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

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.

ENAC’s latest news

A study led by the HOBEL Laboratory quantified the impact of dogs on indoor air quality. © Istock/milorad kravic

Dogs affect the quality of our indoor air

23.02.26Research

The presence of dogs changes the gas, particle and microbial composition of the surrounding air. This impact has now been quantified, thanks to a recent study led by researchers from EPFL.

Vinay Sharma et Olga Fink, du Laboratoire IMOS, ont développé une IA capable de simuler des systèmes complexes tout en respectant les lois fondamentales de la physique © 2026 Alain Herzog

New AI algorithm is designed to obey the laws of physics

20.02.26Research

A team of EPFL researchers has developed an AI algorithm that can model complex dynamical processes while taking into account the laws of physics – using with Newton’s third law.

Bertil Trottet, an EPFL physicist who also runs a family tree farm in Féchy. 2026 EPFL / Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

A physicist who also grows trees investigates the fate of raindrops

17.02.26Research

A new study sheds light on a previously overlooked mechanism of soil erosion that occurs just after raindrops hit the ground. The research was conducted in part by Bertil Trottet, an EPFL physicist who also runs a family tree farm in Féchy.

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

Multiscale Modeling of Frictional Behavior at Rough Contact Interfaces

26.02.2026

Speaker: Parissa Sadat ALAVI
Location: MED 0 1418
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

Master Info Days

25.02.202626.02.2026 17:3020:00

Location: Hall SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Blaze Accelerator: Call for Startup Applications

04.02.202604.03.2026

Category: Call for proposal
Target audience: Informed public

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FameLab Switzerland 2026 competition

16.02.202630.04.2026

Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Spectral Parameterization for Digitization and High-Fidelity Simulations of Stone Masonry Microstructures

27.02.2026 11:1512:15

Speaker: Dr Mahmoud Shaqfa, postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Mathematics (D-MATH)
Location: GC B1 10 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Summer Workshop 2025, photo: Jesper Authen

Information session: Drawing Research Platform, ENAC Summer Workshop

02.03.2026 17:0017:30

Speaker: Patricia Guaita , Raffael Baur
Location: AAC 1 32 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Summer workshop EPFL Fribourg 2025, photo: Nicolas Gemelli

Information session: Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete with LC3, ENAC Summer Workshop

02.03.2026 17:3018:00

Speaker: Patricia Guaita , Raffael Baur
Location: AAC 1 32 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Times Parallax par Séverin Guelpa – projection et discussion

03.03.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Artiste: Séverin Guelpa Sociologue au Laboratoire LASUR de l’ENAC: Luca Pattaroni
Location: Forum Rolex Learning Center
Category: Cultural events
Target audience: General public

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MechE Colloquium: Under Construction: Building with Robots Beyond Automation

03.03.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Stefana Parascho, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Reimagining City Logistics: Designing Hyperconnected Urban Networks

03.03.2026 15:0016:00

Speaker: Walid Klibi is Professor of Supply Chain Management and Analytics at Kedge Business School (France), and a founding member of its Center of Excellence in Supply Chain (CESIT), since 2011. He obtained his Ph.D. in Business Administration at Laval University’s Business School in Canada in 2009. He has since 2020 a habilitation degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Bordeaux in France. His research interests relate primarily to Supply Chain design, resilience and robustness, distribution in omnichannel retailing, and hyperconnected urban logistics, with a focus on stochastic modeling and optimization. Most of his research work is carried out in partnership with international companies in parcel logistics, warehousing, retailing, pharmaceutical, and aeronautical sectors. He is co-author of several international scientific and professional articles, and of an “award-winning” book in the field of Supply Chain, entitled “The Design of Value-Creating Supply Chain Networks”. He is currently appointed as a research affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (USA), an affiliated faculty of the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute – Physical Internet Center – Georgia Tech (USA), and a collaborating member of the Interuniversity Research Center on Business Networks, Logistics and Transport (CIRRELT) in Canada.
Location: GC B1 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l'école d'architecture / ACM ARCHIZOOM

03.03.2026

Speaker: Cyril Veillon
Location: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events
Target audience: General public

School Lecture Series: Scheidegger Keller / EPFL Architecture

03.03.2026 18:3020:00

Speaker: Scheidegger Keller
Location: Foyer SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Neighbours Vol. 7: Book Launch. Hans Bernoulli, La ville et son sol. by Florian Hertweck and Elena Cogato Lanza / TPOD, THEMA, HITAM

04.03.2026 18:0019:30

Speaker: Florian Hertweck and Elena Cogato Lanza
Location: Archizoom Space
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public