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The Porr Group (company's preferred spelling: PORR) is a publicly listed construction company with its headquarters in Vienna. It is the biggest Austrian building contractor in domestic building industry. Globally, Porr is on the second position among Austrian building contractors. Porr provides services in all areas of the construction industry. It operates nationally and internationally in areas from civil engineering including roads, tunnels and special underground constructions through building construction including project development up to environmental engineering and facility management.
Today's Porr AG parent company was founded in 1869 as a public company under the name Allgemeine österreichische Baugesellschaft, which makes Porr the oldest public company in the country. The name Porr goes back to the building technician Arthur Porr, the co-founder of A. Porr Betonbauunternehmung which merged with Allgemeine österreichische Baugesellschaft in 1927.
Usage examples of "porr".
No chance now of discovering whether he had ever been to the top of Porr, of trying to persuade him to take me up into that forbidden area.
And that glimpse of Porr, the broken piece of early pottery I had discarded, nothing had any significance now, except this ghostly congregation of elephants.
It was more than a guess, though, that a man who'd been provided with his own dispatch vessel was a member of the organization which reported directly to Guarantor Porra.
It was more than a guess, though, that a man whod been provided with his own dispatch vessel was a member of the organization which reported directly to Guarantor Porra.