Intensive Course on Energy Geostructures: Analysis and Design

The course aims at providing a sound theoretical background as well as practical examples and exercises to develop the attendees’ knowledge on the behaviour and performance of energy piles, barrettes, slabs, walls and tunnels. The geotechnical, structural and energy design of the previous energy geostructures will be tackled through lectures, hand exercises and numerical simulations.

By attending this training, the attendees will:

• Develop an understanding of the behaviour and performance of energy geostructures, such as energy piles, energy barrettes, energy slabs, energy walls and energy tunnels.
• Increase the knowledge about the energy, geotechnical and structural analysis of energy geostructures with practical application exercises, including analytical and numerical simulation exercises.
• Learn how to design energy geostructures following performance-based procedures. 

The course has been designed with civil engineers in mind, but targets energy engineers, mechanical engineers, environmental engineers, architects, urban project managers and geologists as well.

Attendees who have no experience with energy geostructures as well as those who have already been involved in such a project are very welcome to join the course.

The number of participants for this course is limited. The available spots are being filled on a first come first served basis. More information about the course program and registration can be found on the course's website. We look forward to seeing you at EPFL.

Some comments from participants of the previous editions:

“The course content is very complete and the different aspects are focused with an adequate level of detail, subsequent study on the course material and personal notes allows a full systemic comprehension.”

“It was more that I expected!”

“I found very interesting the open debate that emerged after each block of class. Teaching staff was excellent in getting deeper into both theoretical and practical matters, and very interesting questions from the group participants made interesting subjects emerge.”

“Comprehensive and supported by examples of applications. Very well organized.”

For additional information or questions, please contact: [email protected]