Bilfinger Berger Magazine 2/2009

Magazine 2/2009 – Close up

Video: Cover story

The inhabitants of Holmbladsgade protected their neighborhood from ruin. A report on the winners of the Bilfinger Berger Award 2009.
The spirit of renewal

Audio: World Cup in South Africa

In the view of Bilfinger Berger’s South African employees, the World Cup is about more than just football.
World Cup in South Africa

Video: Inductive bending

How 100 millimeter thick sheets of steel come full circle with inductive bending.
The power of opportunity

Bilfinger Berger Award
Cover story: Committed Danes impress jury
The Bilfinger Berger Award 2009 went to a citizen-driven urban renewal project in Copenhagen. Local residents joined forces with local authorities for the revitalization of their neighborhood.

Bilfinger Berger Power Services
The power of opportunity
Electricity is in short supply in South Africa. Now, Bilfinger Berger Power Services is playing a part in building new power plants. The company is investing in technology and creating skilled jobs in Pretoria.

Interview
We don’t work for dumping prices
Gerd Lesser, Chief Executive of Bilfinger Berger Power Services, prefers to rely on his own people instead of turning to outsourcing.

Public Private Partnership
Chalking it up to technology
No need to wipe the board any more. Students at a high school in Halle are learning their lessons from interactive whiteboards. Bilfinger Berger eased the way.

Smart Meters
Count more, pay less
Australia has the world’s highest per capita output of carbon dioxide. Now, smart meters are heightening the environmental awareness of consumers.

When the Berlin wall came down
Smelly socks and socialism
In the summer of 1989, author Philipp Maußhardt smuggled a friend from under the Iron Curtain in the trunk of his car. What helped most were some cold cans of coke.

Portrait
The master cook from Shandong
Quixi Sheng arrived in Germany the son of poor farmers. Today, he works in the Black Forrest as a cook in one of the world’s finest restaurants.

Cancer research
Hot on the trail of life
Cancer researchers are on the lookout for more effective diagnosis techniques. Ultra-sensitive optical microscopy and digital photography play an important role.

Roads of the world
Manila, Circumferential Road 3
About 300 families live together beneath the bridge where Circumferential Road 3 crosses the Navotas River in Manila. They shelter in huts made of tin, cardboard and plywood, wedged into the structure of the bridge.

Essay
Small world
The earth is home to more than 6.8 billion people — and they are more closely linked than one might think. A chain of just six people connects each of us to every other in habitant.