As a construction company dedicated to doing business responsibly, and one whose business includes building roads, Leighton Contractors developed an initiative to school young drivers in safe practices behind the wheel. The Youth Drive Safe program is designed to make secondary school students safer drivers. Following its launch in 2008 at various company locations around Brisbane, the program was expanded in 2009.
Reacting to new developments promptly
We take the social responsibility that characterizes our project management seriously. That’s why we are tackling issues today that will gain in importance in the future and pose challenges for tomorrow.
Among these developments are demographic shifts. They trigger changes in people’s requirements of their living spaces, which are being used by a growing number of older people and fewer young people. HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung is responding to this trend in many ways, such as through our collaboration with BeneVit, an operator of care facilities. This partnership is producing progressive special-purpose properties* based on a community-living philosophy. HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung is working on the Quartier 21 project in the Barmbek district of Hamburg, designed to provide multi-generational living and working space.
Key Figures
| Distribution of value added | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |||
| EUR million | % | EUR million | % | EUR million | % | |
| Employees* | 2,576.0 | 86.3 | 2,798.7 | 82.2 | 3,261.8 | 82.0 |
| Lenders | 69.9 | 2.3 | 105.5 | 3.1 | 195.3 | 4.9 |
| Minority shareholders | 112.3 | 3.8 | 200.3 | 5.9 | 167.1 | 4.2 |
| HOCHTIEF shareholders** | 72.3 | 2.4 | 90.9 | 2.7 | 88.2 | 2.2 |
| Public authorities* | 136.7 | 4.6 | 160.3 | 4.7 | 177.9 | 4.5 |
| HOCHTIEF* | 16.8 | 0.6 | 49.8 | 1.4 | 86.9 | 2.2 |
| Net value added | 2,984.0 | 100.0 | 3,405.5 | 100.0 | 3,977.2 | 100.0 |
Value added analysis shows how HOCHTIEF generates added value for the economy and how it is distributed to the various stakeholder groups.
HOCHTIEF donations and sponsorship figures broken down by region (2008)
