2024-04-19 09:52:23
BOLZANO. To understand what has become Pichler projects it would be enough to go to 520 in New York and look up at one of the most iconic buildings of Zaha Adid. Or, to save on the flight ticket, pass through Bolzano south and take a look at the Salewa o ad Atzwanger and up to Fairs Verona, Arena Cantù and hundreds of other contemporary buildings. Where there is steel used in construction, the two are almost always involved brothers Pichler, Walter and Ferdinand. And before them, the father, Eugenwhich in 1978 sees the start of the new production born from its first blacksmith forge in the heart of the Ega valley.
From yesterday, the third generation will take over: Hannes Market, the nephew, is the new CEO of Pichler projects. Which is the operational and production arm which has become, in the space of a few decades, one of the most innovative companies in the sector. Supporting architects and companies in the design of their imagined new headquarters, especially if they have a strong architectural imprint. Walter Pichler says: «The new CEO knows all the company’s activities having worked there for many years, starting from the bottom».
And the bottom is precisely the first steps, given that his career started as a production apprentice before acquiring subsequent experience in various sectors and administrative offices. From time to time construction site installer, technical designer and department manager. An almost experience 31 years in the company.
His training comes from a master’s degree in facade engineering which is, in fact, the field of intervention from which Pichler’s successes were born and which today concern the majority of its activities in supporting construction sites around the world, from Europe to America to Asia where an important contemporary building has recently been built in Kazakhstan.
«I am taking over a well-established company with a very solid team of collaborators» were Hannes Market’s first declarations. Walter and Ferdinand Pichler, after the appointment of the new CEO, then confirmed that they would remain in the company as members of the board of directors.
Pichler projects, born as mentioned from a small metallurgical workshop and which changed its name over the years, today employs around 250 employees engaged in the design and assembly especially of metal facades and does so in collaborations with large regional, national and international architecture firms. “Furthermore 45 years of activity and changes, the evolution of our company has always had a minimum common denominator: our family, our signature, our passion”, underline Walter and Ferdinand Pichler. P.CA.
2024-04-19 09:52:23