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History is more than past events, history is created layer by layer – history is the foundationon which we stand and build. Hans von KelerThe Heitkamp Ingenieur- und Kraftwerksbau GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of the Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH group of companies.The construction company can look back to a tradition of more than 117 years. The company was founded 1892 as the TiefbaufirmaE. Heitkamp. In 1902, the son of Heinrich Heitkamp took over the „Tiefbaufirma E. Heitkamp“. In 1946 „E. Heitkamp Tiefbaugeschäftin Wanne-Eickel“ changed its corporate name to „Bauunternehmung E. Heitkamp GmbH“. Heinrich Heitkamp senior and his sonsHeinrich and Robert became partners. In the period of 1950 – 1960 the company became involved in special mining engineering,power plant and tunnel construction. In 1964 Robert Heitkamp took over the corporate management and expanded the familybusiness to become one of the ten biggest construction companies in Germany. In 1981 Robert Heitkamp retired from the business.Under the chairmanship of his son, Prof. Dr. Dr. Engelbert Heitkamp, the management was reorganized.In 1995, Heitkamp was awarded its biggest single contract for all the structural work including two natural draught cooling towersat the new construction site of the Lippendorf power plant .In 1998 it was awarded the contract to build the highest natural draught cooling tower in the world in Niederaußem (height of 200m). In 1999 the construction company „E. Heitkamp GmbH“ in Herne merged with the „Deilmann-Haniel GmbH“ in Dortmund tobecome „Heitkamp-Deilmann-Haniel GmbH“ based in Herne. During the course of 2005 the civil engineering competencies werefused to become the Heitkamp Ingenieur- und Kraftwerksbau GmbHIn 2008 „Heitkamp-Deilmann-Haniel GmbH“ changed its name to „Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH“ after the domestic mining activitieshad been dropped.3