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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Renovate buildings instead of tearing them down is the first recommendation of Sascha Nick, EPFL scientist.© Istock/Spitzt

Housing could improve our well-being and reach net-zero by 2040

Research

EPFL scientist Sascha Nick has outlined a completely new scenario for what housing and neighborhoods might look like in Switzerland in the coming decades. His recommendations would put the country on track to meet its net-zero target while supporting the well-being of residents and communities. 

EPFL scientists travel to the Arctic to measure the consequences of climate change - 2024 EPFL/SENSE- CC-BY-SA 4.0

From clouds to fjords, the Arctic bears witness to climate change

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Climate change is particularly intense in the Arctic. To assess its consequences and determine what role this region plays in global warming, two teams of scientists from EPFL have visited the area. One to gain a better understanding of the region's air composition, the other to quantify the greenhouse gases sequestered in Greenland fjords sourced by glacial water.

Gabriele Manoli works as a tenure-track assistant professor at EPFL. © 2024 EPFL / Alain Herzog

To densify or not to densify? That is the question

Research

As researchers learn more about the costs and benefits of urban densification, city planners will be able to make better-informed measures, says Gabriele Manoli, a tenure-track assistant professor at EPFL, in this column published in three daily newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland.

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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

Vision Neuchâtel (C) van de Wetering, Atelier für Städtebau

Visions spatiales pour la ville de demain / Han van de Wetering, Atelier für Städtebau / LAST

17-09-202417-09-2024

With: Han van de Wetering, Atelier für Städtebau, Zurich
Place and room: AAC 0 20
Category: Conferences – Seminars

EESS talk on "Extreme climate events on a regional scale"

17-09-202417-09-2024

With: Dr. Zoran Ristovski, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, QUT, Brisbane Australia
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

IDEAS Lunch : Building demolition / IDEAS

17-09-202417-09-2024

With: Raphaël WEGMANN
Place and room: LE 0 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Opening of the new EDAR PhD Study Room

17-09-202417-09-2024

With: Dean Katrin Beyer, Elena Cogato Lanza and Pier Vittorio Aureli
Place and room: BP 3143
Category: Cultural events

Water Designs: l'eau dessine la ville / ARCHIZOOM

14-06-202428-10-2024

With: HRC, Habitat Research Center
Place and room: Archizoom Space
Category: Exhibitions

Rencontre 5à7 – Enseignant·es des gymnases-EPFL

18-09-202418-09-2024

With: Prof. K. Hess, V. Hiroz, S. Rami, M. Frühauf, Prof. W. Queen, Prof. J. Schmale, Prof. D. Tuia
Place and room: EPFL (Campus associé de Sion)
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Surveys, survey-informed models, and model-informed surveys: Socio-technical modelling of household energy demand heterogeneity for effective demand-side management

19-09-202419-09-2024

With: Matteo BARSANTI
Place and room: GC C3 30
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69098274078?pwd=Z4XdMmkOpGhTZ7wVKeeNaJnEZRmHbG.1
Category: Thesis defenses

Eco-morphodynamic carbon pumping of the world’s large tropical rivers

20-09-202420-09-2024

With: Dr Luca Salerno, Politecnico di Torino
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/65649378946
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Deep Architectural Form

20-09-202420-09-2024

With: Frederick Chando KIM
Place and room: BC 117
Category: Thesis defenses

Night of the Museums / ARCHIZOOM

21-09-202421-09-2024

With: Collectif Affluent
Place and room: Archizoom Space
Category: Cultural events

Using Switzerland's deep geological subsurface for CO2 sequestration and sustainable energy

23-09-202423-09-2024

With: Prof. Larryn Diamond
Place and room: BC 420
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67019451797
Category: Conferences – Seminars

CLIMACT Fall Semester Apero

23-09-202423-09-2024

Place and room: Le Perchoir
Category: Cultural events

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Design with Nature / Archizoom

23-09-202423-09-2024

With: Anne Whiston Spirn   
Place and room: Achizoom Space
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Open Fields Lunch: Productive Habitats 2024 / HRC

24-09-202424-09-2024

With: Prof. Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Anna Karla De Almeida Milani
Place and room: BP 3127
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Autonomy of Theory: Ticino Architecture and Its Critical Reception, lecture by Irina Davidovici / Neighbours Vol. 4 by TPOD, THEMA, HITAM

25-09-202425-09-2024

With: Irina Davidovici
Place and room: Archizoom Space
Category: Conferences – Seminars

©2019 CEPV - Aline Bovard Rudaz

Progress Reviews – Measures / ALICE

30-09-202430-09-2024

Place and room: AAD
Category: Miscellaneous

EESS talk on "Alpine hydrogeology and hydrogeophysics"

01-10-202401-10-2024

With: Dr. Landon Halloran, University of Neuchâtel
Place and room: ALP 1 107
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Housing / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°2

01-10-202401-10-2024

With: Scummacumfemmer
Place and room: Foyer SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Swiss Federal Offices Day 2024

07-10-202407-10-2024

With: Swiss Federal Offices
Place and room: RLC E1 240
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Sébastien Grosset – Codices / ALICE

07-10-202407-10-2024

With: Sébastien Grosset
Place and room: CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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