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Jvan Tresch is a Swiss Master in lead climbing, he’s defeated many new big wall routes all over the world and he uses his talent for his work in the Rock Team at PORR SUISSE AG.

Sustainable buildings as a chip off the old block? Wood is gaining popularity as a construction material. With a lot of benefits. Primarily for the environment.

It has been around for a while, the construction site of the future. New technologies are bringing together everyone involved in a project. And letting them see what cannot be viewed by the naked eye.

Concrete is the world’s most popular construction material. Popular but not sustainable. Unless it happens to be recycled. And unless construction waste is used to make something new.

They have been to outer space and can detect explosives. But the most impressive thing about bees is what they mean for the environment. That's why PORR is helping these critically endangered insects.

In Bavaria’s Isar Valley, PORR carried out badly needed renovations on the Sylvenstein Reservoir headrace tunnel.

The Internet of Things and the use of artificial intelligence are making the construction sector smarter. And the data generated from this is in turn making all construction processes more efficient.

PORR participated in a consortium comprehensively renovating and extending a 15km stretch of railway line along the Gotthard axis – in just eighteen months.

Almost 18%, that’s how much of the world’s electrical energy comes from

hydropower. And it’s climbing. After all, in times of climate change,

renewable energy holds the key to a liveable future.

Within just five months, PORR Construct has modernised one of the country’s most important runways at Henri Coanda International Airport in Romania, Bucharest.

Hendrike Gramatke is a site manager at Stump-Franki. The PORRian tells us how she ended up in specialist civil engineering, what her goals are and why everyything is good in the end.

In asphalt road construction digitalisation is completely revolutionising the meticulously planned construction logistics and completed coordination. Which brings a lot of benefits. For everyone.

The Europaallee quarter in Zurich is one of the most significant areas of urban development in the Swiss capital. PORR completed work on three of the eight cons