Dietlikon, 23 September 2014 – Last Sunday, Implenia employee Sandro Leuenberger from Hunzenschwil AG, together with his team-mate Pascal Studer from Reichenbach BE, became Switzerland’s champion road builders. They won their competition, organised by the Infra trade association, during SwissSkills Bern 2014. This was the first ever SwissSkills and it gave the public an […]

Dietlikon, 12 September 2014 – The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has awarded the contract for a major road safety construction project in the west of the country to Implenia Norge. The contract is worth almost CHF 15 million (NOK 98 million). The project in the municipality of Meland mainly involves widening the existing E39 European highway to make it safer for all […]

Dietlikon, 2 September 2014 – With the “portalyssa” project, Implenia is developing and building new housing for the Bern region just by the railway station in Lyss. Over the next two years, 142 homes will be built in this prime location. The planning legalities required to repurpose the former industrial zone for residential use were already completed as part of the 2013 […]

Dietlikon, 21 August 2014 – Implenia’s results for the first half of 2014 are down on the same period of the previous year owing to one-off earnings corrections at the Business Unit Buildings. All the other Business Units are well on track and have posted very pleasing results for the first half, either matching or beating the equivalent period of 2013. Given the changes that […]

Dietlikon, 8 August 2014 – Arturo Henniger, Head of Implenia’s Tunnelling & Civil Engineering Business Unit and a member of the Group Executive Board, died as a result of illness on Wednesday this week at the age of 57. The company’s Board of Directors, Group Executive Board and employees have been deeply saddened by the news and would like to express their heartfelt […]

Dietlikon, 25 July 2014 – On the basis of preliminary figures, Implenia is projecting operating income of just under CHF 26 million for the first half of 2014, a result that is below the previous year's figure (CHF 30 million). This decline is attributable to a significantly weaker performance in the Buildings Business Unit in the first semester. The introduction of new […]

Dietlikon 11 July 2014 – The ETH Board has appointed Sarah Springman as the new Rector of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich). She will take up the post on 1 January 2015. As at 31 December 2014 Sarah Springman will step down from the Board of Directors of Implenia, of which she has been a member since her election in March 2013. This will ensure […]

Dietlikon 1 July 2014 – At the beginning of 2014, the consortium consisting of Implenia and the Austrian company Swjetelsky secured the order worth around EUR 623 million (about CHF 770 million; Implenia's share: CHF 385 million) for a contract section of the new 27.3-kilometre Semmering Base Tunnel (SBTn). The SBTn, which will connect Lower Austria with Steiermark from 2024, […]

Dietlikon, 17 June 2014 – Zurich Nord (Zurich North) has undergone rapid development in recent years. The Metropolitans, two tower blocks right in the middle of the new district in the north of the city, will provide high quality living space for future residents. With the West Tower nearing completion, journalists are being invited to take a trip in an open-air lift to the […]

Dietlikon 30 May 2014 – From 2015 Swisscom employees in Sion and some staff in Sierre will be moving into a new and modern workplace. The company currently employs around 500 people, including trainees, in the area, spread across several different buildings. In the interests of efficiency, all of these workers are to be brought together in a new Business Park, which will meet […]