Range of services
Leonhard Weiß never did things by halves. When the track construction expert started building up his company in Göppingen and taking on various contracts for the town, he set the highest standards for everything he did. He soon became known for his absolute reliability and craftsmanship, whether he and his team were building roads or laying tracks. In this way, Leonhard Weiß sowed the seeds for many new businesses, all of which grew out of this standard of quality. Today, the generation of his great-grandchildren has taken over management responsibility. And the LEONHARD WEISS company has developed a proud family tree of different specialities.
Railway construction, where it all began, has changed rapidly since Leonhard Weiß's time. Instead of cosy steam locomotives, high-speed trains now rush through the country. LEONHARD WEISS has helped to shape this development with its technical innovations and know-how and has found clever technical answers to the rapidly growing challenges. Machines such as the WARAN soil treatment system in the 1990s or the EdelWeiss-Express universal tamping robot have set standards, as have the many award-winning innovations for which LEONHARD WEISS has received the "Quality Prize for Track Construction" several times in succession - most recently in 2021 for a collision warning system.
The area of LEONHARD WEISS that is probably most recognisable to the outside world is civil engineering. Impressive structures such as bridges and large-scale projects such as the "Wolke No.7" high-rise building in Stuttgart's Europaviertel, which began construction in 2013 and is a landmark in the cityscape. The 24-storey building houses a hotel and luxury condominiums and, at 65 meters, is the tallest residential building in the centre of Stuttgart. As a general contractor, LEONHARD WEISS is responsible for the entire planning and construction phase, right up to the turnkey handover, and is therefore in a position to effectively implement holistic and sustainable solutions from a single source. Each project has its own unique requirements – from large-scale commercial projects such as logistics centers to cosy day-care centers or schools. In addition to practical, economic and ecological aspects, all LEONHARD WEISS buildings should make people feel comfortable and fill the rooms with life.
Back outside. What the Weissianers achieve in snow and heat, wind and rain is amazing. In road construction, traffic noise is also an issue. But LEONHARD WEISS is also a professional on the roads, building all categories of roads and streets with the most modern machines and specialised staff. However, a Weissian also knows that surprises and unforeseen challenges await you on every construction site, and you have to react flexibly to them. But what the employees expected during the excavation work on the B10 between Eislingen and Gingen in 2002 was not what they expected. The excavators bucket unearthed some strange bones. The experts found that it was the skull of an eight-meter-long ichthyosaur that lived in the water. In this way, road construction is making archaeological history, because the layer in which LEONHARD WEISS found the dinosaur means that it must have lived around five million years earlier than previously thought – a real sensation! But just as importantly, this building site will also be completed reliably and on schedule.
LEONHARD WEISS range of services includes many other areas, such as network construction. Environmental technology has also been part of the portfolio for many years, as have timber and formwork construction and flooring technology. The breadth of the company's expertise is demonstrated by the Stone Restoration/Monument Conservation division, which has been a subsidiary since 1994. Originally set up as a road construction division in the year the Berlin Wall came down, this subsidiary has made a name for itself in the traditional stonemasonry trade. The list of prestigious buildings restored by SDC is long. They include the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin, Neuschwanstein Castle, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. From the large modern machines on the tracks to the delicate craftsmanship on the historic facades, what unites all these different areas is the joy of building. It is these many different success stories that together make up the unique image of the family-owned company LEONHARD WEISS.