Niklaus Hodel

Civil engineer ETH. Interested in environmental and energy topics in relation to construction issues. Joined Gartenmann Engineering as CEO more than 30 years ago. 20 years as managing director and 30 years as a member of the Board of Directors and partner. Has worked on and supported around 1,000 projects to date. More than ten-year mandate as a member of the project management team on an Energie 2000 programme run by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. Has been lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering at Bern University of Applied Sciences for 20 years. Expert at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. In just two hours of sunshine a day, the sun sends us as much energy to Earth as the entire world’s population consumes in a whole year. It’s time to take action: let’s finally put all our energy into making more out of this–.