Sep 10, 2024 | A shaker for construction research
Multi-storey timber buildings are extremely popular. To prevent them from being damaged by strong winds or earthquakes, sufficient bracing must be provided in the supporting structure. Computer calculations provide the...
Sep 5, 2024 | Open Lab Day at Empa in Dübendorf
How does this actually work – research? What are scientists developing in their labs? And what is it like to be a researcher, scientist or engineer? Answers to these questions and more will be provided at Empa's Open Lab...
Sep 2, 2024 | Artwork on campus: Not to Get Lost
On the Empa and Eawag campus in Dübendorf, artist Julian Charrière has created an installation with boulders of different origins, sizes and compositions. The stones are connected by metallic stone wedges that run...
Aug 29, 2024 | STEP2: New NEST unit inaugurated
A digitally manufactured staircase that winds its way up to the second floor. A wafer-thin, perforated concrete ceiling that absorbs sound. Floor and wall materials made from recycled waste. The latest unit in the NEST...
Aug 27, 2024 | New leadership for department Engineering Sciences
The Empa Directorate has appointed Peter Richner's successor in his role as Head of Department. Energy and building technology expert Matthias Sulzer will take over as Head of Department Engineering Sciences as of...
Aug 26, 2024 | The singing Tesla coil
A Tesla coil that makes music besides flashes of lightning? No problem for Silvio Müller and Yanis Strüby, apprentice physics laboratory technicians at Empa. With their singing Tesla coil, they won both the jury and the...
Aug 23, 2024 | Buildings as carbon sinks
With its new research initiative Mining the Atmosphere, Empa is proposing nothing less than a paradigm shift: from a CO2-emitting to a CO2-binding society. The greenhouse gas is to be used as a valuable material – for...
Aug 21, 2024 | Novel measuring method for gas emissions
Researchers from Empa, the University of Bristol and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) have investigated the emissions of the potent greenhouse gas HFC-23 from the production of Teflon...