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Impact of substrate clogging on vertical connectivity

Giovanni De Cesare, Romain Maxime Dubuis, Robin Schroff

Connectivity between the hyporheic zone and the flow is essential for the development of benthos and the reproductive success of spawning fish. The infiltration of fine sediment leads to clogging of the riverbed, reducing porosity and vertical water exchan ...

2023

One possible future for Grande Dixence

Sarah Catherine Amélie Planchamp

IPCC reports stop their predictions in 2100. An abrupt line in eighty years from now. Yet infrastructure, including buildings last for longer than that: what we build now is the heritage we will have to deal with when we reach that line. As such, engineers ...

2023

Swiss Coloniality – Unearthing its (in)visibilities: Tracing a fragmented visual and material history of Swiss coloniality between Switzerland and Brazil

Denise Bertschi

Artists, urbanists, anthropologists, architects and other specialists from Russia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Kyrgyzstan and other countries are the participants of the “Colonial Endurance Across Eastern Geographies” laboratory. Together they are to exp ...

2023

Designing a District Energy Infrastructure-a Case-Study in Lisbon

François Maréchal, Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

The paper describes a case study on the design of district energy infrastructure for the green-field project of the Vale de Santo Antonio (Lisbon, Portugal). The methodology is based on a novel framework built on the sequential integration of three softwar ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Business power and the regulation of pollution: oil refineries in Switzerland in the early 1960s

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

In the late 1950s and in the 1960s, in response to the surge of gasoline and fuel oil consumption, several international oil companies planned the building of refineries in Switzerland, linked to European pipelines. Two were realized, out of four propositi ...

2022

Steel, a material to reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

The destructive impact of the construction industry on the planet and its inhabitants is no longer in question. Global warming, waste management, depletion of natural resources, air and soil pollution are all issues that must be urgently addressed. They ar ...

2022

HolA: Holistic and Autonomous Attestation for IoT Networks

Flavio Toffalini, Eleonora Losiouk

Collective Remote Attestation (CRA) is a well-established approach where a single Verifier attests the integrity of multiple devices in a single execution of the challenge-response protocol. Current CRA solutions are well-suited for Internet of Things (IoT ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Urban living, mobility & health – the future of our cities

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

The Covid-19 pandemic brought to light the social inequalities and exposed frailties in the access to certain fundamental human rights, such as access to health and mobility. The type of housing, sanitation level, mobility, and urban structures play an ess ...

2021

Impact hydrodynamique des vagues contre les bâtiments

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Davide Wüthrich

Les tsunamis, les vagues d'impulsion et les ruptures de barrages représentent des phénomènes extrêmes qui mettent en danger la vie des personnes et la fonctionnalité des infrastructures. Des événements récents dans l'Océan Indien (2004), au Japon (2011) et ...

2020

A risk-based multi-level stress test methodology: application to six critical non-nuclear infrastructures in Europe

Anton Schleiss, Daniela Rodrigues, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos

Recent natural disasters that seriously affected critical infrastructure (CI) with significant socio-economic losses and impact revealed the need for the development of reliable methodologies for vulnerability and risk assessment. In this paper, a risk-bas ...

2020

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