2018

At its meeting of 12/13 December 2018 the ETH Board appointed a total of 20 professors and awarded the title of professor to seven individuals - 3 of them at D-BAUG.  

ETH researcher Federica Boscaro explains in the video how she managed to reduce CO2 emissions of cement production by 50%. Together with industrial partners, the researchers now implement this new concept.

Palm oil is a highly controversial product. However, replacing it with other vegetable oils could endanger land and water resources, argues Gabriele Manoli, Institute of Environmental Engineering.

We are proud to announce that Dr. Nebojša Mojsilović, head of the Structural Masonry Group at the Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK), has been elected as a member of the Board of Directors of The Masonry Society.

As part of the «Focus» event series, a lecture was held by Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert from the Institute of Construction & Infrastructure Management on the topic of «Building to heal - Building materials as an opportunity for regeneration» on the June 26, 2018 at the ETH Zürich followed by a panel discussion.

The clay mineralogy laboratory “ClayLab” at the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering (IGT) has again been very successful in this year's Reynold's Cup of the Clay Minerals Society (CMS).

Just before his official greeting message for the opening of the GEOSummit in 2018, on June 6, 2018, the Federal Councilor Guy Parmelin not only visited the exhibition with over 50 exhibitors at the congress, but also the individual installations of the Future Lab.

At the beginning of May 2018, the annual civil engineer FORUM for women took place for the fifth time with a little more than 100 participants, about 20 more as in the previous year. The civil engineer FORUM is an information and networking event organized every spring semester by master students of civil engineering.

Dr Olga Fink (*1983), currently Group Leader at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, as Assistant Professor of Intelligent Maintenance Systems.

We are proud to present our interesting annual report 2017 titled «Different».