Bio:

Giorgio Macchi
Dipl. architect ETH/SIA
Director and chief architect of the Office for Real-Estate and Public Buildings of the Canton Bern

Studies
Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich - ETH 1968-74

Professional activities

Since 1999
Director and chief architect of the office for real-estate and public building-constructions of the canton Bern.
Bern Facts: portfolio-value: 5 billion CHF; 2000 public buildings; investments p.a. 200 millions CHF; average building status 80%; staff members 80; population of Canton Bern - 1 million
Main entrepreneurial objective: promote buildings that are useful for a very long time, efficiently maintainable, effectively transformable and feature cultural identity.
2004 change management: merger of the public building office and the real-estate administration; design and development of a professional organization with owner and construction competences.
Certification ISO 14001 with specific targets in renewable energy, timber construction, concrete recycling.
Implementation of strategic principles for sustainable development of the real-estate portfolio and for sustainable design and realization of building-construction with special regard to the programmatic concept of system separation (structural separation of components, flexibility of primary systems, availability of building areas.
2001 change management: implementation of three core competences: portfolio management; facility management and project management.

1974 - 1999
Project director at the office for public buildings of the Canton Bern
Consulting in healthcare projects and planning
Associated lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences

1977-78
Chief assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich - ETH 1990-91

Office:
Reiterstrasse 11, 3011 Bern, CH
giorgio.macchi@bve.be.ch


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