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STRABAG subsidiary ZÜBLIN building new medical centre for US military near Kaiserslautern as part of joint venture

19 January 2022

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Partnership-based project execution in design and construction phases through shared digital BIM model
€ 859 million contract awarded by German government to joint venture of Ed. Züblin AG and Gilbane Germany GmbH

The STRABAG Group has been commissioned by the German government to build the US military’s largest hospital outside the United States. Ed. Züblin AG is leading the joint venture with Gilbane Germany GmbH to design and build the new US military medical centre in Weilerbach near Kaiserslautern. The € 859 million general contractor agreement has already been signed by the project participants. The large-scale project is being executed on behalf of the US military by Germany’s Federal Construction Administration. Contract client is the Office of Federal Construction, represented by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Property and Construction.

This is the first federal building construction project to be implemented specifically in a partnering process, with early involvement of all design and construction partners, in order to meet the specified quality, cost and schedule requirements. ZÜBLIN’s project team contributed its expertise already in the advanced design phase. The structural engineering work is scheduled to begin in October 2022 following completion of the construction design, and the new building is to be handed over ready for use in November 2027.

New building to replace US military hospitals in Ramstein and Landstuhl

The modern 90,000 m² hospital being built in Weilerbach in the Western Palatinate region, in the immediate vicinity of Ramstein Air Base, will feature nine operating rooms and 120 exam rooms. When it opens, the new medical centre will replace the U.S. military’s nearby hospitals in Landstuhl and at Ramstein Air Base (project name: Rhine Ordnance Barracks Medical Center Replacement). The facility will provide primary care, specialised consultative care, hospitalisation and treatment for more than 200,000 US military personnel as well as Department of Defense and interagency civilians and their dependents and will employ approximately 2,500 people.

STRABAG subsidiary ZÜBLIN is building a new central clinic near Kaiserslautern for the US military in a joint venture

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Marianne Jakl
STRABAG SE
Head of Corporate Communications
Group Spokeswoman

+43 1 22422 1174

pr@strabag.com

STRABAG SE is a European-based technology group for construction services, a leader in innovation and financial strength. Our activities span all areas of the construction industry and cover the entire construction value chain. We create added value for our clients by taking an end-to-end view of construction over the entire life cycle – from planning and design to construction, operation and facility management to redevelopment or demolition. In all of our work, we accept responsibility for people and the environment: We are shaping the future of construction and are making significant investments in our portfolio of more than 250 innovation and 400 sustainability projects. Through the hard work and dedication of our approximately 86,000 employees, we generate an annual output volume of around € 19 billion.
Our dense network of subsidiaries in various European countries and on other continents extends our area of operation far beyond the borders of Austria and Germany. Working together with strong partners, we are pursuing a clear goal: to design, build and operate construction projects in a way that protects the climate and conserves resources. More information is available at www.strabag.com.

Ed. Züblin AG
Stuttgart-based Ed. Züblin AG, with approximately 15,000 employees and an annual output of around € 4.7 billion, is one of Germany’s largest construction companies. ZÜBLIN, which has been successfully realising challenging construction projects in Germany and abroad since 1898, is the STRABAG Group’s leading brand for building construction and civil engineering. The range of services covers all construction-related tasks – from complex turnkey construction, civil engineering and tunnelling to construction logistics, structural maintenance, ground engineering and timber and steel construction. Supported by the expertise of its Zentrale Technik competence centre, ZÜBLIN also offers integrated design-and-build services from a single source. We take an end-to-end view of buildings over their entire life cycle, with a focus on collaborative construction using our TEAMCONCEPT® partnering model while constantly promoting and advancing the topics of digitalisation, sustainability and innovation. Together within the STRABAG Group and with our external partners, we are working systematically to make the design-and-build processes resource-friendly and climate-neutral. Current ZÜBLIN construction projects include the Inspire Neukölln high-rise project, the U.S. Military Hospital Weilerbach and the approximately 2 km long airport tunnel in Stuttgart. More information is available at www.zueblin.de.