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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ENAC’s latest news

Three members of the Medusoil team – Vincent Laurençon, Dimitrios Terzis and Roberto Perez – at their production plant in Vaud canton. © Alain Herzog / EPFL 2025 - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Exploring the use of environmental strains for biocement production

Research

A recent study examines the effectiveness of environmental strains for the production of biocement. The study’s lead author, Dimitrios Terzis, is an EPFL senior scientist and a co-founder of Medusoil, a company that produces organic binders and that opened a production plant in Vaud in 2024.

The researchers and study's co-authors Wenlong Liao and Fernando Porté-Agel. © 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

New study improves the trustworthiness of wind power forecasts

Research

By applying techniques from explainable artificial intelligence, engineers can improve users’ confidence in forecasts generated by artificial intelligence models. This approach was recently tested on wind power generation by a team that includes experts from EPFL.

The volunteers went out in the field, collecting sediment and invertebrate samples – indicators of water quality – at 35 sites. © Laureline Duvillard 2024 EPFL

A citizen-science initiative evaluates the impact of tire particles

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Twenty volunteers spent six months learning about the scientific method through a citizen-science initiative led by EPFL. The initiative was part of a study to determine how the microplastic particles released by tire wear are affecting lakes and rivers in Vaud Canton.

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

EESS talk on "Beyond mere survival: How some fungi thrive where most life falters"

11-03-202511-03-2025

With: Dr. Cene Gostinčar, University of Ljubljana
Place and room: ALP 1 107
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Boris Hamzeian, Cuno Brullmann, Le Forum du Centre Pompidou / DC-LAB

11-03-202511-03-2025

With: Boris Hamzeian Cuno Brullmann
Place and room: AAC 1 14
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61863774767
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Tempus Transitus, Vernissage du livre et exposition / MANSLAB

10-03-202516-03-2025

Place and room: Foyer SG
Category: Exhibitions

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

Inaugural Lecture – Prof. Konstantinos Karapiperis

12-03-202512-03-2025

With: Prof. Konstantinos Karapiperis and Prof. Emmanuel Denarié
Place and room: SG 1138
Category: Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture

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Inaugural Lecture – Prof. Emmanuel Denarié

12-03-202512-03-2025

With: Prof. Konstantinos Karapiperis and Prof. Emmanuel Denarié
Place and room: SG 1138
Category: Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture

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The EPFL Sustainable Innovation Challenge

13-03-202514-03-2025

Place and room: Rolex Learning Center – Forum & Library
Category: Convention

Course Design

14-03-202514-03-2025

With: Joelyn de Lima, Valentina Rossi
Place and room: CM 0 13
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Atom Probe Tomography and Its Application in the R&D of Al Alloys for the Automotive Industry

14-03-202514-03-2025

With: Dr. Katherine Rice, CAMECA Instruments & Dr. Zeqin Liang, Novelis
Place and room: MXC 315
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67010728363
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Synthetic Lightweight Aggregates: Engineered Solution for Sustainable Material Management

14-03-202514-03-2025

With: Chris Swan
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63183614775
Category: Conferences – Seminars

3D mapping of a reef in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, November 2023. © Lukasz Warzecha

Red Sea corals – Bridging science & diplomacy in favor of the « Reefs of Hope »

16-03-202516-04-2025

Place and room: Place Ada Lovelace
Category: Exhibitions

EESS Student talk on "Exploratory hunt for viruses uncovers diverse phages in alpine streams"

18-03-202518-03-2025

With: Wai Hoe Chin, PhD Student, RIVER
Place and room: ALP 1 107
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Écologie humaine. Une science sociale des milieux de vie, Daniel Cefaï & Mathieu Berger / LASUR

18-03-202518-03-2025

With: Daniel Cefaï est directeur d’études à l’EHESS et chercheur au Centre d’étude des mouvements sociaux. Il a publié sur la sociologie des mobilisations collectives et des problèmes publics et l’histoire et la méthodologie de l’enquête de terrain. Il mène une recherche actuellement sur l’histoire des sciences sociales à Chicago et sur le lien entre pragmatisme des années 1890-1930, sciences sociales et mouvements sociaux aux Etats-Unis.  Mathieu Berger est professeur de sociologie à l’UCLouvain où il dirige l’Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur Bruxelles. Ses recherches récentes portent sur les théories des espaces/milieux de vie appliquées à la ville et aux politiques urbaines ; et sur une critique écologique et sémiotique des théories de la démocratie délibérative.
Place and room: AAC 0 06
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Home of the Free: the Political Economies of Suburbia in the United States

18-03-202518-03-2025

With: Nagy MAKHLOUF
Place and room: MED 0 1418
Category: Thesis defenses

Hydro-Mechanical and Gas Transport Properties of Shales in the Context of Deep Geological Repositories

18-03-202518-03-2025

With: Qazim LLABJANI
Place and room: ELA 1
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66218486714
Category: Thesis defenses

School Lecture Series: Harquitectes / EPFL Architecture

18-03-202518-03-2025

With: Roger Tudó
Place and room: Auditorium SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Défi: vivre un mois de jeûne de consommation du 18 mars au 18 avril!

18-03-202518-04-2025

Place and room: CM 1 258
Category: Miscellaneous

Sun Shines on Architecture / ARCHIZOOM

19-03-202519-03-2025

With: Marilyne Andersen, Paolo Ricci, Yasmine Calisesi, Cyril Veillon, Giulia Bini, Alice Bucknell, Matthew C. Wilson
Place and room: SG 1212
Category: Cultural events

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lunch&LEARN: Scaffolding Creativity: Exploring Artificial Peers and Structured Interaction in Collaborative Idea Generation

20-03-202520-03-2025

With: Jérémy La Scala and Denis Gillet
Place and room: ME A3 31
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/pmkzJmT0RI-K57x04_h1kA
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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