From the Ground Up: Industrial Building Design, Maintenance, and Digitalisation

Daniel Heusser founded Virtuarch with the vision of delivering projects combining functionality and vision, while providing added value to its clients.

Daniel graduated from the world-renowned Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich. He has been in charge of complex projects in Switzerland and Asia for over 20 years.

Having made his name in educational, industrial and R&D projects, he has built expertise in deeply understanding the needs of each owner, which has given him the tools to implement visionary concepts in leading projects. 

Bruno Lhopiteau, founder of Siveco China, has worked in the country for close to 25 years.

Siveco China provides maintenance consulting services and innovative yet practical Smart O&M solutions that support continuous improvement in Industrial Risk Management, Asset Management and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). The company has over 1,000 client sites in China and has expanded all over Asia.

Bruno also lectures on industrial risk management at the Sino-European School of Technology of Shanghai University.

Lisa Lu is the IP Business Advisor at China IP SME Helpdesk in Beijing, where she advises European SMEs on intellectual property rights matters. She holds a double master’s degree in law from the China University of Political Science and Law and University of Hamburg. Before joining the China IP SME Helpdesk at the European Chamber, Lisa worked as a trademark attorney for the Ferrante Intellectual Property and Chang Tsi & Partners. She mainly focused on the fields of trademark prosecution, trademark enforcement, copyright protection and unfair competition.

During her time working in both law firms, she dealt with a variety of clients including but not limited to automotive performance, media, entertainment, new energy, apparel, architecture design, data management, e-commerce, household products, HVAC, and fire & security. Her clients included a range of globally leading companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Lisa is fluent in Chinese and English.