• Exhibition

2025-03-17 19:43:48.0

The BATir department invites you to discover the 2025 edition of the Chair Perspective exhibition - 'La nature en ville'. This exhibition showcases innovative projects created by students of the 'Master en spécialisation en urbanisme et aménagement du territoire de la Faculté d’Architecture', the 'Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles', and the 'BA3 Ingénieur Civil Architecte'.

• Research

2025-03-17 13:24:15.0

A l’initiative de Samia Ben Rajeb (AIA - EBP), Fanny Sbaraglia (Phisoc) et Karel Vanhaesebrouck (LTC), s’est tenue, le 13 mars 2025, la « Game Day », une journée tout entière consacrée à des échanges autour du jeu comme objet de recherche, de collecte de données, d’enseignement et de transmission des savoirs.

• Research

2025-02-21 19:37:14.0

Nathalie Verbrugghe shares her fascinating research about fog harvesting as an alternative / sustainable resource for water with BBC 5 Radio.

• Awards

2025-01-15 15:27:46.0

This Prize is awarded for her Master Thesis work entitled "Earth stabilization via carbonate precipitation by plant-derived urease for building applications", under the supervision of Prof. Alessia Cuccurullo.

• Research

2024-12-20 10:51:44.0

Which sustainable solutions can transform the way we build and to be more respectful of the environment?

• Awards

2025-01-15 15:28:16.0

This Prize is awarded for his Master Thesis work entitled "Computational Study of the Feasibility of Baubotanical Structures", under the supervision of Prof. Péter Z. Berke.

• Awards

2024-10-09 13:54:15.0

At the 11th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Concrete (BEFIB 2024) organized in Dresden (Germany) last September, PhD researcher Ciska Gielis was awarded the Best Presentation Award for her outstanding presentation on the integration of polypropylene (PP) microfibers in 3D Textile Reinforced Cements (3D TRCs).

• Research

2024-12-20 10:41:08.0

ScienceUs is a three year European project funded by the European Commision under the call HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ERA-01-08. The call has specific directions, scopes and objectives. ULB, through the BATir department and Professor Samia BEN RAJEB, is one of the project's partners.

• Public PhD defences

2024-06-17 11:05:01.0

Heritage at the Nexus of Participation and Digital Platforms: Contextual Specificities in Tunisand Theoretical and Experimental

• Teaching

2024-06-17 10:09:10.0

In the framework of the transdisciplinary project TRAN-H-201, the BATir department has welcomed 3 groups of students during the 2023-2024 academic year: in total, 14 boys and 5 girls studying in the 2nd year of their Bachelor in Engineering Sciences at EPB.

• Teaching

2024-04-04 14:09:42.0

In the frame of their elective course of « Energy geomechanics », some of our students of Bruface Master 2 in Civil Engineering had the opportunity to visit the installations of the deep geothermal Balmatt project in Mol. VITO has built there a geothermal energy plant, with 3 wells (3.5 kilometers deep).

• Exhibition

2024-06-17 10:09:36.0

The BATir department is pleased to invite you to the exhibition of the work of the ‘Atelier d'Architecture’ - ULB BA3 Civil Engineering Architects students which runs from 28/03 (opening) to 24/05/2024 at perspective.brussels.

• Research

2024-04-04 13:46:36.0

The AIA research team (under the supervision of Pr. S. Ben Rajeb) has obtained an Innoviris funding for a Research and Development project named HARPO. The objective of HARPO (Human-centered Application for the Resource and Productivity Optimization of buildings) is to develop an innovative software solution based on BIM models to improve the construction site productivity. This would enable the various site players to integrate site execution data directly into the virtual model of the building, in order to better manage the work of teams and optimize execution processes on site. The project is a collaboration between the construction company CIT Blaton, the start-up Kabandy developing BIM technologies, and the two research teams Buildwise and ULB BATir.

• Teaching

2024-03-12 13:21:11.0

This year the 3Ba ULB construction engineering students designed a spaghetti bridge as part of the course ‘Analyse des Structures’. The goal was to create a statically undetermined structure that was loaded symmetrically in the middle of both spans. All the students did a good job, and this year 20 kg of load could be placed on a 232 g bridge structure. Below you can find some atmospheric images and a video.

2024-02-16 15:38:50.0

Bernard Espion and Michel Provost have contributed to the preparation and the writing of the book “L’Université libre de Bruxelles au Solbosch”

• Public PhD defences

2024-02-16 12:31:43.0

Joan BOTEY i BASSOLS’s public defence will explore novel contributions of InSAR in Geological Engineering, more specifically, in land monitoring and the hydrogeological characterisation of the ground, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches at both regional and local scales.

• Public PhD defences

2024-02-02 12:32:48.0

The environmental concern of high CO2 emissions in cement production emphasizes the need for less carbon-intensive concrete materials. Alkali-activated materials (AAMs) offer a promising alternative to Portland cement (PC), but assuming similar mechanical behavior requires a detailed investigation due to distinct microstructure differences. Ali NAQI's public defense will focus on exploring the properties of novel AAMs, including workability, failure characteristics, and elastic/viscoelastic behavior.

• Research

2024-02-22 10:04:18.0

GeoMechanics Laboratory, in collaboration with G-Time department, both at ULB, were involved in the installation of temperature and strain fiber-optics along a series of borehole heat exchangers drilled at USquare.

• Teaching

2024-10-04 12:59:13.0

Site visits are an important part of students’ learning process allowing the students to develop a greater understanding of how civil engineering theory is put into practice. In the frame of their course of « Geotechnical Engineering », our students of Bruface Master 1 in Civil and Architectural Engineering had the opportunity to visit the construction site of “Constitution station” managed by STIB-MIVB in Brussels.

• Awards

2024-12-20 10:40:22.0

Yahroun Hermans received the Frank Goes Prize from the Fédération des Entrepreneurs Généraux de la Construction. This Prize is awarded the prize for his Master Thesis work entitled "Limit Analysis for Non-Periodic Historic Masonry Panels: An Engineering Homogenisation Approach”, under the supervision of Prof. Thierry J. Massart, Prof. Gabriele Milani (Politecnico di Milano) and Dr. Nicola Grillanda (Politecnico di Milano).

• Public PhD defences

2024-02-02 12:33:04.0

Mina Khodadad successfully defended her PhD titled "Green Infrastructure for Water Security-Based Urban Planning: A Comparative Analysis of Systemic Urban Plans and Spatial Flood-based GI Priority Layouts in Monterrey and Brussels". This was a joint PhD research between EPB / BATir and ITESM (Mexico) supervised by prof. Ahmed Z. KHAN (SUFI, BATir) and prof. Ismael AGUILAR-BARAJAS (ITESM, Mexico).

• Public PhD defences

2024-02-02 12:32:57.0

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.

• Awards

2025-01-15 15:33:38.0

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

• Research

2024-02-22 10:06:27.0

Exchange on Research in Architecture and Urbanism.

2023-11-08 17:21:13.0

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.

• Research

2024-02-22 10:07:16.0

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

• Teaching

2024-02-22 14:19:07.0

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

• Teaching

2024-06-17 10:10:14.0

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.

• Research

2025-01-15 15:33:56.0

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

• Awards

2024-02-22 10:12:30.0

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.

• Public PhD defences

2025-02-21 10:23:23.0

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.

• Public PhD defences

2024-02-02 12:33:22.0

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

2025-01-15 15:31:58.0

Rika Devos has recently joined the editorial board of Bulletin KNOB, the peer reviewed journal of the oldest association of heritage in The Netherlands.

• Research

2024-02-22 10:12:52.0

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.

• Awards

2024-02-22 10:13:24.0

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.

• Awards

2024-02-22 10:13:50.0

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.

• Teaching

2024-02-22 10:15:21.0

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.

• Research

2024-02-22 10:15:50.0

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.”

• Research

2024-02-22 10:16:35.0

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.