Company history
1946
Lothar Cremer obtains a business license in Munich to operate a consulting engineering office for acoustics technology.
1954
Lothar Cremer is appointed director of the university Institute of Technical Acoustics in Berlin, and his student Helmut A. Müller takes over the operation of the “Schalltechnische Laboratorium Prof. Dr. Cremer”.
1958
Helmut A. Müller continues the operation of the Munich office under his own name. New areas of activity – industrial noise abatement, noise control in urban structures, and noise control in ship structures – are added to the original major areas of specialisation, which were building and room acoustics.
1962
Müller-BBN GmbH is founded with five partners, including Bolt Beranek Newman Inc.
1972
Bolt Beranek Newman Inc. sells its shares, and the company name is changed to Müller-BBM. Müller-BBM acquires a share in “M+P Raadgevende ingenieurs bv” in the Netherlands.
1976
The company has 54 employees and moves into a new office building in Planegg, near Munich.
1983
The company has 74 employees. The fields of air quality control and thermal physics of buildings are built up.
1990
Dresden office opened.
1991
Müller-BBM at times produces and markets some of the results and inventions that have come out of our consulting activities. BBM Technik GmbH was founded and in 2005 was merged with the BBM GERB Akustik GmbH to form “BBM Akustik Technologie GmbH”.
1992
The company has 135 employees. The Berlin branch is opened.
1994
Offices are opened in Langebrück, near Dresden.
1997
“Müller-BBM VibroAkustikSysteme GmbH” is founded in order to handle the large growth in the area of measurement software.
1999
New facilities are opened in Planegg.
2000
Gelsenkirchen branch office opened.
2002
Müller-BBM acquires a majority holding (increased to 100% in 2004) in the “Orga Lab GmbH” in Zirndorf near Fürth, in order to round out the service offerings in the environmental analysis area.
2005
Hamburg and Cologne branch office opened. Founding of the “Müller-BBM International GmbH”.
2006
Office relocation from Cologne to Kerpen.
Branch offices opened in frankfurt and reutlingen.
2008
Founding of the Müller-BBM Projektmanagement GmbH with offices in Planegg/Munich. Founding of the Müller-BBM Scandinavia AB with headquarters in Göteborg, Sweden.
Nuremberg branch office opened.
2009
Weimar branch office opened. Founding of the Müller-BBM Austria GmbH with office in Bad Ischl, Austria. New branch office in Karlsruhe.
2010
Acquisition of a majority interest in “mas münster analytical solutions GmbH”, a dioxin analysis laboratory in Münster. Acquisition of consulting engineering company “BFB Büro für Baudynamik GmbH” in Stuttgart. Formation of consulting engineering company “Müller-BBM Schweiz AG” in Basel.
2011
Merger of Orga Lab GmbH with Müller-BBM GmbH.
2012
Acquisition of a majority interest in Hytra-BBM AG, Basel, (Switzerland).
Formation of Müller-BBM Cert GmbH, Planegg as 100% subsidiary of Müller-BBM Holding AG.
Acquisition of a majority interest of Müller-BBM Austria GmbH in Tomberger-BBM GmbH, Graz, (Austria).
Acquisition of SDI-Gesellschaft für Medientechnologie GmbH, Planegg.