Prof. em. Paul Meyer

Paul Meyer was Full Professor of Architecture and Building Realisation at the Institute of Building Technology, ETH Zurich, beginning in January 1987. He has been head of the institute from 1992 to 1997. He retired on 30 September 2004.

Paul Meyer, born on 2 May 1939, from Aarau, canton of Aargau, graduated from the ETH Zurich in 1964. He became studio-design assistant to Prof. Jacques Schader at the ETH Zurich and, following this, he became a university lecturer in Cape Town, South Africa. Afterwards he worked as a project manager and deputy director in the planning firm Metron, Brugg. From 1973 until 1986 he headed the Department of University Buildings, canton of Zurich. Prof. P. Meyer founded his own architectural office in 1991 and in 1999 data top gmbh, a firm for project management (with cip-cube, a data based tool in the internet for integrated planning).

His chair at the ETH Zurich was responsible for teaching the subjects Building Management, Construction Management, Building Economics, Construction Process in Practice, Construction Design, design-diploma supervision and a two-year career-accompaniment postgraduate course in Building Managment.

Prof. Paul Meyer's research focuses were the optimization of project and building processes and the problem of renovations of buildings. These were given attention in the following research projects: Integration of Tasks, Processes and Data in Construction (CIP-Cube / CIP Construction), Building Costs - System of Characteristic Values and Benchmarks (EffiBau, KTI), Comparison of Housing Development and Financial Optimization of the Time Interval between Renovations of a Building.