Bierrum is a British civil engineering and construction company, that has built all of Britain's concrete

cooling tower A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and ...

s at the country's power stations since 1965.

History

It was founded by Hans Bierrum (or

Hans Bjerrum Hans Adolf Bjerrum (8 September 1899 – 10 May 1979) was a Danish field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Danish field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He later formed the Danish civil en ...

), a Danish civil engineer. He built his first cooling tower in the 1930s. Hans Bjerrum, born in

Hellerup Hellerup () is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east. It compri ...

, competed in the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...

in Belgium; he died in 1979 in London. The company has also been called Bierrum International. Bierrum and Partners Ltd (00339806) was founded on 30 April 1938.

Ownership

It is part of Beroa Technology Group GmbH (BTG) of

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, Germany.

Structure

It is headquartered in

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, around one mile east of the M1, close to the

Greensand Ridge Walk The Greensand Ridge Walk is a long-distance walk of that traverses the county of Bedfordshire in England, with brief sections in the neighbouring counties of Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire. Its southern endpoint is at Leighton Buzzard and ...

Products

It has designed and built cooling towers (''køletårn'' in Danish) and chimneys nationally and internationally. It demolishes

chimney A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys are typic ...

s incrementally, with its ''Bierrum Rig''.

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