20 years of Implenia: The soundtrack to the anniversary

Beyond Today (Happy Birthday, Implenia) – the lyrics to sing along to

Twenty years.  
Only just grown up.  
But already achieved quite a lot.  

Happy Birthday, Implenia.  

Gotthard, Semmering, Brenner, Mont Cenis,  
four routes through the Alps, cutting across the geography of Europe. 
Grand Paris is laying new lines beneath the cobblestones and concrete, 
Lyon is building towards Turin, taking it to the next level.  

Stockholm sends Sofia deep down through the rock,  
Rogfast dives beneath the fjord and emerges on the other shore.  
Ligerz lays the tracks deeper, Brütten brings the cities closer together,  
Basel sets an example with Roche, rising higher, storey by storey.  

From the depths to the skyline, from Berlin to the fjord,  
twenty years on the map, ever onwards, place by place.  
Not long in the world, yet already present in quite a few places,  
Implenia builds connections, literally, not just with words.  

Happy Birthday, Implenia,  
today we’re giving you a round of applause.  
Through the depths, up into the heights,  
you’re building beyond today.  

Happy Birthday, Implenia,  
twenty years – what a journey.  
So much space and so much ground covered,  
and you’re far from finished yet.  

The population continues to grow; cities are becoming denser and larger,  
with greater connectivity, more movement and increasingly complex challenges.  
People live, work, learn, conduct research and develop –  
so we create the space for this and evolve alongside them.  

As the wheel of time turns, minds explore new avenues,  
juggling ideas and methods to turn questions into solutions.  
Machines turn, minds think; every step forward drives us on,  
because the future is built on experience, but never by looking backwards.  

One hundred and sixty years of architecture, twenty under one name,  
a wealth of experience behind us and always open to new questions. A pioneering spirit means thinking ahead, setting new standards in planning,  
and experience gives us knowledge that cannot be invented.  

What we had to solve yesterday, we take with us into tomorrow,  
every task makes us stronger for the next big step.  
And we grow with the tasks, because we mature through projects,  
because greatness is not claimed, but built – and thus proven.  

Happy Birthday, Implenia,  
today we’re giving you a round of applause.  
From the depths to the heights,  
you’re building beyond today.  

Happy Birthday, Implenia, 
twenty years – what a journey. So much space  
and so much ground covered  
and you’re far from finished yet.  

Others write history; we build it right into the fabric of life,  
in cities with a thousand faces, experiencing something new every day.  
A city you cross, live in, use and travel through every day,  
one that isn’t confined to the pages of a book, but proves its worth in everyday life.  

History takes on substance, becomes wood, concrete and steel,  
becomes everyday life, becomes home, becomes a supporting force everywhere.  
Not preserved for the chronicles, not polished for the archives,  
but always in motion – and that’s precisely why it’s so solid.  

Not yet a generation old, yet built to last for generations, 
twenty years on paper and already so much has been achieved. 
If you want to know what’s been created, you need no retrospective, no report.  

Look out of the window.  
Or underground.  
That’s all the explanation you need.  

Happy Birthday, Implenia,  
today we’re applauding you.  
Deep underground, high above, 
you’re building beyond today.  

Happy Birthday, Implenia,  
twenty years – what a journey.  
So much space and so much ground covered 
and you’re far from finished yet.  

Happy Birthday, Implenia.