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
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Two ENAC professors granted ERC Advanced Grants

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Michel Bierlaire and Dimitros Lignos have been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants.

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The hidden atmospheric cost of Arctic shipping

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A study led by the EPFL suggests that shipping emissions influence climate-relevant cloud formation and may impact regional climate processes far beyond the polar region.

Scientists worked on the Tibetan Plateau, analysing 50 rivers in the headwaters of Asia’s largest river basins. ©L.Zhang

Permafrost is not simply a carbon time bomb

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An EPFL study shows that permafrost thaw not only releases large amounts of carbon but can also trigger processes that remove it from the atmosphere. The study’s findings will help improve climate models.

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

Document selection: Seeking Shade

 18.06.202620.08.2026   07:0023:45

Location:  Espace Découverte
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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

 04.03.202629.09.2026  

Speaker: ACM    
Location:  Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions
Target audience: General public

Summer Workshop Cavaione (GR) – LAPIS

 03.07.202607.07.2026  

Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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Rencontre autour du livre – Accueillir les différences dans la ville / LASUR

 09.07.2026   18:3021:00

Location:  SV 1717
Category: Public Science Events
Target audience: General public

In the Quest for -Lost- Meaning: The Vernacular Architecture Discourse in the Age of Environmental Awakening, 1939-1972

 16.07.2026  

Speaker: Vasileios CHANIS
Location:  Fondation Braillard Architectes, Rue Saint-Léger 16; 1205 Genève Switzerland &  Online
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

Sources and chemical composition of natural and anthropogenic aerosols in the central Arctic

 31.07.2026  

Speaker: Benjamin Jérémy Laurent HEUTTE
Location:  ALP 1 109 &  Online
Category: Thesis defenses
Target audience: General public

Hagneck hydroelectric power station

XVI International Symposium on Ecohydraulics, ISE 2026

 16.08.202620.08.2026  

Location:  SwissTech Center
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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ENAC Summer Workshop: Drawing Research Platform London

 16.08.202621.08.2026  

Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Gaznat – EPFL Research Programme – Second Call for proposals

 17.08.2026  

Category: Call for proposal
Target audience: General public

Summer workshop EPFL Fribourg 2025, photo: Nicolas Gemelli

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

 24.08.202604.09.2026  

Location:  EPFL Fribourg
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Conférence mise en œuvre de l’intégration du photovoltaïque à l’enveloppe du bâtiment (BIPV) dans la rénovation

 25.08.2026   18:1519:45

Location:  BC 420
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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Summer School: Capitalizing on Uncertainty — Structures, Processes, Mindsets

 31.08.202605.09.2026   09:0018:00

Location:  GC B3 30
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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SNSF: Swiss Quantum Call 2026

 01.09.2026  

Category: Call for proposal
Target audience: General public

Open Science Days 2026

 07.09.202608.09.2026   08:3018:00

Location:  Unil, Géopolis
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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

 22.09.2026  

Speaker: Kethsana Muong
Location:  Archizoom
Category: Cultural events
Target audience: General public

DACH Geobiology Symposium 2026 Poster

DACH Geobiology Symposium 2026 Lausanne

 24.09.202625.09.2026  

Location:  SV 1717
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

PhD Candidates: Welcome to EPFL!

 05.11.2026   16:0019:00

Location:  RLC E1 240
Category: Convention
Target audience: Informed public

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Semester Exhibition

 14.12.202618.12.2026  

Location:  SG Building
Category: Exhibitions
Target audience: General public

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