April 2022

Catherine De Wolf firmly believes that digitalisation can help shift the construction industry towards a more circular economy. The D-BAUG assistant professor and her research group recently completed a hands-​on project to illustrate how this could work.

This spring, the first edition of the "D-BAUG Urban Research Seminar" is to take place. The new initiative aims to build a bottom-up network that brings together early career researchers and their ongoing urban research projects. 12 exciting short talks will present the variety of perspectives and methods from which urban research is approached at D-BAUG. All researchers and the interested public are welcome to join.

Using an artificial neural network, researchers around D-BAUG Professor Konrad Schindler have created the first high-resolution global vegetation height map for 2020 from satellite images. This map could provide key information for fighting climate change and species extinction, as well as for sustainable regional development planning.

From ERC research grant to proof of concept to implementation: Professor Eleni Chatzi and team have developed a set of data-driven tools for the assessment of the health of wind turbines in operation. Their intelligent, low-priced monitoring system is now brought into practice with the help of two industry collaborators, the cloud-software company Adranis and the infrastructure provider Osmos. The aim is to bring their wind turbine doctor to hundreds of fleets across the world.

In recent weeks ETH Zurich has extended the range of support it offers to students and researchers affected by the war in Ukraine. Here is an overview of the most important recent developments.