Interview of prof. Weinand at RTS La 1ère
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Every Friday, "CQFD" receives a man or woman of science to talk about his or her work and research.
The theme of the week was wood. Discover an exclusive interview with Yves Weinand, director of the Chair of Timber Construction at EPFL.
Bastien Confino, journalist at RTS la 1ère invited the architect and civil engineer Yves Weinand, professor and director of the Laboratory for Timber Construction at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). They talk about the innovations Yves Weinand and his team are developing at IBOIS to sublimate wood constructions.
An itinerant interview that takes us to discover an outstanding research laboratory, to the test halls in the heart of the EPFL.
Professor Weinand talks about interdisciplinarity, carbon absorption, grey energy in buildings and the research for simplicity in contemporary architectural design.