ADVANCED MAKING
Engineering & Innovation.
Alpine engineering was never only about crossing mountains — it was about inventing the general solutions those crossings demanded. The Gotthard Base Tunnel flattened the Alps for freight; Doppelmayr turned mountain ropeways into global mobility technology; Empa's NEST rebuilds construction itself as a live experiment.
This topic follows engineering at the scale of nations and the scale of buildings: infrastructure, ropeways, and the research platforms that test tomorrow's built world.
- Mega-infrastructure: rail tunnels and Alpine crossings
- Ropeway and cable-propelled transport systems
- Sustainable construction, circularity and energy in the built environment
- Innovation models that shorten the path from lab to site
SWITZERLAND · ENGINEERING & INNOVATION
Gotthard Base Tunnel
57 kilometres through the Alps — the longest railway tunnel on Earth
AUSTRIA · ENGINEERING & INNOVATION
Doppelmayr
Ropeways for the world — engineered in the Austrian Alps since 1893
SWITZERLAND · ENGINEERING & INNOVATION
Empa NEST
The building where the future of construction is tested on real people