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SUMMARY:Sustainability Collider - Sustainability in Construction and Urban
  Futures
DTSTART:20260306T150000
DTEND:20260306T180000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Co-organized by the Vice Presidency for strategic initiatives 
 (VPS) and EPFL’s Center for Wordwide Sustainable Construction (CWSC)\, t
 his forum serves as a platform for dialogue between EPFL’s research labs
 \, startups from its innovation ecosystem\, industries and governmental ag
 encies\, around the issues of sustainable construction and urban developme
 nt.\n\nRATIONAL\nThe construction and urban development sectors stand at t
 he center of the global sustainability transition. Buildings and infrastru
 cture shape how we live\, move\, and consume resources. They also represen
 t one of the largest sources of material use\, energy demand\, and carbon 
 emissions worldwide.\nAs cities expand and societies face increasing press
 ure to decarbonize\, the challenge is no longer incremental improvement\, 
 but systemic transformation: rethinking how we design\, build\, select mat
 erials\, and develop urban environments from the ground up.\nThis collider
  will explore how innovative building materials\, circular construction ap
 proaches\, and forward-looking urban development strategies can dramatical
 ly reduce environmental impact while enhancing performance\, resilience\, 
 and quality of life.\nThrough expert presentations and a multidisciplinary
  roundtable\, participants will examine how research\, industry\, and publ
 ic stakeholders can collaborate to accelerate the adoption of sustainable 
 construction solutions\, moving from laboratory breakthroughs to real-worl
 d implementation at scale.\n\nPROGRAMME\n15h00 – 15h05 : Welcome notes &
  Introduction by Prof. Katrin Beyer\, Dean School of Architecture\, Civil 
 & Environmental Engineering\n\n15h05 – 16h30 :\n\n	Prof. Karen Scrivene
 r\, Laboratory of Construction Materials: Decarbonising Global Growth: Th
 e Scalable Role of Low-Carbon Cement\n	Dr Francois Girod\, Head of Circula
 r Economy\, Holcim (Suisse) SA: The challenges of sustainability in cemen
 t & concrete production\n	Prof. David Ruggiero\, Concrete Behaviour and St
 ructural Design Laboratory: The structural diet: Designing more material-
 efficient buildings\n	Prof. Gabriele Manoli\, Laboratory of Urban and Envi
 ronmental Systems\; Planning the Unplannable: Navigating Wicked Urban Pro
 blems\n	Short pitches by Startups and organisations\n	\n		Nicolas Hermant\
 , Medusoil: From the lab to the building site: how biocementation connec
 ts science and environmental responsibility\n		Dr Zuhaib Batra\, GBDI: F
 illing the gaps with Data: Global Building Data Initiative\n		Mélanie Lut
 z and Mattia Pretolani\, Coopérative Origo: Knotweed : from a local inv
 asive plant to an effective insulator\n		SEPAR\, Artem Polsky\n		Dr Thibau
 lt Demoulin\, Oxara AG: Towards sustainable\, circular\, and affordable 
 housing\n	\n	\n\n16h30 – 17h00 : Panel discussion moderated by Anne Dek
 eukelaere\, Executive Director Centre for Worldwide Sustainable Constructi
 on\n\n17h00 – 17h05 : Synthesis and Key messages by Dr Frédéric Dreye
 r\, Vice-presidency for Innovation and Impact & ENAC ​​​​​​\n
 \n17h05 – 18h00 : Cocktail reception – Poster presentations - Network
 ing
LOCATION:RLC E1 240 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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