Hochtief AG

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Business Description

Sector

Industrials

Industry

Construction

Headquarters

Germany DE

Employees

61 923

IPO date

Jan 1, 1920

Hochtief AG is a large construction and infrastructure company. It plans, builds, and manages complex projects such as roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, rail links, and commercial buildings. It also takes on project development and long-term infrastructure work, which makes it more than a simple contractor that only builds and leaves.

Its customers are mainly governments, public agencies, airports, transport operators, and large private owners that need major facilities built or upgraded. Hochtief earns money by winning construction contracts, project management assignments, and long-term infrastructure deals. In some projects it also makes money through development, investment, and operating roles tied to the asset it helped create.

What makes Hochtief different is the type of work it does: large, technically difficult projects with heavy engineering, financing, and execution risk. That puts it in a key middle position in the infrastructure value chain, where clients rely on it to turn designs and public plans into physical assets that can be used for decades.