SwissTech Convention Center
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| General information | |
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| Address | Route Louis-Favre 2 |
| Town or city | 1024 Ecublens |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 46°31′24″N 6°33′50″E / 46.5234621°N 6.564013°E |
| Elevation | 397 m |
| Inaugurated | 3 April 2014 |
| Cost | €110 millions |
| Height | |
| Architectural | Modern |
| Top floor | Auditorium A, B & C |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 3 |
| Floor area | 10'000 m2 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés |
| Awards and prizes | 2016 Winner of the Best Swiss Convention Center - Swiss MICE |
| Other information | |
| Seating capacity | From 300 to 3'000 |
| Number of rooms | 18 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
The SwissTech Convention Center is a conference centre on the campus of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Building
The building was designed by the architectural firm Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés of Lausanne. It was financed by two Credit Suisse real estate funds for 120 millions of Swiss francs.[1] The Credit Suisse owns the building, while the EPFL pays an annual rent of 6 millions of Swiss francs.[1] This public-private partnership was criticised by the Swiss Federal Audit Office as "the conditions are unfavourable to the EPFL and favourable to the investor".[2]
Financial support from the Swiss electricity supply company Romande énergie allowed the west facade of the building to be covered with panels made of organic dye-sensitized solar cell, also called "Grätzel cells" after Michael Grätzel, a physical chemistry professor at the EPFL and the inventor of this technology.[3]
Events
Regular
- Magistrale (EPFL graduation ceremonies)
- Planète Santé
- Forum EPFL
- PolyLAN
- The Brain Forum
Other
- 13 November 2015: The Moon Race
- European Space Agency - EUCLID
- Sport Accord Convention 2016
- Applied Machine Learning Days 2017
- 11 July 2017: meeting of the International Olympic Committee about the 2024 Summer Olympics, with delegations including Emmanuel Macron[4]
Gallery
External view
Auditoriums A, B & C (Conference layout)
Solar cell "Grätzel"
Nightly view
See also
References
- 1 2 (in French) "L’EPFL recadrée par le Contrôle fédéral des finances", Radio télévision suisse, 27-29 April 2015 (page visited on 11 July 2017).
- ↑ (in French) Nicolas Dufour, "Le Contrôle fédéral des finances accable l’EPFL pour ses bâtiments spectaculaires", Le Temps, 30 August 2016 (page visited on 11 July 2017).
- ↑ "The SwissTech Convention Center, a lab for conferences of the future", press release, 3 April 2014 (page visited on 3 October 2014).
- ↑ "Olympics: IOC prepares to award next two Games to Paris and Los Angeles", The Guardian, 11 July 2017 (page visited on 11 July 2017).
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