Campus Sursee wins the Esprix Swiss Award for Excellence 2019

The dice have been cast at the Esprix anniversary gala: Campus Sursee wins the Esprix Swiss Award for Excellence 2019. In addition to Campus Sursee, "Tamedia AG, Publishing Services Printing and Logistics", Zurich and "die rodtegg, Foundation for People with Physical Disabilities", Lucerne were also nominated for the award. The "Oscar of the Swiss Economy" is awarded to outstanding Swiss companies. The aim of the award was and is to promote competitiveness in all entrepreneurial areas and to motivate the Swiss and Liechtenstein business community to achieve top entrepreneurial performance through competition. The Esprix Award differs from all other Swiss business awards because it has to be earned hard and often over years.

Lucky winner

Campus Sursee was founded in 1972 to promote vocational training in the Swiss construction industry and is now a leading Swiss training and seminar center for all professionals involved in the construction process. But it is also popular with other industries for its consistent customer focus, its efficiency and its pleasant learning environment. The Sursee Campus Foundation is the owner of Bildungszentrum Bau AG and Seminarzentrum AG. All activities of the Bildungszentrum Bau, the Seminarzentrum and the Foundation are bundled under the umbrella brand Campus Sursee. Most recently, Campus Sursee is establishing itself with the sports arena both in the professional sports sector as a training and competition location and in popular sports as a public sports facility for clubs, schools and the region. And on May 14, 2019, the site was designated a "2000-Watt Site" by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).

Campus Director Daniel Suter was overjoyed at the award presentation in front of around 230 invited guests from business, science and politics at the Bürgenstock Resort: "We have proven that we are among the best and are proud of our team's achievements. The award will strengthen our role model function in the construction industry and our image as a whole," said Suter. "Finally, of course, our customers also benefit from our proven service quality."

Put through its paces

Independent assessors put the nominated companies through their paces over the course of a week. The assessment is based on the principles of the EFQM Excellence Model of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). This helps companies and organizations to improve sustainably and continuously. The Sursee Campus, which had already introduced a management system according to ISO standards, has also been working according to the EFQM model since 2015. Today, the Sursee Campus shows itself to be "excellent" in a wide variety of areas. An important success factor is the employees. "They know our strategy and vision and know how to use personal freedom profitably," says Suter. This freedom results in the realization of impressive projects. The new sports arena, the blended learning courses in the Construction Training Center or the certification as an environmentally friendly 2000-watt site are just a few examples. All of this, in turn, leads to high employee satisfaction and a low turnover rate. Or in Suter's words, "Our employees are proud to work at Campus Sursee."

Source and further information: www.campus-sursee.ch