After a 5-year period of construction, the new soundproof tunnel on the A7 was opened last week. This tunnel was the last piece of the A7 to be completed and the building consortium delivered the project successfully on time. With this completion TA Europe has achieved another milestone as supporting lenders’ technical advisor to the … Read more
Infrastructure
The Bankruptcy of Carillion – Lessons Learned and the Role of LTAs in Future PPP Projects
TA Europe attended the recent IPFA event in London aiming to understand more about the lessons learned from the bankruptcy of Carillion. In particular, the importance of the LTA’s scope was pointed out during this event. For instance, different courses of action can be implemented to provide banks with added value and additional security to … Read more
Dr Norayr Badasyan joins as PPP consultant
Dr Badasyan is an infrastructure expert focused on technical, economic and financial due diligence of PPP projects. His expertise also includes project finance and cost-benefit analysis of infrastructure investment projects. Prior to joining our team, Dr Badasyan was a member of the research team of Professor Alfen at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar focusing on economic and … Read more
TA Europe consultants in all corners of the world
One of the perks of being a consultant at TA Europe is that you frequently travel to project locations and see places you might not see otherwise. Here a selection of impressions our consultants have sent home from their site visits and business trips.
Madrid Nuevo Norte
Our Partners Sebastian Frohwann and Wolfgang Schlicht recently travelled to Madrid to catch up with our Spanish Partner Mercedes Martin. One of the highlights of the visit was seeing the detailed model of Madrid Nuevo Norte. Madrid Nuevo Norte is one of the largest-scale urban regeneration initiatives in Europe to date – the site being … Read more
The Doha Metro Rail – international experience of new cost manager Nomazulu Sammüller
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
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
