ENV-367: Environmental and construction lawCe cours donne aux étudiant-e-s les connaissances de base nécessaires pour comprendre les dimensions juridiques de leur activité professionnelle concernant l'aménagement du territoire et la protection de l'environnement. Il les sensibilise aux questions ju ...
ENV-501: Material flow analysis and resource managementThis course provides the basis to understand material and energy production and consumption processes. Students learn how to develop a material flow analysis and apply it to resource management cases. They analyze the implications of their models on resour ...
ENG-474: Environmental impact assesmentPrésentation des bases des études d'impact, du contexte et des outils d'évaluation de chacun des sujets et des chapitres. Illustration par de nombreux cas réels, et par un travail de groupe. Discussion des limites des EIE et des nouveaux outils tels que le ...
ENG-410: Energy supply, economics and transitionThis course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how the transition to a renewable energy system can be foste ...
ENV-370: Environmental system analysis and assessmentLes enjeux environnementaux doivent être abordés de façon systémique. L'Analyse du Cycle de Vie (ACV) et l'Analyse de Flux de Matière (AFM) sont des méthodes permettant d'évaluer de façon globale les performances environnementales des produits, des service ...
ENV-304: Treatment and valorization of water and wasteLes systèmes eaux et déchets en Suisse: du traitement end-of-pipe à la fermeture des cycles. Principes de l'adduction, de l'évacuation et du traitement des eaux. Bases du dimensionnement des ouvrages, réseaux et stations d'épuration. Gestion, traitement et ...
ENV-500: Solid waste engineeringThe book "Solid Waste Engineering - A Global Perspective" is the basis for this course. This textbook is an excellent introduction to the field of Solid Waste Engineering and gives insight into relevant solid waste treatment technologies and practices. Tra ...
ENV-471: Environmental economicsIntroduction to economic analysis applied to environmental issues: all the necessary basic concepts, including cost-benefit analysis, for environmental policy making and its instruments (examples: climate, waste, mobility). Introduction to financial calcul ...
HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, population growth. Although grounded in economics, it takes up elements from many other disciplines. ...
ChE-408: Process intensification and green chemistryThe first part of the course (~20%) is devoted to green chemistry and life cycle assessment.
The remainder focuses on process intensification (fundamentals, detailed description of a few selected technologies, with a special focus on microreactors).
Exa ...
AR-128: Building technology I, IIIntroduction à la technologie du bâti: défis environnementaux et sociétaux, exigences techniques et fonctionnelles du bâtiment dans la durée, équilibre statique des ossatures, matériaux de construction, détails d'assemblage et mise en oeuvre, stratégies de ...
AR-683: Mud on the FloorThe seminar is about how to study construction sites. It will foreground both methodological questions and questions of agency. It will critically unpack the entanglements between architecture and the construction industry, real estate, and the material su ...
ME-451: Advanced energeticsMethods for the rational use and conversion of energy in industrial processes : how to analyse the energy usage, calculate the heat recovery by pinch analysis, define heat exchanger network, integrate heat pumps and cogeneration units and realise exergy an ...
PENS-224: Human habitat : a study on the Alpine territoryIl est question d'aborder la domestication des Alpes par l'entremise de l'étude des modalités de construction de l'environnement bâti. Une étude entre architecture, génie civil, anthropologie et sciences du territoire en vue de la compréhension de la const ...
AR-527: Construction policyConstruction Policy seeks to familiarise architecture and engineering students with instruments of policy analysis, evaluation and, eventually, design. This by introducing elements of policy theory, examining historical and contemporary case studies, and p ...
CIVIL-307: Numerical representation / BIMLe cours traite la modélisation des ouvrages en utilisant la méthode du Building Information Modeling (BIM), adaptée aux besoins de l'ingénieur civil.
Il intègre les notions d'échange de modèles numériques entre logiciels et les parties prenantes d'un proj ...
