AMB Atelier d'architecture Rolf Fuchs SA (Sion)

Passion for the job

AMB Atelier d'architecture Rolf Fuchs SA is a versatile office in all areas of building construction: financial analysis, appraisals, tax assessments, design, planning; also active in the renovation and restoration of old buildings, conversions and new buildings. His specialty remains the coordination and management of the work. Interview with Rolf Fuchs, Director

What are your most important achievements?

Our projects are found in all types of buildings, but especially: individual and community houses, residential buildings, administrative buildings, shopping centers, buildings and public buildings. Specializing in the management of important works such as the prison of the islands in Sion, the church of Mase, the administrative headquarters of SUVA in Sion with a housing development of 60 apartments, shopping centers for several large schools in western and central Switzerland, various agricultural developments for the hospital of the region of Sion and for the Central Institute of Hospitals of Valais, etc., we have carried out alone or in collaboration with other partners......

What about those who will come?

We continue to build buildings like those mentioned above, but I have an interesting project in mind, it is a hotel: the Hôtel Pierre-à-Voir in Martigny. The project, managed by FOVAHM, the Valais Foundation for the Mentally Handicapped, will give the opportunity to almost 40 mentally handicapped people to work: in the kitchen, in the service, in the maintenance and in the laundry. It will include 40 rooms and 5 suites, a restaurant with wine bar, meeting rooms or seminars and a laundry. Of course, this building will be Minergie certified and is part of the sustainable development from all points of view: Construction, social and economic. The opening is scheduled for autumn 2015.

Other construction related activities?

16 years expert for final exams, since 1979. Initiating master courses for drivers and site managers in 1992, together with the founder of these courses in Zurich. Lecturer at the EPS for construction managers from 1992 to 2004. 20 years expert in Sion and Zurich for the management of construction managers.