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

Glacier-fed streams could well become greener in the future. © 2022 EPFL/Mike Styllas - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Glacier melt puts unique microbial ecosystems under threat

21.03.25EPFL

A pioneering study has revealed how climate change is impacting glacier-fed streams and the essential microbiomes they contain – which could change radically by the end of this century.

EPFL launches of sustainability course for all first-year students

12.03.25Education

Whether they study mathematics, microengineering, life sciences or architecture, all 1862 first-year EPFL students experienced their first session of the common sustainability course on Tuesday February 18. The course is organized by the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Section of ENAC.

New nominations and promotions at ENAC School

11.03.25EPFL

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced new appointments and promotions of professors at ENAC: Alexandra Kushnir, Andreas Schüler, Peter Kummer, Dusan Licina, Priya Ramakrishna and Jan Skaloud. Congratulations to all of them!

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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Architecture

Studies in

Civil Engineering

Studies in

Environmental Sciences and Engineering

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Architecture

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Civil Engineering

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Environmental Engineering

Events

lunch&LEARN: Students as Teachers: How AI challenges students to teach

27-03-202527-03-2025

With: Ola Svensson
Place and room: ME A3 31
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/VD7TV1A9R3Kp3K0mHwbwag
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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