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Shaping a Resilient Future: SBE25 Begins in Zurich

This week marks the opening of SBE25 – Sustainable Built Environment Conference, hosted in Zurich from 25 to 27 June 2025 under the theme “Shaping Tomorrow: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment.” The event brings together more than 400 participants from across the globe to explore how holistic thinking can unlock a just and climate-resilient future for our built environment.
Venice Biennale: Golden Lion for climate-resilient architecture

The Golden Lion for the best national contribution at the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice was awarded to the Bahrain Pavilion – a project focused on heat-adapted architecture with original contributions from Professor Alexander Puzrin. In total, five projects involving the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich are on display at the Venice Biennale. They illustrate how research and technology can pave new ways for sustainable construction.
Doctoral candidate Orlando Roman participated in the ESPON Programme territorial research conference

Doctoral candidate Orlando Roman, from Prof. Bryan T. Adey's Chair of
Infrastructure Management, together with the Future Cities Laboratory
Global participated in the ESPON territorial research conference "New
research avenues for territorial development and cohesion in Europe" that
took place in Brussels.
New publication in the Journal Infrastructure Asset Management

Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey's Chair of Infrastructure Management is pleased to announce that the article “On the responsiveness of infrastructure processes: from identifying needs to delivery” by PhD candidate Arnor Elvarsson, has been published in the journal of Infrastructure Asset Management.
The IM Group presents at the STRC Conference in Ascona, Switzerland

Doctoral candidates Arnor Elvarsson and David Zani presented their work on the process-related challenges to building cycling infrastructure at this year's Swiss Transport Research (STRC) Conference, which took place from 14-16 May 2025 in Ascona, Switzerland.