The Swiss Association of the Institution of Civil Engineers was founded in 1981 in response to the ever-growing globalisation in civil engineering and particularly as a result of trans-European cooperation.

Since its inception the group has pioneered the idea of a European Group Association which now actively meets on an annual basis normally in the Spring, whose venue moves around the European Continent following major construction projects.

Located in the Centre of Europe and in an alpine environment the Association has much to offer in the way of being the only group to operate in four European languages in parallel, however having English as the key language.

The Swiss Branch organises visits to alpine projects and has a particular affinity to tunnelling works due to its unique location, where AlpTransit one of the largest tunnelling projects worldwide is about to begin construction.

There are also numerous contacts with research centres such as the Engineering Polytechniques in Zurich and Lausanne as well CERN and the UN in Geneva and SIA.

The association offers support to graduate engineers for their professional interview and holds regular training courses on subjects as varied as blasting techniques to data-management and estimating as well as technical English for engineers.

The Branch also arranges specialist lectures from experts on a variety of typical subjects.