From infrastructures to snow: the magic of high-altitude construction sites
Every skier knows it: December is the official start of the winter sports season—this year even more eagerly awaited thanks to the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Slopes fill up, lifts start running again… but what appears to have always been ready is the result of months of technical work, maintenance, excavation, and high-altitude preparations.
Between slopes, forests, and extreme logistics, the mountains become an open-air laboratory where sports, tourism, and engineering coexist
Do you have a high-altitude construction site?
Funivie Arabba and MB Crusher: a partnership focused on sustainability
Funivie Arabba manages some of the most scenic ski areas in the Dolomites and bases its philosophy on one simple principle: authentic and sustainable experience.
The same philosophy drives MB Crusher:
- transforming waste into a resource
- reducing transportation
- minimizing environmental impact.
Do you want to increase autonomy and sustainability on site?
Bosco delle Salere: the MB-HDS314 hits the slopes
At Bosco delle Salere, at the foot of Passo Pordoi, Funivie Arabba completed two key interventions:
– reconstruction of the Salere red slope
– excavation of the trench for the new 700-meter snowmaking pipeline.
Mounted on a Liebherr 914 excavator, the MB-HDS314 padding bucket enabled progress of about 70 meters per day, producing uniform material for pipe bedding, with no external transport required.
As operator Alessio Crepaz explains: “The MB-HDS314 maintains excellent productivity even with wet material and produces the ideal grain size to protect the pipes.”
Result:
– faster execution
– operational continuity
– easier handling of difficult terrain and wet conditions.
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High mountains: when logistics and sustainability play on the same team
It’s not only the screening bucket that performs best above 1,000–2,000 meters: the entire MB Crusher range is designed to simplify operations even in the most complex worksites, where transporting material is costly or often impossible.
The equipment:
- can be mounted quickly
- works with different materials
- allows completing processing on site
- reduces time, costs, and logistical impact
- preserves the geotechnical characteristics of the material
An integrated system that allows screening, crushing, moving, demolishing, milling… all without leaving the site.
Optimize your construction site in challenging areas, saving time and money
Gosau Hintertal: snow guaranteed with the BF120.4
In Gosau Hintertal, in the Austrian Alps, snow needs to be guaranteed. To achieve this, Dachstein Turismus AG commissioned the construction of an artificial reservoir at 1,000 meters to serve the Gosau-Zwieselalm and Annaberg-Zwieselalm ski areas.
Karl Pitzer GmbH managed an impressive worksite:
– 120,000 m³ of excavated material
– 54,000 m³ of backfill
– embankments up to 22 meters high
Here, the key player was the MB Crusher BF120.4 crusher bucket, mounted on a Liebherr 936, which transformed limestone into:
– material for site roadways
– draining aggregate for the reservoir construction
As the team on site reports: “We saved time and money. No downtime, no gravel purchases: we produced it directly on site.”
Produce material on site and simplify operations
Operational autonomy: the superpower that changes the outcome of an alpine construction site
At high altitude every variable—temperatures, slopes, difficult access, logistics—matters. But with MB Crusher, the available material becomes a resource, minimizing movement.
An advantage that is not only economic but strategic.