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HPC Austria GmbH – new affiliate in Austria HPC Austria GmbH HPC Austria GmbH Schlossplatz 13 A-2361 Laxenburg LAXENBURG – Since 2006, the HPC Group has again been operating in Austria with an own subsidiary (HPC Austria GmbH). First and foremost the new company was founded to serve the MSA with BP and the client’s wish to implement this agreement with local staff. Originally, the founding location of the company was Heiligenstaedterstrasse in Vienna (as subtenant of the acquainted ÖSTAP Engineering & Consulting). However, soon we developed a need to grow as far as staff was concerned and therefore had to look for own and particularly more spacious office locations. For infrastructural reasons we decided to move to the southern outskirts of Vienna (to Laxenburg, cf. photo, offices are located on the ground floor). In the meantime, HPC Austria GmbH has a staff of seven specializing in different fields of service (cf. photos). After our starting phase, where we were exclusively occupied with the completion of BP projects, we now serve also clients 4 www.hpc.ag HPC, September 2009 Ing. Christian Gikopoulos, branch manager, environmental engineer Mag. Peter Raumauf, MBA egsm., geologist Bettina Bruckner assistant HPC Austria from other industries: we provide support to small landfill operators in implementing alternative landfill gas containment concepts (passive landfill gas treatment) and to filling station operators in monitoring compliance with maximum values according to the indirect discharge ordinance of the Austrian water law. End of last year we were awarded the contract to carry out the first toxicological exposition risk evaluation in Austria on an abandoned contaminated site for the Dr. Maria dos Santos, geological scientist Dipl. Ing. Rafael Smutny, hydrobiologist (water management) Dipl. Geologe Bjoern Lehr, hydro-geologist Lower Austrian Federal Government in cooperation with the Federal Environmental Agency. Assessment of the toxicological exposition risk for residents in the course of further investigations according to §14 ALSAG Austrian Act on Remediation of Contaminated Sites by TERQ: Toxicological Exposition Risk Quantification From 1860 to 1924, the project area was used for tar chemicals production and wood impregnation. After 1945, construction activities started on the abandoned site. Today, residential houses are located on wide areas of the site which have partly been built using construction material of the former factory facilities. The eastern part of the study area adjoins the railway station of Angern and is used as storage area for sugar beets. The former storage areas of wood impregnation in the southwestern area are presently used for agricultural purposes. Mag. Sascha Salek, geologist
In the course of investigation carried out from 1999 to 2002, massive contamination of subsoil and groundwater (mainly by tar oils and arsenic) was determined on the area of the former tar factory and wood impregnation facility. For the first time in Austria, an exposition risk assessment to determine the toxicological exposition risks for residents was to be carried out as further investigation. Additionally, the results of the assessment were to provide for priority classification according to §14 ALSAG, the Austrian Act on Remediation of Contaminated Sites. To evaluate direct and indirect intake of contaminants from soil, ground-, surface and drinking water, fruit and vegetables, all relevant exposure paths are taken into account. Target of the assessment is to quantify the toxicological exposition risk for residents on site and on downgradient areas. HPC Austria GmbH (in cooperation with the R&D Division of the HPC Group) was retained by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management to carry out this toxicological risk evaluation. The following investigation phases were/are carried out during the project: – Evaluation and interpretation of existing investigations and detailing of investigation measures planned – Site visits and interviews to obtain information on present use of properties in order to define exposition scenarios – Planning and recovery of soil, plant, domestic dust and indoor air samples – Assessment of the toxicological exposition risk for residents by TERQ The project was planned to be completed by 2011. Whether an expansion of the investigation site to downgradient areas will be carried out has so far not been decided. Christian Gikopoulos, cgikopoulos@hpc-austria.at The tar factory about 1920. (http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/umweltschutz/altlasten/altlasteninfo/altlasten3/niederoesterreich/n53/) HPC Bulgaria Ltd. – the representative of HPC at Balkan Peninsula Who are we? 1999 – HPC HARRESS PICKEL CONSULT AG is awarded to execute a project, funded by the PHARE Program of the EC on the Waste Management of radiaoctive contaminated water in the former uranium production region Buhovo near Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The project is successful and prospects are looking good for HPC in Bulgaria, so HPC AG decides to establish a subsidiary to act in this promissing region of Europe. SOFIA – At the end of the year 2000 HPC Bulgaria Ltd. is born. The company starts with only two persons – the General Manager Dr. Hanspeter Tomschi and the country Office Director Dr. Ljubka Kostova. Dr. Kostova will turn out as the company’s driving force in Bulgaria. As nuclear physicist and one of the most esteemed radiation protection specialists she brings in her widespread know-how. HPC Bulgaria HPC Bulgaria performs a flying start: the participation in the first tender bid is successful. The Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water assigns the company with the provision of technical support in connection with the project “Wetlands Restoration along Danube River”. The Project is inspired by the Ramsar Convention and is funded by the World Bank. The works are completed in a very short time to the full satisfaction of the client. In the following years HPC Bulgaria grows and becomes stronger on this new and upcoming market in South-East Europe. The Company is active not only in Bulgaria, it supports as well the mother company and the partners of the INOGEN Alliance in Romania, Russia, Aserbeidjan in different projects of the EC programms, World Bank and multinational clients. New E 79 some days before the official taking over What are we doing? A glance in the past ... February 2006 – On the newly-constructed road section on the E 79, north of Dimovo/Bulgaria, several days before the official taking over subsidence occurred. The Contractor, an established European construction company and the Bulgarian authorities were shocked. The road is an important connection from North to South border of the country and the works are funded by the European community pre-accession program – PHARE. HPC, September 2009 HPC Bulgaria Ltd. HPC Bulgaria Ltd. Antim I, No. 53, Et. 4 BG-1303 Sofia Branch manager: Dr. Ljubka Kostova www.hpc.ag 5
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