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.

ENAC’s latest news

Fiona del Puppo, in a student residence near EPFL. © 2024 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

So you've left student accommodation. What next?

For her PhD thesis in architecture, Fiona del Puppo looked at the challenges young people face finding somewhere to live after leaving university. She outlines her observations in a column published in the Swiss French-language press.

© 2024 EPFL - Illustration by Jeanne Guerard

RebuiLT project shows it's possible to build differently

13.12.24Education

In a real-world example of how construction materials can be reused, a team of 230 EPFL students is building a community pavilion in Ecublens, near the Lausanne campus, through a low-tech, participative approach. This bold initiative entailed overcoming a number of logistical, technical and architectural challenges.

Luana Ferrari, Vibhu Baibhav, Julia Gallmeier, Eloïse Richard, Julien Pignat © 2024 UNIL Fabrice Ducrest + DR

2024 Durabilis Award: focusing on solutions and risks

11.12.24Education

How can we ensure a low-carbon economy by 2050? What kind of sustainable housing can be imagined? The winners of the 2024 Durabilis prize awarded by EPFL and UNIL suggest ways forward, while raising awareness of potential risks.

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

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

13-12-202424-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

14-12-202425-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

15-12-202426-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

16-12-202427-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

17-12-202428-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

18-12-202429-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Arboreal Futures

13-11-202405-01-2025

With: Plant Ecology Research Lab, Maja Renn, Krzysztof Wronski
Place and room: EPFL Pavilions, Pavilion A
Category: Exhibitions

Using dimensionality reduction and causal inference to constrain precipitation and climate

10-01-202510-01-2025

With: Lucile Anna RICARD
Place and room: CM 1 106
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/8107327227?pwd=VDkyN3lleUZYdUVzNXc1VWpKaGpOUT09&omn=62827630823
Category: Thesis defenses

IDEAS Lunch : Digital Materiality / IDEAS

28-01-202528-01-2025

With: Sergi AGUACIL MORENO and Sebastian DUQUE
Place and room: LE 0 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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The authentic city: uses of industrial heritage in large-scale regeneration projects, a comparative analysis

31-01-202531-01-2025

With: Héléna Elisabeth Marguerite ROUX
Place and room: SG 1212
Category: Thesis defenses

©2022 CEPV - MBR

Klaas de Ryck – Thinking through structure / ALICE

24-02-202524-02-2025

With: Klaas de Ryck
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Advanced Computational Tools for the Analysis and Design of Complex Metamaterials and Structures

28-02-202528-02-2025

With: Alejandro M. Aragon
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61758978597
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Tempus Sessorium, Richard Copans / MANSLAB

03-03-202503-03-2025

With: Richard Copans
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63859039695
Category: Conferences – Seminars

©2022 CEPV - Nella Stücker

Etat des lieux – Constellations / ALICE

10-03-202510-03-2025

Place and room: AAD
Category: Miscellaneous

Tempus Transitus, Vernissage du livre et exposition / MANSLAB

10-03-202516-03-2025

Place and room: SG 294.22
Category: Exhibitions

©2022 CEPV - Lisa Bertoldi

Etat des lieux – Rooms (in the city) / ALICE

07-04-202507-04-2025

Place and room: AAD
Category: Miscellaneous

9th Rencontres de l'EDAR: Original Knowledge

13-05-202514-05-2025

Place and room: AAC 0 06, AAC 114
Category: Conferences – Seminars

REGARD: Pitching myself for Industry: My strategy for Success

27-05-202527-05-2025

With: Romaine Johnstone, coach facilitator & trainer
Place and room: BI A0 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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©2022 CEPV - Nella Stücker

Final Reviews – Riponne Rooms / ALICE

27-05-202528-05-2025

Place and room: AAD / Riponne
Category: Miscellaneous

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

01-09-202501-09-2025

With: Afi Sika Kuzeawu,certified systemic coach & psychologist
Place and room: BI A0 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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