A STRONG PARTNER This year the Austrian building company Handler Construction is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Managing director Markus Handler told us how the company combines tradition and experience with a forward-looking attitude.
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he highest competence levels, a modern infrastructure and cutting-edge machines – these are what make the Bad Schönau-based building specialists successful in a multitude of projects, from private dwellings and commercial properties to a range of municipal developments. The company, which achieves a turnover of over €60 million, boasts its own fleet of vehicles and undertakes most of its building projects in the wider area of Vienna, in southern lower Austria and eastern Austria.
150 years of tradition The success story of Handler Construction started in 1862, when Josef Handler founded a carpentry business. This was handed on 60 Industry Europe
from son to grandson and finally to Walter Handler, who had been running his own building company since 1962. The carpentry business was integrated into the building company, and one of its first major contracts was the refurbishment of the prestigious luxury Hotel Sacher in Vienna in 1978. Continuing the family’s passion for the building sector is his son Markus Handler, who has been leading the enterprise since 2007. Handler Construction builds residential houses, multiple-occupancy dwellings and commercial, industrial and agricultural buildings. In addition, refurbishments, alterations, loft conversions and more are undertaken. “Most of our customers for homes and agricultural buildings are private individuals, while
