No. 31

"I don't understand how anyone can fail to act sustainably!" It's statements like this that you hear relatively quickly when you first talk to Mira M. Hische about sustainability. Of course, she is a sustainability manager, but the issues of ecological and social responsibility that she has been promoting at Landmarken since July 1 are not only of interest to her in a professional context—they are close to her heart!

Visiting Hilmi Kurtoglu's construction site in Kaarst: First, we are greeted with a wet nose from Frida the dog, then we can get started.

25 years of milestones: No one except our founder Norbert Hermanns can look back on as many years with the company as CFO Ralf H. Lohse, who is celebrating his anniversary this year in 2024. A conversation about growth, stability, and a "white knight."

Distinguished visitor at our O-WERK | Campus in Bochum: In August, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited to learn about the successful transformation of the former Opel factory site, now known as MARK 51°7. At the invitation of the Regionalverband Ruhr, the Chancellor visited companies and research institutions, including the Maker Space of the Ruhr University Bochum at O-WERK. Olaf Scholz praised the development of the site as a holistic concept for how economic, ecological, and social change can be successfully achieved.

The new data center for the financial administration (RZF) of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is being built in Kaarst near Düsseldorf, a building complex with an area of around 37,000 square meters. We asked photographer Jo Fober to capture the shell of the building in pictures.