Since July 2026, Carolin Muckenhuber and Stephan Tauber have jointly headed the Linz office of planning and project management company Drees & Sommer Austria. Together, they bring many years of experience in project and construction management, site supervision and the delivery of complex construction projects. With its new dual leadership team, Drees & Sommer aims to further expand its range of services in the region.
The new management team aims to further strengthen Drees & Sommer’s market position in Upper Austria, win new projects, expand the Linz team and provide clients with an even more comprehensive range of services. The professional experience of the two office heads complements each other ideally: Carolin Muckenhuber brings extensive project experience in both new-build and existing-building projects, including in the healthcare, industrial, office and commercial sectors. Stephan Tauber’s areas of expertise include refurbishment and revitalisation projects as well as project management and site supervision. Together, the two office heads therefore cover the entire spectrum from development and management through to implementation across a range of asset classes.
“We want to offer the full range of our services from our Linz office and significantly expand our presence in the region. I am looking forward to continuing to develop the office together with our team,” explains Carolin Muckenhuber.
“Our goal is to achieve sustainable growth in Linz while creating added value for our clients in the region and beyond through reliably managed construction projects. Our ambition is to successfully guide even complex projects through every phase and give our clients the confidence that their investments are being implemented efficiently and economically,” says Stephan Tauber.
Opened in 2021, Drees & Sommer’s Linz office was the company’s first location in Austria outside Vienna and continues to play an important role in its growth strategy. “With Carolin Muckenhuber and Stephan Tauber, two experienced project managers are now taking over the management of the office. Both know our company, the region and the requirements of complex construction projects extremely well. With their complementary expertise, they will lead the Linz office into its next phase of development,” explains Nicole Rumpler, Managing Director of Drees & Sommer Austria.
About Carolin Muckenhuber and Stephan Tauber
Carolin Muckenhuber has been working as a Senior Project Manager at Drees & Sommer Austria since January 2026. She previously worked for the company as a Project Manager from 2018 to 2021 before joining Delta, where she remained until 2025. After attending HTL Linz with a focus on structural engineering, she studied architecture at TU Wien and subsequently completed master builder training at Bauakademie Lachstatt. Her project references include projects as part of the Master Plan 2030 for the Ordensklinikum Barmherzige Schwestern hospital, the MIC headquarters in Linz and various logistics facilities.
Stephan Tauber has been with Drees & Sommer Austria since 2022 and has been working in Upper Austria since 2024. He has been a Senior Project Manager since 2026. Prior to joining Drees & Sommer, he worked at Vermehrt GmbH and Hans Lechner ZT. Tauber studied civil engineering and construction management with a focus on sustainability at FH Campus Wien. His project references include the headquarters of Sparkasse Oberösterreich in Linz, Hotel Astoria and Austria Campus in Vienna, as well as NMS Seekirchen.
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Drees & Sommer: Uniting opposites to create a world we want to live in.
Drees & Sommer SE is a partner-led consulting company that develops and implements sustainable, innovative and economically viable solutions for the Real Estate, Infrastructure and Industry markets – or provides clients with both consulting and implementation services from a single source. Founded in 1970 and recognised ever since as a pioneer in sustainability and a driver of digitalisation, the international company employs more than 6,500 people at over 80 locations worldwide. Drees & Sommer has been present in Austria since 1991, with around 150 employees across its offices in Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Innsbruck and Dornbirn. Interdisciplinary teams work on around 7,000 projects worldwide to create a future worth living and unite apparent opposites: tradition and the future, economy and ecology, analogue and digital, efficiency and well-being. The company’s personally accountable partners embody its principle of entrepreneurship within the organisation.