CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials – Essentials – School for Continuing Education

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Spring Semester

Start
5 months

Duration
ETH Zurich

Location
English

Tuition language
01–30.11.2024

Application period
CHF 8,230

Programme fee

In brief: The CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials – Essentials

A programme entirely dedicated to earth, bio-based and reused materials and construction techniques: It provides tools and methods to manage projects using earth, bio-based and reused materials with efficiency and creativity.

Structure and content

Programme description

The CAS programme teaches how to use local and low-carbon materials to offer a socially, ecologically and economically responsible architecture with an adapted territory approach. It deals with the planning and operation of architectural projects using regenerative materials. It provides students tools and methods to manage projects using earth, bio-based and reused materials with efficiency and creativity.

Objectives

Participants will develop competence to conduct complex projects using earth, bio-based and reused materials with realistic and affordable solutions in order to participate to the necessary ecological and social transition in the construction sector. The CAS programme highlights exemplary architectural projects developing circular economy and the use of low carbon materials. It permits to learn through real case-study (new construction, retrofit of existing buildings).

Professional perspectives

The programme enables Swiss and foreign graduates to work as project managers in city technical services, property developer and NGOs, with specific knowledge and skills on regenerative materials. Green certification programmes are becoming more popular and start to take into account the life cycle analysis of materials. Alumnae and alumni of the CAS programme will have the useful skills to support building owners and operators to be environmentally responsible.

Structure and format

5 months part-time programme with one week of contact hours per month (structured as a series of teaching modules with a final project exercise). Lessons are using innovative teaching and are given in the form of lectures, visits, practical hands-on and projects.

Tuition language(s)

English

Credits

12 ECTS credits

Target group and admission

Target group

Decision makers and practitioners of the construction sector from Switzerland and abroad (project managers, members of city technical services, building contractors, NGOs, architects, engineers). Qualified applicants interested in developing an experience to conduct projects using regenerative materials.

Requirements

Master's degree acknowledged by ETH or equivalent educational qualifications. Qualification will be assessed from application documents and a recruiting interview can be asked.

Required language skills

English: C1 – external page Show proficiency scales

Language(s) of performance assessment

English

Dates and venue

Start

Spring Semester 2025 (January, every year)

Duration

5 months, part-time, one week of contact hours per months (approximately 150 hours of contact hours and an individual project exercise)

Application period

01–30.11.2024 (admission after the application deadline)

Location

ETH Zurich

Fees

Programme fee

CHF 8,230

Application fee

CHF 50 for persons with a Swiss university degree, CHF 150 for persons with another university degree (non-refundable, credit card payment only)

Withdrawal fee

Within 30 days after the admission date: free of charge
More than 30 days after the admission date: CHF 4,000
After the start of the programme: CHF 8,230

Application

Questions about the application

ETH Zurich, School for Continuing Education, HG E 17–18.5, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Tel. external page +41 44 632 56 59, E-mail

Recommended procedure for a successful application

Application documents

Diploma certificate and transcript (of records) of the highest or most relevant degree
Passport or identity card
Download Declaration of consent (PDF, 94 KB)

Additional application documents

Motivation letter
CV
2 Reference letters

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Organiser

Programme management

Professor Guillaume Habert

Programme Director

Dr Arnaud Evrard

Programme Coordinator

Professor Bryan T. Adey

Deputy Programme Director

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