Innovative projects call for innovative solutions. That’s how we can do things that would have been unimaginable twenty years ago – like build sky-scrapers out of timber. Adrian Ulrich, Team Leader Holzbau: “Switzerland brought in new fire prevention legislation in 2015, which triggered a quantum leap in timber construction.” Innovation in timber construction “Project Pi” an […]

Tim Pergande comes from Germany and is at the end of his studies: all exams have been completed, now all that is missing is the diploma thesis. Between September 2021 and September 2022, the budding civil engineer will complete a one-year internship at Implenia in Sweden. The Lilla Lidingöbron Project Start of construction: January 2019 Length of the bridge: approx. 750 metres […]

On site, project manager on Fornebubanen, Peder Sødal, is doing one of his regular safety rounds. It’s the annual health and safety week at Implenia Norway, and Peder is stopping by workers to hand out stickers, discuss potential issues and offer proof and recognition that they are taking health and safety seriously. «Health and safety are a normal part of our daily routine, […]

Traffic rolls over the new chain bridge, pedestrians also cross it - the new construction with the project title "Pont Neuf" bridges the Aare and connects Aarau's old town with the Scheibenschachen district, from where neighboring communities such as Erlinsbach and Küttigen are reached via main roads. After two years of construction, the new Aare bridge was opened to […]

The new glass exterior façade of the WDR Filmhaus, consisting of more than 350 floor-to-ceiling aluminum sliding windows within sight of Cologne Cathedral, refreshes the cityscape today. Looking back, there were enormous challenges behind it. Complexity Special design, planning and structural solutions had to be devised to accommodate building tolerances. This made the […]

This article first appeared in the insert “Focus: Bau und Immobilien” of the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger newspaper on 10 June 2022. The demands for sustainability and digitisation are obliging the construction and real estate sectors to change. This is producing interesting results, such as the world’s tallest all-timber residential building being erected in the Lokstadt […]

Early June saw work begin on a dam being constructed 2,000 metres above sea level. We are building a new, 113 metre tall, double curved concrete dam immediately in front of the existing wall at Grimselpass. The old dam wall will remain in place and be filled from both sides. The new construction ensures that more than a million people can be supplied with electricity using […]

Karel, what exactly is innovation? Innovation means developing new or improved products, services or approaches that create a certain commercial or social value. A simple formula I use is: innovation = new idea x commercialisation. Just having ideas is not innovation. We need to try to convert them into commercially usable solutions for customers and end consumers. To do this, […]

What were your motives in joining Implenia? I joined Implenia France in March 2019 as a construction manager to take charge of the excavation work for the extension of line 11 at Rosny-sous-Bois. I have always been very interested in large infrastructure projects. This assignment on line 11 was the logical next step in my development, both from an operational and personal […]

This is where you’ll find the really big machines: rotary drilling rigs, excavators, dumpers, trucks, cranes – along with up to 140 employees each day on the 2.5-km-long construction site around Liestal train station, by the tracks and right into the built-up area of the town. Moving soil, concreting the retaining walls and building rail lines, platforms, underpasses, bridges […]