Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management Company
"ENERGOPROJEKT-KATOWICE" SA
The Bureau was founded in the year 1949 as a branch of the Warsaw-based head office. Initially the Company handled reconstruction of the destroyed power generation infrastructure in Silesia. Then the Office developed the design documentation among others for the following power plants: Skawina, Jaworzno II and III, Łaziska, Siersza, Rybnik, Pruneřov (Czech Republic) as well as combined heat and power plants: Kraków-Łęg, Poznań-Karolin, Tychy, Bielsko-Biała, Katowice.
In the organisational aspect, the Office underwent a transformation from a subsidiary of the head office, via a field branch, into a fully independent company. In 1993, the state-owned company was transformed into a joint stock company "ENERGOPROJEKT-KATOWICE". In 1999 (being the fiftieth anniversary of the Office's existence), the company became fully privatised and independent of external institutions, with 100% of shares held by the employees. The Office gradually modified its profile – next to designing the scope of operations was expanded with research and development works, standard engineering services, consulting works, EPC (engineering, construction and procurement) and financial engineering.
In the organisational aspect, the Office underwent a transformation from a subsidiary of the head office, via a field branch, into a fully independent company. In 1993, the state-owned company was transformed into a joint stock company "ENERGOPROJEKT-KATOWICE". In 1999 (being the fiftieth anniversary of the Office's existence), the company became fully privatised and independent of external institutions, with 100% of shares held by the employees. The Office gradually modified its profile – next to designing the scope of operations was expanded with research and development works, standard engineering services, consulting works, EPC (engineering, construction and procurement) and financial engineering.
In over years of its operation, the Company's staff developed several thousands of designs for different sectors of the economy, including first of all the power generation sector, gaining experience in the field of comprehensive project implementation with regard to designing, consulting, technical analyses and expertises, civil supervision and general implementation.
As of the beginning of the Company's existence, its engineers designed the power generation units with boilers fired with lignite, hard coal, oil, gas as well as a combination of these fuels, including conventional boilers, boilers with supercritical parameters, fluidised bed boilers and stoker-fired boilers. EPK developed designs for hundreds of power plants, combined heat and power plants as well as heating stations, including several diesel power plants located abroad.
The Office is a renowned design and engineering company both in Poland and abroad, among others in England, Bosnia, Byelorussia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Holland, Indies, Germany, Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine.
Important dates in the life of the Bureau
Establishment of the Katowice Office as a branch of the headquarters of the ENERGOPROJEKT Energy Design Office in Warsaw.
Establishment of the Katowice Design Office for Thermal Power Plants as a branch of the Management Board of Biuro Projektów Energetycznych based in Warsaw.
Change of the company's headquarters in Katowice from the existing one at Piotra Skargi Street to its own facility at 15, Jesionowa St.
Privatization of the Office and transformation of BSiPE Energoprojekt in Katowice into the currently operating independent joint stock company BSPiR "ENERGOPROJEKT-KATOWICE" SA.
Introduction of a quality assurance system according to ISO 9001. RW TÜV Essen certificate.
The year of celebration of the 50th anniversary - the company has become a completely private enterprise, independent of external institutions, in which employees own 100% of shares.
Change of the name from the Company of Energy Studies and Projects ENERGOPROJEKT-KATOWICE SA to The Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management Company "ENERGOPROJEKT-KATOWICE" SA related to the transformation of the design office into an engineering company.
Implementation of the OHS management system according to PN-N 18001: 2004.
Design works for large power units of Opole Power Plant, Kozienice Power Plant, Jaworzno Power Plant, Turów Power Plant, as well as for ANWIL PKN Orlen. Diversification of activities, including expansion into foreign markets.
Commissioning of own solar installation installed on the vertical facade of the office building and on the roofs of both buildings.
Transition to the new OHS standard PN-ISO 45001:2018.
Commissioning of "EPKogeneracja" - own low-emission installation for energy production in high-efficiency cogeneration for the EPK office complex.
