School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)

ENAC combines the forces of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and Engineering to help ensure a sustainable living environment for humanity through the sound and respectful integration of human activities into the biosphere.

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New: Master in Urban Systems

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Starting in fall 2025, a program designed to equip students with backgrounds in engineering and architecture with the foundations needed to tackle the complex challenges of sustainability in urban areas and their surrounding territories.

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To achieve its energy targets, Switzerland must massively expand photovoltaics and wind energy. © Anastasija Radenkovic / iStock

Where power will come from in 2050

EPFL

By 2050, the aim is for Switzerland’s energy system to be decarbonised and no longer reliant on nuclear power. How this can be achieved and the costs of doing so are set out in a new report by a Swiss research consortium involving researchers from EPFL, ETH Zurich, WSL, the universities of Geneva and Bern, and ZHAW.

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When autonomous mobility learns to wonder

EPFL

Autonomous mobility already exists
 to some extent. Building an autonomous vehicle that can safely navigate an empty highway is one thing. The real challenge lies in adapting to the dynamic and messy reality of urban environments.

Maléna Bastien Masse - 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“Plenty more women deserved to be in this exhibition!”

Events

"Queens of Structure" is a traveling exhibition celebrating the work of over 20 leading women in civil engineering. Here, we talk to Maléna Bastien Masse, who spearheaded the initiative at EPFL and in French-speaking Switzerland more broadly.

ENAC three disciplines

ENAC bring together three transformative disciplines:

  • Architecture
  • Civil Engineering
  • Environmental Sciences and Engineering

ENAC explores the potentials of interdisciplinarity to achieve excellence in the training of tomorrow’s architects and engineers as well as to place scientists at the forefront of research.

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Events

Just finishedCESS Seminar: Sustainable Composites using Recycled PET, Natural Fibers: A Step towards Environmental Sustainability

23-05-202523-05-2025

With: Prof. Raman Bedi
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62714603586
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Queens of Structure – Signatures d’ingĂ©nieures civiles

12-05-202509-06-2025

Place and room: Place Ada Lovelace
Category: Exhibitions

Call for projects: CROSS 2026 (Collaborative Research on Science and Society)

11-03-202517-06-2025

Category: Call for proposal

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Document selection : Nuclear fusion

01-05-202519-06-2025

Place and room: BibliothĂšque de l'EPFL
Category: Exhibitions

Sun Shines on Architecture / ARCHIZOOM

21-03-202521-06-2025

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions

REGARD: Pitching myself for Industry: My strategy for Success

27-05-202527-05-2025

With: Romaine Johnstone, coach facilitator & trainer
Place and room: BI A0 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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EESS talk on "The physics and chemistry of aerosols for potential injection into the stratosphere to cool the planet"

27-05-202527-05-2025

With: Prof. Thomas Peter, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETHZ
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

School Lecture Series: BHSF / EPFL Architecture

27-05-202527-05-2025

With: Axel Humpert
Place and room: Auditoire SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars

©2022 CEPV - Nella StĂŒcker

Final Reviews – Riponne Rooms / ALICE

27-05-202528-05-2025

Place and room: AAD / Riponne
Category: Miscellaneous

Spaces of Interface: Proximity in the Diffusion of Energy Innovations

28-05-202528-05-2025

With: Gloria SERRA COCH
Place and room: ELA 1
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69914595685
Category: Thesis defenses

Automatic identification of atmospheric bioaerosol using real-time imaging and fluorescence

28-05-202528-05-2025

With: Sophie Catherine ERB
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Thesis defenses

Macroscopic modeling and control of on-demand ride-splitting services in multi-modal transport networks

28-05-202528-05-2025

With: Lynn FAYED
Place and room: GC C3 30
Category: Thesis defenses

HALOS

05-06-202529-06-2025

Place and room: ART A0 100
Category: Exhibitions

Source: https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/

Learning from the South: Dialogue with Satish Kumar / HRC

11-06-202511-06-2025

With: Satish Kumar – A world-renown author, Indian British activist, pacifist, and ecologist
Place and room: SG Foyer
Category: Conferences – Seminars

CC BY-NC-SA EPFL Library

DépÎts institutionnels et données académiques ouvertes

12-06-202512-06-2025

With: Simon Willemin, Gaël Bernard, Julien Sicot
Place and room: CM 1 121
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Dynamism in Views-Out: Capturing Movement, Daylight Variation, and Their Impact on Occupant Perception

13-06-202513-06-2025

With: Yunjoung CHO
Place and room: CM 1 4
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/2836997738?omn=66029833392
Category: Thesis defenses

Reuse potentials of building elements: learning from practices and synthesis of assessment methods

13-06-202513-06-2025

With: Barbara Ludivine Justine LAMBEC
Place and room: SG 294.22
Category: Thesis defenses

High-throughput isolation of anaerobic arsenic-transforming microorganisms

13-06-202513-06-2025

With: Hugo SALLET
Place and room: ELA 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/2970582049?pwd=U0Nkc1pXdVRvOGJTQng0eU5QUTZRZz09
Category: Thesis defenses

Analytical Data Fusion Approaches to Update Mobility Patterns in Real-time.

16-06-202516-06-2025

Place and room: GC B1 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Reconfiguring the Mountains: Mechanisms and Practices of Chongli's Extended Urbanization Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

23-06-202523-06-2025

With: Mengke ZHANG
Place and room: BC 420
Category: Thesis defenses

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