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Welcome to BATir
Being part of the Brussels School of Engineering at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), we welcome you to our website.
Welcome to BATir
Being part of the Brussels School of Engineering at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), we welcome you to our website.
Welcome to BATir
Being part of the Brussels School of Engineering at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), we welcome you to our website.
BATir is a unique, Belgian and multidisciplinary engineering department, dedicated to the built environment, from soils to materials and structures, from architecture to sustainable urban planning, from a modelling, experimental and/or design perspective.
BATir has around one hundred members, including 11 full-time academics and 8 part-time visiting academics. BATir is made up of 5 research units: the Civil Engineering Laboratory (LGC), the GeoMechanics Laboratory (LGM), the research unit in Computational Mechanics (SMC), the research unit in Architecture & Architectural Engineering (AIA) and the research unit in Sustainable Urban Futures Institute (SUFI).
BATir's research activities are characterised by an excellent balance between numerical and experimental work. The excellence of this research has led to the involvement of BATir members in numerous research projects at international, national and regional level.
BATir is involved in various study programmes, including the BSc. in Architectural Engineering, the BRUFACE MSc. in Civil and Architectural Engineering, the Advanced MSc. in Transitional Urban and Regional Planning and the MSc. in Urban Studies. The teaching activities offered in these programmes are based, among other things, on the cutting-edge research activities developed at BATir.
News
How to design a climbing tree in tensegrity?
October 3, 2023
As part of the transdisciplinary project TRAN-H-201 organized during the 2022-2023 academic year by the construction section, the BATir department welcomed 3 groups of students.
International colloquium : Building for the Nation Abroad
September 20, 2023
International conference Building for the Nation Abroad in Rome, 21-22 September 2023
BATir student Eleonora Rubinacci has received second place in the architectural design contest Switch2Save 2023 for her design Ghameleome.
October 2, 2023
BATir student Eleonora Rubinacci (MFE on Biomimetic Design supervised by prof. Ahmed Z. Khan, 2021-22) has received second place in the architectural design contest Switch2Save 2023 for her design Ghameleome.
Jingbin Yang obtained his PhD on Effects of Superabsorbent Polymers on the Shrinkage, Cracking, and Self-Healing Properties of Alkali-Activated Slag Systems
July 13, 2023
Jingbin Yang successfully defended his PhD entitled “Effects of Superabsorbent Polymers on the Shrinkage, Cracking, and Self-Healing Properties of Alkali-Activated Slag Systems”. He was being supervised by Zhenping Sun from Tongji University, Nele De Belie from Ghent University and Didier Snoeck from Université libre de Bruxelles.
Toward Citizen-Centered Urban Green: Advancing understandings of supply and demand interactions and inequalities
June 8, 2023
Ms Amy PHILLIPS will present and defend in public an original thesis.
Rika Devos joined the editorial board of Bulletin KNOB
July 13, 2023
Rika Devos has recently joined the editorial board of Bulletin KNOB, the peer reviewed journal of the oldest association of heritage in The Netherlands.
Role models in research
June 1, 2023
CALIPER is a Project that supports 9 Research Organisations across Europe to develop Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) and engage the local Innovation Hubs to transfer the gained knowledge beyond academia.
RILEM Spring Convention & 4th International Congress on Materials & Structural Stability
June 1, 2023
At the RILEM Spring Convention & 4th International Congress on Materials & Structural Stability, held in Rabat, Didier Snoeck received one of four Communication Awards. One of the other prizes was awarded to a publication on the theme of his former PhD student José Roberto Tenório Filho.
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Finalist of the Engaged University of the Year Award
June 1, 2023
With "Engineering a Sustainable Future: Sensitize, Transform, Act Together", ULB is one of the five finalists of the Triple E award: Engaged University of the Year Award.
Table ronde : Enjeux de la transition dans le secteur de la construction
June 1, 2023
On Thursday 16th of March, a roundtable discussion: Transition Issues in the Construction Sector, took place with Samia Ben Rajeb, Giulia Caterina Verga and Didier Snoeck, on sustainability related to urban planning, sustainable structural design and building materials. The event was widely attended by students from all years from our programs in Architecture Engineering and Civil Engineering. It was an engaging discussion.
Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History
June 1, 2023
Rika Devos of BATir-AIA is coordinator of the EOS (2022) research project “Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History.”
18 months of monitoring of concrete repairs in the Rogier tunnel
June 1, 2023
Five pairs of embedded piezoelectric transducers have been installed in the ceiling of the Rogier tunnel in Brussels in June 2019 in order to follow the state of health of concrete repairs.
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