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November 8, 2023

Alkali-activated materials are a more sustainable alternative to Portland cement in the construction industry, but one of the factors still hindering a widespread adoption is the uncertainties about their volume stability. The public defence of Marco Sirotti will focus on the drying shrinkage of alkali-activated slag, its causes, the factors affecting it, and the consequences it has on durability.

November 13, 2023

The ULB-EPB-BATir student team won third prize and €1000 in the Concrete Day Student competition.

November 15, 2023

Exchange on Research in Architecture and Urbanism.

November 8, 2023

Which is the result of a nomination process undertaken in the Spring of 2023. The Journal is affiliated with the Society for American City and Regional Planning History and is considered a journal of record in the area of planning history.

November 10, 2023

The AIA team is launching a survey to assess the current state of collaboration while identifying the success factors and obstacles encountered by professionals.

October 17, 2023

The Engineering School of Brussels invites you to the opening of the exhibition of the architectural projects realised by the Architectural Engineering students.

November 5, 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.

September 20, 2023

International conference Building for the Nation Abroad in Rome, 21-22 September 2023

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.

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.

June 8, 2023

Ms Amy PHILLIPS will present and defend in public an original thesis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.