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Nico Ros
Alma materUniversity of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland; University of Fribourg
OccupationsStructural engineer, entrepreneur

Nico Ros is a Swiss structural engineer and entrepreneur. He is a partner of the Basel-based engineering firm ZPF Ingenieure.[1] At ZPF, he has worked on structural design for buildings such as the VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein, Germany,[2] and the HORTUS office building in Allschwil, Switzerland.[3] He is a co-founder, chief tehcnology officer (CTO), and chairman of the pharmaceutical supply chain company SkyCell.[4][5][6][7]

Early life and education

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Ros trained as a carpenter before he studied at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW).[8][1][9] He graduated with distinction, receiving a diploma in civil engineering.[1] He also studied economics at the University of Fribourg.[9]

Career

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Structural engineering

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Ros joined ZPF Ingenieure in 2003 during his civil engineering studies. In 2009, he became a partner and member of the management board.[9][1] He currently serves on the board of directors.[10] His work at ZPF focuses on structural design and ecological performance.[1][9]

Projects that Ros worked on include the VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and completed in 2010.[2] He also worked on Kinderspital Zürich [de][11],the children's hospital in Zurich and HORTUS in Allschwil. For the HORTUS office building, he worked on a timber-and-clay floor system designed to provide a lower-emission subsititute to concrete.[3][1] He argued that construction could become much more environmentally friendly without hugely increased costs if the right preindustrial methods were studied.[3] The HORTUS office received the Swiss Arc Award 2025 in the work, production and infrastructure category.[12]

Ros was also the client and a member of the structural engineering team for the Movable House in Riehen, designed by Rahbaran Hürzeler Architekten and completed in 2018.[13][14] He commissioned the house as an experiment in creating a dwelling that could, in principle, be dismantled and transported to another site.[13][15]

Sustainability work

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As a member of ZPF, Ros initiated the development of (and served as an advisor to) EcoTool, a free web tool that is used to estimate the environmental impact of a building design in its early stages. The tool was developed with the property office of the canton of Basel-stadt.[16][17] He also co-founded ReMatter, a company that manufactures timber-clay elements to replace reinforced concrete.[18]

SkyCell

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In partnership with Richard Ettl, Ros co-founded SkyCell in 2012, developing a hybrid shipping container for temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products.[4][19] He now serves as CTO and chairman of the board.[7][6]

Ros has been named as an inventor on patents for temperature-controlled containers and monitoring hardware.[20][21]

Personal Life

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Ros lives in the Movable House in Riehen, an experimental house engineered by his own firm ZPF that was completed in 2018.[13][8]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Die Holz-Lehm-Decke und HORTUS". Constructive Disobedience. Technische Universität Braunschweig. 2022.
  2. 1 2 Ros, Nico (7 May 2010). "Spaziergang der Kräfte". TEC21 (in German).
  3. 1 2 3 Petersen, Palle (31 August 2021). "IRB 6700 und der Dreck". Hochparterre (in German).
  4. 1 2 Lunden, Ingrid (25 June 2024). "SkyCell nabs $59M more for its greener smart pharma transport containers". TechCrunch.
  5. ↑ "Nico Ros, Richard Ettl". Bilanz (in German). Ringier Axel Springer. November 2024.
  6. 1 2 "SkyCell AG, CHE-137.419.799". Commercial Register of the Canton of Zug. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
  7. 1 2 "Company". SkyCell. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
  8. 1 2 von Büren, Charles (23 October 2018). "Einfach mobil: Movable House in Riehen". Espazium (in German).
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Nico Ros". Zukunft Bau Kongress 2023 (in German). Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung.
  10. ↑ "ZPF Ingenieure AG, CHE-109.426.601". Commercial Register of the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
  11. ↑ Seitz, Peter (18 September 2020). "«Die grösste Hürde ist das Vertragswesen»". Espazium (in German).
  12. ↑ "Ausgezeichneter Holz-Lehm-Bau: Hortus in Allschwil gewinnt Architekturpreis". Architektur Basel (in German). 13 November 2025.
  13. 1 2 3 Herzog, Andres (29 October 2018). "Der Traum vom Schneckenhaus". Hochparterre (in German).
  14. ↑ "The Movable House in Riehen (CH)". db deutsche bauzeitung (in German). No. 5/2019. November 2019.
  15. ↑ Geuder, Thomas (22 October 2018). "Prototyp Nachhaltigkeit". German-Architects (in German).
  16. ↑ "Über uns". EcoTool (in German). Retrieved 9 September 2026.
  17. ↑ Pestalozzi, Manuel (3 July 2023). "Eine neue Webanwendung verspricht die einfache Berechnung der Ökobilanz". Swiss-Architects (in German).
  18. ↑ "Startup rematter erhält Finanzierung über 150.000 Franken". Wirtschaftszeit (in German). 31 January 2024.
  19. ↑ Saraceno, Nicholas (February 2023). "Aligning Cold Chain and Sustainability". Pharmaceutical Commerce. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
  20. ↑ US patent 11060783, Nico Ros, "Transport container for transporting temperature-sensitive transport goods", published 13 July 2021, assigned to REP IP AG
  21. ↑ "Nico Ros Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications". Justia Patents. Retrieved 9 September 2026.

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