Platforms and services

 

Atelier des Maquettes

At the smart living lab in Fribourg, the atelier PopUp offers an indoor and outdoor space of several hundred square meters, fully-equipped (woodshop, metalshop, plastershop, paintshop) to carry out research and development projects for the built environment of the future.

Archives of modern construction

The Acm promotes the study and knowledge of modern architecture, construction and urbanism. To this end it collects, conserves and makes available archives left by architects, engineers and firms working in and around construction. The Acm has in hand some 200 archives bearing on the period 1850 to the present day. (FR only)

Atelier PopUp

At the smart living lab in Fribourg, the atelier PopUp offers an indoor and outdoor space of several hundred square meters, fully-equipped (woodshop, metalshop, plastershop, paintshop) to carry out research and development projects for the built environment of the future.

 

Data à l’ENAC

ENAC-IT4Research supports researchers with a “Data Help Desk” and advanced services to support making the best use of research data and building effective and reproducible pipelines.

ENAC-IT

ENAC-IT provides local IT support to ENAC staff and units ans supports the EPFL IT services in collaboration with the DSI.

The Structural Engineering Platform (GIS)

The Structural Engineering Platform (GIS) is an experimental platform offering the opportunity to test structural materials at large-scale using cutting-edge technology in measurement techniques and machinery. The GIS can rely on the extensive know-how of its technical staff to custom-design test to solve any real-life problem a lab or company may have.

Central Environmental Laboratory – GR-CEL

The GR-CEL meets an increasing need for information on the functioning of living natural and man-made ecosystems in the field of the environmental and engineering sciences. Therefore, and in order to answer at best to requests from within EPFL and outside, the CEL has split its expertise into two smaller divisions focusing on complementary activities.

Equipment for environmental testing

This includes robots, wireless sensors networks, optical radars and geomatic equipment. For example, distributed temperature sensing (DTS) systems, wireless and self-powered weather stations that transmit data in real-time over the internet (Sensorcope), X-band polarimetric radar, light imaging, detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems, GPS and INS mapping systems, and a mobile mapping vehicle that uses automatic extraction of major roadways.

Interdisciplinary Platform for X-ray micro-tomography (PIXE)

The PIXE platform is designed to perform very high resolution imaging on natural or engineered materials. It provides researchers and students with non-destructive quantitative data on the internal density contrasts and structures of their studied materials.

 

Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions Plateform

The Hydraulic Constructions Platform (PL-LCH) of the EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) maintains a permanent synergy between his missions of teaching, research and services.

PL-MTI measurement platform

The PL-MTI serves as an interface between the scientific, operational (OT) and IT domains; it builds, installs and manages electronic devices to capture and process data, and provides expertise in smart buildings and the modeling of the built environment

Technical Platform – PLTE

Supports teaching and research at ENAC.Schaüblin 4-axis CNC mill, CNC Spinner lathe, Huron MU44 mill, Schaüblin 53 mill, Schaüblin 135 lathe, Martin T60 circular saw, and a Citroline 3000/21A wire soldering station.