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Lydia Haack studied architecture in Munich and London. She completed her studies at the renowned Architectural Association School of Architecture, for which she received a DAAD scholarship. She worked at Hopkins Architects in the UK until 1995 and founded the Munich-based architectural practice Haack + Höpfner Architekten und Stadtplaner BDA together with her partner John Höpfner in 1996. She has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Constance since 2011. She teaches building construction, design and structural design in the Department of Architecture and Design. From 2016 to June 2021, Lydia Haack was State Chairwoman of the Association of German Architects in Bavaria (BDA), of which she has been a member since 2005. She has been active in the ASAP Accreditation Association for Architecture and Planning Programs since 2016 and has been its deputy chairwoman since 2020. She is a member of the design advisory boards of the cities of Bamberg and Lindau (where she has been Chairwoman since 2016).

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Since June 25, 2021, Prof. Lydia Haack has been President of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects, to whose board she was elected in 2016.

Luzia Wigger Stein, born in 1969, studied law in Basel and California, specialising in environmental and construction law, and public management in Bern. After several years at the Federal Office for Spatial Development and as deputy head of the legal department of the Basel-Stadt Building and Transport Department, she has been working as head of the Basel-Stadt Building and Catering Inspectorate since 2007. In this role, she is responsible for all building permit and hospitality industry authorisation procedures as well as for the enforcement of the Housing Promotion Act in the area of demolition and misappropriation.

Bernhard Gysin is a qualified architect ETH/SIA and MAS Real Estate Management. He is a partner at Dietziker Partner Baumanagement AG in Basel and has extensive experience in the management of large construction projects. Bernhard Gysin was Head of the Schools Department at the Basel-Stadt Building Department and Head of Site Planning at Basel University Hospital. He has been a board member of the SIA Basel section since 2015 and is committed to the further development of building regulations and sustainable construction projects in the region.

Heinrich Degelo is an architect BSA SIA. He studied interior architecture and product design at the Basel School of Design. He worked for Herzog & de Meuron from 1984 to 1986 and founded an architectural practice in Basel with Meinrad Morger in 1988. Since 2005, he has run the architectural office Degelo Archiekten in Basel. He is a member of the BSA Board of Directors and President of the sia 102 Commission.