Bilfinger Hochbau Work experience

Bilfinger Hochbau is just one of many "daughters" of the head firm Bilfinger SE. It is located near Messegelände, Walter-Köhn-Strasse 4a, 04356 Leipzig. The company is a german stock company, so a cooperation. The mission statement of Blfinger SE is providing our clients with highest level of quality. Therefor, their vision statement is to become the leading construction firm in the world. Their aims and objectives are to strenghten and repostion our corporate brand Bilfinger. And because of the new daughter companies Bilfinger Power Systems and Bilfinger Services, it can uses their financial strenght and operate potential for the next phase in its development. Supported by the strategic programs BEST (Bilfinger Escalates Strength) and Bilnger Excellence, output volume could grow 12bn. euros by 2016 and net profit will increase to about 400 Million euros.  The organization of Bilfinger SE is organized decentrally. "Bilfinger SE is a holding without its own business activities. The operating activities are carried out through subsidiaries which act on the market as independent profit centers."

Bilfinger SE is a complex system with many departments. There is one head department, Bilfinger SE. Bilfinger SE is then devided into four other "daughter" companies: Bilfinger Industry, Bilfinger Energy, Bilfinger Real Estate and Bilfinger infrastructure. Bilfinger Industry is then devided into 6 other companies: Bilfinger Industrial Maintenance (also devided into four departments: Bilfinger maintenance, Bilfinger chemieserv, Bilfinger IS Schweiz and Bilfinger industrial services Inc.); Bilfinger insulation, scaffolding and painting; Bilfinger oil and gas (also devided into three departments: Bilfinger salamis group UK, Bilfinger salamis inc., Bilfinger industrier group); Bilfinger industrial fabrication and installation; Bilfinger engineering, automation and controland automation (also devided into two departments: Bilfinger GreyLogix, Bilfinger tebodin group); Bilfinger Support services. Bilfinger Energy is devided into three other companies: Bilfinger power systems, Bilfinger piping systems and Bilfinger offshore systems and grids (also devided into three departments: Bilfinger marine and offshore systems, Bilfinger mars offshore and Bilfinger FRB). Bilfinger real estate is devided into four departments: Bilfinger buidling (also devided into four departments: Bilfinger hochbau, Bilfinger modernbau, Bilfinger tesch and Bilfinger wolfferts gebäudetechnik), Bilfinger facility services (also devided into three departments: Bilfinger HSG facility management, Bilfinger Haus- und Wärmetechnik and Bilfinger ahr healthcare and services), Bilfinger real estate and Bilfinger water technology. At least Bilfinger infrastructure is devided into two departments: Bilfinger construction and Bilfinger infrastructure. This is related to our business class, because Bilfinger used the horizontal and vertical integration to expand their company.

Bilfinger is not really affected by the environment, because the permission to build in a certain area already needs to be provided by their customers. Bilfinger is only slightly affected by the natural environment. On the construction side, where they build the three villa's, they had to build around some specific and endangered trees, because they are protected by the city.

In this organisation there are multiple stakeholders such as the shareholders, customers, employees, managers and owners of the company. As well as that, the government and certain pressure groups are likely to show an interest in what the company builds, where these buildings will be located and what environment and people are affected by them.

The Bilfinger Hochbau Company also relates to the topics of change and innovation seeing as that it is their job to reconstruct different buildings. This means that they put a lot of time and effort into planning and carrying out their projects and that they try to change something about their surroundings or the surroundings of others.

From working at this company I have learnt a lot of new things about construction and I thought it was very interesting, especially the meeting with HSEQ (Health Safety Environment Quality), but I still can't imagine doing something like this or working in this industry in the future.

China trade data beats expactations

China's September trade data beats expectations

China's exports and imports in September were far higher than expected, according to official data.

 

Exports from China rose by 15.3% and inports rose by 7% compared to last year. This made a surplus of $31bn for the month. Actually they expected only a rise of 12% in exports and a fall of 3% in inports. This is suprisingly, because China's economy is really struggling this year. "The big implication is that imports are much stronger, so no matter what the reason I think it will cool off a bit of the concern about domestic weakness bringing down this activity," he said.

This article is about strategy. It showed that China also can make money with imports, because actually China expected a fall of 3% compared to last, where it actually was 7%. They should make a strategy how they can now keep up this rate, especially in imports. This article is also about globalisation. China delivers all around the world, that's why the exports are always at a good level. They showed that they are reliable, otherwise they wouldn't have such a data. So ethics also playes a role. They made their image come look out good, which could help to keep up this rate.

BP asks court to reconsider ruling

BP asks court to reconsider 'gross negligence' ruling

BP has asked a US court to reconsider its ruling of "gross negligence" over a 2010 oil spill in the golf of Mexiko, which boosted its potential fines to around $18bn.

 This is about the big oil spill in the golf of Mexiko 2010, which was a very big and dangerous case for nature. The golf of Mexiko is still not the sea which it was before 2010. But BP has new evidence, and through this evidence, the oil company said the the case should be amended or the there should be completely new trial. For this incident where 11 workers were killed, the company set already $42bn aside to cover the total cost. BP said in a statement: "Through its motion, BP has asked the District Court to amend its September 4 Order or, in the alternative, to grant a new trial because the Court's findings and conclusions are based substantially on expert witness opinions that the Court appropriately and expressly excluded from evidence at trial. Because those opinions were excluded by the Court, they cannot support key aspects of the Court's findings, which should therefore be set aside. The Court should order a new trial to permit BP to explore the lack of basis for the witness's opinion."

 This is about globalisation, because the golf of Mexiko wasn't just affecting Mexiko, but also the US and Cuba. Also a lot of the oil went also into the atlantic ocean and affected the species which live there. Its also about change, because after the huge catastrophe, nature was affected very badly, which also affected us humans, because fish was poisened through the oil, and big fish companies were fishing there. When they couldn't fish, they had no work, so the government offered them to help out picking the oil out of the sea for money. Also the company had to make changes, e.g. they had to set up new safety intructions, because 11 people died, and they needed to be sure that this will never happen again, and invested a lot of money into new things, but also they had to save money to cover the cost of the catasrtophe. Now it's about strategy, because they will need to come up with a new plan to save huge amounts of money, but still make profit so they could pay the workers and re-invest in new technology, which is for oil companies very important, because it's very rare, expensive and could damage nature very badly.