Press Releases 2004

July 5, 2004
Bilfinger Berger's strategic direction in construction reinforced:

• New civil engineering projects in Australia worth a total of €120 million
• Contracts won in La Réunion and Austria

Bilfinger Berger has landed major new contracts in Australia worth a total of €120 million. A consortium headed by Abigroup, a company acquired by Bilfinger Berger late last year, is planning and building a railroad line in the state of Queensland that will link a coal-mining area to the existing railroad network. The 110-kilometer-long line will require the construction of 11 bridges. Additionally, another Bilfinger Berger subsidiary in Australia, Baulderstone Hornibrook, which joined the Bilfinger Berger Group in 1993, is building a 10-kilometer stretch of the Pacific Highway in the state of New South Wales. Included in the contract are numerous civil engineering works, as well as the design and maintenance of the roadway over a period of 10 years.

Bilfinger Berger, the second biggest construction group on the continent since its takeover of Abigroup, will generate an output volume on the dynamic Australian market of more than €1.4 billion in the current financial year. New orders in the first four months of 2004 were up 15 percent over the already excellent figure recorded in the year-earlier period.

In other international markets, too, the Company has been successful in winning contracts that look likely to lead to follow-on projects. On La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, Bilfinger Berger's French subsidiary, Razel, is carrying out the earthmoving and drainage work for the first stretch of a 34-kilometer-long expressway. Currently the most important road-building project on the island, the expressway is playing a central role in the upgrading of the transportation infrastructure in western La Réunion. In Austria, meanwhile, Bilfinger Berger is part of a consortium building a technically demanding 3.5-kilometer-long tunnel near Brixlegg that will serve as an access railroad to the Brenner base tunnel. The total volume of both projects is €110 million.

Bilfinger Berger is a leader in providing infrastructure solutions, both in the German market and internationally. The Company is continuing its strategy of focused internationalization, putting the emphasis on challenging infrastructure projects and the expansion of its presence in regions where it is already successfully represented.