Since 2014 LEONHARD WEISS emerged as one of the TOP employers in the construction industry; in the overall ranking, the company with headquarters in Göppingen / Satteldorf ranks under the top 60 in Germany across all industries.

LEONHARD WEISS received the "TOP Innovator" award as part of the TOP 100 competition. A prize that the jury awards each year to medium-sized companies for special innovative strength and above-average innovation success. The hurdles for participation in the competition are high. The award illustrates that LEONHARD WEISS is above the German average in innovation management.

The online platform kununu awards a seal of quality to companies that have been rated particularly well by their employees. LEONHARD WEISS is also on the list of 2022! The Top Company seal from kununu is only awarded to around five percent of all companies. That is why we are proud to have received this seal for 2022.

For the fifth time in a row, LEONHARD WEISS has been awarded "Germany's best training companies". This is the result of the study of the same name by DEUTSCHLAND TEST and the business magazine FOCUS-Money. The study evaluated the training quality of the 20,000 strongest companies from more than 130 industries in Germany. The construction company with its headquarters in Satteldorf and Göppingen performs best in an industry comparison and leads the ranking.

LEONHARD WEISS has again been honoured with the certificate for the audit berufundfamilie. Applicable in all sectors and different sizes of company, the audit records the status quo of the family and life-stage awareness measures already offered, systematically develops the individual company potential and, with binding target agreements, ensures that family awareness is anchored in the organisational culture. LEONHARD WEISS is one of the 62 employers that have successfully passed the berufundfamilie audit procedure for the third time already.

LEONHARD WEISS is part of the royal class of German family-owned companies, of the “Top 500“. The construction company was awarded this title by the Foundation Family-owned Companies, who honours the 500 family-owned companies in Germany with the highest turnover. In July 2016 the magazine “Die Deutsche Wirtschaft“ published the results on the basis of the business year 2015. LEONHARD WEISS ranked on position 3 in the sector CONSTRUCTION and thus reached a rank among the TOP 200 in the interbranch comparison for all of Germany.

“I feel very honoured and I am very happy to congratulate LEONHARD WEISS to this award“, says Stefan Heidbreder, General Manager of the Foundation Family-owned Companies. “Especially the large family-owned companies play an important role for Germany as a business location ... Taking into consideration this background we are particularly happy to give this award to LEONHARD WEISS for the excellent economic performances over the last years.“

The bauma Innovation Award 2016 was awarded for the “reinforcement of a steel bridge with orthotropic road surfacing by means of high-strength concrete“. At a bridge in Beimerstetten, LEONHARD WEISS realised a method to renovate dilapidated steel bridges in Germany in the future, in cooperation with the Regional Commission Karlsruhe, as well as the companies Contec International and Bolidt. The use of high-strength concrete allows an innovative and especially efficient procedure, which was put into practice for the first time in Germany during this model project. The result convinced the jury: the method is a “sustainable and economic development with great practical benefit and a contribution to energy and resource efficiency“.

“Thanks to this innovative and creative engineering performance the usability of existing buildings is prolonged sustainably“. This was the reasoning for example, of the jury for the German Viaduct Construction Award (Deutscher Brückenbaupreis) 2016, which was awarded to the engineering office Leonhardt, Andrä and Partner for the planning, as well as the engineers of LEONHARD WEISS for the execution. The large-scale project “Retrofitting of the Kochertal Viaduct“ on the Autobahn A6 near Geislingen proves, that and in which manner German engineering from the 1970-ies can be further developed in an innovative way. The construction engineers developed unused potentials of the viaduct structure in detailed analyses. By doing this, the load bearing capacity of the existing structure could be improved by means of comparably minor interventions to exceed its original state. Germany’s highest viaduct is much stronger than before this measures were taken and it is now fit for the congestion of the future.

For the third year running, LEONHARD WEISS succeeded in winning the Quality Award Railway Construction of the Supervisory Association Railway Construction (Überwachungsgemeinschaft Gleisbau e.V.). In 2016 LEONHARD WEISS was able to convince the jury thanks to their innovation “automatic monitoring and regulation of height of stroke of the road rail excavator during works under catenaries“. In 2015 the award was granted for the project "conceptual design and construction of a modular railway construction and transport trailer with special fittings", in 2014 for the project "system for the recording and documentation of wheel tyre standstills with simultaneous locomotion of railway vehicles". The quality award is granted every year for projects, which considerably differ from comparable performances due to their quality and significance and for ex. improve working processes in railway construction in a sustainable manner. In 2021, LEONHARD WEISS received the award for the innovation "Collision warning system for railway vehicles - more safety through environmental sensing".

On 27 February 2014, IHK Heilbronn-Franken distinguished LEONHARD WEISS for the first time with the "Dualis Outstanding Apprenticeship Company" seal.  Dualis pursues the goal of comprehensively improving the quality of professional training in the Heilbronn-Franken region.  This takes place with self-evaluation, consultation and certification.  The Dualis criteria catalog serves as a basis.

At LEONHARD WEISS we have known for a long time that employees are a key element to a company's success.  The compatibility of professional life and family life is an increasingly important factor in maintaining a high level of motivation, commitment and determination among employees.  As a family-owned company, Leonhard Weiss has made this challenge an area of emphasis for a long time.  The issuance of the "Job and Family" certificate on 05/12/2013 following the audit of berufundfamilie gGmbH, an initiative for the non-profit HERTIE Foundation, confirms and bolsters this commitment.

LEONHARD WEISS is pleased to announce receiving the distinction "Construction Supplier of the year 2011 Germany". In four various segments McDonald's Germany chooses amongst roughly 250 service providers and suppliers (50 of which are in the construction sector) for this distinguished award. With punctual, high-quality construction work, LEONHARD WEISS makes an important contribution to an exceptional, unmistakable and positive image of McDonald's Germany.

In October 2010, LEONHARD WEISS was pleased to accept the 'Education and Training Pyramid' from the Stuttgart Regional Chamber of Crafts. This certification is awarded to companies who are committed to giving young people an exceptional standard of training and qualification.

On 3 June 2002, the Volkswagen Group conferred the Volkswagen Group Award on its best suppliers worldwide for the year 2001.  LEONHARD WEISS was the only construction company to receive this recognition of  company performance.  The prize is given for flexibility with new products and innovative strength with relation to cost optimization and process improvements.  Between 2000 and 2002, LEONHARD WEISS constructed a new pressing shop with control room, logistics hall and scrap press building at Audi AG in Ingolstadt on the basis of a GMP (guaranteed maximum price) contract.

AUDI AG has been awarding its Audi Quality Prize at an Audi suppliers’ event since 1988.  On 18 June 1999, LEONHARD WEISS became the first ever construction company to be awarded the quality prize for raw construction work “in recognition of outstanding quality performance in 1998”.