The infrastructure in your everyday life

Take away cables and we wouldn’t have electricity, remove rails and transport stops, without the broadband network, there’s no Netflix. Our everyday life relies on highly complex infrastructure. At Industry Night you’ll have the opportunity to find out how this infrastructure is built, maintained, and optimised.

At IWB’s Kleinhüningen depot, you can gain an insight into the underground supply network. IWB employees will take you on a tour, showing you which pipes, lines, and cables are installed under roads and how energy, water, and internet are circulating beneath our feet. You can get involved too! Try your hand at welding pipes together and cutting cables, learn more about installing solar systems, and take part in a quiz. Agreta in Münchenstein also specialises in underground piping systems. Pipelines are vital masterpieces, though they are often challenging to manufacture. During Industry Night at Agreta, you’ll get to lay the pipes that we need for water and gas. The company also offers insights into the spectacular servicing of gas tank systems: excess gas is flared off with metre-high flares during the inspection.

The electrical engineers at Selmoni ensure the efficient and reliable transmission of energy in our buildings. The company in Münchenstein has put together a varied programme for Industry Night. You’ll have the opportunity to assemble a control cabinet with our team of specialists in the workshop, explore the world of LED lights, and immerse yourself in different virtual realities. ETAVIS Kriegel+Schaffner on the Dreispitz also specialises in electrical and building technology. The company is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and is a real job engine. At the Industry Night, you can find out about seven exciting professions at ETAVIS - your starting signal for an exciting career in this professional field that is so important for the future? If you like it interactive, you can sit on an electric bike, build your own switch and immerse yourself in the day-to-day work of the electrical engineers with VR glasses.

Internet, mobile and TV within your own four walls - this is generally taken for granted. But how does the internet work? How are modern data networks organised? And what kind of infrastructure is required? At Swisscom's headquarters in Basel Grosspeter, you can immerse yourself in the fascinating world of telecommunications and take a look at the Internet backbone.

How buildings are created in the first place becomes tangible at Blaser Architekten. More than ever, good architecture is achieved through collaboration. On an interactive tour, you will get to know all the players involved and their fields of activity, from development and planning to the realisation of construction projects. Ask the architects, builders, civil engineers and building technicians your questions and find out more about an industry that is so influential in Basel, the architectural capital of Switzerland. One of the monumental landmarks of this architectural city is the exhibition centre quarter with the exhibition tower and exhibition halls. At Industry Night in the South Foyer, you can see who is involved in the organisation of events the size of Art Basel. The Exhibition and Congress Centre also offers exclusive insights behind the scenes, including into the preparations for the Eurovision Song Contest. Construction projects such as those around the exhibition centre Construction projects take several years to decades. The construction industry needs to be able to plan well and far ahead - and Vanillaplan's cloud-based software solution helps it to do so. Find out more about the AI-supported construction software, look over the experts' shoulders as they code and make your own social media post.

Without infrastructure, no goods would circulate. The Basel region is an important hub on the north-south axis and the port of Basel is the gateway to the world. This is where goods are transferred from ships to trains and lorries and transported to the rest of Switzerland. Ultra-Brag has been a logistics service provider from the very beginning. The company has been storing, shipping and handling goods, operating silos and two barges for 100 years. On the industrial night, you can experience everyday harbour life in Kleinhüningen up close and explore this impressive but often forgotten part of the city of Basel.

Felix Transport is an expert in onward transport. There is hardly anything that this versatile company does not transport from A to B: from general cargo and pharmaceutical transports to refrigerated and thermal transports of foodstuffs, paints and cosmetics to trade fair and crane transports. On a tour, you can follow the route of a consignment of goods from order entry to delivery. Anyone interested in an apprenticeship in the transport industry can find out more on site and try out a seat in a state-of-the-art electric lorry. Swiss Federal Railways will be taking part at Industry Night for the first time. SBB transports 175,000 tonnes of goods and 1.32 million people to their destinations every day. One of its service facilities, a central hub for the maintenance of various trains, is located in Basel. At Industry Night, you can find out how trains are maintained and further developed. Take a seat in the locomotive simulator and do the CV check. There are 150 different professions at SBB - which one suits you?