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lnterview with Erik Lehner, an ALPINE engineer
“The Zistersdorf
waste-to-energy plant
Erik, how long have you been working
at Alpine?
I’ve been working at Alpine since 2004.
Before that, I worked at a traffic planning
office.
What is your current job and what does
it involve?
I joined Alpine as a simple technician and
my job was to help the project manager
and the foreman. I am now a project mana-
ger. My general responsibilities in a project
are; purchase the land, execute the plan-
ning process, secure permits, hire workers,
control the development of the project, en-
sure the correct completion of the project,
manage claims or problems that could arise
during the process and analyze proposed
projects to determine the work required be-
fore commencing.
What are you in charge of right now?
I’m working on the acquisition of an urban
heating plant in Vienna.
¿Which are the most interesting projects
in which you have worked since you joi-
ned Alpine?
The Vienna central railway station due to the
size of the project. The Zistersdorf waste-
to-energy plant and the Malzenice (Slova-
kia) combined cycle generation plant since
both were turnkey design and construction
projects. In the case of the central railway
station in Vienna, the greatest challenge
was to supervise and control logistics. As
you can imagine, it was a great challenge
to coordinate more than 600 workers, nu-
merous work teams, and 400 trucks on a
daily basis.
The Zistersdorf and Malzenice projects
were interesting because I participated
in all their phases (bidding, planning, and
construction). In both cases, we were also
responsible for the design, pursuant to the
contracts, and, therefore, I had to ensure
coordination between the owner, the client,
the designer, public administrations and our
team.
You participated in the construction of
.A.S.A.’s waste-to-energy plant in Zis-
tersdorf...
Yes, I was in charge of managing the pro-
ject. The design and construction phases
lasted two years. Our team at the Zis-
tersdorf project was really small, although
highly efficient. The foreman, his aide, eight
supervisors, and 80 workers were involved
in this project. An executive and I worked
at the office.
What’s the difference between building
is a good example of
cooperation within the
FCC Group”
Managing the team
at the Vienna railway
station project was a
great experience and
an honour,
specially working with
such a large and
qualified team