The industrial sector faces a major challenge: becoming more sustainable in order to meet the increasingly stringent requirements of governments, consumers, and shareholders. This sustainability transition concerns not only the products brought to market, but also the production facilities used to manufacture them.
Making production facilities more sustainable requires more than technical modifications alone; it also calls for organisational transformation. Bilfinger now offers a unique integrated solution that enables industrial clients to improve the sustainability of not only their installations, but also their processes and organization as a whole.
The Original Service Offering: Technical Sustainability
Bilfinger built its service offering on strong engineering expertise, with a clear focus on making installations and processes more sustainable. This service portfolio includes:
- Installation analysis: Mapping the current situation and identifying sustainability opportunities.
- Base case analysis: Analyzing and understanding the starting position.
- Environmental analysis: Mapping companies and activities in the immediate surroundings to identify potential synergies.
- Potential analysis: Identifying and quantifying sustainability opportunities.
- Risk, opportunity and cost analysis: Assessing risks, opportunities, and associated costs.
- Roadmap development: Creating a technically feasible and executable step‑by‑step plan to achieve the company’s sustainability objectives.
- Design and engineering: Developing technical solutions and detailed engineering for implementation.
- Technical execution: Implementing the required modifications to make installations more efficient, sustainable, and future‑proof.
This approach leads to energy and cost savings, regulatory compliance, and improved operational efficiency.
The Expansion: Asset Management Expertise
With Bilfinger’s acquisition of Stork in early 2024, the Asset Management Technology team was integrated into the Engineering organization. This gives Bilfinger broad and in‑depth expertise in Asset Management, as well as in implementing change within asset management organizations. As a result, Bilfinger can now support customers not only in making their installations more sustainable, but also in adapting their business processes and organizations for maximum impact.
Key activities within this expanded service offering include:
- Asset Management Assessment: Structured analysis of existing asset management processes and organization, including an improvement roadmap.
- Sustainable operating concepts: Developing operating practices that enable installations to be used as sustainably as possible.
- Risk‑based maintenance: Maintenance concepts that minimize risk while placing sustainability at the center.
- Decision models with sustainability criteria: Integrating sustainability into strategic and operational decision‑making.
- Sustainability performance measurement: Defining KPIs and metrics to monitor progress.
- Continuous improvement: Establishing systems for ongoing optimization.
- Organization development: Designing and implementing appropriate organizational structures and training programs.
- IT systems and physical tools: Supporting the selection and implementation of the required technologies and equipment.
Implementation Power: Change That Works
What truly distinguishes Bilfinger is its ability to implement change. In addition to designing technical and organizational solutions, Bilfinger ensures their successful execution. This means supporting customers in engaging both the organization and its people throughout the transformation process, including:
- Guiding change programs
- Providing training and support to employees
- Facilitating communication to build commitment and buy‑in
This hands‑on approach ensures that sustainability goes beyond technical modifications to installations. The entire organization surrounding the installation is actively involved in the transition towards sustainable operations, ensuring that efforts deliver maximum impact.
The Benefits of an Integrated Approach
Combining technical and process‑driven sustainability delivers unique advantages for customers:
- A complete solution: Everything under one roof, from analysis to implementation.
- Higher sustainability performance: At both installation and organizational level.
- Long‑term impact: Sustainability becomes an integral part of business operations.
- Efficiency and cost savings: Smarter processes and improved performance.
Bilfinger combines deep technical expertise with strategic insight and strong implementation capabilities to help industrial customers achieve their sustainability ambitions. By integrating installations, processes, and organizations, Bilfinger delivers solutions that not only meet today’s requirements but also prepare companies for the future.
