Whether installation of cable cars and inclined lifts, construction of moving platforms for railway trains and trams, or assembly of bridges, stadium roofs and cable architecture: with its seven business divisions, Swiss company INAUEN-SCHÄTTI is a key partner for urban infrastructure.

The core element of the engineering service provider with around 70 employees is surely the cable car division. INAUEN-SCHÄTTI plans, constructs and refurbishes passenger and special cable cars for up to 15 people – preferably in modular design, as the basis for cost- effective, individual configuration.

Onsignificantlylargerinstallations, the company undertakes cable work. In the area of urban/city tourism (mountain excursions), however, its interest is primarily in so-called compact cable cars.

The “Polinka” urban cable car can be cited as a showcase project here, connecting two faculties in Breslau (Poland). The references of the Swiss company also include urban tourist excursion railways, such as the systems in Madeira (Portugal) and Hat Yai (Thailand).

For smaller urban transport problems, INAUEN-SCHÄTTI offers inclined lifts of various sizes and models. The applications range from hillside housing terraces through development of public viewpoints to systems inside buildings.

As such, the inclined lifts in La Paz (Bolivia), Schwarzenberg (Germany), Bilbao (Spain) and Mels (Switzerland) are explicitly for local public transport. In addition, there are inclined lifts to or within urban tourist destinations, such as at Bern Zoo (Switzerland), to Râșnov Fortress (Romania) or to Château Gütsch (Switzerland).

Cable cars and inclined lifts are already special in themselves but INAUEN-SCHÄTTI can produce them even more individually. There are almost no limits to special machine and steel construction. Customers often come with a problem that is almost impossible for them to solve and hope for an innovative and cost- effective solution.

As such, the company has previously produced boat transfer facilities (Aarau, Switzerland), moving platformsforrailwaytrainsandtrams (Vienna,Austria/Olten,Switzerland), lifts (Regensburg Cathedral, Germany), antenna masts (Swiss Federal Railways radio network) and even a giraffe feeding cable car (Rapperswil Children’s Zoo, Switzerland).

Special skills are also in demand from the INAUEN-SCHÄTTI experts for cable installations. The company has previously carried out numerous prestigious projects, such as cable installations for “De Oversteek” bridge in Nijmegen (Netherlands) – the second largest arch bridge in Europe – and the Calatrava bridge in Dublin (Ireland).

Also impressive are the roofsofthefootballstadiainMadrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), Bucharest (Romania) and Leverkusen (Germany). The latest coup is the installation of a slide in the new “The Address” hotel, “Skyviews”, in Dubai, using guide cables as transport rails.

Here, 14 tonnes of glass had to be transported to the height of 215 metres.

INAUEN-SCHÄTTI can do not only heights but also depths: the company is able to lay and connect high-voltage cables weighing up to 40 kg/m in underground ducts, in one go. Here, cables up to 1,000 metres long roll into the correct position on cable saddles.

To date, INAUEN-SCHÄTTI has supplied such masterpieces of connection and installation technology in places including Wiesbaden (Germany), Luxembourg and London (United Kingdom), and the company has proved itself to be a comprehensive infrastructure partner.

It is only logical that the subject of water should also play a major role for INAUEN-SCHÄTTI. On the one hand, the company is active in hydraulic steel construction. Whether rakes, weir flaps or weir gates: as a representative of Austrian company Braun, INAUEN- SCHÄTTI manufactures, refurbishes and overhauls parts of hydropower plants and is therefore of interest to all citiesandtownsthatareresponsible for their own water and power supply.

On the other hand, the company also deals with water in its frozen state – more precisely, with avalanche protection. INAUEN-SCHÄTTI develops systems and blasting masts that trigger controlled avalanches and thus protect roads and buildings, for example the traffic areas and the forecourt in front of the north portal of the Felbertauern tunnel in Austria and the Trans-Canada Highway in North America.