcountries by land-mass on earth.The work is very varied. Some contractsrecently acquired by BAUER ResourcesGmbH – mining projects in Canada andAlaska – were actually initiated by BauerMaschinen. As a result of this move, allthree segments of the BAUER Group –Construction, Equipment and Resources– are now operating on the other side ofthe Atlantic.

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W hen people in Europe talkabout “America” they usuallymean primarily the United

States. Bauer, too, first began its Ameri-can adventure in the USA. ContractorHarry Schnabel’s company was carryingout specialist foundation engineeringworks in a number of cities along theeast coast and acquired a licence for theBauer anchor. From the late 1960s onwards, a close and enduring personalrelationship formed between HarrySchnabel and Dr. Karlheinz Bauer.Following those initial licence acquisi-tions, it took more than one and a halfdecades – until 1984 in fact – for Bauerto begin carrying out its own works.Even 25 years later, the company’s engi-neers are well aware of what the BostonHynes Auditorium project meant interms of its development on the Ameri-

mond – the largest specialist foundationengineering contractor in the world atthe time. After the contract for the exca-vation pit and foundations for the US Em-bassy in Cairo had been awarded toBauer Egypt ahead of Raymond, the Raymond CEO – a former General in theUnited States Corps of Engineers – vis-ited Schrobenhausen to initiate the part-nership. “If you can’t beat them, join

American way of doing things. Despitethe long-standing influence exerted byEuropean immigrants, especially in NorthAmerica, Thomas Bauer discovered thata business culture had developed whichwas alien to the European approach. TheUSA has no binding legal canon in theway that Germany does; each dispute isjudged on its own merits. To ensure op-erations are kept on a sound legal foot-ing, experience showed that the onlyroute to success was to employ Ameri-can personnel loyal to the company.One of the dominant features of theAmerican construction business are thelabour unions, which again are in manyways different from the German idea of atrade union. There is a separate organiza-tion for each trade (of which there aremany) and they all play a major role inmatters ranging from job allocation to ac-cident insurance, and all of them havetheir local delegates on-site. Working withthe unions is made even harder by thefact that they all compete against eachother, so a European contractor is con-fronted with a real jungle of relationshipsto navigate through. The US constructionindustry is characterized by its very strin-gent safety regulations. Safety and secu-rity personnel are present on every site;a safety engineer is an integral part of theteam. All visitors have to undergo a safetyinduction, and are provided with a helmetand goggles as soon as they enter thesite. Some German engineers find thesafety regime rather exaggerated, and ahindrance to efficient working, yet thepositive aspects of such rules should notbe overlooked. As Thomas Bauer com-ments: “Some things might seem to usto be rather over-the-top, but the US sys-tem does illustrate how lax we in Ger-many are when it comes to safety.”Following the demise of Raymond, PaulScheller headed Bauer of America. Awhole series of profitable projects werecarried out, including dam sealing workssuch as for the New Waddell Dam andthe Hodges Village Dam, an excavationpit for an underground parking garage inPortland, Maine, stabilization of a stretchof railroad by piling in North Carolina, andreinforcement of bridge foundations inBoston and New York.After spending a year on his own in theStates, in 1985 Scheller brought over his

Specialist foundation engineering in the USA

can continent. The contract involvedworking from an underground parkinggarage to reinforce the foundationspreparatory to adding more floors ontothe complex. Two BG 7 rigs with short-ened masts for low-headroom operationwere deployed to drive the piles. Be-cause the competition appeared to betaking an inordinate interest in the go-ings-on, the machines were for a timehidden behind tarpaulins. Owing to theprecision work needed, the job was nota profitable one, yet it did deliver valuableexperience for subsequent low-head-room operations. It was around then, too, that Bauer en-tered into the joint venture with Ray-

them,” was his comment. The alliancepromised to provide a sound basis for ac-quiring further work in America. PaulScheller was appointed director of oper-ations on the Bauer side.What Bauer did not know when it entered into the partnership was thatRaymond – operating primarily in the oilindustry – had by then completely over-stretched itself. The business was alreadyon an unsteady footing. A managementbuy-out had taken place, financed by so-called junk bonds. A few years after thepartnership was launched, Raymondwent bankrupt. Thomas Bauer succeededin keeping the Schrobenhausen businessout of the Raymond collapse. At the lastmoment, based on a contract extendingto just 15 lines (highly unusual by Ameri-can standards!), Bauer acquired Ray-mond’s shares in the joint venture com-pany.Thus in the mid-1980s Bauer stood alone,with no local partner, on the unfamiliarcontinent. It was not easy to adjust to the

Difficult: the Acosta Bridge in Jacksonville

Successful: remediation of the Hodges Village Dam

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wife and three daughters to live with himin Boston. People in the USA tend to buytheir homes rather than rent, as is moreoften the case in Germany. And every-one is very neighbourly: “The furniturevan has barely been emptied beforesomeone comes along with a plate ofcookies by way of welcome.”A restructuring of the international busi-ness saw Paul Scheller reassigned backto Germany in the summer of 1989. Notwithout some regret, as he recalls: “I and my family really liked it overthere.” Friendships were upheld, andover the following years the family en-joyed many holidays back in the USA.After Scheller was already back in Europe, his contacts brought about aproject which developed into a real crisis,but ultimately ended all to the good. Itwas 1992, and the project was theAcosta Bridge in Florida. A new bridgewas to be constructed parallel to the ex-

Bauer now had two construction busi-nesses in the USA: Bauer of America –now headed by Ed Forte – and CoastalCaisson. However, not every projectcompleted with technical merit delivereda profit – as Theo Egle and Martin Hein-rich, the Bauer of America managementteam based in Schrobenhausen, came todiscover. Among the many successes, anumber of jobs remain particularly in thememory because of the stresses andstrains they entailed.Technical difficulties arose in 1993, for example, when installing the cut-off wallat the Meeks Cabin Dam in Wyoming.The team was unable to work the groundproperly; the roller bit milling wheel set

technology was not yet sufficiently ad-vanced. And engineers were at a loss toestablish why the cutter was not comingup to speed. It was only when Erich Pöll,one of the top workshop technicians inSchrobenhausen, applied himself to theproblem that a remedy was found: thethin air at 2,700 metres above sea levelwas bringing the entire hydraulic system

Jet grouting by Bauer machinery in downtown New York

isting one, prior to the existing one beingdemolished, with one lane at a timescheduled for completion.Bauer accepted the job, but encounteredsuch major problems executing the firstlane due to the difficult working condi-tions on the water that a considerableloss was made. For the second lane itwas decided to acquire a local contractor– Coastal Caisson. The company’s man-

agement believed that its local experi-ence enabled it to handle the project

with ease. Sadly, that was far frombeing the case. The problems en-

countered, and the losses made,were the same. Fortunately,

some tough negotiatingforced the former owner to

absorb a large part of thelosses, so the matter was

brought to a conclusionwithout too much dam-

age.

Coastal Caisson working in Tampa, Florida

Placing the highest demands on the

crew and their equipment: cut-off wall

for the Red Dog Mine in Alaska

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sides engendered an unsustainable work-ing climate which culminated in the en-gagement of lawyers, mediation tribunalsand court action. Hans-Joachim Bliss, di-rector of American operations on themanagement board of Bauer Spezialtief-bau, has overseen the proceedings withgreat personal commitment over the lastnine years, and they are still unresolved. “The two-company strategy did notwork,” comments Peter Teschemacher,Managing Director of BAUER Spezialtief-bau GmbH. After Flushing Bay the Bauerof America corporation was closeddown. Coastal Caisson gradually beganto achieve success – first headed by DickWalsh, and since 2006 by Chuck Puccini.In the last eight years sales have tripled.The Florida-based company has carriedout many small and medium-sized jobs,including foundations for bridges and re-inforcement of foundations on powerstation modernization projects. It hasalso worked in the famous Everglades ofits home state, driving foundation pilesfor overhead power cable pylons workingfrom floating pontoons.

One of the factors in the success ofCoastal Caisson has been the geograph-ical limitation of its operations. As Hans-Joachim Bliss explains: “We monitor theentire US market, but we concentrate onthe south-east.” This avoids having totransport equipment over long distances.Also, the unions are not as strong downsouth as in the north-eastern states. Inthe past Coastal Caisson worked prima-rily as a subcontractor but, Hans-JoachimBliss goes on, “we have recently alsobeen working more directly on behalf ofcustomers.” The major project at present is the reme-diation of the Herbert Hoover Dikearound Lake Okeechobee near Jack-sonville, Florida. The 230 kilometre longdike encloses the third-largest drinkingwater reservoir in the USA. Begun in1910, the dam has been repeatedly rede-veloped, but remains vulnerable to hurri-canes. In 1926 and 1928, flooding led toseveral thousand fatalities. Now severalhundred million dollars are being in-vested in sealing and safety systems.Bauer Spezialtiefbau suggested using the

Redevelopment of the Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee; see also picture below

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Hans-Joachim Bliss (on left in top picture) regularly getstogether the Bauer management team in America.Here in front of the new Coastal Caisson branch officenorth of Tampa, Florida, opened in summer 2008.

to a standstill. The project was not a fi-nancial success, but there was someconsolation in the appreciation shown bythe customer. Engineer Martin Heinrichrecalls: “We completed the project opti-mally in technical terms. The Corps of Engineers was generous in its compli-ments.”Even more trouble was encountered in1998/99 on the Flushing Bay project, alarge-scale rainwater-retaining storagebasin in New York State. The logisticsalone were highly complex, and the prob-lems continued through the executionphase. After lengthy negotiations on anumber of disputed issues between cus-tomer and contractor, irritation on both

9CSM (cutter soil mixing) system to exe-cute the sealing work, and had to carryout two test cuts before acquiring thecontract for the first 5.6 kilometre sec-tion. The wall extends down to a depth of25 metres on average. Work is being car-ried out with a CSM unit on an RG 25 rig.A BG 28 is pre-drilling in order to clear alayer of clay and loosen a rock layer.While Coastal Caisson was working themarket in the south-eastern USA, from2004 onwards machinery bearing theBauer logo also began reappearingaround New York. Underpinning & Foun-dation, the US subsidiary of Swedishconstruction company Skanska, waslooking for a reliable partner for grouting

work. Bauer supplied equipment andpersonnel. The work in downtown NewYork is helping to reshape the areaaround the former World Trade Center, atthe site of the planned new FreedomTower. It is also worth mentioning in thiscontext that works to clear the “GroundZero” site also involved the deploymentof Klemm anchor drilling rigs.

Bauer Resources in AlaskaAn extraordinary project is being carriedout under the coordination of BAUER Re-sources GmbH in the extreme north-west of the United States, in Alaska. 140kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, a diaphragm cut-off wall is being con-

structed for the largest zinc mine in theworld, the Red Dog Mine. Work began in2007 and is scheduled for completion in2010. For the highly polluted sedimenta-tion pit of the mine, a 1,500 metre long,80 cm thick and up to 55 metre deep diaphragm wall is being constructedusing a BC 40 cutter. Because of the ex-treme weather conditions, work can onlybe carried out from mid-May through tomid-October. The project is being man-aged by Holger Itzeck and Joachim UrsMüller. At the customer’s request, thework is being overseen by an experi-enced Bauer mechanic and a cutter op-erator, who are also helping to train thelocal workforce.

Bauer Maschinen in the USA

I t was in 1998 that Bauer’s machineryselling operations were placed on asomewhat firmer footing in the USA.

Engineer Christian Gress was secondedby Managing Director Erwin Stötzer towork for several years in Boston. It wasat a time, as Gress points out, “when thecrisis on Far Eastern markets was forcingus to become more active in other regions.”Together with his wife Ulrike, he under-took the new challenge with enthusi-

asm. The couple moved into a house justoutside Boston, bought furniture (someof it second-hand), and started work ona laptop placed on a coffee table in thealmost empty living room: “I workedthrough a trade directory to find the ad-dresses of all the construction compa-nies carrying out specialist foundationengineering and drilling.”

Gress contacted all the companies heidentified in person. It proved useful thatthe recent BAUER Group acquisitionKlemm Bohrtechnik already had anAmerican sales operation, and so was ina position to help expand the Bauer busi-ness. Christian Gress set about system-atically working through the potential UScustomer base. “I went through the list,ticking each of them off in turn. I ulti-mately got to know 45 of the 50 statesas a result. I had a frequent-flyer cardwith three US domestic airlines.”After three years Gress returned toSchrobenhausen. The day of his sched-uled departure is one he will always re-member: The house was almost emp-tied, with just a TV set left in the livingroom. During the morning, the TV news

began reporting on an attack on theWorld Trade Center in New York; the datewas September 11, 2001. “There was noway we could go on packing. With thefurniture removers, we placed the couchback in front of the TV and sat watchingthe horrific events unfold.”Christian Gress initially found it toughselling Bauer’s BG rigs. The Americanswere hard to persuade of the advantagesoffered by European equipment. How doyou explain to an engineer who has beenusing the same tried and tested drillingrigs for years that the new one offers atechnically improved solution? It proveddifficult to break down the tradition of es-tablished methods. Success cameslowly, but it came. Hard work createdan initial solid customer base and, in

The San Francisco-based Malcolm corporation is working with Bauer BG rigs in Las Vegas

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Christian Gress with intern Kathrin Solbach

manufactured in Europe will continue toplay a major role in the USA in the future.Moreover, a US production base placesus closer to our market. The machinesare of domestic origin; “Buy American”is more than just a slogan. Now that pro-duction is underway, an American salesand service team will also be built up.And some particular strengths of thebusiness can be more effectively ex-ploited: rapid response to customers’wishes and execution of custom builds;supply of drilling accessories and retro-fitting on imported machinery.“And the USA is not a cheap-labour loca-tion.” This comment from Dr. SebastianBauer, the BAUER Maschinen directorresponsible for development and produc-tion and head of the Conroe project. Oneof the key tasks in the launch phase wasto recruit and train personnel, also involv-ing collaboration with American colleges.The Lone Star College, the renownedtechnical and career training centre inConroe, has become a cooperation part-ner. The state of Texas and the Houstonarea in particular also offers geographical benefits for the business,including proximity to the Latin Americanmarket.The Conroe plant was constructed veryrapidly. Back in 2007, a team headed byThomas Bauer began searching for asuitable site assisted by the Pileco man-agement. In January 2008, following afinal appraisal, definite approval wasgiven for construction of the plant. Thecontract to purchase the site was signedin June 2008. Preliminary works – clear-ing and levelling of the wild land – beganjust two months later. The quick progressof the building work was also thanks tothe city government of Conroe. In thewords of Dr. Sebastian Bauer: “They really pulled out all the stops for us sothat we could launch with no delay.”

101998, the Schrobenhausen-based engi-neers showed just what Bauer machin-ery was capable of with the deploymentof low-headroom rigs for the majorBoston Central Artery project. For yearsBob Carter supported the sales opera-tions in the USA. With CES in New Jer-sey, and later ECA in Pittsburgh, domes-tic distributors were soon also on-board.Christian Gress has only positive thingsto say about his dealings with the Ameri-cans: “Once they become your friend,they stay your friend!” He also learnedabout resolving conflicts the Americanway. As Gress comments: “Americansare quick to send in the lawyers, but onthe other hand they see legal action assomething of a sport too.”A major step forward for sales opera-tions in the USA came in autumn 2005with the acquisition of Pileco, Inc. basedin Houston, Texas. Pileco was very suc-cessful selling diesel hammers manufac-tured in China. Bauer bought the special-ist business from German-originating en-trepreneur Otto Kammerer, who passedaway at the age of 74 in February 2009.The major success of Pileco really tookoff in the 1970s, when Kammerer suc-ceeded in selling diesel-powered ham-mers – at the time still made in Germany– to the oil industry. The product also builtup a market with numerous widely re-spected innovations.

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On show: Bauer rig and Pileco products

Since its acquisition of Pileco, Bauer hashad a highly effective service base.Moreover, a number of Bauer employeesfrom Germany now live in the States, including product manager ManfredDreier, who is based in San Francisco,and service manager Markus Lönner.Back in Schrobenhausen, the Americansales operations of BAUER MaschinenGmbH are headed by Robert Kaindl. ThePileco management has been restruc-tured in 2009 with the appointment ofDan Dragone and Tom Jarboe. GeorgeSmith, until recently was CEO, is nowChairman.

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investment of EUR 20 million – sinceJuly 2009. An official opening ceremonywas held in October 2009.There are important reasons for estab-lishing an in-house production facility inthe USA. Manufacturing within the dollarzone is more vital than ever before. Thecurrency exchange risk, which can se-verely hamper business, and which stillcannot be excluded entirely at present,has to be gradually eliminated in respectof the company’s standard equipmentrange by expanding production in theUSA. However, specialist equipment

The Conroe plant was officially opened at aceremony attended by a number of guests of honour and by the employees.

An hour’s drive north of Houston,Texas, on Interstate 45 is the cityof Conroe. This is where – over

just a few months – the US plant ofBAUER Maschinen GmbH was con-structed. Production has been running atthe new facility – representing a total

Drilling rig production was launched at the Conroe plant in summer 2009.

11BAUER Maschinen GmbH erected weld-ing shop, assembly shop and paint shopbuildings on the 320,000 square metresite within the year. In fact, production ofequipment and structural steel compo-nents was launched even before con-struction work on the new plant began,with Klemm anchor drilling rigs and theBG 12 initially being manufactured at arented facility. This meant the new plantcould start production immediately withan existing workforce of over 40 people.Sadly, the momentum behind the initia-tive was severely dampened. “It is no se-cret that we were surprised by the im-pact of the financial crisis on the Conroedevelopment,” admits Dieter Stetter,Managing Director of BAUER MaschinenGmbH. As the signs of a major economicdownturn began to spread in the autumnof 2008, the original plans were scaledback, and some of the planned unitswere not built. The sales team also felt the immediateimpact of the crisis. There were marked

declines especially in demand for thepreviously strong-selling Klemm equip-ment. At present efforts are thus beingredoubled to sell the 2009 productionrange: six BG 12 drilling rigs, three BG 24rigs, seven Klemm KR 806 anchor drillingrigs and lots of drilling tools, kelly barsand leaders for Pileco hammers.

pumped out of the interior, and miningcould begin.The second segment began in 2005. Onthe adjacent volcano crater, a BC 40 cut-ter and three hydraulic grabs were usedto construct a diaphragm wall. De-sanders and mixers were also onceagain deployed. The logistical feat was remarkable: equipment was transportednorthwards over ice roads in winter sothat work could be carried out during theshort summer months. Another mining contract executed be-tween 2005 and 2007 was the ShoreGold project. Bauer Maschinen suppliedtwo BG 36 rigs for diamond exploration

drilling down to a depth of 360 metres.Bauer was also involved in the executionof the highly complex project by way ofa joint venture. The project was overseenby Bauer Equipment of Canada, whichwas subsequently assigned to BAUERResources GmbH.In 2005 and 2006 Bauer Spezialtiefbauexecuted the Péribonka dam project,some 600 kilometres north of Montreal,on behalf of power station operatorHydro-Québec. The core task was to con-struct 25,000 square metres of dia-phragm cut-off wall in extremely toughrock formations, involving in some casesvertical rock walls and even rock over-hangs at depth. The contract also in-volved extensive vibrocompaction andgrouting. Three trench cutters were de-ployed on the site, including the mostpowerful Bauer machines of the kindever built, for a cutting depth down to135 metres. At times work had to be

C anada is a huge country. Domes-tic flights cover distances incon-ceivable to European short-haul

travellers. The second-largest country onearth stretches across five time zones,though its population is thinly spread.And Canada has a wealth of natural re-sources. Water is used to generatehydro-electric power; the ground holdsextensive deposits of gold and dia-monds, coal and uranium, and vast quan-tities of oil.Bauer has participated in two extra-ordinary projects in Canada over the lastdecade: BAUER Maschinen GmbH sup-plied equipment for the Diavik diamondmine, and BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbHexecuted the dam sealing for the Péri-bonka hydro-electric power station. Bauer Maschinen began supplyingequipment and deploying personnel toDiavik in 2001, shipping in a diaphragmwall cutter, four diaphragm wall grabsand jet-grouting units. The equipmentwas used to mine the diamond deposits

in the volcano necks beneath the Lac desGras lake, 200 kilometres south of theArctic Circle. In order to mine diamondsby the open-cast method from depthsdown to 300 metres, diaphragm wallswere installed to seal the dams aroundthe volcano neck. Water was then

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inery plant onroe

Canada – extraordinary

projects

Diavik: Bauer equipment at the Arctic Circle

Péribonka: sealing in rock formations

12carried out at temperatures of minus 28degrees Celsius, and even at minus 40when carrying out grouting under cover.Following execution of the Péribonkaproject – through the Bauer Fondationsunit in French-speaking Quebec – opera-tions in Canada have since 2007 beenhandled through Calgary-based succes-sor company BAUER FoundationsCanada Ltd. Its Managing Director isLars Richter, who has held managementposts from a relatively young age. But,as he states: “Standing in traffic jams onthe way to projects in Holland, unable touse the best part of the day, was not forme.” So the opportunity to move to thewide open spaces of Canada offered tohim by Canadian group leader SebouhBalian was ideal. He now lives with hiswife and two children in Calgary, wherehe heads a team of Bauer staff, controlsa permanent machinery portfolio, andhas a service workshop at his disposal.

Lars Richter is currently managing twomajor projects in the provinces of Que-bec and Alberta. In Quebec, a Spanish-Canadian consortium is building the Nouvelle Autoroute 30 highway, bypass-ing to the west and south of Montreal,as part of a public-private partnershipproject. Bauer is constructing the foun-dations of the Beauharnois Bridge, a con-tract worth almost 30 million Canadiandollars. The canal which the bridge spansis a channel blasted into the rock whosewater feeds a power station. The extraor-dinary hardness of the rock formationposes the major challenge. Advice wasprovided by Egon Stahl, Bauer ManagingDirector in Hong Kong, who has exten-sive experience of drilling through rock inhis own territory.Bauer Foundations Canada has beencontracted to drive 138 piles: 60 on landfor the bridge thrust blocks, and 78 in thewater, from a pontoon, for the pillars.

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Drilling from pontoons into rock: constructing bridgefoundations near Montreal. The first office of the siteteam headed by Martin Pielmeier (second from right)had more of a kitchen feel to it.

Five BG rigs – three BG 40s and twoBG 28s – are additionally being deployed.To ensure precision drilling, an IB 10 ispre-drilling down to four metres into therock to position the tip of the drillingbucket. The two-metre diameter pilesmust socket four metres into the rock.Starting in summer 2009, the project isscheduled for completion in just over tenmonths.In fact, as Lars Richter reports, the com-pany did not really want to bid for thiscontract owing to its great distance awayfrom the Calgary base. But the customerwas looking for top-class technical ex-pertise to handle the difficult project, andso actively approached the Bauer engi-neers. The example of the BeauharnoisBridge illustrates how a construction siteof such a scale, far away from any com-pany base, has to be organized. In theearly months project manager MartinPiel meier, who has relocated to Canadafor several years with his wife and smallchild, was kept busy putting together ateam of engineers and construction spe-cialists. After having sought out a homefor himself, accommodation was alsoneeded for all the other staff. The com-pany needed an office, and suitable localsuppliers had to be found. And beforework could begin, all staff had to be

Lars Richter

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made aware of the planning framework.Then it took some time to get all the machinery on site: one BG came fromFlorida, another from New York, bothbeing shipped up the St. Lawrence Riverto the small industrial port near the site.Another BG was brought overland bytruck from the distant province of Al-berta, taking a week for the journey. The urban conveniences around a citysuch as Montreal are not available to an-other Bauer team: In northern Alberta,800 km north of Calgary, near the townof Fort McMurray, oil sands are beingmined. A camp has been built to housesome 3,000 construction workers. Theextensive open-cast mine holding therich Canadian oil deposits is being closelymonitored by conservationists. BauerFoundations Canada has acquired an en-vironmental contract as part of the AlbianSands Expansion project. The 22 millioneuro contract awarded by oil corpora-tions Shell and Chevron involves protect-ing a river against the waste water fromthe Jack Pine Mine. This is being done bymeans of a 72,000 square metre dia -phragm cut-off wall, on which work wasscheduled through 2008 and 2009. Thevertical wall is 2.6 kilometres long, 90centimetres thick and down to 50 me-tres deep, and has to socket into thesealing layer of the oil sands. The execu-tion, deploying two diaphragm wall grabsand a deep-level bucket excavator, wasextremely difficult. Despite being geolog-ically termed as sand, the ground is infact compressed almost to the hardnessof rock, so two BG 28 rigs were de-

ployed to pre-drill over long stretches.BAUER Resources GmbH is working onroughly the same latitude in the neigh-bouring province of Saskatchewan.French energy corporation Areva is ex-ploring new methods there as part of aresearch and development project. Aprocess developed by Bauer Resourcesand Bauer Maschinen is being deployedto loosen high-grade uranium ore fromcaverns at a depth of 180 metres andtransport them to the surface by the air-lift drilling method.In conventional open-cast mining, gigan-tic masses of hard sandstone had to becleared by blasting in order to access theore deposits. Areva was looking for amethod which entailed less environmen-tal impact and was also more cost-effec-tive. A number of vendors had failed tosatisfy Areva’s needs, until Bauer – in itscapacity as a designer and manufacturer,and with its applications experience –came up with a new approach. An en-tirely new mining system of its kind wascreated, combining high-pressure jettingwith the airlift method. The mining of uranium demands implementation of the highest safety standards to protectpersonnel. Health checks and radiation protection passes are mandatory. Theproject was realized from the first con-tact through to successful testing of theprototype at the McClean Lake headed by Holger Itzeck. The project is beingsupported from Schrobenhausen byJoachim Urs Müller. He comments: “Wehave once again demonstrated that cost-effective mining is possible with special-

ist foundation engineering applications.”Holger Itzeck, an experienced Bauer en-gineer, moved to Edmonton in the Cana-dian province of Alberta, together withhis wife, who is a goldsmith, and studentdaughters, in 2006. His main role is inthe Resources segment, but he is alsothe Canadian representative of BauerMaschinen. Itzeck joined Bauer in the

mid-1980s. He previously worked on thedevelopment of construction processesand in management of the German busi-nesses. He enjoys working in differentcultures, and likes to keep close personalcontact with staff and customers.In his leisure time, Holger Itzeck likes togo canoeing with his family on the remoterivers of Alberta. Indeed, it is to be hopedthat all Bauer staff working in the wideexpanses of Canada find time after theirhard work to explore the dramatic land-scapes of this beautiful country.

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Deployment of specialist foundation engineering methods in exploration and mining

A grab-excavated cut-off wall protects a riveragainst pollution from oil mining.

A BG journeys across Canada.

Holger Itzeck

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The expansion of the Panama Canalis currently one of the biggest con-struction projects in the world. But

Panama is more than just the Canal. Thesmall country at the narrowest point be-tween North and South America is wellaware of its strategically vital location,and is busy developing its towns andcities and improving its infrastructure.Bauer Spezialtiefbau subsidiary BAUERFundaciones Panama S.A. has been op-erating in Central America since 2006.For Managing Director Hans Schwarz -weller – who has many years’ experienceof working in the region – the Canal hasa particular fascination: “As a construc-tion engineer, being part of a projectsuch as the redevelopment of thePanama Canal, in the focus of worldwideattention, is something really special!”Bauer has to date worked on severalsegments of the Canal developmentproject, including installing additionalship anchorages along the canalside in2007. The most spectacular sight is agroup of four Klemm drilling rigs workingon a pontoon in the Canal. The Klemmrigs are carrying out blast-hole drilling inorder to widen and deepen the shippinglane by blasting out rock sections.A major milestone in the history of thePanama Canal, which was first opened in1914, was December 31, 1999. On thatdate the Canal was transferred by the

USA to the Republic of Panama. Therewas widespread scepticism at the time,Schwarzweller recalls. It was feared thatsuch a small country would not be up tothe major challenge of maintaining theCanal, and things would soon begin tofall apart. “But that is wrong. The Canalworks superbly. A great deal is beingdone to improve safety, accident figuresare down, and throughput has been in-creased.” Moreover, the redevelopmentwork is closely focused on environmen-tal protection.Responsibility for the Canal lies with aquasi-autonomous public body which op-erates independently of the Ministry ofTransport. A referendum among the peo-ple of Panama in October 2006 voted infavour of redeveloping the Canal in orderto safeguard lucrative revenues from

handling ever larger container ships. Theprice of passage is calculated accordingto the type and size of the ship, and is onaverage 90,000 US dollars. This broughtin revenues of some 1.745 billion US dol-lars in 2008. Investments totalling somefive billion US dollars are plannedthrough to 2015. The Panamanian cur-rency is the Balboa, which is fixed at par-ity with the US dollar and is practicallynon-existent in terms of payment trans-actions. Hans Schwarzweller sees theadvantage: “It makes all costing and cal-culation easy.”Qualified engineer Hans Schwarzwellerhas been working for Bauer since 2003.He comes from the Palatinate region ofGermany, studied in Karlsruhe and hasover 20 years’ experience in the inter-national construction business. He wasinitially with Philipp Holzmann, then for anumber of years with Dyckerhoff & Wid-mann, and latterly Managing Director ofBilfinger Berger in Panama. Infrastruc-ture projects are his speciality. He cannotimagine a life that does not involve beingout in the big wide world. That adventur-ous spirit showed itself from an earlyage: “When you’re out in the field, as ayoung engineer, you can make decisionswithout having to get permission everytime you want to buy a pencil; and youget to lead a team quickly. It is an appeal-ing career move.” And what about mov-

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PanamaNetwork in Central America

Bauer in the Caribbean: foundations for an urban highway in Santo Domingo

Hans Schwarzweller on the Dos Mares

construction site in Panama

ing back to Germany some time? “Aftersuch a long time, it would be difficult tochange track.” The working routine alsodoes not appeal to him: “In 27 years Ihave rarely worked a five-day week; it’susually six.”Bauer is currently carrying out a numberof projects in Panama away from theCanal, including the foundations for theColores Bella Vista, an elevated highwayin the centre of Panama City, and theDos Mares hydro-electric power station.On this latter project, the largest in thesummer of 2009, piles in different dia -meters are being driven. Strand anchors,shotcrete and soil nailing are also beingexecuted to secure the slope. The expansion of the Panama Canal isalso entailing a modernization of the portinfrastructure at the access points fromboth oceans. Bauer Panama wasawarded a 3.8 million US dollar contractas far back as 2007, involving the vibro-compaction of 10 hectares of newlywashed-up sand in the port of Balboa onthe Pacific coast. The newly created areawill be used to expand the container ter-minal, which is already the secondlargest in Latin America based on con-tainer turnover. The second constructionphase, to a value of 1.6 million US dollars,began in September 2009. Further major

projects forming part of the Canal rede-velopment works, in particular relating toground improvement, are expectedthrough 2010 and 2011.Bauer in Panama is well equipped to han-dle all those tasks. The 65-strong staff iscomprised mainly of local personnel. Italso has at its disposal a state-of-the-artmachinery portfolio, with four drilling rigs(two BG 28s and two BG 22s), six TR 75vibrators, vibrator tips for vibrocom-paction, three hydraulic power packs, twocrawler cranes, a new Klemm KR 806 anchor drilling rig and a Bauer UBW.This range of equipment provides theideal basis for making full use ofPanama’s outstanding geographical loca-tion. “It is easy for us to ship machineryto neighbouring countries,” Schwarz -weller states. Contracts have alreadybeen acquired from some of the islandstates around the region. In SantoDomingo, the capital of the DominicanRepublic, 130 piles in 900 millimetre dia-meter are being driven down to a depthof 30 metres for an urban highway on be-half of the Brazilian contractor Ode -precht: “We regard it as an inroad intothe country, which is currently planninga number of other interesting projects.”

The recently established companyBAUER Cimentaciones Costa Rica S. A.opened its own office in the capital SanJose in August 2009, and is busy acquir-ing work. Projects are also being pursuedin Trinidad and Tobago.Hans-Joachim Bliss stresses thefavourable location of the small countryat the centre of the American continent –a location very much in keeping with theBauer network concept as applied acrossthe various regions of the world. Panamaalso has very good transport links, withgood flight connections to all the capitalcities of South America. The company iscurrently observing the market in Colom-bia, with a view to entering into businesswith a local partner. Peru is also attractive:its economy is growing in spite of the cri-sis; only by three percent, which is nev-ertheless impressive. Over the comingyears Hans-Joachim Bliss also expects tosee the Cuban market opening up.Hans Schwarzweller reveals what hemost enjoys doing: “I’m an organizer. Ienjoy building up a company fromscratch and deploying people accordingto their strengths. I’m also someone wholooks beyond the horizon, so to speak.”During his time in Taiwan he also got toknow the wider Far East region: “I occa-sionally flew over to Hong Kong for theweekend.” It is an ideal attitude in termsof the network concept.

Works in Panama:

Vibrocompaction in the

port of Balboa (top).

Foundations for the Colores

Bella Vista in Panama City

(left).

Klemm rigs are carrying

out blast-hole drilling to

expand the Panama Canal.

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Mexico is primarily a market forBAUER Maschinen GmbH. Atechnically highly challenging

project in the year 2000 involved thefoundation works for the Chiapas Bridge(as it was called for short) – the com-pany’s first major offshore constructionproject. In the southern province of Chiapas, a bridge was built over the Mal-paso Dam on the Raudales River. Thefoundation works were carried out byMexican contractor ICA. The project, towhich Erwin Stötzer, at the time Manag-ing Director of BAUER MaschinenGmbH, had committed a great deal of ef-fort, utilized drilling rigs and drilling sup-port services from Schrobenhausen.The stretch over the dam is divided intotwo sections by an island, so twobridges – 1,400 and 800 metres in lengthrespectively – had to be built. Workingfrom pontoons, auxiliary and anchor pileswere executed for a complex steel struc-ture. The foundation bores were sunk

with the casings of the steel structure asa guide. The extreme demands includedwater depths down to 90 metres andsocketing into a conglomeration of clay-stone and rock horizon. The manager on-site supervising the equipment wasPeter Kliem.The BAUER Maschinen GmbH salesforce has been operating in Mexico for

Mexico City, which is the authorized dis-tributor of Bauer equipment. In the yearof financial crisis, 2009, a major machin-ery transaction was undertaken in Mex-ico. For the construction of a sewer inMexico City and the production of a 120metre deep diaphragm wall, a BC 40 cut-ter and the technical peripherals, with adesander and pumps, were sold.

Chile was a focus of attention forthe Bauer Equipment segmentin the late 1990s. 470 kilometres

north of the capital Santiago de Chile,construction companies Dyckerhoff &Widmann from Germany and Mendezjun. from Brazil were contracted to buildthe Puclaro Dam, a large-scale project tosupply water to the Elqui valley. Bauersupplied the machinery for the specialistfoundation engineering works.A BC 40 trench cutter and three grabswere deployed. Bauer executed 17,000square metres of underground cut-offwall in 1,200 millimetre thickness downto a depth of 60 metres, as well as pro-viding the specialist personnel. PeterKliem, head of Bauer’s machinery de-ployment at the time, also recalls a keyevent which significantly hampered theconstruction phase: the tropical phenom-enon known as “El Niño” , which in 1997spread particularly heavy storms acrosslarge swathes of South America, se-verely hit the construction site of thePuclaro Dam. All the machines wereunder water and mud, and had to beoverhauled before work could resume.Bauer machinery was also deployed sub-sequently in Chile. The company installedthe foundations for the new airport ter-minal in Santiago de Chile on deep-levellarge-diameter bored piles. The under-ground rail network and many other in-frastructure projects in the capital alsomade use of Bauer machinery. Tunnellingworks and digging of channels for reloca-tion of rail tracks underground were con-tracted in the economically highly activearea around the capital. In Viña del Marthe rail track runs underground for morethan five kilometres. For the tunnel, con-structed in 2003 by the top-down

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Mexico and the Chiapas Bridge

Reverse circulation drills were deployed onthe Chiapas Bridge foundations in Mexico.

Bauer machinerybuilding the Puclaro Dam in Chile

Chile and

many years. For a time Theo Herrera wasengaged as a dedicated company agent.He now works for partner Construmac in

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For Europeans, Brazil is the land offootball and of Pele, of Sugar LoafMountain and the Rio Carnival; but

also of the favelas, the poverty-strickenghettos of the major cities. Although stilla long way from achieving equalityamong its various social classes, Brazilhas reaped some international recogni-tion for its economic progress in recentyears. The largest country in South America – with its population of 190 mil-

sible for Bauer’s deep-level drilling tech-nology, has been discussing a range ofideas for joint undertakings.Günter Huber has become well ac-quainted with the structures of businesslife in Brazil. The most important eco-nomic centre is São Paulo, which with itseleven million people is the mega-city ofSouth America: “Even companies head-quartered elsewhere have at least an of-fice in São Paulo, so you can basically get

the remediation of a quay wall in the portof Buenos Aires. A BG 30 sank large-dia -meter bored piles and a UBW anchordrilling rig installed pressure tube anchors.Bauer is not currently operating in theconstruction sector in Argentina or Chile,but the machinery sales business is see-ing rising interest, as in other SouthAmerican countries. Sales staff familiarwith the culture of South America areidentifying demand for specialist founda-tion engineering services and providingsupport to the construction contractors.At the Fematec trade show in BuenosAires, Bauer equipment made in Chinawas exhibited.

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Remediation works with a Bauer BG andUBW in the port of Buenos Aires

Brazil is on the up

lion almost two thirds that of the USA –is steadily on the rise. Even in the finan-cial crisis, Brazil keeps growing.For the companies of the BAUER GroupBrazil is primarily a machinery market.Günter Huber has been the local man-ager for BAUER Maschinen GmbH since2006. He likes the Portuguese languageand is, as he asserts, “a great fan ofBrazil as a country” . After an initial sixmonths in Rio de Janeiro – “to find outwhat the market was like” – he movedto Natal, further north on the promontorystretching out into the Atlantic. Relocating to Natal also meant beingcloser to the key account customer Petro-bras. The concern – which has growninto one of the largest oil producers inthe world – operates oil and gas fieldsboth onshore across the mineral-richcountry and offshore in the Atlantic. Inrecent months Stefan Schwank, respon-

an appointment with any major Braziliancorporation.” Stefan Schwank and Günter Huber see asound basis for the further developmentof Bauer business in Brazil in the nowwell-established links with Brasfond, thelargest specialist foundation engineeringcompany in the country, based in SãoPaulo. A joint venture, Bras-Bauer, has re-cently been established been the two.Brasfond is seen as a technology leaderin specialist foundation engineering inBrazil. So its recent purchase of a BG 36with CSM fittings, as well as four dia -phragm wall grabs from Bauer’s Chineseproduction, represented quite a signifi-cant move. The delivery of this equip-ment was timed so favourably in thespring of 2009 that one of the grabscould be seconded for several days as anexhibit at the three-yearly “M&T Expo”construction fair in São Paulo.

Grab at the M&T Expo construction fair in Sao Pãulo

Argentina

Günter Huber

method on behalf of railway companyMERVAL, 68,000 square metres of dia -phragm wall were executed down to adepth of 45 metres. The wall is held inplace by 22,000 metres of anchoring.While the Puclaro Dam project was beingundertaken, the company also suppliedmachinery to neighbouring Argentina for

to the financial crisis, he stated that theConstruction segment was likely to see adecline, though on a manageable scale,but that the Equipment segment wouldhave a tougher time of it. By contrast, hestated his view that the newly estab-lished Resources segment has brightprospects for growth.Prime Minister Seehofer also addressedthe financial crisis. In view of all the majorstresses imposed by the crisis, he as-serted that government and businesshave a shared responsibility: “A clearcourse needs to be steered,” he said.However, he warned that state interven-tion in business had to be as restrained aspossible; the crisis should not lead to thegradual rise of a nationalized economy. Hisbasic message was: “We must reinvigo-rate the social market economy. But that

is the role of business, not of the state!”Horst Seehofer also underscored his per-sonal links to the Bauer family and its busi-ness, highlighting in particular his timefrom 1980 onwards as a member of theGerman Federal Parliament representingthe Ingolstadt region, in which Bauer isone of the major industrial concerns.

The new Bauer head office in Schrobenhausen

The construction of a new head office ad-ministration building was long overdue.The strong growth of the business sincethe mid-1990s had forced Bauer to rentadditional premises around the existinghead office facility. Indeed, some staff of-fices were for a number of years housedin temporary containers on the factorysite. A total of EUR 12 million was in-vested in the new administration build-ing. Then the existing building was exten-sively restored at a cost of EUR 5.5 mil-lion. The building services, in particular,were badly in need of updating, and be-cause the exterior insulation had to be re-placed, the facade now has an entirelynew look.“We wanted a building that offers our em-ployees good working conditions while atthe same time embodying our solid, no-nonsense philosophy as a constructionand engineering company,” states Chair-man of the Management Board ProfessorThomas Bauer, outlining the intention be-hind the project. From a number of de-signs submitted, the concept devised byMunich architects Weickenmeier, Kunz +Partner was ultimately selected. A keyfactor in the choice was its utilization ofthe site’s outdoor areas. The proposal toincorporate a circular concrete space forthe company’s regular in-house machin-ery exhibitions was acknowledged as anappealing detail.The new building and the renovated ex-isting block are characterized by light, airy,clearly laid-out rooms. This pleasing, un-cluttered effect is extended into a num-ber of meeting rooms. Anything possiblycoming under the heading of “luxury” isrestricted to a few stylish highlights. Thecompany and its architects have beenwidely praised for the design of the en-trance lobby, with its open stairway andthe large glass images by Schroben-hausen artist Brigitte Schuster. And thenew canteen is also worthy of mention:bathed in natural light, it quickly becamea welcoming and popular meeting point.In addition to its day-to-day functionality,the room can be trimmed up to assumean ambience almost of restaurant stan-dard, when it is used to host guests from

In the company style

Official opening ofBAUER-Strasse 1

Prime Minister Seehofer, Thomas Bauer

The right address: Mayor of Schrobenhausen

Dr. Karlheinz Stephan brought the new road

sign and handed it to Dr. Karlheinz Bauer

(left) and Professor Thomas Bauer.

The works are completed: Edmund Omlor,Dr. Norbert Weickenmeier, Prime MinisterHorst Seehofer, Peter Teschemacher, DieterStetter, Prof. Thomas Bauer (from left)

new structural steel engineering plant inneighbouring Edels hausen. The companymarked the completion of all works with amajor opening ceremony event onMarch 27, 2009. The guest of honour wasBavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer.Speaking to almost 400 guests, ProfessorThomas Bauer outlined the thinking be-hind the building programme. He thankedthe two contractors Bögl and Hebel, whocarried out the main works in a highlyconstructive collaboration. He also recog-nized the achievement of Bauer’s ownstaff “whose efforts enabled us to fi-nance these building works.” With regard

B etween 2006 and 2009, BAUER AGundertook the largest investmentprogramme for the construction of

new office buildings and factory halls inthe company’s history. Alongside individ-ual works at various locations worldwide,the main focus was on two buildings atthe Group’s home base: the new head of-fice administration block in Schroben-hausen and the Equipment segment’s

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New office building at the Aresing plant Completely rebuilt: the facility in Edelshausen

Additional factory space was erected for MAT Major redevelopment: facilities of Schachtbau Nordhausen

The Aresing plant (above). Works extension at Klemm in Drolshagen (right)

21the banking world or customers from awide variety of different countries.

The Edelshausen plant ofBAUER Maschinen GmbH

BAUER Maschinen GmbH has estab-lished a new metalworking plant for itsmachinery manufacturing operations, in-volving an investment of EUR 28 million.The new halls – five kilometres north ofthe head office location – were urgentlyneeded in view of the rapid growth in ma-chinery manufacturing operations over re-cent years. Although extensive facilitieshad been available since 2002 at theAresing plant newly put into operation atthat time, soon all the halls were sotightly packed that in recent times pro-ductivity was severely impaired. Based on plans by Regensburg architectsOmlor-Mehringer, some 20,000 squaremetres of industrial buildings for use as awelding shop, cutting shop and compo-nent assembly shop were erected on a100,000 square metre site in Edels -hausen, along with repair workshops andan anchor production unit. A 10,000 squaremetre roofed storage facility for incomingmaterial has also been constructed.

Building works at German locations

Major expansion works have been carriedout in recent years at the Aresing plant.Since the relocation of metalworking op-erations to Edelshausen, the halls prima-rily house the machinery assembly. Thenew paint shop is a state-of-the-art facility.In terms of quality, cost-effectiveness, pro-ductivity and eco-friendliness, it is one ofthe most modern in Europe. Beneath thesingle roof there is also the logistics cen-tre. A new finishing hall, a hydraulics andelectronics development centre and an of-fice block were constructed. The extensiveoutdoor areas – covering a total surfacearea of 148,000 square metres – are usedto conduct machine tests and commis-sioning. A training track will be put into op-eration in 2010 to enable customers, busi-ness partners and employees to practiceoperating machinery. A total of EUR 23million was invested in Aresing.Building work was also carried out at theSchrobenhausen plant. The 13,500 squaremetre facility, completed in 1984 and foralmost two decades the home base forBauer’s machinery manufacturing opera-tions, is now a repair works and storagedepot for the hire pool as well as a logis-tics centre. Some EUR 1.7 million has re-cently been invested here in the construc-tion of three warehouse buildings andrenovation of the outdoor facilities.

The major redevelopment at SchachtbauNordhausen is complete. A new 15,000square metre factory complex now pro-vides more space for structural steel en-gineering as well as integrating the formeroutdoor steel storage facility. A new 6,500square metre combined paint shop andlogistics centre has likewise been con-structed; outdoor areas and access routeshave been upgraded. For the employees,a new canteen, informal eating areas andwashrooms have been constructed. A500,000 kWp solar power plant is of par-ticular benefit to the environment.The 80,000 square metre complex ofKlemm Bohrtechnik in Drolshagen hasalso been substantially extended. Thewarehouse has been modernized, theoutdoor areas extended and a new paintshop and an office building incorporatingwelfare and leisure facilities has beenconstructed. Eight million euros havebeen invested in the urgently needed re-development over recent years. One ofthe old Klemm halls was taken over byBauer subsidiary Eurodrill back in 2006.The building has been fully renovated at acost of EUR 1.4 million, modernized andexpanded to 1,600 square metres. An ad-jacent 2,500 square metre building isavailable to meet future expansion needs.In Immenstadt, MAT Mischanlagentech-nik constructed one new hall and pur-chased an adjacent one in addition. SomeEUR 4.5 million was spent on expandingstorage and assembly capacities, extend-ing the technical and electrical depart-ments, creating new welfare and leisurefacilities and training rooms, and estab-lishing a new apprentices’ workshop. A new logistics and production facilitycosting some EUR 2.5 million was built atthe Olbersdorfer Guß location near Zittau.State-of-the-art technology is now deliv-ering greater efficiency in the manufac-ture of high-grade castings, and the ware-housing and dispatch operations havealso been optimized. Further work wascarried out on the outdoor areas and anew access road was made using heavy-duty concrete. German Water and Energy likewise in-vested in warehousing and logistics. Atthe Nordhausen location, a high-bay ware-house for stainless steel componentswas built at a cost of EUR 300,000. Thelogistics facilities at the Luckau locationwere improved.Between 2006 and 2009 the BAUERGroup invested over EUR 100 million inbuilding works at its locations in Germany.Investments at Group headquarters inSchrobenhausen alone totalled more thanEUR 65 million.

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Mischanlagentechnik in Seifen near Immenstadt

The colonnades of the Neues Palais at the Sanssouci palace inPotsdam were in need of extensive remediation. SPESA re-stored the foundations and the historic plinth masonry in accor-dance with stringent conservation laws. right

To widen the Stich Canal in Osnabrück the canalsides were secured by sheet piles. On behalf of contractor Bunte, Bauerexecuted 5,755 metres of tie-back anchoring with 456 single-rod permanent anchors in lengths of 12 and 15 metres. below

At the Finowfurt exit of the A11 motorway Schachtbau Nord-hausen constructed a suspended-deck arch bridge. The newbridge, a composite steel structure 102 metres long and weigh-ing 780 tonnes, was pushed into place by a pontoon. below

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From the seato the

mountains In Hamburg, 40,000 metres of Bauer full displacement pileswith average pile lengths of 15 metres were executed on behalfof German rail operator Deutsche Bahn AG for the “Pfeilerbahn”elevated railway project in just 12 weeks. The work formed partof the remediation and reconstruction of the two-kilometreHamburg-Harburg stretch of track. below

23The State Archive in Duisburg is beingintegrated into an old warehouse build-ing. The increase in the number of floorsrequires extensive GEWI reinforcementof the foundations, which can be carriedout from the basement levels. Bauer hadto conduct load testing in advance of theworks. left

In Bielefeld Brackwede, SchachtbauNord hausen constructed a completecomposite steel bridge – from the sub-structure to the bridge fittings – for a mo-torway link road over the B 68 trunk road.Even the steel sections originated fromthe Nordhausen plant. below

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In Duisburg, the harbour basin was par-tially filled in with zechstein for the con-struction of a shopping centre on the siteof the former railway docks. The looselypacked ground was improved with 7,000metres of vibro-flotation densificationdown to depths as low as 9 metres usinga TR 75 deep vibrator. below

The Wusterwitz lock on the Mittelland Canal west of Bran-denburg is being reconstructed. We constructed the exca-vation pit for the 190 metre long lock basin, with 17,600square metres of cut-off wall and four-layer anchoring with33,000 metres of continuous strand anchor. Ancillaryworks also involved executing 20,400 square metres ofsheet piles, 430 continuous single-rod anchors and 24foundation piles for the lock-keeper’s building. below

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Power company Trianel is building a new coal-fired power sta-tion in Lünen. The specialist foundation works was executed ina consortium with Züblin. The consortium installed 42,000 me-tres of foundation piles down to a depth of 30 metres. right

The wall bridge of the Residence in Darmstadt was repaired.SPESA repaired the masonry by means of new grouting and re-placing individual stones, provided new sealing of the surfaceand secured the arch with anchors. below

In Krefeld, at the MKVA waste and sewage slurry incineratorplant operated by EGN Entsorgungsgesellschaft Niederrhein,the Rhine-Ruhr branch constructed an excavation pit on behalfof Rostek & Pesch for a waste-fired combined heat and powerstation down to a depth of 16 metres. Assisted by Bauer’s spe-

cialist departments, 925 metres of foundation piles, 1,250square metres of mixed-in-place wall as well as 1,050 squaremetres of jet-grouting (picture above) and 950 metres of an-chors were executed. The sealed excavation pit was built to ac-commodate a spacious slag bunker, which will have a newpower station furnace built over it. below

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An additional coal-fired power station isbeing constructed at the location inHamm-Uentrop. Bauer executed thebored pile foundations on behalf of RWE,installing 6,500 metres of kelly piles downto a depth of 17 metres while power sta-tion operations were ongoing. below

For a new residential and office block inMettmann, soldier pile walls and an in-termittent bored pile wall were executedin extremely tight site conditions. below

In Lippstadt, at the Rothe Erde steel-works, excavation pit and foundationworks were required for the expansionof a production building and a machinefoundation. 940 metres of secant boredpile walls and 300 metres of foundationpiles were executed without interruptingthe steelwork operations. below

The Exzenterhaus, a new high-rise block being built over an old bunker, is sure to be-come a landmark of the city of Bochum. A BG 28 was lowered into the bunker by aheavy-lift crane to produce 12 piles of 1.2 metre thickness at depths down to 30 me-tres. The two metre thick bunker walls will support the building loads in addition tothe piles. above

At Frankfurt Airport, a new gate is being constructed at terminal 1 to board high-capacity aircraft such as the Airbus A380 and the Boeing B747-8. The project is sched-uled for completion by 2012. The 790 metre long excavation pit, down to a depth of12 metres, was executed with tie-back anchored and reinforced soldier pile, boredpile and mixed-in-place walls. below

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Near Bischhausen, SPESA is reinforcing a railway overpassstructure dating from the 19th century. The project involves fill-ing in the chambers to the left and right of the through-tunnelby means of 200 tubes à manchettes. A reinforced concreteframe provides load protection in the through-tunnel. below

The Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt has been a monastery, and afortress, for centuries. Remediation work has been in progressfor a number of years. SPESA was contracted to stabilize a but-tress wall dating from the 15th century. The base slab wasjoined to the wall working from a pit. below

In Uthleben, just under 10 kilometres from a fattening farm,Schachtbau Nordhausen constructed a biogas plant poweredby material from the farm. The plant will generate some 700kW of electricity, sufficient to power 120 single-family homes.A doubling of capacity has already been commissioned. above

As part of the general renovation of the Schauspielhaus andKammerspiele theatres in Nuremberg, one of the largest con-struction projects currently being undertaken in the city,Schachtbau Nordhausen repaired the ribbed ceilings using shot-crete. right

The municipal utility in Chemnitz contracted Bauer Umwelt toremediate its gasworks number III. Bauer Spezialtiefbau to-gether with a consortium carried out demolition and excavationworks as well as executing replacement bores in two-metre diameter. above

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For the sewage treatment plant inSchweinfurt, Schachtbau Nordhausensupplied the equipment and installed thesystems. The picture shows installationof the 23 metre long auger pumps in theauger lifting unit of the treatment plantfor desanding. below

Car components manufacturer ZF Fried -richs hafen is extending its facility inSchweinfurt. 3,500 metres of CFA foun-dation piles were produced for a high-baywarehouse measuring 36 metres inheight. Because of the sensitivity to settlement of the conveying systems, de-formation is only permitted in the 1,000thrange. below

In the centre of Würzburg, clothing company s.Oliver has opened a state-of-the-artflagship store. Bauer acted as the general contractor, carrying out the planning andexecution of demolition and excavation pit works. The 6.5 metre deep pit was enclosed by 60 large-diameter bored piles in 620 and 750 mm diameter. above

In Bamberg, as part of the reconstruction of the Kettenbrücke bridge, the shore wallof the river Regnitz required securing by 16 permanent anchors with double

corrosion protection to a length of 20.5 metres “upside down”. Witha view to the subsequent pile driving, the multi-swivelling

ground anchors had to be precisely gauged. below

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In Biessenhofen in the Allgäu region, theNestlé corporation constructed a newproduction block. Vibrocompaction wascarried out in order to improve theground. The contract stipulated comple-tion within 40 working days. In fact, theproject was completed in 27 days, usinga Bauer BF 12 vibratory rig. right

For Bruckmühl, the flood protection onthe Mangfall river was upgraded. For thepurpose, 13,200 square metres of 0.4metre thick MIP soilcrete wall was in-stalled over a length of 4 kilometres,20,000 square metres of soil was loos-ened and re-installed, 2,400 tonnes of ar-mourstone was placed, 24,000 squaremetres of sub-base installed, and 11,500square metres of lawn sowed. below

Near Deining, on the ICE high-speed rail link between Regens-burg and Nuremberg, an unsecured rock wall posed a majordanger. SPESA cleared away loose rock and, while rail servicescontinued to run, installed shotcrete seals, single-block retain-ers and a steel protective net. below

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In the west of Munich, on RüdesheimerStrasse, Bauer Umwelt demolished a formerindustrial building. The contaminated mate-rial was taken away for treatment; a smallportion had to be transported to landfill.Bauer Spezialtiefbau executed the founda-tions and retaining structure for the newbuilding. left

The Deutsches Theater in Munich is beingcomprehensively modernized. Reinforce-ment of the foundations was also requiredfor future usage. Bauer carried out 3,500 rising metres of jet-grouting and 2,500 risingmetres of low-pressure grouting. below

The flood protection on the Obere Iller river near Fischen re-quires installation of some 50,000 square metres of static soil-crete cut-off wall. Three rigs were deployed on the MIP process.The 400 mm and 550 mm thick wall extends down to a depthof 7.50 metres. below

For the excavation pit in reconstructing the small Olympic Hallin Munich, 1,300 square metres of anchored MIP wall, 750square metres of soldier pile wall and 820 square metres of se-cant pile wall at depths down to 14 metres were executed.When carrying out the works, fully intact permanent anchorsinstalled by Bauer in 1971 were encountered. left

The good mood matched the sum-mer weather. Despite the ongoingcrisis, the in-house exhibition of

BAUER Maschinen GmbH in the springof 2009 was once again a major hitamong customers, business partners

and friends. Through the months of Jan-uary to April there were not yet clearsigns that demand would fall substan-tially towards the summer. Althoughthere is some reluctance to predict fu-ture trends, it is no doubt a positive signthat some 2,000 visitors from more than50 countries came along to find outabout the latest developments fromBauer Maschinen. And many are nowonce again looking to their opportunitiesonce the crisis has passed.The official opening of the exhibitionshowed that there are no illusions as tothe gravity of the situation. Speaking tothe amassed visitors, including electedlocal government officials, ProfessorThomas Bauer admitted that the globalfinancial crisis would leave its mark onBAUER Group companies as on others.He indicated that revenues were fore-cast to fall by more than 10 percent thisyear. Before that he had, however, takenthe opportunity to present the outstand-ing performance figures for 2008. With aworkforce of 8,600 people in every re-gion of the world, the companies of theBAUER Group generated revenues ofEUR 1.52 billion.The 2009 in-house exhibition was onceagain marked by the familiar friendly lu-

completed, and restyled facades pre-sented a bright new image.Once again the full range of productsfrom all member companies of theBAUER Maschinen Group was on show,with innovations from each of them.BAUER Maschinen GmbH exhibited itsnew specialist foundation engineeringcrane MC 128, the star of the show, aswell as the obligatory drilling rigs and diaphragm wall equipment. The exhibitionalso featured anchor drilling systems fromKlemm Bohrtechnik, mixers and separa-tors from MAT Misch anlagentechnik andthe range of well drilling and explorationrigs from Prakla, as well as various

minous yellow livery of the Bauer ma-chines. And this time the backgroundsetting was even more inviting than lastyear: the works at the renovated formerhead office block and the newly con-structed replacement building had been

showed great interest in the new plantin Edelshausen, which had started oper-ations just a few weeks previously andwas open for inspection tours. The newdeep-level drilling rigs were erected onthe site’s outside areas.The events accompanying the exhibitionhave been much appreciated by cus-tomers for many years. They traditionallyincorporate a dinner and evening enter-tainment with lots of music in the con-ference building as well as more work-related trips in the form of constructionsite visits. The outcome after four exhibi-tion days was positive in many respects.Die ter Stetter, Managing Director ofBAUER Maschinen GmbH, was able toreport the sale of BG drilling rigs, andother large-diameter rigs were hired outon long-term agreements. A few daysafter the in-house exhibition a contract ofsale for six more BG rigs was signed.

In-house exhibition 2009

The MC 128 towered overeverything else

Opening of the in-house exhibition, withWalter Sigl, Josef Soier, Prof. Thomas Bauer,Dieter Stetter, Christian Gress, Dr. SebastianBauer, Dr. Karlheinz Bauer (from left)

Award presented at the in-house exhibition:Sales Partner of the Year 2008 is W. S. Kimfrom South Korea.

Flexible range: the RTG pile drivers

Hammers in all sizes – from Pileco and Fambo

hammer models from Pileco and Fambo.In the “Old Welding Shop” , a former fac-tory hall, Bauer know-how was pre-sented on information stands. Moreover,a comprehensive showing of drillingtools demonstrated the groundbreakingdevelopment work done by Bauer engi-neers for drilling in all kinds of geologyover the last 20 years. Visitors also

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Crowds attended the opening – customers, business partners andlocal politicians were among them(left). The “Old Welding Shop” as an exhibition hall (below)

Celebrating the company’s Bavarian heritage:the management team and sales staff appeared in traditional costume.

Low-headroom version of the BG 12 H

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Spain The Girona railway station isbeing redeveloped to handle the AVEhigh-speed rail link between Madrid andFrance. Terrabauer deployed four Bauercutters, one mounted on an MC 64, toconstruct diaphragm walls at depthsdown to 50 metres. below

Australia A whole array of Bauerdrilling rigs was deployed on the devel-opment of the Brisbane Airport Link. Theworks were carried out by several con-tractors, including Wagstaff Piling andBauer Spezialtiefbau. above

USA Thyssen Krupp is building a newsteelworks in Alabama. ABE EnterprisesInc. from Atlanta was contracted to install5,000 square metres of soldier pile wall.105 double-T sections were sunk using anRG 20 S with MR 125 V vibrator. below

Poland A north-eastern bypass isbeing built around the city of Bielsko Bialain the Beskids mountains. A number ofconstruction companies – IMB, MostyLodz and PPI Chrobok – employed Bauermachinery. 2,900 piles were sunk downto a depth of 19 metres using BG 22 H,BG 24 H, BG 36 C drilling rigs and RTG pile drivers including the RG 16 T,RG 18 T and RG 12 T. below

Czech Republic Three Bauer drillingrigs worked on the construction of the

Kosice bridge over the E55 motorway.Skanska carried out vibrocompactionusing a BG 18, while the Topgeo corpo-ration drilled piles with a BG 36 and aBG 40. bottom left

Equipment in customer projects

Portugal For an underpass beneaththe river Lima our customer Geo Rumoapplied the CSM method to constructthe walls for a 23 metre deep start andfinish shaft. above

Germany In Munich, our customerPST Spezialtiefbau Augsburg deployed aBG 20 H to construct a secant bored pilewall in the bed of the river Isar for thePrater power station. above

Germany Our customer Gollwitzerbased in Floss constructed an excavationpit in tight conditions in the Grosse Blei -chen district of Hamburg. The bored pilewall was executed with a BG 28 H. below

Austria In Vienna, an apartment com-plex with underground parking is beingconstructed in a tight city centre location.Our customer NGT Neue Gründungs -technik carried out FOW drilling in406 mm diameter down to a depth of12 metres. below

Slovakia For the construction of anew steelworks in Strazske, Topgeo em-ployed an RG 25 S to produce CFA pilesin 500 mm diameter and piles in 750 mmdiameter by the kelly method. Cenek &Jezek employed a BG 20 H to executepile bores in 900 mm diameter. below

Italy For the foundations of a valleybridge near Cortina heading towardsLake Misurina in the Dolomites, our cus-tomer Construzioni Xodo produced1,200 mm diameter piles using a BG 28.

The TBA 300 was placed on public showa number of times in the course of theyear. In the spring, international guestswere invited to Schrobenhausen to thecompany’s first ever deep-level drillingconference. Stefan Schwank and RolandWenger set out the Bauer concept to theassembled visitors. In the autumn, a livedemonstration of the rig was presentedat the test drilling site in Edelshausen.Over 250 industry specialists from morethan 25 countries showed great interest.

The casings were sunk down 38 metresand retracted again without the use of acasing oscillator. below

Japan For an infrastructure project inTokyo entailing the convergence of sev-eral major roads, our customer Hazamais using a Bauer side-cutter to construct38 metre deep CSM walls at an averagethickness of 1,000 mm in tight condi-tions. below

China In Beijing, Bauer customerHaiteng is using two BG 25 C rigs to con-struct a cased pile wall with piles in1,000 mm diameter down to a depth of25 metres for the redevelopment of Liuliqiao Station. below

Hong Kong On the construction ofthe new ring road in the centre of HongKong, Bauer customers Gammon and Intrafor deployed two Bauer BC 30 andBC 40 cutters to produce 157,000 squaremetres of diaphragm wall in 1,200 mmthickness down to a depth of 70 metres,including up to 10 metres of socketinginto hard granite. below

Premiere for deep-level drilling rig

The “anchor casing tour”at the drilling site inEdelshausen was exe-cuted with a Prakla drilling rig.

In 2009, BAUER Maschinen GmbHpresented its first ever deep-leveldrilling rig. The Bauer TBA was spec-

ified in two sizes: the TBA 300 fordrilling depths down to 5,000 metresand the TBA 200 for depths of 2,000 to3,000 metres. Bauer deep-level drillingrigs can be used for deep-level geo -thermal energy extraction, for oil andgas exploration and for productiondrilling with vertical and directionalbores.The Bauer TBA 300 is an electro-hydraulic drilling rig with a 300 tonneload-carrying capacity. High energy efficiency is produced by the uniquehybrid feed system – a combination ofwinch and cylinder feed which permitssubstantial energy saving. The modulardesign and the hydraulically boltedmain components allow for quick erec-tion and dismantling and transfer ofthe heavy rig from one drilling point tothe next. Other major benefits are thepractical transport system – all com-ponents are manufactured in stan-dard container dimensions – and theextremely small drilling footprint.The deep-level drilling rigs are alsoplanned to be deployed on a num-ber of projects coordinated byBAUER Resources GmbH to-gether with its subsidiary Foralith.Bauer Resources carried out testbores in Edelshausen. At the drillpoint a Prakla RB 50 drilling rigwas first used to install the “an-chor casing tour” down to adepth of 450 metres. Then theTBA 300 took its place to drill underground down to2,000 metres.

BAUER Group companies in manycountries employ people from allover the world, representing all cul-

tures, creeds and faiths. They wear theBauer helmet on-site, or work in thewelding shops and assembly halls, or sitat a computer screen in a company of-fice. They are Lebanese and Jordanian,Turkish and Indian, Chinese and Pak-

small sample reveals a wide range of dif-ferent circumstances and lifestyles. The largest group of non-indigenousworkers in Schrobenhausen has longbeen the Turkish community, some ofwhom are third-generation residents.However, they no longer make up quitesuch a large percentage of the workforceas back in the 1970s and 1980s. They

came to Germany at an early age whenhis father joined Bauer. He himselfworked in Munich for a few years beforemoving back to Schrobenhausen, wherehis children go to school. In recent yearsCevdet Özen has travelled around theworld a great deal. He has worked onconstruction sites and in Bauer work-shops in Singapore and Latvia, in Croatia

istani, Philippino and Vietnamese. And atGroup headquarters too, not all the staffare from the town of Schrobenhausen orthe surrounding Donaumoos district, oreven from the wider region of Bavaria, orindeed from Germany.Walking around the offices and factoryhalls of Schrobenhausen, many peoplefrom distant lands can nowadays beseen at their work. So what is life like for them, if their home city is actuallyAnkara or Hyderabad? If they are moreused to living in Paris or Cairo? How doesSchrobenhausen compare? It is only pos-sible to poll the views of a small numberof the people concerned, yet even that

have become less predominant on con-struction sites too. In many cases, thesecond generation took their opportunityto opt for new horizons.Most of Bauer’s Turkish employeestoday have German citizenship. Talkingat the Edelshausen plant to CevdetÖzen and Atilla Acikgöz – both of whomare welders, but with differing specialistqualifications – the conversation is natu-rally conducted in the local Bavarian dia lect. Both of them have – or have inthe past had – other relatives working at Bauer. Most of their leisure time isspent in and around Schrobenhausen.Cevdet Özen was born in Anatolia, but

and the Ukraine, as well as visitingSwitzerland and South Africa.Atilla Acikgöz was born in Schroben-hausen, though he met his wife backhome in Turkey. She moved from the bigcity of Ankara to Schrobenhausen – “thatwas quite a change.” When she arrived,she spoke no German. She has sincecompleted a German language course inIngolstadt – “with top marks”, as her hus-band proudly points out. Atilla worked onconstruction sites for a number of years,though he did not get around the worldas much as Cevdet. His brother Cengiz,on the other hand, is a widely-travelledtrainer, carrying out initial equipment

Employees from far and wide

“How is life in Schrobenhausen?”

Atilla Acikgöz and Cevdet Özen

Sebouh Balian

Heves Okyay Dr. Mahmutoglu Stefano Fagioli

Pierre Klein

Manfred Schöpf

Walter Sigl

Venugopal and Sumitha Doosa

Elshers Lotz-Moitty

Ragnar Olafsson

Erich

Steinlechner

Hermann

Schrattenthaler

35induction on behalf of the Bauer Ma-schinen after-sales service team.Construction engineer Heves Okyay grewup in Schrobenhausen. She was born inAnkara, but came to Germany at the ageof four-and-a-half, to join her father whowas already working as an engineer atBauer. She attended nursery school in thetown, before moving up to the local highschool. She subsequently went on tostudy in Munich and New York. Her fa-ther’s work and the company she nowworks for were a part of her life from anearly stage. Indeed, she was on a Bauerconstruction site at Misurata in Libya withher father at the age of just 14. Today sheis one of the construction engineer teamat BAUER Maschinen GmbH.Schrobenhausen has not played such amajor role in the life of Dr. Ismail Mah-mutoglu. As he says: “In my job, youtend to move around a lot.” The doctor ofchemistry is head of research and devel-opment in the BAUER EnvironmentGroup. He joined Bauer after gatheringexperience with a number of other con-struction companies. Born in Istanbul,and having grown up in the Marmara re-gion, he attended the German-speakinghigh school in Istanbul and later studiedin Berlin. Heves Okyay has dual citizen-ship; Dr. Mahmutoglu has only a Turkishpassport. When asked where theirhomeland is, both provide the same answer: Turkey, where else?Stefano Fagioli comes from a picturesquerural area of Italy. What he misses mostin Schrobenhausen is a view of the sea.At home in Ancona, he looks out acrossthe Adriatic, and that is where he returnsevery weekend, to visit his wife and twodaughters. The good flight links from Mu-nich are useful in that respect. He stillfinds German a problem, though he doesspeak a number of other languages – askill set which he is able to utilize in hiswork for the Bauer Maschinen salesteam. As well as English and French, Ste-fano Fagioli has recently made particularuse of his knowledge of Spanish and Por-tuguese to open up new business oppor-tunities in Latin America.Elshers Lotz-Moitty was born in Egypt. Hegraduated from high school in his home-land, but wanted to study in Germany.“Germany is held in very high regard inEgypt,” he explains. Another attractionwas the challenge of what is widely seenas a difficult language to learn. He initiallyintended to spend three years in Ger-many, but it turned out to be rather more!After studying in Biberach and in Stuttgart– “my home town in Germany” – heworked in the commercial departments

of several construction companies. Hejoined Bauer in 2005. Having beenadopted by one of his college professors,he has long held a German passport and,looking back as well as forward, he calcu-lates: “I’ve spent easily the biggest partof my life in Germany.” He has worked inthe commercial department of Bauer Re-sources in Edelshausen since 2008,though his home is rather further away.He lives in Augsburg, where he enjoysthe more cosmopolitan city life.The life of Sebouh Balian has encom-passed two very different locations:Schrobenhausen and Paris. Born inBeirut, of Armenian origin, with a Frenchpassport – that is at least the short ver-sion of Balian’s complex biography. He is,however, someone who needs the bigcity: “I lived for so long in Paris ...” Heworked in many different countries be-fore joining Bauer, and right from the starthe made clear his intention to live in Mu-nich. In reply to warnings about the dailycommute, he recalled his encounterswith the Paris rush-hour: “That was usu-ally a two-hour drive as well.” At leastnowadays he has a hands-free phone unitin the car, which means he can get a fewthings sorted while on the way back andforth. He is also responsible for countriesincluding the Netherlands, the UK andCanada, so he travels a lot. Althoughmuch of Bauer’s international business isconducted in English, Sebouh Balian did– on the company’s advice – take an in-tensive German course, which has longenabled him to communicate all the rel-evant information in what he describes as“a very difficult language”. Pierre Klein has close ties with Schroben-hausen. He was born in Strasbourg in theAlsace region of France, “just three kilo-metres from the German border”. He grewup speaking the Alsatian dialect at home,and then spoke French at school. His routeto Schrobenhausen has taken him via con-struction sites in Berlin, to working inGeneva and Strasbourg on behalf of BauerSpezial tiefbau. Recently the mechanicalengineer returned to his real area of spe-cialism, on the Bauer Maschinen salesforce. Schrobenhausen is an easy place tofeel at home in, he asserts, “especially ifyou go to Sig’s”. It was in Sig’s pub, too,that he found his musical home. He is asaxophone player, and for a number ofyears now, together with the Soier broth-ers, he has been belting out classic rocksongs – preferably Rolling Stones tracks.Ragnar Olafsson has very much taken tothe Bavarian way of life. Indeed, he regu-larly dons the traditional Lederhose whenaccompanying customers to Munich’s fa-

mous Oktoberfest. The Icelander, born inReykjavik, has always been interested inlanguages. He learned German at school,and developed that knowledge furtherwhile studying mechanical engineering inSweden. He subsequently looked for ajob in Germany, and found work with agear manufacturer in Schweinfurt. It wasthere that he met his wife. She is fromAichach, and this connection brought himquite close to Bauer’s home territory. Per-sonal contacts led him to Bauer Maschi-nen, where he took on responsibility forsales in Northern Europe as well as over-seeing Swedish subsidiary Fambo.Sumitha and Venugopal Doosa comefrom Hyderabad, a city of six million peo-ple in southern India. Both of them workin the IT department. They were alreadymarried when they took the decision tostudy in Germany. It took a lot of courageto head off into the unknown, with noknowledge of German. They learned thelanguage while studying in Karlsruhe andMannheim. Not far from there is theheadquarters of IT giant SAP in Walldorf,which was a key step in the careers ofboth Sumitha and Venugopal. Sumitha’sfirst encounter with Schrobenhausenwas the railway station. As she emergedfrom the train, she was shocked to seethat there was only a single track. Thatnegative first impression was quicklycountered by the friendly assistance withwhich she was greeted. When she askeda friendly local where she could find theBauer offices, she was kindly taken ashort distance and was shown how toget there. Sumitha joined Bauer in late2002, her husband came a few yearslater. They really like it now: “It’s quieterthan in the city.” They have two children,the younger of whom was born inSchrobenhausen. The Doosas do hope,however, that their children will one daylearn standard German, as they are atpresent busily picking up the Bavarian dia-lect at nursery. The family gets “home”to India once a year at best, or maybemore often for family occasions. Theproximity of Munich airport is a bonuswhen organizing such trips, of course.The final group of foreign workers atBauer in Schrobenhausen certainly hasno need of an airport when visiting theirhomeland. For Walter Sigl, ManfredSchöpf, Hermann Schrattenthaler andErich Steinlechner it is easy to get homeand back, across the Alps over the nearbyborder from Bavaria into the neighbour-ing Tyrol region of Austria. And they havenever had any language problems either.All four grew up speaking both Austrianand German from an early age!

UAE In Abu Dhabi the Bauer ductilepile was launched as a secure foundationelement. For its application, the HB 4200percussion hammer, with 4,520 kN ofpercussive force, was adapted onto aBG 9. The ductile pile was driven downto 12 metres, and in load tests attaineda test loading of 2,500 kN. below

On a 350,000 square metre site in Abu Dhabi the “Golf Garden” is under construc-tion, featuring 390 luxury villas and townhouses. To provide the foundations for thebuildings, Bauer executed 2,500 bored piles in 600 mm diameter and 3,200 piles in500 mm diameter within six months. above

In Abu Dhabi telecoms company Etisalat is constructing a new office building withunderground parking. The 900 mm secant pile wall and the 500 mm and 750 mmfoundation piles were executed by Bauer. below

Bauer projects worldwide

In Abu Dhabi, on Al Sowah Island, the90,000 square metre Cleveland Clinic isunder construction. Bauer deployed asmany as ten TR 85 deep vibrators in carrying out vibro-flotation densificationto provide ground improvement of the10 metre thick alluvial sand layer. below

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Angola In the capital Luanda, Empreiteiros Casais AngolaLDA is constructing a 16-storey residential and business blockwith three underground levels. Bauer constructed the 13.5metre deep excavation pit out of two-layer tie-back anchoredtangent bored pile walls in 600 mm thickness. below

UAE The city of Abu Dhabi is constructing a three kilometrelong eight-lane link road between the Sheikh Zayed Bridge andMina Road. For the project Bauer produced 1.7 kilometres ofsecant pile wall, secured by more than 800 anchors. below

Saudi Arabia The “10 King RoadTower” in Jeddah, known as the UnitedTower, belongs to Prince Saud Bin Fahad.Saudi Bauer provided the building’s foun-dations on 740 foot-compacted boredpiles in 1,200 mm thickness. Pile wallsand 160 temporary anchors form the pit’sretaining structure. left

Lebanon In the coastal area of Beirut

the Kempinski Hotel is under construction.Bauer Lebanon was contracted to carryout demolition works, to construct the 30metre deep tie-back anchored pile walland install 16,000 square metres of groutblanket and pit spoil excavation. below

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Libya In the centre of the capital cityTripoli, the Tripolis hotel tower is underconstruction. Bauer Egypt executed theretaining wall and pile foundations for theunderground parking garages, a total of12,000 square metres of 800 mm dia -phragm wall 22 metres in depth, 1,050temporary anchors and 950 bored pilesin 1,000 and 1,200 mm thickness. below

Thailand In Bangkok the “Red Line”from Bangsue to Talingchan is a new pas-senger rail link for the SRT and BTS sys-tems. Bauer Thailand is executing 1,300bored piles in 800 to 1,800 mm thick-ness and at a depth of 54 metres for thepillar foundations. right

Australia The Airport Link in Bris-

bane, a road tunnel, links the city centreto the airport. Bauer Australia is produc-ing 30,000 square metres of diaphragmwall in 1,000 and 1,200 mm thicknessdown to a depth of 30 metres. Othercontractors in the consortium are alsoworking with Bauer equipment. below

Algeria Between the town of Setif and the Tunisian border the approximately 423kilometre long “East West Highway” is under construction, entailing the building of35 bridges and extending over a 1,000 metre altitude difference. Bauer FondationsSpeciales Algerie is carrying out the complex piling work. The quality was affirmedby extensive pile testing. above

Vietnam In the eastern section of the capital Ho Chi Minh City, on the Saigon

River, the Ho Chi Minh Tower, at 220 metres the tallest building in the city, is underconstruction. The five underground levels are being constructed by the “top-down”method. Bauer Vietnam, under contract from Bouygues Batiment, produced 120 foun-dation piles in 2,500 mm thickness down to a depth of 100 metres. above

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Malaysia In Kuala Lumpur, close to the Petronas Twin Tow-ers, the 40-storey Setia Sky complex, featuring 850 luxury apart-ments, is under construction. On behalf of Excel Jade, BauerMalaysia executed the foundations with 430 bored piles. below

Malaysia In the centre of Kuala Lumpur the new“348 Sentral” complex is under construction, featur-ing three 31-storey residential and shopping towers.MRCB Engineering contracted Bauer Malaysia to pro-duce 8,000 square metres of dia phragm wall and 163bored piles. below

Indonesia For the upgrade of the “Paiton 3” power station,general contractor TOA Corporation contracted Bauer PratamaIndonesia with the foundation piling. 2,000 bored piles in 1,200mm diameter were sunk down to a depth of 25 metres. left

Singapore On Marina Bay, the luxurious Marina View Devel-opment is under construction, featuring two residential and officetowers extending to 47 storeys. The Bauer Singapore Branch car-ried out the foundation works, installing bentonite-supportedkelly bored piles down to a depth of 87 metres. below

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Turkey Overlooking the Bosporus in Istanbul, the five-star hotel Verdi is underconstruction. The Bauer Lebanon Foun-dation Specialists Turkey Branch was con-tracted to design and execute the pit re-taining structure, entailing diaphragmwalls and bored piles socketed into rockdown to a depth of 45 metres. below

Ukraine In Kiev the Mazeppe apart-ment block is under construction on aslope above the Dnepr river, founded on8,500 metres of 880 mm diameter kellypiles. The cut into the slope for the un-derground levels is secured by a 880 mmpile wall tied back with anchors. BauerAltis completed the project in a year.below

Slovakia For the new terminal at Bratislava Airport the 8 metre deep excavationpit was constructed with 5,600 square metres of MIP wall. The project also involvedinstalling 8,900 square metres of single-phase cut-off wall down to a depth of 28 me-tres. Bauer Austria worked with BRK Hungary to meet the tight completion deadline.above

UK In Pembroke in Wales, BAUER Tech-nologies Limited executed 2,250 CFApiles in 600 mm diameter on behalf ofthe Alstom corporation. This is providingthe foundations for the new 2,000 MWpower station to be operated by RWENpower. above

Bulgaria In the south of the city cen-tre of Sofia the 112 metre high “Millen-nium Center” office, hotel and shoppingcomplex is under construction. BauerBulgaria carried out all the specialistfoundation engineering: an 18.5 metredeep excavation pit with 14,300 squaremetres of secant pile wall, secured by6,500 metres of temporary anchors, aswell as 550 CFA and kelly piles down toa depth of 22 metres. right

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Netherlands The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is being extended. For theadjoining Nieuw Stedelijk Museum, BAUER Funderingstechniek B.V. constructed theexcavation pit with a water-tight base, secured against uplift by 840 micro-piles. Thepiles were sunk down to a depth of 26 metres with 7 metres of empty bore usingKlemm drilling rigs. below

France Near Metz, Electricité deFrance is upgrading its existing gas-fired power station. In the first construction phase, Bauer produced160 CFA piles in diameters up to1,060 mm as well as 1,500 large-dia meter bore holes down to a depthof 12 metres. Drilling of differentworking levels demanded precisescheduling. below

Hungary The project inBudapest – in the middleof the river Danube – iscalled Sodorvonali Beve -zetö Mütárgy. For a shaftextending beneath theriver bed, BRK Hun-gary constructed a 12metre deep water-tight sheet piletrough on behalf ofAlterra Kft. Fol-lowing lancing of the troughthe earthworksand shotcret-ing were car-ried out.above

Switzerland The Biel bypass is being constructed with two separated lanesthrough the Längholz tunnel. Bauer constructed a sealing block for the tunnelling operations. Another sealing block is being executed by the CSM method near Brüggmoos for the cross-over between the two tunnel chambers. below

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Austria In the Third District of Vienna

Bauer Austria executed the specialistfoundation engineering and earthworksfor the “Marxbox” office and warehous-ing building. The excavation pit was en-closed by an intermittent CFA pile walland secured by temporary anchors. right

Austria In Mauthausen – near Perg,the twin town of Schrobenhausen – a1.8 kilometre long static cut-off wall wasconstructed by the MIP method at adepth of 5.6 metres for the largest floodprotection project in Austria. 1,250 steelsections for mobile flood protection ele-ments were installed in the MIP trench.above

Switzerland The terminus railway station in Zurich is being converted into athrough-station. In tight operating conditions, and while rail services continued,BAUER Spezialtiefbau Switzerland executed the foundation piles for 35 pillars andtwo ramps on behalf of the ABD consortium for Swiss Railways. below

P rofessor Thomas Bauer has re-ceived the prestigious “Strategistof the Year” business award for

2009. The Financial Times Germany,Bain & Company Germany and theWHU Otto Beisheim School of Manage-ment present the award to chief executives of stock market-listed com-panies in Germany who, over a periodof three years, have consistently imple-mented a ground-breaking, sustainablestrategy. At the celebration evening inFrankfurt, Thomas Bauer expressed hisappreciation on receiving the award, butalso stated that it represented merely a

snapshot of achievement. As opposedto an artist, whose works are normallyhonoured as a complete, self-containedaccomplishment, business managershave to get up every morning and do itall over again, he explained.

“Strategist of the Year”

Together into the futureA Bauer wedding: in November2008, Dr. Sebastian Bauer, head ofthe Development and Construc-tion department and a director ofBAUER Maschinen GmbH, mar-

ried Elke Hoffmann. She works inthe company’s Human Resourcesdepartment.

Start of construction in Sri Lanka

Foundation stone laying for thenew administration building in the

port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka:Mahinda Rajapaksa, President ofSri Lanka, took the opportunity tofind out what goes on in the cabof a Bauer BG rig.

Marlies Bauer 80A few days before her 80th birth-day, giant scissors in hand, MarliesBauer cut the ceremonial tape to of-ficially open the new Bauer Maschi-

nen plant in Conroe, Texas. On herreturn, she celebrated with herfamily. The wife of Dr. KarlheinzBauer, she worked in the companyfor many years, initially in commer-cial management, and later as headof the Advertising department. Shealso established the in-house magazine “Bohrpunkt” (interna-tional title: “Bauer Review”). Shewas also active in local politics, aswell as in a large number of organ-izations, clubs and public bodies.

New Bauer film completed

Brief and to the point, yet providinga broad overview. This was thespecification for the new Bauer cor-porate image film which was com-pleted in autumn 2009. It sets outthe roots and the structure of thefamily business, as well as outlin-ing the new market strategy of the

wedding ceremony at the Churchof the Holy Spirit in Mühlried, a re-ception for family and friends washeld at the “Old Welding Shop”. Flo-rian and Evi – he is a constructionengineer, she a business studiesgraduate – will be starting theirworking lives together in the USA.

BAUER Group companies withinthe three segments: Construction,Equipment and Resources.

Newlyweds off to the USA

In October 2009 Florian Bauer, theson of Margit and Thomas Bauer,married Evi Zwanzig. Following theregistry office formalities and the

News in briefThe BAUER

Training Center

Since the spring of 2009, all the train-ing and development activities ofthe Schrobenhausen-based BAUER

Group companies – except for appren-tice tuition – have been consolidated in a new business unit, BAUER Training

training facility, enabling it also to offertraining for the wider labour market.The full prospectus and course scheduleis presented – as it has been for manyyears – in a printed brochure. All coursesare also listed on the Intranet as well aspublicly on the Internet. Well-equipped

seminar rooms are available for trainingpurposes in the various Bauer buildings.During 2009, a practice track for machin-ery operator training was established ona 6,000 square metre site in Aresing.Use of the track is likewise coordinatedand managed by the BTC.

Center GmbH, managed by ChristineSigmund. The BTC is responsible for em-ployee training in-house, as well as coor-dinating all training courses for cus-tomers and business partners. The newunit has been certified as an accredited

Publishers’ details: BAUER AG86522 Schrobenhausen, GermanyPhone: +49 8252 97-0, Fax: 97-1359e-mail: redaktion@bauer.deDecember 2009 – BAUER REVIEWPublished once a yearResponsible for content and

editorial: Prof. Thomas Bauer, FranzJ. Mayer, Tobias v. RechenbergLayout: Studio W. Moser,SchrobenhausenTypesetting: BAUER AG, MediaDesignPhotos: Kh. Bauer, M. Bauer, Th.Bauer, F. J. Mayer, T. v. Rechenberg,H. Beutler, A. Bi, N. Dobler, F. W.Gerressen, C. Olma, M. Pielmeier,A. Riepold, M. Schuh, F. Seifert, P.Teschemacher, S. Teschemacher, G.Ulrich and other employees of theBAUER Group; Bauer Archive.Cover: In Dubai Bauer is constructingthe excavation pit and foundationsfor the Iris Crystal Tower, a 25-storeypro ject with four underground levels.Back page: Night-time ambience at the Bauer Maschinen in-houseexhibition in April 2009.Printed by: Kastner AG, Wolnzach

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