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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Maléna Bastien Masse - 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“Plenty more women deserved to be in this exhibition!”

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"Queens of Structure" is a traveling exhibition celebrating the work of over 20 leading women in civil engineering. Here, we talk to Maléna Bastien Masse, who spearheaded the initiative at EPFL and in French-speaking Switzerland more broadly.

Michela Bonomo highlights that we need to anticipate the rising sea levels predicted by 2100. © 2024 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

How long will the dream of the seaside holiday villa last?

Research

Michela Bonomo examines in this column the ideology of the luxury seaside villa and shows its limits. Her column was published in three daily newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland. 

31% of the samples contained traces of the compounds typically found in tire additives © iStock

Tire additives found deposited on fruits and vegetables

Research

A study by EPFL and the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) has found that tire additives enter into and pass through the food chain. Further research is needed to establish the implications for human health.

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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Document selection : Soleil·s

12-03-202515-05-2025

Place and room: BibliothĂšque EPFL
Category: Exhibitions

Mexico. Photo: J.-A. Boudreau

Just finishedVille de la réparation. Une épistémologie de la rue pour une ville du futur

15-05-202515-05-2025

With: Julie-Anne Boudreau
Place and room: CO 121
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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

Queens of Structure – Signatures d’ingĂ©nieures civiles

12-05-202509-06-2025

Place and room: Place Ada Lovelace
Category: Exhibitions

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

11-03-202517-06-2025

Category: Call for proposal

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Document selection : Nuclear fusion

01-05-202519-06-2025

Place and room: BibliothĂšque de l'EPFL
Category: Exhibitions

Sun Shines on Architecture / ARCHIZOOM

21-03-202521-06-2025

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions

SAVE THE DATE – Les Sciences se dĂ©couvrent avec Scientastic Ă  Sion !

17-05-202518-05-2025

Place and room: EPFL Valais Wallis, bĂątiment AlpĂŽle
Category: Public Science Events

"Queens of Structure" Vernissage

19-05-202519-05-2025

With: Agnes Weilandt
Place and room: SG 1138
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Teaching toolkit for LABS

20-05-202520-05-2025

With: Joelyn de Lima, Olga Vladimirovna Kasatkina, Nihat Kotluk
Place and room: AAC 0 06
Category: Internal trainings

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EESS Student talk on "Climate-relevant natural aerosol processes in the Arctic"

20-05-202520-05-2025

With: Nora Bergner, PhD Student, EERL
Place and room: ALP 1 107
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

EESS Student talk on "Towards and Antarctic Wind Atlas: Wind Energy Assessment at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station"

20-05-202520-05-2025

With: Brandon van Schaik, PhD Student, CRYOS
Place and room: ALP 1 107
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Mobility as a service in theory and practice

20-05-202520-05-2025

With: Domokos EsztergĂĄr-Kiss is a senior lecturer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and international project coordinator of the Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering. His main research topics are the optimization of multimodal travel chains for passengers, the development of Mobility as a Service related solutions, and the establishment of workplace mobility plans for promoting sustainable commuting. He has published 85 papers in leading journals with Impact Factor. He was the main organizer of several international conferences (e.g. MT-ITS 2015, EWGT 2017, hEART 2019, and TRA 2026) and is involved in several Horizon 2020 projects, Interreg projects, and COST Actions (e.g. MoveCit, LinkingDanube, MaaS4EU, Electric travelling, BE OPEN, RegiaMobil, OJP4Danube, metaCCAZE). Moreover, he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Davis in 2021, he was the chair of IEEE HS YP, and he is a council member of AET and ECTRI.
Place and room: GC B1 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars

HyperSpy Software Package for Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis

20-05-202520-05-2025

With: Dr. Francisco de la Peña | Université de Lille
Place and room: MXF 312
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63964519053
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Two examples of granular materials “engineered” for strength: Granular crystals, entangled matter

21-05-202521-05-2025

With: Prof. François Barthelat
Place and room: CM 1 5
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61796436702
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Giorgio Fossati, Castelforte San Rocco (1534), 1770. Archivio di Stato di Venezia, AVSE San Rocco 26

‘Double Houses’ in Renaissance Venice by Giorgio Gianighian / TPOD, THEMA, HITAM

21-05-202521-05-2025

With: Giorgio Gianighian
Place and room: Archizoom space
Category: Conferences – Seminars

lunch&LEARN: Nihat Kotluk

lunch&LEARN: The hidden side of teamwork: Emotional experiences of engineering students at EPFL

22-05-202522-05-2025

With: Nihat Kotluk
Place and room: ME A3 31
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69629038649
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Rencontres LASUR – Neighborhood Cohesion and Urban Sociability in Neoliberal Santiago – Felipe Link [hybrid]

22-05-202522-05-2025

With: Felipe Link is a sociologist with a Doctorate in Architecture and Urban Studies from the Pontificia Universidad CatĂłlica de Chile (UC). He is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies at UC, and an Associate Researcher at both the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) and the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). His research centers on urban sociology, neighborhood dynamics, housing, and community life. Email: [email protected] ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5355-5489
Place and room: BP 2344
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62095203851
Category: Conferences – Seminars

CESS Seminar: Sustainable Composites using Recycled PET, Natural Fibers: A Step towards Environmental Sustainability

23-05-202523-05-2025

With: Prof. Raman Bedi
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62714603586
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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