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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The operator sees the instructions through colored lines on the screen. 2024 EPFL/Andrea Settimi CC-BY-SA 4.0

Augmented reality improves carpentry ease and precision

Research

A system developed at EPFL uses augmented reality (AR) to help carpenters make extremely precise timber cuts without having to measure or mark up beams. Its hybrid approach stands to make digitally assisted technology affordable for small businesses, woodworkers and construction professionals in developing countries.

Polina Holub - 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“I wanted to study a subject that has meaning”

Education

For her EPFL master’s project, Polina Holub developed a plan for recycling the rubble from buildings destroyed during the war in Ukraine – a particularly meaningful endeavor for someone who grew up in a Ukrainian town near the Russian border.

Glacier-fed streams could well become greener in the future. © 2022 EPFL/Mike Styllas - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Glacier melt puts unique microbial ecosystems under threat

Research

A pioneering study has revealed how climate change is impacting glacier-fed streams and the essential microbiomes they contain – which could change radically by the end of this century.

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

School Lecture Series: Oliver Clemens, Anna Heilgemeir / EPFL Architecture

29-04-202529-04-2025

With: Oliver Clemens, Anna Heilgemeir
Place and room: Foyer SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Textilfabrik (Mels), Meier Hug Architekten

PhD Seminar “Neighborhoods in Transition II” / LAST

28-04-202530-04-2025

With: Frédéric Bonnet (USI / Obras), Buchner Bründler Architekten (Basel), Paula Cadima (AA London), Meier Hug Architekten (Zurich), David Gogishvili (UNIL), Sascha Roessler (USI)
Place and room: CE 1 715
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Call for participation – Learning from the South: Cultural Landscapes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition / HRC

01-04-202502-05-2025

With: Satish Kumar, other keynote speakers
Place and room: SG 294.22
Category: Call for proposal

CC-BY-NC-SA EPFL Library

Document selection : Soleil·s

12-03-202515-05-2025

Place and room: Bibliothèque EPFL
Category: Exhibitions

Neighbours – Lectures on History & Theory of Architecture, vol. 5

27-02-202521-05-2025

With: Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths University);  Hannah Leroux (University of Sheffield) David Wengrow (University College London) Theodora Vardouli (McGill University) Debjani Bhattacharyya (University of Zurich) Giorgio Gianighian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Interdisciplinary seminar series – course ENG-647

20-02-202522-05-2025

Place and room: MA A3 30
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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

11-03-202517-06-2025

Category: Call for proposal

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Sun Shines on Architecture / ARCHIZOOM

21-03-202521-06-2025

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions

Meeting with the ACM / ARCHIZOOM

30-04-202530-04-2025

With: Salvatore Aprea, Patrick Chiché, Dimitri Demetriades et Dimitri Papadaniel
Category: Cultural events

Common but differentiated responsibilities: agency in climate justice – Ivo Wallimann-Helmer

30-04-202530-04-2025

With: Ivo Wallimann-Helmer
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/65959802694
Category: Conferences – Seminars

lunch&LEARN: The European DigCompEdu framework for designing a MOOC for university professor training

01-05-202501-05-2025

With: Mirko Susta
Place and room: ME A3 31
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gi5C49QDQgyffsFNeGAsFQ
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Environmental Disasters and Demographic Shifts: Insights from L'Aquila’s Earthquake by Prof. Elena Ambrosetti / URBDEMO

01-05-202501-05-2025

With: Prof. Elena Ambrosetti
Place and room: SG 0213
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Machine Learning and Optimization for Enhanced Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

01-05-202501-05-2025

With: Prof. Emma Frejinger
Place and room: CM 1 4
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62822431194
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Microstructure generation and modeling for digital construction of stone masonry walls

01-05-202501-05-2025

With: Qianqing WANG
Place and room: GC B3 30
Category: Thesis defenses

Experimental Investigation of Hydraulic Fracture Propagation and Closure

02-05-202502-05-2025

With: Mohsen TALEBKEIKHAH
Place and room: CM 1 5
Category: Thesis defenses

A. Hertzog

Experiencing project-based learning

06-05-202506-05-2025

With: Roland Tormey & Olga Vladimirovna Kasatkina
Place and room: CO 120
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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EESS talk on "How plants cope with salt stress: Subcellular insights from cryo-elemental imaging"

06-05-202506-05-2025

With: Dr. Priya Ramakrishna, Laboratory of Biological Geochemistry, LGB
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

HONORARY LECTURE Professor Thomas Keller

07-05-202507-05-2025

With: Prof. Thomas Keller
Place and room: SG 1138
Category: Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture

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Hannes Meyer and the Settlement Cooperative of Freidorf, 1919-1926: The Theater of Social Progress

07-05-202507-05-2025

With: Stéphanie SAVIO
Place and room: CO 1
Category: Thesis defenses

Deux concours de passerelles, Deux premiers prix pour des jeunes bureaux

09-05-202509-05-2025

With: Sam Bouten, Fabrice Meylan et Matthieu Jeanbourquin
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/65562311049
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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