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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ENAC’s latest news

The volunteers went out in the field, collecting sediment and invertebrate samples – indicators of water quality – at 35 sites. © Laureline Duvillard 2024 EPFL

A citizen-science initiative evaluates the impact of tire particles

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Twenty volunteers spent six months learning about the scientific method through a citizen-science initiative led by EPFL. The initiative was part of a study to determine how the microplastic particles released by tire wear are affecting lakes and rivers in Vaud Canton.

Raphaël Angeles in front of the Dynamo hydropower plant in Courrendlin, on which he worked to make its exploitation more sustainable. © EPFL / 2025

Reconciling hydropower generation with biodiversity

Education

For his master’s project in environmental science and engineering, EPFL student Raphaël Angeles came up with methods for making hydropower generation more environmentally responsible, taking the Dynamo hydropower plant in Courrendlin, in Jura Canton, as his case study.

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Harnessing proteins to clean contaminated soil

Research

Scientists from EPFL work on sustainable approaches to soil remediation, like the use of naturally occurring microorganisms that can “eat” pollutants found in soil and the water table.

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

Drone-Based Urban Traffic Monitoring and User Behavior Prediction

27-01-202527-01-2025

With: Sohyeong KIM
Place and room: ELA 1
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67543820590
Category: Thesis defenses

IDEAS Lunch : Digital Materiality / IDEAS

28-01-202528-01-2025

With: Sergi AGUACIL MORENO and Sebastian DUQUE
Place and room: LE 0 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Mixes of policy instruments for full decarbonisation by 2050

28-01-202528-01-2025

With: Fleance George COCKER
Place and room: MED 0 1418
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69155604388?pwd=dvPbZrLEzfCIDKmXaabVtY3D4bFHAh.1
Category: Thesis defenses

CESS Seminar – Shaping the Future of Electric Mobility: Challenges, Opportunities, and Sustainable Solutions

29-01-202529-01-2025

With: Dr. Gonçalo Correia
Place and room: GC B3 31
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Infiltration through clogged streambeds: theory and assessment of microbial mat clogging

31-01-202531-01-2025

With: Jonas PACCOLAT
Place and room: ALP 1 109
Category: Thesis defenses

The authentic city: uses of industrial heritage in large-scale regeneration projects, a comparative analysis

31-01-202531-01-2025

With: Héléna Elisabeth Marguerite ROUX
Place and room: SG 1212
Category: Thesis defenses

Application and use of sustainability indicators by local governments, and their determinants: a Swiss case study

12-02-202512-02-2025

With: Anne Frédérique Cécile Noémi BÖSCH
Place and room: ELA 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63727209699
Category: Thesis defenses

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Research Data Lunch Talks “Open Data and Open Source: ensuring longevity beyond the project”

13-02-202513-02-2025

Place and room: CO 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Equilibrium-based exploration of structures towards circular design strategies

21-02-202521-02-2025

With: Jonas WARMUTH
Place and room: HBL 0 21A
Category: Thesis defenses

©2022 CEPV - MBR

Klaas de Ryck – Thinking through structure / ALICE

24-02-202524-02-2025

With: Klaas de Ryck
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Advanced Computational Tools for the Analysis and Design of Complex Metamaterials and Structures

28-02-202528-02-2025

With: Alejandro M. Aragon
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61758978597
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Tempus Sessorium, Richard Copans / MANSLAB

03-03-202503-03-2025

With: Richard Copans
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63859039695
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Linking the thermodynamic structure of the lower atmosphere to the vertical dispersion of pollutants and aerosol-cloud interactions

07-03-202507-03-2025

With: Roman POHORSKY
Place and room: ALP 1 109
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66487030029
Category: Thesis defenses

©2022 CEPV - Nella Stücker

Etat des lieux – Constellations / ALICE

10-03-202510-03-2025

Place and room: AAD
Category: Miscellaneous

Tempus Transitus, Vernissage du livre et exposition / MANSLAB

10-03-202516-03-2025

Place and room: Foyer SG
Category: Exhibitions

Inaugural Lecture – Prof. Konstantinos Karapiperis

12-03-202512-03-2025

With: Prof. Konstantinos Karapiperis and Prof. Emmanuel Denarié
Place and room: SG 1138
Category: Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture

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Inaugural Lecture – Prof. Emmanuel Denarié

12-03-202512-03-2025

With: Prof. Konstantinos Karapiperis and Prof. Emmanuel Denarié
Place and room: SG 1138
Category: Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture

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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

Sun Shines on Architecture / ARCHIZOOM

19-03-202519-03-2025

With: Cyril Veillon, Marilyne Andersen, Giulia Bini, Alice Bucknell
Place and room: SG 1212
Category: Cultural events

Honorary Lecture – Prof. Christof Holliger

20-03-202520-03-2025

With: Prof. Christof Holliger
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture

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