Christoph Paech

Managing Director

Christoph Paech is a Managing Director at schlaich bergermann partner, the German structural engineering office founded in Stuttgart in 1980 and one of the specialists the world turns to for stadium roofs, having engineered cable-net and spoked-wheel roof structures for World Cup and Olympic venues across Europe, South America, Africa and the Gulf. Roof engineering of that kind is what allows a bowl to be covered over long spans without columns blocking the view of the pitch. The office also works on bridges, towers and concentrating solar structures, a structural family that shares with stadium roofs a reliance on tension rather than compression.