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Energie - stavební a báňská a.s. is an all-Czech building and mining company with shareholders' capital of CZK 235 million, eight hundred permanent employees and current external turnover of CZK 1.106 milliard.
The company is active in the building market, virtually in the whole territory of the Czech Republic and builds on a more than forty-year tradition and rich experiences from a broad spectrum of executed constructions.
The current production programme of the company includes both complete and partial construction supplies, including project documentation and execution of engineering, geodetic and mine surveying activities, in the sphere of engineering, structural and underground engineering works, including reconstructions and modernisations, water, industrial, civic and housing, mining and ecological, steel and concrete-steel constructions, as well as constructions and activities within the framework of reduction and development programmes of the mining industry and power engineering.
The company also takes part in constructions of ecological character and remediation of past ecological damages in the sector of industry and environment.
One of its important competitive advantages, resulting from its character, is its focus and interconnection of activities in the field of construction and mining.
The company disposes of appropriate technical equipment for development both with the help of traditional technologies and for specialised activities. Its basic production capacities include large workshop-maintenance and storage premises, a stock of vehicles, extensive with regard to both numbers and kinds - trucks, special earthwork machinery, machinery for handling of heavy loads, machinery and appliances for labours executed in the mining way.
These possibilities are supplemented and extended by subsidiary companies, especially by Eurogas a.s. and Hlavní báňská záchranná stanice Praha a.s., through which mining rescue service is operated, which is part of the integrated rescue system as one of its narrowly specialised units.
The company has implemented an integrated management system that includes quality management according to the ČSN EN ISO 9001 norm, environmental management according to ČSN EN ISO 14001 and labour security management in the sense of BSI OHSAS 18001. The company has received a certificate enabling it to prove that it meets qualification standards for implementation of public orders.
Chart - Share of building activities - segments on the external turnover of the company in 2005.
Social role of the company
With regard to the fact that the company is part of a whole, in which it has a certain social role, and from this resulting moral obligation to the families of its employees, but also to the other inhabitants of the regions, in which it executes its commercial activities. Therefore, the company sponsors cultural, sports and educational events. For the second year, Energie - stavební a báňská a.s. is a sponsor of the underground engineering section of the international symposium mining Příbram in Science and Engineering. With its contributions, the company helps to inform the public about positive asset of the mining business for further development of human civilisation and presents the most interesting examples of utilization of mining activities in modern building industry.
Popular concerts of the Mining choir are held for business partners and company employers every year. The company is a partner of the Association of Czechoslovak Exile Pilots 1939-1945, Union of Pilots of Free Czechoslovakia in London and of the Museum of the air battle of Krušnohoří. It sponsored the installation of a statue of the second Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš in front the Czernin palace in Loretánské Square.
History: From VKD, national enterprise, to the joint-stock company Energie - stavební a báňská, a.s.
Due to its history and development, Energie - stavební a báňská, is a typical representative of Czech building industry. It is an image of what the sector had to pass through in order to reach its current stabilisation period. The purpose of the consequent information is to provide a brief, nostalgia-free account of this development, from the beginnings of the national enterprise Výstavba kamenouhelných dolů Kladno (VKD), through transformation, up to the contemporary joint-stock company Energie - stavební a báňská a.s.
From its very beginning in 1958, the national enterprise VKD developed in a very dynamic way up to the seventies of the 20.century. The end of the seventies and the whole decade of the eighties was nevertheless marked by a decrease of most of the main indexes, for the hard acquired positions had been vacated, namely the constructions of collectors and metro. In 1989, VKD consisted of just two works, with significant administrative load, high general expenses and a negative trading income.
In 1991 the VDK management submitted a privatisation project within the framework of the so-called coupon privatisation, which was, after its discussion in the Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Management of State Property and its Privatisation, approved by the economic council and subsequently by the government of the Czech Republic. As per May 1st 1992, the joint-stock company Energie Kladno was founded, which became the succession organisation of the state-owned enterprise VKD. A new prospectus was demonstrated in this new name that is to engage in research and use of combustible mine gases absorbed in coal seams in addition to construction activities. This prospectus has unfortunately not been realised yet, in spite of numerous experiments and tests.
Nevertheless, energy remained part of the company´s name, and in 2002, it was supplemented by the postscript - stavební a báňská - construction and mining. The company has played an important role in the completion of the Prague metro system, constructed a number of collectors, ensured sanitation of undergrounds of several town centres and executed a number of industrial and civil constructions. From 1990 up to now, the company management and the whole team managed to implement a requiring transformation of the state-owned enterprise VKD into Energie Kladno a.s. and from 2002 onwards the joint-stock company Energie -stavební a báňská a.s.. The changes influenced not only ownership rights, but especially the production profile of the company. Transformation consisted in a sudden change of orientation from constructions for the mining industry to the constructions of universal nature - from engineering to civil engineering, while the interconnection of construction and mining activities, based on solid grounds, became an important competitive advantage.