| Time: | March 19, 2024, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
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We are very excited to welcome Corentin Fivet – Professor of architecture and structural design at the Structural Xploration Lab EPFL, Lausanne – on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 from 6:00-7:30 pm in our upcoming Constructive Conversations event.
Corentin Fivet will give a lecture on "Waste No More – The needed (re-)discovery of the intrinsic value of disused construction products".
The event will take place digitally and in person:
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Title: |
Waste No More – The needed (re-)discovery of the intrinsic value of disused construction products |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Corentin Fivet |
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Date: |
March 19, 2024 | 6:00-7:30 pm |
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Location: |
ILEK, Pfaffenwaldring 14, University of Stuttgart |
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This lecture is part of the AdvanceAEC partner seminar series. Please register or log-in to your account to access the event credentials. |
Lecture Abstract
The construction sector stands out as a major contributor to Earth's pollution levels. Yet there is a growing trend for buildings to be demolished, even though their components are in excellent condition. The reuse of these components in new construction activities represents a circular strategy offering significant environmental benefits, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and material extraction. While this approach has yet to reach its full industrial potential, it is reshaping designers' workflows and prompting the development of new computational methods and construction processes. After a contextualization of the current state of practice, Prof. Corentin Fivet will discuss recent research outputs from EPFL's Structural Xploration Lab and their potential societal impact, with a focus on the reuse of obsolete timber, steel, and concrete elements in new building structures.
Corentin Fivet
Corentin Fivet is Professor of architecture and structural design at EPFL where he develops computational methods and design processes to increase the circularity of building structures. Under his direction, the Structural Xploration Lab (SXL) is a frontrunner in the areas of structural optimization and groundbreaking large-scale demonstrator projects with reclaimed waste. Corentin Fivet holds a PhD degree from UCLouvain, Belgium. He completed a two-year postdoctoral stay at MIT, USA, prior to joining the Architecture Institute at EPFL in 2016.
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This lecture is part of the AdvanceAEC partner seminar series. In 2023 eight partner seminars will take place. Partner seminars are focused on cross-sectional and interdisciplinary topics and are open to all network partners. If you attend at least six of the eight seminars, you will receive a certificate of time attended. You must register for this at the beginning of each event. The procedure for this will be briefly explained before each seminar.
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