Examples for corporate citizenship
As an international construction group, HOCHTIEF designs living spaces all over the world and therefore interacts closely with the people with whom and for whom we work. We are part of society and, as a corporate citizen, take responsibility for the community wherever we do business and carry out projects. HOCHTIEF and its employees act on this mission through monetary donations and donations in kind, by contributing their expertise, and volunteering.
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Successful support for university canoe team
A fast-paced connection between sport, education and engineering knowledge: Our Group company Flatiron—part of the HOCHTIEF Americas Division—lends support in various areas, including to the Concrete Canoe Team of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The 2016 team placed in two competitions: the Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition in Montreal and the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Pacific Northwest Concrete Canoe Competition. By investing in advanced materials and applying their engineering knowledge, this year’s canoe turned out to be the strongest and lightest they have ever built. A showcase for turning learned theory into practice.
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Furniture donation in Australia
In 2016, CIMIC, part of the HOCHTIEF Asia Pacific Division, relocated to a new headquarters: 177 Pacific Highway is a modern, innovative and sustainable building. Many well-preserved pieces of furniture and items from the former headquarters in St. Leonards, where the company had been based since 1984, were now no longer required. CIMIC donated some of them to the “Out of Home Care” program run by the charitable organization CatholicCare. This program supports young people up to the age of 18 who for various reasons cannot live with their families. Other pieces of furniture went to the Salvation Army which can thus expand its “Salvos” program which offers different social services.
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Exclusive construction site tour for kindergarten children
Getting to know the world of construction in a playful way—something that HOCHTIEF Infrastructure Austria made possible for 17 kindergarten children in summer 2016. The project team gave them a guided tour of the Semmering Base Tunnel 1.1 project in Gloggnitz (Austria). During the tour, the children—fitted out, of course, with personal protection equipment—marveled at huge crawlers, diggers and trucks, and asked the workers endless questions. A highlight for the little visitors was the exciting ride with the foreman on the wheel loader. To end their tour, the proud engineers of the future were presented with a “construction site diploma”.
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HOCHTIEF supports cultural diversity exhibition "1,2,3 Kultummel" for children
Our world is full of diversity and colors—something even the youngest can feel. But what does this mean exactly? Here, the exhibition "1,2,3 Kultummel" which opened in May 2017 at the Labyrinth Children's Museum in Berlin and is sponsored by HOCHTIEF comes in. The interactive museum, a project of social and cultural center "Osloer Street factory", has been an important element in the capital's cultural and educational landscape for 19 years now. You can actively experience diversity here: In a playful and creative manner, the young visitors encounter a variety of cultures, languages, ideas, etc. Changes in society require new solutions which children, in particular, can also help shape. The exhibition's features as well as the accompanying workshops on subjects such as language, home or travel raise the children's awareness for the subject of diversity—they change their perspective and become visionaries. In connection with its sponsoring focus on "Education and Promoting Young Talent", HOCHTIEF thus encourages children's curiosity and openness regarding human and cultural diversity. "We understand diversity as an infinite number of creative possibilities, solutions, ways, questions and answers. Diversity that can particularly also help young people to embrace their responsibility for society wisely and with a ‘Kultummel’-style pinch of cultural creativity," says Ursula Pischel, Managing Director of the Children's Museum. The learning-by-doing approach pursued by the museum lets children test their limits and understand larger contexts—an approach HOCHTIEF supports.