A big thank you to all participants for attending our ENAC Research Day 2024!

We hope that you enjoyed the poster session, presentations and keynote lectures as well as the lively discussions.

We are looking forward to seeing you for next year’s Research Day!

Video recordings

Arctic and Antarctic in Rapid Transition: The ART of not running behind
Prof. Julia Schmale, Extreme Environments Research Laboratory – Ingvar Kamprad Chair (EERL)​

Bio-cementation: Transforming Scientific Discoveries into Market Solutions
Prof. Lyesse Laloui, Soil Mechanics Laboratory (LMS) 

Photo gallery

Program

14:00 – 14:10 Welcome & introduction

• Prof. Katrin Beyer, ENAC Dean

14:10 – 15:00 Interdisciplinary centers

• Embodied Emissions in Sustainable Construction: Building a Greener Future with Lean Design and low-carbon building Materials
  Prof. Karen Scrivener, Centre for Worldwide Sustainable Construction (CWSC)​
  
  
• The added value of the UNIL – EPFL CLIMACT center: Looking back and ahead
  Prof. Michael Lehning, Center for Climate Impact and Action (CLIMACT)​
  
  
• HRC: explore Urbanization as Laboratory of the Transition
  Prof. Paola Viganò, Habitat Research Center (HRC)

15:00 – 16:30 ENAC Research poster exhibition

• Discover 70 research projects from ENAC’s three institutes dealing with topics concerning the energy transition, climate change and ecosystems health, resilient urban systems, as well as sustainable construction and operations.

16:30 – 17:45 Keynote lectures

• Arctic and Antarctic in Rapid Transition: The ART of not running behind
  Prof. Julia Schmale, Extreme Environments Research Laboratory – Ingvar Kamprad Chair (EERL)​
  
  
• Bio-cementation: Transforming Scientific Discoveries into Market Solutions
  Prof. Lyesse Laloui, Soil Mechanics Laboratory (LMS) 
  
  
• Burning Down the House
  Prof. Pier Vittorio Aureli, Theory and Project of Domestic Space (TPOD)

17:45 – 18:00 Poster awards & closing

18:00 Apéritif