The ATLANTIC Hotel in Lübeck's old town centre opened its doors on 30 March 2010. The new building has 135 rooms, studios and suites. A generous foyer welcomes guests and visitors. The "SALIS" restaurant owes its name to the city's history and the fact that Lübeck lies on the old salt road. It also offers special facilities for connoisseurs of good tobacco and good wine with a smoking lounge and a well sorted wine cellar for private events. The multi-purpose conference and event suite with ballroom can seat up to 280. The seventh floor has the sauna and fitness facilities together with an exclusive roof lounge.
Deutsche Immobilien Holding AG (DIH AG) has presented its group annual accounts for 2009 with a report on the hitherto unaudited and therefore provisional results. These reflect the strong growth still enjoyed by the company.
You can find the press release here.
The first construction phase in the Kö-Bogen project in Dusseldorf has begun with clearance of the site. Implementation lies in the hands of the Dusseldorf branch of Zechbau GmbH. The project developers, "die developer", have just posted a new informative website on the project, offering not only the latest news but also numerous Web 2.0 interaction possibilities for anyone who is interested. The website also shows the new Kö-Bogen image film together with the images of the new site webcam with its 180° lens.
The Kö-Bogen-website www.koebogen.info
Deutsche Immobilien Holding Aktiengesellschaft has made an interim announcement relating to the third quarter of 2009. You can find this here.
The Zech Group has acquired the majority holding in HOCHTIEF do Brasil in São Paulo, the Brazilian subsidiary of HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft, Essen. With this, the medium-sized group headquartered in Bremen has paved the way for further increased international growth.
HOCHTIEF do Brasil, which has 1,500 employees, has already undertaken projects for national and international clients in the sectors of infrastructure, industry, commercial buildings and residential property. The company also offers services in the field of facility management. HOCHTIEF will retain a minority holding in HOCHTIEF do Brasil, since Brazil remains an interesting market for the HOCHTIEF Group which secures, by its retained shareholding, access to local resources.
For the Zech Group, acquisition of the majority holding in HOCHTIEF do Brasil was the next logical step to further expansion on the attractive Brazilian market. Brazil is one of the world's most aspiring industrial nations and has enormous development potential. The Zech Group is active in the business fields of construction (Zech Bau Holding GmbH), real-estate project development (Deutsche Immobilien Holding AG), environment/technology (Zech Umwelt Holding GmbH), industry (Nordwest Industrie Capital GmbH) and hotels (Zech Hotel Holding GmbH). Since the beginning of 2009 it can look back on 100 years of company history. In Brazil the Zech Group has already been involved in the environment sector for several years, via subsidiaries. For a year now it has held a 50 percent shareholding in the construction company Construtora Tedesco Ltda. in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil. In the medium term the Group also plans to engage itself in the real-estate and hotel sectors.
The official starting signal for the construction of Kö-Bogen in the heart of Düsseldorf was given today. Together with the American star architect Daniel Libeskind, Düsseldorf's lord mayor Dirk Elbers, lady mayor Dr. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Zech-Group shareholder and managing director Kurt Zech and the managing director and fellow partner of "die developer Projektentwicklung GmbH" Stefan Mühling, the first cut of the spade for the most important town-planning project in the coming years was welcomed at Jan-Wellem-Platz.
After the official opening ceremony Libeskind, who is especially known for his design for the World Trade Center in New York and for the Jewish Museum in Berlin, presented his plans in detail to the public. On one side the buildings take on the sweeping form of the neighbouring theatre, whereas on the other the facade will be reflected by the so-called "Dreischeibenhochhaus" (three-pane high-rise). The facade itself is interspersed with green areas that form an optical connection to the adjacent "Hofgarten" (courtyard garden).
At one of the most attractive squares in the state capital of Düsseldorf the project-development company "die developer", which belongs to the Zech Group, will develop Kö-Bogen as a property with the utilization focus on high-quality retail outlets and offices, supplemented by restaurants and cafés. The starting date for the engineering work on a tunnel and basement garage is scheduled for the beginning of 2010. And the high-rise construction commences in 2011. And the completion and opening of Kö-Bogen is planned in good time for Christmas business, 2013.
You will find further information on Kö-Bogen here as well as under www.koe-bogen.info.
The prerequisites for certification of the purchase contract with the City of Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf on 25th June 2009 were punctually achieved, thereby permitting the die developer Projektentwicklung GmbH, a holding of Deutsche Immobilien Holding AG, and the latter itself via an interim holding, to engage in the construction of one of the most spectacular project developments ever envisaged for the city. The Düsseldorf city council issued its approval of this contract, making it legally effective.
Based on the plans of the famous architect Daniel Libeskind, the state capital will be given a new facelift. This is the result of intensive negotiations on the financing of the project by a banking consortium, which were successfully and punctually concluded before the signing of the contracts with the state capital of Düsseldorf. The capital resources invested by Deutsche Immobilien Holding AG itself, reasonable in relation to the total investment volume, amount to more than 70 million euros, which were partly made available by Zech Group GmbH and will also be used to support a guarantee to the city of Düsseldorf to the value of 120 million euros.
With this, the Group sets new standards during this difficult economic period, satisfying the prerequisites for increasing profits in the years ahead.
The hoping and planning lasted many years, but the building structure of the Congress Hotel Messe Essen was completed after only six month's work. The investor and developer Kurt Zech and Essen's lord mayor Dr. Wolfgang Reiniger today celebrated and the topping-out ceremony, together with representatives of Zech Hotel Holding, the building companies involved in the construction and a large number of invited guests. The hotel will open its doors at the end of the year 2009.
Located directly at the Grugahalle, this superior, 4-star hotel will provide its guests with 250 rooms and suites, a special Executive Floor with a separate business lounge, a restaurant with outer terrace, a wine cellar, a bar and a smokers’ lounge. Another major attraction is the large congress zone, which covers an area of 1,200 square metres. This makes it one of the largest hotels in the Ruhr district and one of the city of Essen's biggest providers of conference space. The investment volume amounts to around 30 million euros.
Within the framework of a European-wide call for tenders, the construction and operating concept proposed by Zech Hotel Holding convinced those responsible.
The finished building will be run by the hotel operating company Zech Hotels GmbH. The company already operates the Holiday Inn Essen City Centre and the Holiday Inn Düsseldorf/Neuss.
You can find us in hall B2 on stand 214. Welcome!
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Just a few weeks after the commencement of work on two further hotels in Lübeck and in Kiel, today marks the start of construction work on the ATLANTIC Hotel at Bredenplatz in Bremen. This new building fills the gap in the city landscape between Marktplatz, the historical Böttcherstrasse and Weser-Boulevard Schlachte. A classical-modern interior design reflects the Hanseatic lifestyle and building heritage. The hotel will have more than 136 rooms and suites, a restaurant, a conservatory, a lounge and a smokers' lounge with a fireplace. A wine cellar is also planned and the seventh upper storey is designed as a roof lounge.
Deutsche Immobilien Holding Aktiengesellschaft has made an interim announcement relating to the first quarter of 2009. You can find this here.
Kiel's lady mayor, Angelika Volquartz, today gave the start signal for construction work on the new ATLANTIC Hotel Kiel. Together with the Bremen investors Joachim J. Linnemann and Kurt Zech, amidst the many representatives from the fields of politics, economics and administration, the mayor, who is also head of department for economics, cut the first ground signalling the start of work on the building site.
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Zech Umwelt GmbH has developed a new, innovative purification process for contaminated plastics. By means of an intensive cold wash, this fully separates HDPE plastics from clinging residues, such as oil remnants, making it possible to produce a high-quality, reusable grist for material recycling from essentially unused waste material.
The construction work on the new private four-star hotel belonging to the ATLANTIC Hotel cooperation has now begun. Today, in the presence of a large number of representatives from the fields of politics, business and administration, the traditional laying of the foundation stone was undertaken by Lübeck's Mayor Bernd Saxe and the Lady Director of the Lübeck swimming baths, Sieglinde Schüssler. With this design-oriented hotel facility in Schmiedestrasse the investors Joachim J. Linnemann and Kurt Zech have erected the first and only hotel in Lübeck's "old town". As is the custom, a cartouche containing a number of coins, a daily newspaper and copies of the building plans were "walled-in" with the foundation stone.
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As from today, Zech Group, which has its headquarters in Bremen (Germany), can look back on 100 years of company history. Yet the Group, which is internationally active and is highly diversified, is still at heart a family business. What began as a building company with a handful of workers is meanwhile engaged in the fields of Construction, Real Estate, Hotel, Environment/Technology and Industrial & International Holdings.
In the course of three generations there have been many changes and further developments. What has remained unchanged, however, is the motivation to create value for the customers. The Zech Group is characterized by healthy growth, increasing internationalization and a willingness to explore paths that are new and unconventional. Since its beginning the company stands for personal responsibility.
The foundation stone for the Group was laid in February 1909 with a building company set up near to Breslau by Gustav Zech. After the chaos of second world war, the family moved to Bremen hoping to make a fresh start. Together with Kurt Zech (senior), one of his six children, Gustav Zech revived his building company and was therefore able to participate in the reconstruction of Bremen. In 1978 Kurt Zech finally took over the business from his father. Since then the Group has continuously extended its fields of business. The managing partner Kurt Zech has meanwhile developed the one-time small building company to the Zech Group, which now employs about 3,000 people. The Group is a strategic management holding company incorporating six different business units, each with its own center of competence.
With many different fields of activity the Group is well positioned. With the knowledge, know-how and commitment of the employees it is optimistic about the future. Even about the challenging months that lie ahead, as a result of the reprehensible behaviour on the financial and real-estate markets. In view of the current turbulence on the world markets, the business enterprise has decided to do without any opulent jubilee celebrations.
The Zech Group stands for long-term business strategy, as opposed to short-term success. And has done for generations.
Kamü Bau GmbH presents itself as a competent partner for the fields of structural engineering and engineering construction, civil engineering and renovation with a newly reworked home page in the Internet. Under www.kamue.de visitors will find services, references, contacts, jobs and downloads in a modern presentation that is clearly organized and well designed.
At various point in the Internet presentation, for example, the user can choose between the three main fields of work of the Bremen-based company. Under "Kamü builds on“ there is the core performance of the company - the construction of upmarket buildings that are highly complex and last for a long time. Under "Kamü goes deep", the civil engineering portfolio presents the road construction and sewer construction, earthwork and plasterwork and the construction of complete outdoor plant. The comprehensive area of renovation is addressed under the title "Kamü makes fresh“ - from small repairs to large-scale projects, from loft conversions and redevelopment of structures under monument protection to complete conversions of trade buildings.
In the best Stuttgart inner-city location Phoenix Real Estate Development GmbH has realized a project at Königstraße 43b - the longest shopping street in Europe. The company develops high-quality and long-lasting investment products for returns-and-quality-oriented real estate investors.
The property, which was completed at the beginning of 2006, bears the name "Das weiße Haus" [The White House]. This name derives from the facade, which was completed in shining-smooth, white concrete.
In November 2008 this project won the Construction Award 2008 given by the Baden-Württemberg State Association of the Federal German Association of Architects (BDA). Since 1969 this has been presented to developers and architects once a year, at a distance of three years, for their joint work on exemplary buildings in Baden-Württemberg. In the opinion of the BDA, developers and architects accept a high level of responsibility towards human society. The quality of the designed environment is influenced by their personal commitment. Architecture as a product of developers and planners is one of the greatest and multifaceted cultural challenges faced, and as such can only be mastered jointly.
Further information is available under www.weisses-haus.info and www.bda-bawue.de.
At the end of October 2008 the new building project "Hofgartenpalais" in Düsseldorf had its topping-out ceremony. The building was erected under the technical control of the Zechbau GmbH subsidiary in Düsseldorf.
The technical supervisory authority TÜV Thuringia has developed and launched the first evaluation system for commercial real estate on the principles of the hotel classifications. This determines in a selective and objective way the practical value and the quality of the real estate for the user and allocates, on this basis, between one and six stars.
The TÜV Real Estate Seal of approval evaluates a great many user-relevant aspects such as size, cut, room arrangement, services provided, furnishings and fittings, Infrastructure, environmental surroundings, security or consumer costs. "Luxury“ aspects, by contrast, are not taken into account. The evaluation system must not be compared or confused with the well-known sustainability seal, that evaluates solely the environmental suitability of real estate. This is also given consideration in the context of the TÜV certification, but constitutes one aspect amongst many. The development of the catalogue of criteria determined in agreement with the German real-estate association IVD, which contributed with its knowledge and experience of the market. All individual results were evaluated in a criteria catalogue by awarding points, these then being used to determine the overall result. The more points one has, the higher the standard. The seal permits a comparison of real estate offers and assists in marketing the real estate.
The "Hofgartenpalais" is now the first office property in Germany to receive the TÜV Thuringia certification. It is - although still under construction - thereby classified as being in the 5-star category of "outstanding value“. In the course of the final certification, which will take place after completion in the first quarter of 2009, a further improvement in category is even possible. The aspects of safety, service performance, administration and others besides cannot be precisely evaluated any earlier.
The questioning of users and lessors of commercial real estate has confirmed that the real estate seal provides an important and objective assessment and is therefore of great importance to both sides.