Publication

Design and construction of a railway bridge in reinforced UHPFRC – World’s first UHPFRC bridge on a main railway line

Related publications (38)

Teaching Not To

Two design studios were successively taught in two schools of architecture: one at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the other at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, based on "A Global Morato ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2024

FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola

Carefully extracting reinforced concrete (RC) elements from soon-to-be demolished structures and reusing them as load-bearing components is an emerging circular low-carbon alternative to building new structures. As floor construction typically accounts for ...

IABSE2024

South Park

Marson Korbi

This article focuses on the history of one specific area of the city of Tirana, the capital of Albania: the downtown area, or the so-called 'small ring'. The text analyzes the interventions put forward by different administrations (both right and left-wing ...

2023

A Collaborative Workflow to Automate the Design, Analysis, and Construction of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

Yves Weinand, Petras Vestartas, Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Pierre Latteur

This paper introduces a computational framework that fosters collaboration between architects, engineers, and contractors by bridging the gap between architectural design, structural analysis, and digital construction. The present research is oriented towa ...

CAADRIA2022

Common ground. Construction d'une forme alternative d'espace public: marché couvert au coeur des tensions inter-ethniques. Mitrovica

Leonita Gjocaj

Le projet propose la construction d’un common ground – une infrastructure de marché positionnée le long du fleuve Ibar à Mitrovica au nord du Kosovo. Fortement influencé par l’esprit de production des Balkans, le contexte culturel kosovar et l’industrie du ...

2022

Digital twins for post-earthquake damage assessment of free-standing buildings including damage information

Katrin Beyer, Radhakrishna Achanta, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero, Amir Rezaie

We present a pipeline for the automatic generation of digital twins of free-standing buildings for damage assessment. Our method takes multiple view images of the target building as input and processes them to produce a 3D model in levels of detail (LOD) f ...

2022

Experimental techniques for suspended structures: the construction of Chauderon hanging building in Lausanne (R. Willomet, P. Dumartheray and J. Prouvé, 1970-1974)

Giuseppe Galbiati

The lecture, starting from a synoptic analysis of the European situation and Belgian realizations of suspended buildings in the years 1960 - 1980, will mainly deal with the construction history of the Administrative Buildings of the Place Chauderon in Laus ...

2021

Structural design methodology in Integrally-Attached Timber Plate structures

Petras Vestartas, Aryan Rezaei Rad

The immediate application of research discoveries requires a global and exact understanding of the structure under consideration. To gain insight into the complex behavior of structures, numerical simulations are carried out in parallel to physical experim ...

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group2021

Notes on learning through building in the Open City: Body, Craft and Materiality

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur

The presented research project was carried out through a series of international summer workshops with the vocation of being, at the same time, atelier, construction site, training instrument, and inhabited space. It thus at once presents: an alternative e ...

Park Books2021

Design and temporal issues in Soil Bioengineering structures for the stabilisation of shallow soil movements

Giovanni De Cesare, Massimiliano Schwarz

In the last decades, soil bioengineering has gained considerable popularity worldwide, especially in hillslope, riverbank, and earth embankment stabilisation works. The use of plants as a building material transfers the plant multifunctionality within engi ...

2021

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.