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Due to a fire, the F and G floors in the HPZ building have to remain closed until further notice.

The ETH animal welfare and 3R specialists organised a booth on the H?nggerberg campus to provide information about animal experiments at ETH Zurich. As part of the dialogue, ETH members are invited to a guided tour of an ETH laboratory animal facility for the first time.

The Institute of Molecular Plant Biology is getting a new laboratory on the H?nggerberg. Construction work began this week and should be completed in June 2025

They come to ETH Zurich almost daily by bike or e-bike. Three ETH transport researchers are investigating how an e-bike-friendly city works. They are also committed to a safe, sustainable, and CO₂-reducing campus mobility at ETH Zurich.

On Wednesday, a fault in a medium-voltage installation led to a power outage on the H?nggerberg campus. No one was injured. The causes and impact of the power outage are now being examined in order to learn any necessary lessons for the future.

Excellent teaching, research and administration requires effective information and communication technologies. That is why ETH Zurich is building a new data centre on its H?nggerberg campus between 2023 and 2026 to meet the demands of the future.

The 100 best girls from the Kangaroo mathematics competition were given the opportunity to visit ETH on 9 June. Former ski racer and physicist Dominique Gisin accompanied the girls as a mentor. ETH female researchers gave an insight into their research work.

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The exhibition and event programme ¡°Together for the Sustainable Development Goals¡± is back ¨C this time at ETH H?nggerberg and the Student Project House. From 7-18 March, 2022, the exhibition raises awareness for the 17 goals and highlights selected contributions from the ETH community.

We¡¯re getting closer to the start of a major construction project at ETH Zurich¡¯s H?nggerberg campus: the HPQ physics building. The digging of the foundations is scheduled to get underway in summer 2022, but preparations for the new building will soon be visible.

ETH Zurich is evolving: the coming years will see not only the construction of new buildings, but also the transformation of interior space and office concepts. A townhall has been held to inform ETH members about architectural developments at ETH Zurich.

Yesterday evening, a young man fell from a wall near the HPL building on the H?nggerberg campus and suffered fatal injuries. Investigations by the Zurich City Police revealed that the deceased was not a member of ETH Zurich. ?

Usually at this time of year, you would have thanked Services staff personally and captivated us with your Christmas story or a review of the past 12 months with pictures. But this year everything¡¯s different. Dear David, after twelve years you¡¯re leaving ETH Zurich.

The ETH Link will run on electricity from the beginning of the semester. Starting on 14 September 2020, electric articulated buses will link the H?nggerberg campus with the Zentrum campus. Alongside the ¡°eLink¡± connection, there will be new charging stations for electric vehicles and more services for e-bikes.

A 245-tonne circular concrete chamber has been installed at the H?nggerberg campus. It serves as the housing of a large geotechnical centrifuge that is used to model earthquakes and their effects on soils and buildings.

For two months, ETH Zurich operated in emergency mode. During this time, the vast majority of buildings, lecture halls, laboratories and offices remained empty. Two photographers visited ETH in April in order to capture a largely deserted campus with only a few people still on site.

Since Friday, 20 March, all ETH Zurich buildings are closed. Until further notice, they can only be opened using a key or an ETH employee card and the corresponding access code.

Until 26 March 2020, an exhibition at the 365ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø_365ÌåÓý±¸Óá¾ÊÖ»úÔÚÏß¡¿ Info on the H?nggerberg campus will show how the excellent anergy grid works.

In the third week of January, Prof. Ulrich Weidmann, Vice-President for Human Resources and Infrastructure, and Daniel Bucheli, Director of the Real Estate Management Department, informed ETH members about the structural development of ETH Zurich.

Future admission arrangements for the ETH master¡¯s programme, the composition of the ETH Zurich Research Commission for the next few years, and new uses for the space under the dome of the ETH main building: these were some of the most important items on the agenda for recent meetings of the Executive Board.

At the start of the semester, an ¡°avec box¡± will open for business at the HIL building on the H?nggerberg campus. For two months, a shop format without checkouts will be tested here that enables everyday products to be bought around the clock. Customers can pay via app.

Yesterday, ETH Zurich and the team of architects, building planners and construction managers involved in the project attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the HIF renovation and extension project at 365ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø_365ÌåÓý±¸Óá¾ÊÖ»úÔÚÏß¡¿ H?nggerberg. The event marks the beginning of the upgrade and renovation project at one of the largest building complexes on the campus. It will also be the home of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.

The planning method BIM, building information modelling, has wide-ranging capabilities, and its role in creation of the HI distribution centre for the Anergy grid on the H?nggerberg campus is all about sustainability.

ETH Zurich is the proud recipient of a new research funding instrument called ¡°ETH+ Grants¡± with which ETH aims to fund major interdisciplinary research projects. In addition to this, ETH Zurich hopes to significantly reduce flight emissions. After making these decisions, the Executive Board of ETH Zurich will now take its leave for the holidays.

Eight new professorships through ETH+, an improved introductory programme for professors, a new laboratory building for architecture and a Forest Lab on H?nggerberg: those were the key decisions taken by the Executive Board at its most recent meetings.

The winners of the photo competition for ETH members "Favourite places on the H?nggerberg campus" have been selected: Nicolas Ochsner won with a photo of the archive room of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta). ?