Depenbrock Bau GmbH & Co. KG

What Depenbrock Bau GmbH & Co. KG does

Depenbrock Bau GmbH & Co. KG is a fourth-generation, family-owned German construction group founded in 1928 in Stemwede and organized under a holding structure led by Depenbrock Holding SE & Co. KG (registered in Bad Oeynhausen). The group employs approximately 1,400 staff across 22 locations in Germany plus wholly-owned entities in Poland and Denmark, and generated operating revenue (Betriebsleistung) of approximately €750 million in 2022. It is led by Managing Directors Karl-Heinrich Depenbrock (family), Thomas Knöbig, and Christoph Straßburger (joined February 2024), and has remained privately held with no stock exchange listing or external institutional investors.

The group delivers three core construction service lines — Hochbau (building construction: residential, social real estate, industrial/commercial, hall/logistics, office/administration, sports/education), Tiefbau (civil engineering: roads, sewers, earthworks, bridges, horizontal directional drilling), and Ingenieur- & Wasserbau (civil and hydraulic engineering: port, lock, and nearshore construction) — wrapped by a service layer covering integral BIM-based planning (Technische Gebäudeausrüstung, Tragwerksplanung), Public-Private Partnership (ÖPP/PPP) project delivery, post-construction technical and infrastructural facility management, and an in-house R&D unit recognized by the Werner-Möbius-Stiftung Innovationspreis 2026. Underlying execution capability is the DEPENBROCK Technikpark, described as Germany's largest fleet of construction and hydraulic-engineering machinery, including own jack-up platforms and pontoons.

Revenue is generated primarily through project-based construction contracts awarded via competitive tenders and direct negotiation — with marquee engagements including A26/A7 Hamburg, Friesenbrücke, AVG Stade LNG terminal, Fehmarnsund-Tunnel, Neues Rathaus Euskirchen, and recent TenneT and Amprion transmission-grid civil works — supplemented by recurring managed-services revenue from facility management and long-term ÖPP/PPP contracts. The go-to-market is enterprise field sales into public-sector and industrial clients; pricing is not publicly disclosed and contracts are typically multi-year infrastructure engagements. The group reports GDPR (DSGVO) compliance and has issued a Declaration of Principle under §6 of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG).

Name

Depenbrock Bau GmbH & Co. KG

Legal name

Depenbrock Bau GmbH & Co. KG

Website

https://depenbrock.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1928

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Depenbrock is a fourth-generation, family-owned German construction group delivering building, civil, and hydraulic engineering alongside BIM planning, facility management, and PPP delivery for public-sector and industrial clients across Germany, Poland, and Denmark.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Services

NAICS

Nonresidential Building Construction (2362), Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (237990), Construction (23)

SIC

Heavy Construction Other Than Bldg Const - Contractors (1600), General Bldg Contractors - Residential Bldgs (1520)

akta.pro primary industry

Offshore-to-Shore Interface Construction (Landfalls, Shore Crossings, HDD) (IMAFAJAK)

Keywords

• Construction services
• Civil engineering
• Building construction
• Hydraulic engineering
• Public-private partnership

Headquarters

HQ city

Cologne

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Construction project contracts (Hochbau / Tiefbau / Ingenieur- & Wasserbau): Project-based construction contracts awarded through tenders (Ausschreibungen) and direct negotiations. Includes residential construction, social/real-estate construction, industrial & commercial construction, hall/logistics construction, office/administrative, sports & education facilities, road construction, sewer construction, earthworks, bridge construction, horizontal directional drilling, port construction, lock construction, and nearshore construction. Revenue from Großaufträge (e.g., A26/A7 Hamburg, AVG Stade liquefied gases, Friesenbrücke, Fehmarnsund-Tunnel) flows via single projects and ARGE consortia.
2. Facility Management & Property Management: Recurring managed-services revenue from technical and infrastructural facility management (Technisches & infrastrukturelles Gebäudemanagement) and Property Management for clients including municipalities and commercial real estate owners (e.g., Folgeauftrag Stemwede 12.08.2025).
3. Public-Private Partnership (ÖPP) long-term contracts: Long-term PPP/ÖPP contracts accompanying private or public-sector projects — multi-year contracts bundling planning, construction, and operational management.
4. Planning and engineering services (BIM, TGA, Tragwerksplanung): Pre-construction planning services: technical building equipment (TGA), structural design (Tragwerksplanung), BIM implementation, plus in-house Research & Development, billed as part of integrated project delivery or standalone commissions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Depenbrock is a family-owned German construction group delivering building construction (Hochbau), civil engineering (Tiefbau), and civil & hydraulic engineering (Ingenieur- & Wasserbau) projects such as roads, bridges, ports, locks, and nearshore structures. It wraps these construction services with planning (BIM implementation, technical building equipment, structural design), Public-Private Partnership (ÖPP/PPP) delivery, in-house R&D, and post-construction facility and property management, executed through a network of group subsidiaries across Germany, Poland, and Denmark.

Product overview

DEPENBROCK offers a vertically integrated construction-services platform rather than a single unified software product: a core set of three construction-service lines — Hochbau (Building Construction), Tiefbau (Civil Engineering) and Ingenieur- & Wasserbau (Civil & Hydraulic Engineering) — is wrapped by a service layer (Planung with BIM implementation, Technische Gebäudeausrüstung, Tragwerksplanung and F&E; ÖPP/PPP; and Gebäudemanagement covering technical/infrastructural FM and property management) and delivered through a network of group subsidiaries (e.g., Depenbrock Bau, Depenbrock Systembau, Depenbrock Gebäudemanagement, Depenbrock Partnering, Depenbrock Ingenieurwasserbau, Project Construction Depenbrock, Wilhelm Becker, HBL Lorenz Service) and international entities (Depenbrock Scandinavia, Depenbrock Polska, DBB Białe Błota), supported by the DEPENBROCK Technikpark in-house machinery fleet and BIM-driven integral planning across the full real-estate lifecycle.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hochbau (Building Construction)

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• HOCHTIEF: Germany's largest construction company and a direct competitor across building construction, civil engineering, and infrastructure — including PPP/ÖPP delivery — operating at materially larger scale but in the same core German tender market as Depenbrock.
• GOLDBECK: Family-owned German construction company specializing in commercial/industrial building, hall construction, and PPP, with a comparable integrated planning-build-operate model that overlaps with Depenbrock's Hochbau, Systembau, and ÖPP lines.
• Köster GmbH: German family-owned construction group offering Hochbau, Tiefbau, and civil engineering across multiple German regions; comparable in size, private family-ownership structure, and integrated service mix to Depenbrock.
• Leonhard Weiss: Family-owned German construction group with comparable size, geographic spread, and a similarly broad service portfolio across Hochbau, Tiefbau, Ingenieurbau, and Spezialtiefbau — the closest family-business analogue to Depenbrock in Germany.
• Züblin (Strabag SE): Stuttgart-based core brand of Austria's Strabag SE, directly comparable to Depenbrock in building construction, civil engineering, and ground engineering; competes with Depenbrock in German tenders including Spezialtiefbau.
• PORR AG: Austrian full-service construction group active in building construction, infrastructure, and environmental engineering with significant DACH operations; competes with Depenbrock in cross-border tenders and in hydraulic/civil engineering.

Regional players

• Implenia AG: Swiss-listed construction and real-estate services group with comparable integrated building/civil/infrastructure offering; primarily serves Switzerland and adjacent markets but overlaps in DACH-region tender dynamics and in hydraulic/infrastructure engineering.

Broad incumbents

• Bilfinger SE: Germany-listed industrial services and construction group active in process industry, energy, and infrastructure; broader services portfolio but competes with Depenbrock's facility management, engineering, and infrastructure maintenance work.
• STRABAG AG: Austrian-listed parent of Züblin, offering building, civil, and infrastructure construction across DACH/CEE; broader portfolio and larger scale than Depenbrock but overlapping directly in Tiefbau, Hochbau, and ÖPP tenders.
• Vinci Construction: Global construction and concessions arm of VINCI, with major German operations; a broad incumbent with PPP, civil engineering, and hydraulic works that intersects with Depenbrock's core tender market at the largest end of project scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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