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Gear贸id Patrick Lydon is a civil engineer specializing in the energy transition, thermal energy systems, and integrated design approaches. He holds degrees in civil and computational engineering from Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland and ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

From 2014 to 2022, he worked at ETH Zurich and the NCCR Digital Fabrication, where he led the thermal energy systems for the NEST HiLo project, a full-scale demonstrator showing the impact of digital fabrication in construction.

From 2022 to 2024, he served as an Associate Professor of Integrated Energy Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, focusing on research and teaching.

Currently, he is Head of the Building System Sector at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.

Building energy simulation, Sustainable architecture, Integrated energy design

Red Dot Award Design Concept, Solskin Facade System, ETH Zurich Team, 2024.
Swiss Arc-Award, HiLo team, Swiss Prize for Architecture, 2022.
Norman Blank Prize, HiLo Funicular Floor team, ETH Foundation, 2021.
Swedish Concrete Award, NCCR Digital Fabrication group, Swedish Concrete Association, 2019.