Planungsbüro Hahm GmbH

What Planungsbüro Hahm GmbH does

Planungsbüro Hahm GmbH (pbh) is a privately held German engineering consultancy headquartered in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, with origins dating to 1959 when Fritz Lothar Hahm and Dieter Sudau founded Ingenieurbüro Sudau + Hahm. The current legal entity was established on July 1, 1989, and today the firm employs more than 75 qualified staff across three offices — Osnabrück (headquarters, in the Ingenieurforum Am Tie building since August 2018), Lübeck (since April 2013), and Münster (since May 2014) — serving northern Germany across Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, and North Rhine-Westphalia.

The firm's offering is organized around five integrated core service lines: Städtebau (urban planning), Freiraumplanung (open space planning), Wasserwirtschaft (water management), Verkehrswesen (traffic engineering), and Ingenieurvermessung (engineering surveying). Services are delivered using standard civil engineering software (AutoCAD, CARD/1, Hystem/Extran, ARRIBA/ITWO, MS-Project, and Stadt CAD Hippodamos), with no proprietary platform components disclosed. The business is run on a project-based professional services model, with revenue generated through direct commissions and public tenders from municipal planning authorities and private investors/developers; pricing is quote-based and project-specific, and is not publicly disclosed.

Customer concentration is split between two primary segments — German municipal planning authorities (e.g., Hansestadt Lübeck, Gemeinde Belm, Stadt Telgte, Stadt Greven) and private investors and developers (including healthcare and education-sector clients such as St.-Josefs-Hospital Cloppenburg and Hochschule Osnabrück) — typically via joint bids or ARGE partnerships with specialist firms. The company is owned and led by Managing Director Berthold Uphoff (in role since April 2006) together with co-shareholder Thomas Rakel (since 2015), with Phillip Rolke appointed Prokurist in February 2024 as part of a planned three-year generational leadership transition. In July 2025, the firm publicly confirmed its ongoing operating and financial health in response to the insolvency of a similarly-named competitor.

Name

Planungsbüro Hahm GmbH

Legal name

Planungsbüro Hahm GmbH

Website

https://pbh.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1959

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Planungsbüro Hahm GmbH is a privately held German civil engineering consultancy founded in 1959, with 75+ staff across offices in Osnabrück, Lübeck, and Münster, delivering integrated urban planning, water management, traffic engineering, open space, and surveying services to municipal authorities and private developers across northern Germany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering and Urban Planning Consulting

NAICS

Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (237), Nonresidential Building Construction (2362)

SIC

General Bldg Contractors - Nonresidential Bldgs (1540)

akta.pro primary industry

Design-Build / EPC General Contracting (IMAFAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Construction Management & Delivery (EPCM/CMAR/Design-Build Oversight) (EUANALAE)

Keywords

• Civil engineering consulting
• Urban planning services
• Municipal infrastructure planning
• Engineering surveying services
• Water management engineering

Headquarters

HQ city

Osnabrück

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Engineering and Planning Services: Professional services revenue generated through the provision of urban planning, open space planning, water management, transportation engineering, and engineering surveying services to municipal and private clients on a project basis.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Planungsbüro Hahm GmbH (pbh) is a civil engineering and urban planning consultancy that delivers five integrated core services: Städtebau (urban planning), Freiraumplanung (open space planning), Wasserwirtschaft (water management), Verkehrswesen (traffic engineering), and Ingenieurvermessung (engineering surveying). The firm serves municipal planning authorities and private investors across northern Germany with holistic, multi-disciplinary engineering solutions from initial conception through construction management.

Product overview

Planungsbüro Hahm GmbH (pbh) is a civil engineering and urban planning firm offering five integrated core service areas: Städtebau (urban planning), Freiraumplanung (open space planning), Wasserwirtschaft (water management), Verkehrswesen (traffic engineering), and Ingenieurvermessung (engineering surveying). The company operates as a unified planning office where these services work together holistically on complex projects for public and private clients across northern Germany.

Differentiator

Problem solved

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Products and services

• Städtebau (Urban Planning) Urban and landscape planning services for municipal clients and private investment projects, including städtebauliche und landschaftsplanerische Aufgaben for the development and realization of construction projects.
• Freiraumplanung (Open Space Planning) High-quality design of public open spaces, ranging from large-scale urban and traffic structures to the design of outdoor facilities for individual building projects.
• Wasserwirtschaft (Water Management) Environmental protection through reliable wastewater disposal, waterway development and renaturalization, with focus on minimizing impacts of water use through material and hydraulic stress on water bodies.
• Verkehrswesen (Traffic Engineering)

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• SWUP GmbHminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 November 2020Won competition together for Gutachterverfahren (expert appraisal procedure) for residential area 'Bahnhofshügel Teil II' in Altenberge. SWUP GmbH from Berlin/Quickborn specializes in landscape architecture, urban planning, and mediation.
• Trüper Gondesen PartnerminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 December 2019Joint partnership for the Lübeck Drehbrückenplatz project - a major urban design project on Lübeck's old town island completed after 3 years of planning and construction.
• PLAN.CONCEPTminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Working group (ARGE) partnership for Belm Marktring urban redevelopment project. PLAN.CONCEPT provided architectural services while PBH handled engineering planning.
• Grothe Bau GmbH & Co. KGminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 9 June 2017Construction company from Lübeck engaged as main contractor for Priwall-Promenade project. PBH led planning as part of Planungsgemeinschaft Priwall-Promenade.
• TGP Landschaftsarchitekten BDLAminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2014Collaborated with TGP Landschaftsarchitekten from Lübeck on Eutin urban planning and traffic planning competition for State Garden Show 2016. PBH contributed traffic planning expertise for central bus station redesign.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Sweco GmbH: European engineering consultancy with German operations offering urban planning, water, transportation, and surveying services. Overlaps directly with PBH's service portfolio but operates as a much larger incumbent with pan-European reach.
• Arcadis Germany: Global design and engineering consultancy with significant German operations in mobility, water, and urban development. Comparable services to PBH but operating at vastly larger scale and with international project portfolio.
• WSP in Germany: Global engineering consultancy with German offices covering transportation, environment, and urban development. Competes with PBH on larger municipal and infrastructure tenders across Germany.
• Ramboll Deutschland: Danish-origin global engineering consultancy with substantial German presence in transport, water, and urban planning. Overlaps with PBH's integrated service offering but at significantly greater scale and international footprint.

Direct peers

• Dorsch International Consultants GmbH: German-headquartered international engineering consultancy with a strong municipal-infrastructure and urban-planning practice. Comparable to PBH in core engineering-planning services for public clients, though operating at significantly larger scale and with international footprint.
• Drees & Sommer SE: Stuttgart-headquartered German engineering consultancy with multi-disciplinary planning, real-estate, and infrastructure services. Comparable in offering integrated engineering planning across building, civil, and infrastructure projects for public and private clients in the DACH region.
• Kocks Consult GmbH: German mid-sized engineering consultancy offering structural, civil, and infrastructure planning. Comparable to PBH as a privately held, multi-disciplinary German planning office serving public-sector infrastructure clients.
• björnsen beratende Ingenieure GmbH: German mid-sized civil and environmental engineering consultancy headquartered in Koblenz. Comparable in scope (water, infrastructure, urban planning) and customer base (municipal authorities), serving as a regional peer with similar project profile.
• Ingenieurgruppe Bauen (IB): Bavarian mid-sized civil/structural engineering consultancy. Comparable to PBH as a regional German engineering planning firm serving municipal and private clients on building, infrastructure, and surveying projects.
• HPC AG: German engineering consultancy focused on water management, hydraulic engineering, and environmental planning. Highly comparable to PBH's Wasserwirtschaft service line and serves municipal clients on similar waterway, retention, and wastewater planning mandates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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