We make efficient use of our co-ordinated competence covering the whole tunnelling environment to implement your projects – with the best technical and economic solutions that we, as a customer-oriented company, optimise continuously. For our customers this guarantees higher productivity, economic success and the greatest possible plant safety.

 

As a service provider we are involved together with our customers in projects from their conception through to full performance operation. We support customers with efficient systems. One emphasis is on high-capacity back-up equipment for conventional and mechanical tunnel boring. In the area of transportation logistics we offer plant technology that functions as a complete system and combines all work sequences – starting at the rock face and ending at the tip. The equipment is manufactured by qualified machine-tool companies and under our supervision.

 

From our headquarters in Wangen, Switzerland, Rowa’s interdisciplinary team serves tunnel projects around the globe. Rowa logistics systems and back-up equipment proved themselves in the construction in the Channel tunnel, in Manapouri (New Zealand) and in Siberia and also in Swiss projects such as the Vereina tunnel and the high-performance rail transit through the Alps at the St. Gotthard and Lötschberg mountains. Our reference list includes more than one hundred large construction sites, many of them prestige projects.

Tunnelling is high-performance work. Confines of the tunnel, heat and moisture put a strain on the workforce and thus require equipment that will work reliably under such extreme circumstances. We develop intelligent systems for these complex challenges – total solutions with high added value.

 

Each tunnelling project provides new and different requirements. Rowa develops the best solution customised to the project. The early involvement of our team ensures that all means of innovation will be taken advantage of and included in project planning. Differentiated surveys and feasibility studies give the customer a basis for clear decision-making.

 

We continuously update the rationalisation of our construction methods and processes with a wide range of experience in plant engineering and large construction sites. Fast access to the professional knowledge of external specialists is made possible thanks to a virtual organisation. Working conditions in the tunnel are also constantly improved by taking advantage of optimisation possibilities: they increase the safety of the workforce.

 

Installations, plant and systems aim at the highest productivity. However, performance in such a difficult environment does not only imply capacity. It is essential that our tunnelling plant works trouble-free, has a user-friendly design, shows low operating costs, and is low in maintenance. A high degree of availability is an important success factor.

 

Rowa awards the production of planned installations to the most competent companies in Europe. The quality of the plant is measured strictly in accordance with the needs and requirements of the task for which it has been designed. Our intensive co-operation with leading engineering manufacturers guarantees state-of-the-art technology and sophisticated installations down to the smallest detail.

 

The total performance package also includes training staff at the site. Our internationally experienced project management ensures fast and on-schedule implementation of all the steps. This goal-oriented project support takes the strain off our customers.
 

We work with well-educated and well-trained professionals in mechanical engineering, construction engineering, structural engineering, design, process engineering, drafting, as well as putting into operation. The Rowa team consists of some 20 specialists that cover the important interface between plant engineering and tunnelling in a special way. Further specialists in procurement, marketing and administration complete our highly professional team.

The Rowa management, with proven experience in tunnelling and project management, provides valuable guidance for interdisciplinary co-operation. A far-sighted perspective on issues related to construction and economics provides ideal conditions for Rowa’s consulting division and for research on total systems.

 

Our team thinks entrepreneurial and works in a performance-oriented way. We move freely in an international environment and repeatedly win contracts for large projects all over the world.

We are reliable partners for other specialist companies. We take advantage of the information growth won through co-operation to consistently further and optimise our capabilities with the aim of strengthening our innovative power.

The focus of our work is aimed at customer needs. The relationship with our customer teams is based on partnership. And we lay great emphasis on being reliable and credible.