Rhomberg Group

Rhomberg Group
legal form	GmbH
founding	1886
Seat	Bregenz , Austria
management	Hubert Rhomberg, Ernst Thurnher
Number of employees	2845 (March 31, 2019)
sales	EUR 753 million (2018/19)
Branch	Construction company
Website	www.rhomberg.com

The Rhomberg Group is an international, family-owned construction company. The group of companies specializes in the areas of construction, resources and rail technology. The name Rhomberg goes back to the founder Cornelius Rhomberg, who laid the foundation stone for the group of companies as early as 1886. Today the managing directors are Hubert Rhomberg and Ernst Thurnher.

The headquarters of the Rhomberg Group has been in Bregenz , Austria , since it was founded .

history

The construction company was founded by Otto Rhomberg in 1886. In 1892 his brother, builder Cornelius Rhomberg, got on board. In the first few years, mainly residential and commercial buildings were built in downtown Bregenz. Large projects (expansion of the Bregenz harbor, Bregenz district administration, Herz-Jesu-Kirche ) were not implemented until 1900 . After the early death of Cornelius Rhomberg in 1912, the construction business was initially shut down - the considerable assets were lost in the following years as a forced war loan.

At the age of 27, Cornelius' son Walter Rhomberg founded the company that still exists today under the name "Walter Rhomberg, Baumeister" in October 1938. After a short time, major projects emerged (conversion of the former beach hotel in Lochau into a customs school , energy buildings for Vorarlberger Illwerke, etc.). During the Second World War , the company "Walter Rhomberg Baumeister" also built air raid systems for the civilian population and tunnels for industrial companies.

In the post-war period, the company benefited from the reconstruction and the subsequent economic boom of the 1950s to 1970s (industrial buildings by Benger and Elektra Bregenz , construction of the Kornmarkttheater , the festival hall and the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, the indoor swimming pool, the national bank, the pipeline on the bank of Lake Constance). Already in the 1960s, the entry into track and road construction took place ( Rheintalautobahn , from 1970 new construction of Wolfurt freight station).

In 1972 Walter-Heinz Rhomberg became managing director of the company "Walter Rhomberg Baumeister" with sole signing authority. He expanded the company considerably in the years up to 1999 (founding of Goldbeck-Rhomberg GmbH, participation and later full acquisition of Bahnbau Wels GmbH, founding of Express Beton GmbH & Co KG, founding of MIGU Asphaltbau GmbH, branch in Switzerland, entry into the property development business).

His son Hubert Rhomberg joined the family business in 1999 and took over the management from 2002, which he still holds today. Under his leadership, the railway technology sector in particular was expanded - also internationally (implementation of the slab track on the Wolfgrubentunnel, Arlberg tunnel , ICE Cologne-Rhein-Main line , Lötschberg tunnel technology , and the new Mattstetten-Rothrist line ). In 2012, Rhomberg Rail Holding merged with the Swiss company Sersa (an abbreviation for “Soudage électrique des rails SA”) to form a 50:50 joint venture.

In the construction sector, innovations in the field of energy efficiency and resource conservation were developed and implemented (e.g. CO ₂ -neutral hybrid wooden high-rise).

The Rhomberg Group and its subsidiaries have a total of 2,845 employees (as of March 31, 2019) and are active in various business areas and at several locations.

Business areas

Installation of the slab track on the new Wendlingen – Ulm line through Rhomberg (July 2020)

The business areas of the Rhomberg Group include construction and resources as well as rail technology.

In the area of "construction and resources", the range of services includes facility management, project development, residential construction, total and general contractors, system construction, construction services, civil engineering, park management, real estate & recycling, raw materials, building material processing, asphalt, concrete, energy generation and energy contracting.

In railway construction, the range of services includes slab track , track construction and renewal, track maintenance, rehabilitation of railway tunnels, electrotechnical and electromechanical equipment, traction power supply, communication technology, security and access systems, system and measurement technology as well as design, consulting, planning and logistics services.

With IVES , Rhomberg also offers its own slab track system.

Locations

Austria

Rhomberg Bau GmbH, Bregenz
Rhomberg Bau GmbH, Vienna
Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group, Bregenz
Rhomberg Railway Technology GmbH, Bregenz
Rhomberg Steinbruch Gesellschaft mbH & Co OG, Bregenz
Rhomberg Recycling GmbH, Bregenz
vplus GmbH, Dornbirn
Rhomberg Gleisbau GmbH, Bregenz
RTE Technologie GmbH / Rhomberg Rail Consult, Salzburg
RKsafetec GmbH, Bregenz
Bahnbau Wels GmbH / Bittner Bahn- und Gleisbau GmbH, Wels
Rhomberg Fahrleitungsbau GmbH, Wiener Neudorf

Switzerland

Rhomberg Bau AG, St. Gallen
Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group, Zurich
Rhomberg Bau AG, Bern / Worblaufen
Rhomberg Bau AG, Aarau
Rhomberg Bau AG, Chur
Sersa Group AG, Zurich, Burgdorf, Cazis, Lumino, Brig, Rümlang and Tolochenaz
Sersa Technik AG, Villmergen
Sersa Maschineller Gleisbau AG, Effretikon, Hinwil, Weinfelden and Chur

Germany

Rhomberg Railway Technology GmbH, Essen
Rhomberg Bau GmbH, Lindau
Rhomberg Sersa Germany GmbH, Berlin, Halle (Saale), Dresden, Spremberg, Mühlacker
SIT - rail welding and insulation technology Rostock GmbH, Rostock
Metrico GmbH, Mühlacker
BBW Germany GmbH, Kahla
JumboTec GmbH, Spremberg and Beuna
Rhomberg Sersa Vossloh GmbH, Föhren (near Trier)

UK

Rhomberg Rail UK Ltd., London
Rhomberg Sersa Rail UK Ltd., York

Australia

Rhomberg Rail Australia Pty Ltd., Sydney

Canada

Rhomberg Sersa North America, Mallorytown.

Awards

2017: Award "family-friendly company" from the state of Vorarlberg

2015: TRIGOS Award for holistic CSR commitment

2014/2015: Award "family-friendly company" from the state of Vorarlberg

2010/2011: Future Prize of the state capital Bregenz

2008/2009: Future Prize of the State Capital Bregenz

2007: Vorarlberger Holzbaupreis, category mixed construction.

2007: Award "family-friendly company" from the state of Vorarlberg

2007: Future Prize of the state capital Bregenz

2006: Mobility Award of the VCÖ Verkehrsclub Österreich (1st place)

Others

In January 2015, the Rhomberg Group and nine other Vorarlberg companies founded the “Climate Neutrality Alliance 2025” with the aim of making all of their activities 100 percent climate neutral by 2025.