Construction – Porsche Consulting The Magazine

Since 1960, prefabricated house manufacturer WeberHaus has successfully relied on traditional craftsmanship. Today, it combines this proven quality with smart robotics to produce sustainable, prefabricated timber-construction houses. The family-run company is defying the difficult conditions on the house construction market with new service offerings.

04/2025

byHeiner von der Laden and Tanja Krupp

High Performance EnterpriseA New School
in 12 Weeks

If it were up to Kleusberg, many schoolchildren could soon be attending their classes in modern buildings. This medium-sized company produces completely equipped modules that only need to be placed onto their construction sites by cranes and then connected with each other. Builders and clients can plan them individually with a configurator. The result: “class over mass.”

05/2024

byChristian Buck

InnovationDon’t Complain,
Improve Your Game

Affordable housing is in short supply, and we also need more schools and preschools. These are typical jobs for project developers in collaboration with construction trades. But contracts in the sector have abruptly fallen off. The economy is weak, and bankruptcies loom. “To survive in the construction industry, you’ll now have to restructure — regardless of what role you play,” says our author Roland Sitzberger. He is a civil engineer, an experienced industry expert, and Partner at Porsche Consulting.

04/2024

byRoland Sitzberger

High Performance EnterpriseThe Principle — no
Job half-done

A construction company successful throughout Europe unites the values it lives by and its tradition with innovation.

05/2023

byDetlev Brechtel

Innovation10 Villas per Day

The construction industry has seen little change in recent decades. It still mainly uses the traditional approach of manual on-site labor with multiple trade representatives, with largely unpredictable risks. That could soon change. In the future, hospitality, healthcare, and residential buildings will be manufactured like cars in factories. One of the pioneers in this form of industrialization is a company from Finland.

03/2022

byJürgen Hoffmann

Strategic TransformationWhy Bauer Is Reinventing Its Supply Chain

The BAUER Group produces the sophisticated machinery for its own ground- and groundwater-related work. And for its direct competitors. The company has embarked upon a transformation designed to continue its extraordinary tradition of world championship performance in this highly specialized field.

10/2021

byJürgen Hoffmann

Innovation The Benefits of Being
Different

Goldbeck GmbH, a family-run construction and real estate company based in Bielefeld, offers everything from a single source. It designs, builds, and operates commercial properties such as hall buildings, office complexes, and multi-level car parks. It also manufactures the component parts of these structures. With the courage to pursue an individual course yet also to think in systems, it has become one of Germany’s most successful medium-sized enterprises.

07/2021

byJürgen Hoffmann

InnovationThe Launch of Smarter Construction

The construction industry cannot keep up with the demand for housing. This is largely because construction sites are not efficient enough. New technologies and business models could succeed in cutting this Gordian knot.

09/2020

byOliver Jesgulke