Did you know …
... that travel time through the tunnel will be more than cut in half?
... that the volume of spoil to be deposited is roughly 17 million m³?
... that the BBT is the main element of the 2,200 km long railway axis between Berlin and Palermo?
... that the BBT, at 64 km in length, will be the longest underground railway line in the world?
BROCHURES
Executive management
BBT SE uses a dual management system. The company is managed by two CEOs, one located in Austria and one in Italy. The Supervisory Board oversees the activities of the CEOs and the company.
Board of management
Konrad Bergmeister has been CEO of BBT SE since Autumn of 2006. He was previously the technical director and head engineer of the company managing the Brenner highway and was responsible for the planning and construction of new infrastructure and for maintenance of the existing structures. For the past 15 years, he has taught construction engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna. He has been the President of the Free University in Bolzano since 2010.
Bergmeister has published over 350 papers and books and is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and of the Leopoldina Academy of Natural Research in Halle.
Raffaele Zurlo has been the Italian CEO of BBT SE since May 2010.
After studying civil engineering at the University of Naples he accumulated international experience in the building sector and In project financing for infrastructure projects. He later served on the board of directors of a French company before joining ITALFERR S.p.A. At ITALFERR, Zurlo was the director of procurement and general affairs for seven years. ITALFERR is an engineering company belonging to the Italian railway group Ferrovie dello Stato SpA. As of 2008, Zurlo was a member of a group of experts consulting on tender procedures and construction work for the Brenner Base Tunnel.
Members of the Supervisory Board
Austria
ÖBB Infrastruktur AG
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Dipl.-Ing. Horst Pöchhacker (since 25.05.2007)
ÖBB Infrastruktur AG
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Georg-Michael Vavrovsky (since 23.01.2006)
ÖBB Holding AG
Ing. Franz Seiser (since 18.04.2011)
Land Tyrol
Dr. Leo Satzinger (since 10.01.2008)
Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
GS Dipl.-Ing. Herbert Kasser (since 01.12.2004)
Federal Ministry of Finance
SC Univ.Doz. Dr. Gerhard Steger (since 25.05.2007)
Italy
FS
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Prof. Lamberto Cardia (since 08.11.2010)
RFI
Dott.ssa Vera Fiorani (since 02.04.2009)
RFI
Dott. Giovanni Paolo Gaspari (since 23.01.2006)
Province of Bolzano
Dr. Armin Holzer (since 18.04.2011)
Province of Trento
Rocco Cristofolini (since 18.04.2011)
Province of Verona
Dott. Ing. Mario Peruzzi (since 29.01.2007)
