Simon Bechert

Simon Bechert is a structural engineer whose work spans research and practice. He received his doctorate summa cum laude from the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) and the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC at the University of Stuttgart, where his work focused on advancing timber construction. His dissertation examined the structural development of segmented timber shell systems, culminating in several pioneering lightweight demonstrators, including the BUGA Wood Pavilion 2019, the Urbach Tower at the Remstal Gartenschau 2019, and the livMatS Biomimetic Shell in Freiburg. 

Before joining ITKE in 2015, he worked as a project engineer on steel, timber, and concrete structures. Since 2023, Simon has been a managing partner and project engineer at the structural engineering office Bechert und Partner, where he holds executive responsibility for structural engineering and the integration of new lightweight systems in the IntCDC Building at the University of Stuttgart — an advanced research facility that translates the Cluster of Excellence’s scientific developments on innovative building systems into a full building-scale application.