PhD Student Position in Interoperable Digital Workflows for Regenerative Building Design and Perform — EPFL
- Location
- Fribourg
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
Mission
The South–North Laboratory for Sustainable Construction and Conservation (SONO Lab) at EPFL is recruiting a full-time PhD Student (100%) within the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), based at the EPFL Fribourg associated campus.
SONO Lab investigates low-carbon, climate-responsive and socially inclusive approaches to building design, construction and conservation.
- Mission
- The South–North Laboratory for Sustainable Construction and Conservation (SONO Lab) at EPFL is recruiting a full-time PhD Student (100%) within the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), based at the EPFL Fribourg associated campus.
- Main duties and responsibilities
- As a PhD Student, you will take scientific responsibility for developing and completing your doctoral dissertation, formulate original research questions, and establish a rigorous methodology.
Main responsibilities
- Main duties and responsibilities
- As a PhD Student, you will take scientific responsibility for developing and completing your doctoral dissertation, formulate original research questions, and establish a rigorous methodology.
- You will conduct computational, experimental and field-based research in collaboration with academic, technical, institutional, software-development and industry partners.
- Your responsibilities will include collecting, managing, analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data, preparing articles for peer-reviewed journals, presenting findings at conferences, workshops and project meetings, contributing to REGEN4BE deliverables, demonstrations and dissemination activities, and participating in teaching and, where appropriate, the supervision of student projects.
- Within REGEN4BE, you will contribute to the development and scientific validation of the Regenerative Design Intelligence Platform (REDIP) and its building-data and performance-assessment workflows.
- You will develop and test interoperable methods linking BIM, openBIM and IFC with building-energy models, Life-Cycle Assessment, whole-life-carbon calculations, circularity indicators, monitoring data, occupant feedback and Post-Occupancy Evaluation.
- You will investigate data continuity, traceability, uncertainty and interope
Application process
- As an integrated strand of the doctoral thesis, the candidate will apply and adapt the REGEN4BE framework to selected earth-block and Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3)-based housing systems in African contexts.
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