Stucky

Stucky Ltd

Core business and years of experience

Stucky Ltd is a leading engineering and design company specialized in the dam and hydropower engineering and energy sectors since its foundation in 1926. In 2013, Stucky became a member of the Gruner Group (established in 1862), the largest infrastructure consultancy in Switzerland, with over 1’000 engineers and specialised staff.

Years in the business:

• Concrete, embankment androckfill dams: Since 1926: 93 years of activity
• Hydropower schemes and water transfers: Since 1950: 69 years of activity
• Transmission power plants, substations and lines: Since 1983: 36 years of activity
• River engineering: Since 2000: 19 years of activity

Branches and site offices

Stucky Ltd is active worldwide and has site sites offices and branches in Algeria, D. R. Congo (MNK Consulting), Georgia (Stucky Caucasus), Iran (Stucky Iran), Myanmar, Serbia (Stucky Balkans), Turkey (Stucky Teknik), Thailand (Stucky Asia), Tajikistan (Stucky Central Asia).

Stucky Balkans

Stucky has been active in the Balkans since 2004 with numerous projects ongoing or recently carried out in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania. Stucky Balkans was established in Serbia in 2010 thus reinforcing Stucky’s commitment to the Balkans region. With a team of specialized Serbian engineers supported by international experts based in Switzerland we are able to provide a top class service in every aspect of infrastructure, hydraulics, and river engineering, from preliminary design to works supervision, including construction drawings and as built drawings.

Technical and managerial organisation

Stucky’s internal structure is project oriented: the organization is not arranged according to “business units” or “profit centres”, but human resources are structured in terms of project management and specialised staff are specifically assigned to one or several projects.

Services

• Masterplans, Pre-feasibility and Feasibility studies
• Preliminary design, Project review, Project approval
• Tender design and preparation of Tender documents
• Procurement and contractual assistance
• Final design, Detailed design, Construction drawings
• Works supervision and Construction management
• Operation and Maintenance assistance
• Due Diligence and Expertise
• Specialized studies and Technical assistance
• Project Development

We have a long experience of working with the World Bank & the International Finance Corporation, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and other International Financial Institutions, as well as with Public Utilities, Power Plants Operators (IPP and public), Governments, Commercial Banks, Mining Companies, Private Investors and Developers.

Fields of Activity

• Water basin management, Hydrologic studies, Sediment transport studies
• Hydraulic engineering, Natural risks management, Flood protection
• Environmental engineering, Sustainable river rehabilitation for security and environmental improvement
• Environment, social and economic impact assessments, Studies and Monitoring
• Hydraulic schemes and Water transfers
• Hydropower schemes and Pumped storage
• Dams, including Rehabilitation, Strengthening and Heightening: double-curvature arch dams, gravity dams (concrete, RCC – roller compacted concrete, hollow gravity and buttress dams), earthfill and rockfill dams (clay core, asphalt & bituminous core, concrete face rockfill)
• Penstocks and Hydraulic steel structures
• Tunnels and Underground structures
• Power transmission lines, Substations and Control systems, Electric networks
• Special studies, Dam monitoring, Dam safety, Alkali-Aggregate Reaction, etc.
• Training, Capacity building and Knowledge transfer

Expertise

• Hydraulics, sediments, transient analysis, etc.
• Hydrology (including meteorology and influence of climate changes)
• Flood hazard mapping
• Geographical Information Systems and Topography
• Geology, geotechnics, geophysics, rock and soil mechanics
• Civil engineering (including FE, static and dynamic modelling, structures, etc.)
• Electrical engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Economics and finance
• Project development
• Project management

Certifications

Stucky is certified for ISO 9001:2015 – Quality management system / ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental management system / OHSAS 45001:2018 – Occupational Health and Safety management system

Stucky’s QESS management policy takes into the following account five domains: Management, Human Resources, Logistics, Services and Measures, Analyses and Improvements

Stucky’s certified Quality Control System makes it compulsory for every project to implement a Quality Management System and a Project Technical Committee (PTC). One of the main objectives is to ensure the best quality and prevent major errors, especially when complicated, multidisciplinary or interconnected issues are at stake, and to promote the exchange of ideas and experience between the engineers working on the project and with other experts.

Beneficial Ownership

Stucky Ltd is an unlisted company, 100% independent and owned by Gruner Development AG:

• 70% of the Capital Shares of Gruner Development AG is owned by Gruner AG (Shareholders: the Families of the founders and the Company Engineers and Management;
• 30% of the Capital Shares of Gruner Development AG is owned by natural/individual people, none of whom are in possession of 25% or more of the Capital Shares of the mentioned legal person.

Business culture and Code of Ethics

Stucky’s code of ethics is included in the standards of the company and must be signed and enforced as an integral part of the contracts of the employees and management. It includes the following chapters:

1. Legal compliance
2. Providing equal opportunity.
3. Safe and health working environment.
4. Committed to environmental protection.
5. In support to free enterprise.
6. Communicating standards.
7. No political contribution.
8. Gifts and other payments within limits.
9. No bribes.
10. Avoiding conflicts of interest.
11. Protecting information and ideas.
12. Insider Trading.
13. Breaches of Code of ethics

The full text is available at: https://www.gruner.ch/en/content/code-ethics-gruner-group