The company's purpose is to engage in the following activities in Switzerland and abroad: planning, construction, and sale of facilities, equipment, and machinery for the infrastructure and industrial sectors, as well as the management and leasing of its own properties. In the course of its activities, the company may participate in public and private tenders and contract award procedures; buying, selling, exchanging, leasing, and managing properties in general. The company may engage in all other commercial, industrial, real estate, securities, and financial transactions, provided that the latter are not conducted with third parties deemed necessary or useful by the management body for achieving the company's purpose, including the issuance of guarantees, the provision of letters of credit, the granting of mortgages, and any other guarantee for liabilities, including those of third parties, as well as the direct or indirect acquisition of shares and participations in other companies or enterprises, whether already established or to be established, that pursue a similar purpose as the company or in any case are connected with its corporate purpose, for the purpose of permanent investment and not placement, participation in company consortia or in temporary associations of companies, the acquisition, assignment, and granting of licenses as licensor or licensee, patents, and in general industrial and intellectual property rights. The company may establish branches domestically and abroad and invest in other companies. The company may engage in any activity related to or connected with the achievement of its corporate purpose.