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

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.

ENAC’s latest news

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

21.03.25EPFL

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.

EPFL launches of sustainability course for all first-year students

12.03.25Education

Whether they study mathematics, microengineering, life sciences or architecture, all 1862 first-year EPFL students experienced their first session of the common sustainability course on Tuesday February 18. The course is organized by the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Section of ENAC.

New nominations and promotions at ENAC School

11.03.25EPFL

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced new appointments and promotions of professors at ENAC: Alexandra Kushnir, Andreas Schüler, Peter Kummer, Dusan Licina, Priya Ramakrishna and Jan Skaloud. Congratulations to all of them!

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 finishedlunch&LEARN: Students as Teachers: How AI challenges students to teach

27-03-202527-03-2025

With: Ola Svensson
Place and room: ME A3 31
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/VD7TV1A9R3Kp3K0mHwbwag
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Final of the competition "My Thesis in 180 seconds"

27-03-202527-03-2025

With: MT180 Finalists
Place and room: Forum RLC
Category: Public Science Events

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3D mapping of a reef in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, November 2023. © Lukasz Warzecha

Red Sea corals – Bridging science & diplomacy in favor of the « Reefs of Hope »

16-03-202516-04-2025

Place and room: Place Ada Lovelace
Category: Exhibitions

The Agency of Less by EAST [Original Sketch by Eiermann und Jänecke ( Arbeitsgemeinschaft)]

The Agency of Less – Rethinking Existential Minimum / EAST

24-03-202517-04-2025

Category: Call for proposal

Défi: vivre un mois de jeûne de consommation du 18 mars au 18 avril!

18-03-202518-04-2025

Place and room: CM 1 258
Category: Miscellaneous

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

Microplastic Hydrodynamics: Insights from Laboratory Modeling and In-Situ Sampling

28-03-202528-03-2025

With: Shooka Karimpour
Place and room: GR A3 30
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64899712041
Category: Conferences – Seminars

An interdisciplinary colloquium / EAST lab – ARCHIZOOM

31-03-202531-03-2025

With: Florencia Collo (Atmos lab), Christina Köchling (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Marco Merz and Christian Kahl (Clauss Kahl Merz Atelier für Architektur), Penny Sparke (Kingston University), Tiago Borges (EAST lab)
Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Leveraging Labs for Learning

31-03-202531-03-2025

With: Nihat Kotluk
Place and room: CM 1 100
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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EESS Student talk on "High-throughput isolation of anaerobic arsenic-methylating microorganisms"

01-04-202501-04-2025

With: Hugo Sallet , PhD Student, EML
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

EESS Student talk on "Invasive palms do not benefit from warming compared to native trees"

01-04-202501-04-2025

With: Thibaut JUILLARD, PhD Student, PERL
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Phagocytosis across Kingdoms Symposium

01-04-202501-04-2025

With: Estee Kurant, Francesca Peri, Pierre Cosson, Florence Niedergang, and invited short talks
Place and room: SV 1717
Online: https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sv/ghi/symposium-phagocytosis-across-kingdoms/
Category: Conferences – Seminars