The word's longest railway tunnel is being constructed here.

We are building the future.

Heinz Ehrbar

Chief Construction Officer Gotthard Base Tunnel
Civil Engineer ETH/SIA; Switzerland, 1956

Career milestones:

Since 2006
Chief Construction Officer, AlpTransit Gotthard AG, Lucerne

Since 2006
Member of the Executive Board

2001- 2005
Section Head Gotthard Base Tunnel Central (Sedrun)

1997- 2000
Elektrowatt Engineering AG, Zurich, Head of Business Area AlpTransit and
Deputy General Manager of Gotthard Base Tunnel South Engineering Consortium

1981- 1997
Elektrowatt Engineering AG,Zurich Project Leader in the hydraulics Construction departement for various large projects in Switzerland. Overseas assignments in Peru, Taiwan and Iceland as expert for underground buildings. Project Leader in the Hydraulics Construction Department for various large as expert for underground buildings.

Only 320 metres to the world record!

Ceneri - State of excavation

Watch the tunnellers at work - the new documentary film "AlpTransit Gotthard 2009" makes it possible. The milestones and progress achieved in 2009 on the construction sites of the Gotthard and Ceneri tunnels are available on DVD.

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