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.

The faculty grasps major challenges such as climate change, global digitalization, and rapid urbanization in its entirety whilst considering economic, technical, and social demands.

Value Proposition

ENAC contributes substantially to a sustainable transition of the built and natural environment.

Our mission and goals

ENAC Sustainability challenges

ENAC aims to play a leading role in the transition to a sustainable living environment by its inter- and transdisciplinary approach and its unique collaboration of architecture, civil and environmental engineering. ENAC focuses on 3 strategic challenges:

  1. Developing knowledge and innovations to anticipate, mitigate and adapt to climate change.
  2. Reap the benefits of digitalization to serve a sustainable development of cities and infrastructures.
  3. Adopt new approaches to urbanization and innovate to contribute to sustainable territories.

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ENAC celebrates its 20th anniversary!

ENAC’s latest news

Snowboarder Mathieu Schaer narrowly escaping a slab avalanche. © Ruedi Flück

The physics of snow slab avalanches similar to that of earthquakes

Research

Scientists from EPFL and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF have gained deeper insight into how snow slab avalanches form, paving the way to more effective risk assessment measures for these catastrophic events that induce more avalanche accidents and fatalities every year than other types of avalanches.

A l'EPFL, Selina Heiniger a étudié le génie civil. © Alain Herzog / EPFL

Turning plastic waste into building bricks

Education

Summer series – Master's project (4). For her Master’s project in civil engineering, Selina Heiniger took on a challenge that’s aligned with her desire to help preserve the environment. She’s developing a new building material that’s made from plastic waste, concrete and terracotta.

Paolo Tombesi will highlight the architectural studios run by women. © EPFL

Paolo Tombesi selected to organize the 2023 EPFL Latsis Symposium

Events

Will the future of architecture be shaped by small, women-led firms? That’s one of the questions EPFL professor Paolo Tombesi plans to explore at Affirming Actions, a symposium to be held at the Rolex Learning Center in March 2023. His event has just been selected to receive funding from the Latsis Foundation.

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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.

EDUCATION

Three sections to train tomorrow’s engineers.

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Section

Architecture

Section

Civil Engineering

Section

Environmental Sciences and Engineering

RESEARCH

Three institutes with over 70 laboratories.

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Architecture

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Civil Engineering

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Environmental Engineering

Innovation and knowledge transfer

ENAC promotes research partnerships with enterprises and public organizations. To encourage innovation and implement scientific knowledge, ENAC plays an active part in technology transfer and spin-off initiatives.

New initiatives by our partners and collaborators are warmly welcome! Special care is taken to establish long-term relationships of high quality. Collaborating companies and public authorities have access to state-of-the-art research teams, facilities, and equipment.

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Events

CIS – "Get to know your neighbors" Seminar series – Prof. Olga Fink

22-08-202222-08-2022

With: Prof. Olga Fink
Place and room: INF 328
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68022007910
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Swiss-Korean Academic Exchange Programme ARC-HEST 2022-2023

22-08-202201-09-2022

Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Environmental policies: designing acceptable road pricing and voluntary waste sorting schemes

23-08-202223-08-2022

With: Linda Melina TESAURO
Place and room: AAC 1 20
Category: Thesis defenses

levees that form in flows of red sand on an inclined plane - © Rocha et al (2019)

Waves, channels and levees in geophysical mass flows – Prof. Nico Gray

24-08-202224-08-2022

With: Nico Gray is a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, UK. He is an expert on granular flows and the particle segregation that takes place within them. This has applications to a wide range of industrial processes, as well as to geophysical flows such as snow avalanches and debris flows. Nico holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, a PhD in Sea Ice Dynamics from the University of Cambridge and a Habilitation in Continuum Mechanics and Geophysical Mechanics from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany.  
Place and room: GC B1 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Student Incubator Programme: Fall Information Session

31-08-202231-08-2022

Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62229500455?pwd=QnFDU0hZV1JuUXEzK1I5Q203QkxrUT09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Invited Talk | Architecture without air conditioning by Vivek Gilani, Fairconditioning Programme

31-08-202231-08-2022

With: Vivek Gilani, Fairconditioning
Place and room: Blue Hall of Bluefactory – Fribourg
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62862637213?pwd=c3ZDdnBIZGJleWZIOXNlT2t5b3dEdz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Smart Publishing

01-09-202201-09-2022

With: EPFL Library
Place and room: Zoom
Category: Internal trainings

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ENAC School 20th anniversary celebration

02-09-202202-09-2022

Place and room: STCC
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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FLP Workshop: Emotional intelligence: why it matters

05-09-202219-09-2022

With: Dr. Silke Mischke
Place and room: BI A0 448
Category: Internal trainings

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Beyond Google: Find scientific information with advanced tools

06-09-202206-09-2022

With:  EPFL Library Teaching Team
Place and room: Online
Category: Internal trainings

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LSS2022 – School of Life Sciences Symposium 2022

07-09-202209-09-2022

Place and room: Forum Rolex Learning Center
Category: Convention

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Research visibility: impact beyond citation

13-09-202213-09-2022

With: EPFL Library
Place and room: Zoom
Category: Internal trainings

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Prof. Tom Beucler, UNIL

EESS talk on "Atmospheric Physics-Guided Machine Learning: Towards Physically-Consistent, Data-Driven, and Interpretable Models of Convection"

20-09-202220-09-2022

With: Dr Tom Beucler, Assistant professor, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, UNIL
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63802032408
Category: Conferences – Seminars

EESS talk on ""

04-10-202204-10-2022

With: Dr Sakiko Ishino, Assistant professor, Atmospheric Chemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, Kanazawa University (JP) and visiting professor at EERL, CH
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63802032408
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Dr Cara Magnabosco, PATT, ETHZ

EESS talk on "Biological indicators for changes in groundwater properties"

11-10-202211-10-2022

With: Prof. Cara Magnabosco, Geobiology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, ETHZ
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63802032408
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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EESS talk on ""

11-10-202211-10-2022

Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63802032408
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Up to speed with Zotero

Up to speed with Zotero

14-10-202214-10-2022

Place and room: RLC A1 230
Category: Internal trainings

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EESS talk on ""

18-10-202218-10-2022

Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63802032408
Category: Conferences – Seminars

EESS talk on ""

25-10-202225-10-2022

Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63802032408
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Martin Steinmann. Still from: MARTIN STEINMANN Prix Meret Oppenheim, 2016

The Presence of Things: Martin Steinmann 1942–2022

31-10-202231-10-2022

With: à confirmer
Place and room: Foyer SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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