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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two roe deer foraging, with manual annotations for each individual animal. Credit: A. Mathis (EPFL)

AI monitors wildlife behavior in the Swiss Alps

Research

Scientists at EPFL have created MammAlps, a multi-view, multi-modal video dataset that captures how wild mammals behave in the Swiss Alps. This new resource could be a game-changer for wildlife monitoring and conservation efforts.

Joan Rey on the EPFL campus with commercial tools used to measure radon.© EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Reliable radon measurements, a challenge for property owners

Research

Joan Rey tested the reliability of commercial tools and artificial intelligence to measure and predict radon levels in buildings for his doctoral thesis in civil engineering. He shares his conclusions in a column that appeared in three Swiss dailies.

Martin Peikert. © 2024 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Has the architectural bidding system run its course?

Research

Switzerland's unique architecture competition guarantees anonymous, objective evaluation of architects. Does Switzerland’s approach really level the playing field and foster diversity? That's what Martin Peikert sets out to find out in his PhD thesis. He summarizes the issues at stake in this column published in three daily newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland.

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

HALOS

 05.06.202529.06.2025   18:0020:00

Location:  ART A0 100
Category: Exhibitions
Target audience: General public

Reconfiguring the Mountains: Mechanisms and Practices of Chongli's Extended Urbanization Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

 23.06.2025  

Speaker: Mengke ZHANG
Location:  BC 420
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

ETHZ/EPFL Summer School 2025 Movement Matters: Exploring Transitions in Architecture Research

 23.06.202527.06.2025  

Speaker: Prof Dr. Florian Dombois, Dr. Alice Hertzog, Prof Dr. Alice Twemlow
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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Understanding wind turbine flows and power efficiency: numerical and theoretical studies

 27.06.2025  

Speaker: Tristan REVAZ
Location:  GR A3 32
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

Aqueous Ozonation: Achieving Realistic Conditions with Synthetic Water Matrices and Kinetics and Mechanisms of Reactions of Aromatic Heterocycles and Organic Sulfur Compounds

 30.06.2025  

Speaker: Simon Alexander RATH
Location:  EAWAG – DĂŒbendorf / Kastanienbaum, Ueberlandstrasse 13, 8600 DĂŒbendorf &  Online
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

Workshop: Hands-on generative AI for education

 03.07.2025   13:0016:00

Speaker: Patrick Jermann, Javier Lloret Pardo, Florian Dufour, Kim Lynn Uittenhove, Aitor Perez
Location:  BC 129
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Augmented Carpentry: Integration of Manual Fabrication into the Digital Value Chain

 04.07.2025  

Speaker: Andrea SETTIMI
Location:  CO 2 &  Online
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

© Léa Guillotin

ENAC Summer Workshop: Drawing Research Platform 2025, London

 18.08.202522.08.2025  

Location:  Drawing Matter, Londres
Category: Miscellaneous
Target audience: General public

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Gaznat – EPFL Research Programme – Call for proposals

 21.08.2025  

Category: Call for proposal
Target audience: General public

© Léa Guillotin

ENAC Summer Workshop: A Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete 2025

 25.08.202505.09.2025  

Location:  EPFL Fribourg Campus
Category: Miscellaneous
Target audience: General public

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REGARD: Design your future: How to make professional choices (day 1/2)

 01.09.2025   09:0017:00

Speaker: Afi Sika Kuzeawu,certified systemic coach & psychologist
Location:  BI A0 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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Semaine d’Écologie en Mouvement et des Imaginaires Souhaitables

Semaine d’Écologie en Mouvement et des Imaginaires Souhaitables

 01.09.202505.09.2025   08:3017:00

Location:  DLLEL 0 94.2
Category: Internal trainings
Target audience: General public

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CISBAT 2025 logo with background of EPFL campus, lake and mountains

CISBAT 2025 International Scientific Conference on the Built Environment in Transition

 03.09.202505.09.2025  

Location:  Swiss Tech Convention Center
Category: Convention
Target audience: Expert

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ENAC Research Day 2025

 08.09.2025   14:0018:00

Location:  RLC E1 240
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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Parc Matin Luther King, Paris © Martin Argyroglo

Forum des transitions urbaines 2025 / LAST

 12.09.2025   08:4516:20

Speaker: Isabelle Bey (MĂ©tĂ©osuisse) Emilie Nault (CSD IngĂ©nieurs) ClĂ©ment Gaillard (Freio design climatique) Vincent Kempf (Ville de Sion – EspaceSuisse) Olivier Philippe (agenceter) Tim Cousin (roofscapes) Philippe Rahm (Philippe Rahm architectes) Emmanuel Rey (LAST | Bauart)
Location:  MC A1 272
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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REGARD: Design your future: How to make professional choices (day 2/2)

 15.09.2025   09:0017:00

Speaker: Afi Sika Kuzeawu,certified systemic coach & psychologist
Location:  BI A0 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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PhotovoltaĂŻque intĂ©grĂ© aux bĂątiments (BIPV) – Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS)

 18.09.202522.01.2026  

Category: Miscellaneous
Target audience: General public

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REGARD: Self-empowerment: Discover how to build your power to act

 02.10.202503.10.2025   09:0017:00

Speaker: Nir Zalts, expert for leadership and professional development
Location:  GC C2 413
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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PhD candidates: Welcome to EPFL!

 06.11.2025   16:0018:00

Location:  RLC E1 240
Category: Convention
Target audience: Informed public

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