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.

Education | Research | Innovation

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

Using future data to better predict Switzerland's rail energy demand

20.07.26Research

In collaboration with SBB, EPFL researchers have developed an AI model that improves next-day electricity-demand forecasts across Switzerland’s rail network, reducing major prediction errors by up to 80%.

Managing agricultural water under uncertainty

16.07.26Research

EPFL researchers developed a method to quantify how uncertainty in climate and hydrological models affects estimates of future crop water needs and sustainability.

Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission image over part of the Amazon rainforest in the Amazonas. - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO / ESA Standard Licence

Heatwaves hinder photosynthesis

09.07.26Research

An EPFL study shows that tropical forests regularly exceed the temperatures at which photosynthesis begins to fail, threatening the planet's ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

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

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Civil Engineering

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Environmental Sciences and Engineering

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Events

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

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

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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How to Prepare Successful Grant Proposals: a course for Postdocs

28.08.2026

Category: Internal trainings
Target audience: General public

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

Journée « Apprendre à étudier à l’EPFL »

03.09.2026 09:3015:30

Speaker: Bibliothèque de l’EPFL et Le Centre d’appui à l’enseignement (CAPE)
Location: Rolex Learning Center
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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Proteolytic Inactivation of Viruses in Lakewater

03.09.2026

Speaker: Josephine Lederballe MEIBOM
Location: SG 0211 & Online
Category: Thesis defenses
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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Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? / ARCHIZOOM x CRCL x AUDE BILLARD

08.09.2026

Speaker: Aude Billard, Stefena Parascho
Location: SG 294.22
Category: Cultural events
Target audience: General public

Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? / ARCHIZOOM x CRCL

09.09.202605.12.2026

Speaker: CRCL – Lab for Creative Computation
Location: Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions
Target audience: General public

REGARD Workshop: Writing and publishing in academia

18.09.2026 09:0017:00

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Stauffer, psychologist FSP & scientific editor
Location: EPFL
Category: Internal trainings
Target audience: Informed public

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