Our new employee Nomazulu Sammüller has joined the team in our Munich office and brings with her extensive experience in large scale project monitoring. TA Europe manages several infrastructure and real estate projects around the world. Very often as countries develop and flourish economically, they refurbish their transport system to complement their growing economic status. … Read more
Infrastructure
PPPs in social infrastructure – utilising private professional partners effectively whilst controlling life cycle costs holistically
Written by Marijke Brijnaert, consultant at TA Europe TA Europe is a leading technical advisor in PPP projects and transactions. Its team members have developed the basic PPP standards for schools in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. TA Europe advises on PPP school projects in Uruguay, Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, including a number of portfolio … Read more
JVA Burg – strengthening our experience in the prison sector
JVA Burg, one of Germany’s few PPP prisons, was tendered in 2005. A consortium consisting of Bilfinger Berger BOT GmbH and Kötter Justizdienstleistungen GmbH & Co. reached financial close in 2006. The aforementioned consortium entered into a DBFM contract with the Land of Saxony-Anhalt, the grantor, over a period of 25 years. The project has … Read more
Targeting LTA opportunities in Spain and Latin America, with Mercedes Martín on board
TA Europe is proud to announce that Mercedes Martín is on board as new Partner to provide bespoke LTA services from our future office location in Madrid. Mercedes has performed the LTA role throughout Europe and Latin America and she has gained experience being part of several concession projects at all their stages, including brownfield … Read more
First quarter of 2018 – a full basket for TA Europe
Easter is the perfect time to reflect on the performance of the first quarter of the year. The teams have worked on a range of different projects in real estate as well as infrastructure across different sectors and countries. In real estate, the team has conducted Technical Due Diligence in a variety of different care … Read more
Public private partnership in Belgium – social infrastructure via DBFM
The pipeline in Belgium for DBFM projects is very promising. This type of funding via DBFM or design, build, finance and maintain, became more popular in Belgium since the realization of the largest social infrastructure DBFM in Europe, ‘Scholen van Morgen’. Resources for school infrastructure in Flanders have been lower than the needs of schools … Read more
Looking forward to 2018 – opening an office in Munich and new team members joining
We would like to wish all our clients, consultants, as well as everyone in our extensive network a very happy and successful 2018. 2017 has been a winning year for TA Europe, with sufficient business, exciting new clients, the opening of our new offices in Berlin and Brussels, two new Partners and additionally three new … Read more
Infrastructure Outlook EUROPE 2018
In respect of the upcoming European infrastructure projects, again Germany will be one of the key markets with predominantly brownfield projects but also two greenfield projects. Next the A-Model A10/A24 near Berlin will start with BAFO stage and achieve Financial Close end of 2017, the A3 in northern Bavaria will be tendered in Q3 2017. … Read more
KL to SG High Speed Rail – the Game of Thrones between China, Japan and South Korea?
By Andrej Frizler, Technical Director at TA Europe The opinion is my own, founded on three years experience in this project. The sources are public announcements and press. 350 kilometres between two glamourous metropoles, the first of its kind in SEA. One of the very few worldwide. The competition for delivery of this prestigious project, … Read more
Successful model: Over 10 years PPP schools Cologne
TA Europe continues to monitor the PPP schools Cologne for the financing bank consortium. The city of Cologne has awarded the renovation and ongoing maintenance of Cologne schools in 2005 on the basis of a public-private partnership agreement (PPP model) to HOCHTIEF PPP Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG in Essen. The project has a total … Read more
Outlook for European infrastructure investment 2017
On 17th January 2017, Technical Advisors Europe participated in the event “Outlook for European Infrastructure Investment 2017” hosted by the Infra Finance Breakfast Club at KfW IPEX-Bank’s office in Frankfurt, Germany. The panel discussion was led by Christian Bevc, Managing Director Transport and Social Infrastructure (PPP) at KfW IPEX-Bank. The panel members included Thilo Rose, … Read more
America’s infrastructure soon to be great again?
Who is going to pay for it THIS time? Despite the vehement discrepancies during and after the American presidential elections, the nation seems to agree unanimously on the fact that America’s ageing infrastructure requires significant upgrade. At the moment, traffic jams cost the U.S. economy more than $50 billion annually and without improving the current … Read more
