BC Berlin-Consult GmbH
BC Berlin offers independent consulting and engineering services since 1968. BC Berlin works interdisciplinary, combining business, technical and country-specific know-how to meet the requirements of complex projects. We work for both private and public clients at national and international level. The majority of our projects are implemented in Central and Eastern Europe, the New Independent States and the People`s Republic of China.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Engineering service provider
- Industry Type:
- Environmental
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1968
- Employees:
- 11-100
Company
Foundation of BC Berlin und Focus
The former Berlin Senator for Economics, Professor Karl Schiller (see left picture), already formulated in the early sixties:
'Not only industrial jobs justify in the long-term the stability of the island City of Berlin and the prosperity of their citizens - the survival of the city will depend in the long-term on modern and intelligent services.'
Taking advantage of the geographically advantageous position of West Berlin; Schiller intended to make West Berlin the hub of the East-West Trade. Engineers, trained at internationally recognized universities of the city would support this East-West trade by providing added value through their own planning and management performance. This new business sector would also have only little requirements on rare urban land and other scarce resources of the walled city.
His dedicated successor, Senator Karl König (see right picture) carried ourt this idea and searched for suitable partners in West Germany. The West German industrial sector, however, showed little interest in Berlin's intentions,. The companies were convinced that the 'small Eastern Trade' could easily be done by themselves.
On a mission in Kenya, Senator König met with German engineers, planners and consultants. He instantly recognized: This rapidly growing new industry, the service sector is an opportunity for the future of Berlin.
'Can you also deliver the facilities and construct the buildings you are planning?' asked Senator König. The engineers pointed out that the narrow capital base of a medium-sized company does not allow the financing of large turnkey industrial complexes.
'That is what the state of Berlin can be here for.' concluded the Senator and fwith a connection of private partners, the BC Berlin-Consult GmbH was founded on 3 July 1968.
Company - Key Fact and Figures
Quick Company Set-up at the end of the 1960s
- Foundation of BC Berlin with GOPA Consultants and the Senate of Berlin as Shareholders.
- Turnkey construction of a cast iron foundry and furniture parts factory completed in 1972.
Growing the Engineering Sector Internationally in the 1970s
- Various high-tech projects in the USSR in Odessa, Kiev, Moscow - in container plant productions, cassette recorders, eyeglass factory
- Facility for manufacturing aluminum profile s in Algeria
- Turnkey construction of a factory for the manufacture of electrical installations in Iraq
- Storage facilities for stockpiling in the deserts of Saudi Arabia
- 2 years contract negotiations subsequent signing of long-term waste contract with East Germany over a period of 20 years: logistics, transfer stations, landfills for the entire City of West Berlin
- Planning and construction of meat production plants in Poland (Kolo and Elk),
- Planning, construction, commissioning and training of the then largest and most modern meat production facility in Eberswalde / German Democratic Republic - GDR
Specialising as Lead Company in State-of-Art Solid Waste Management in the 1980s
- 10 years waste management contract with the City of Doha, Qatar
- Disposal concept for Bahrain
- Transfer Station for Berlin Gradestraß, Germany
- Establishment of the hazardous waste incinerator in Schöneiche, near Berlin, Germany
- Pyrolysis plant for treatment of PCBs
Support Economic and Technological Transition in Eastern Markets after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in the 1990s
- Planning and Construction of the engineering center at Potsdamer Platz
- Planning and Construction of Haus der Wirtschaft, Potsdam,
- Construction of the main train station and commercial center of Potsda
- Several Export and Investment Promotion Projects
German Technology and Know-How Transfer in Since 2000
- Internationalization of business development and consulting activities in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and China
- 5 years contract with the Berlin City Cleaning Company (BSR)
- Successful market entry in the Sultanate of Oman, with various projects in the fields of tourism, environmental planning and monitoring aswell as waste management planning
- Long-term consultancies financed by the EU and KfW in Hungary, Kosovo, Turkey and Rumania