Concept
Design–bid–build
Publications associées (31)
Costs of the energy transition and solution – Housing
The energy transition in Switzerland requires refurbishing 80% of the buildings stock, which will mobilize up to 70% of the construction workforce, leaving nearly no one to build new homes. How can we then accommodate 10.4 million people in 2050? ...
2024Steel, a material to reuse
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 ...
2022Learning from Failures: Reflections on the Role of Project Design and Design Management in the Procurement of Non-Standard Buildings
The opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 1997 heralded the beginning of an era in world architecture defined by iconic buildings underpinned by mediatic exposure and the belief in the power of design to leverage urban conditions. Today, a conspic ...
2021Design 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 ...
2021A Comparison of optimal measurement-system design with engineering judgement for bridge load testing
Due to conservative approaches in construction design and practice, infrastructure often has hidden reserve capacity. When quantified, this reserve has potential to improve decisions related to asset management. Field measurements, collected through load t ...
2021A performance-driven simulation workflow for PV integration into the design process: application on an innovative building project in Switzerland
In the construction sector, the integration of active elements functioning both as building envelope material and on-site electricity generator is identified as a key measure to achieve the 2050 targets and carbon neutrality (Aguacil Moreno, 2019; Aguacil ...
2021Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures
Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures outlines a new design methodology for digitally fabricated spatial timber plate structures, presented with examples from recent construction projects. It proposes an innovative and sustainable design me ...
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 20222021Hydraulic soil failure due to artesian ground conditions during the construction of a hydro electrical power plant on Sakarya river
The presence of an artesian aquifer lying under the construction site of a hydro-electrical power plant had not been considered in the design project. The foreseen excavation works could not be carried out due to a high risk of hydraulic heave of the excav ...
2020Measurement-system design for structural identification
In developed countries, the management of existing civil infrastructure is challenging due to evolving functional requirements, aging and climate change. Due to conservative approaches in construction design and practice, infrastructure often has hidden re ...
EPFL2020Energy renovation of the built heritage housing based on the living building challenge certification. Case study in Bresca (Spain)
In light of increasing sustainability requirements, one of the challenges related to the heritage building stock consists in finding a balance between preserving the existing architectural character and improving energy efficiency. The project presented in ...
2020