Continuing Education

As part-time training, these continuing education programmes are geared toward the needs of professionals who want to deepen and question their existing practice in order to develop more regenerative approaches. Each CAS represents 12 ECTS and the DAS represents 30 ECTS.

Target Groups:
The target audience is project managers, building contractors, architects, engineers, members of city technical services or NGOs. Relatively small groups are selected to allow active interactions and personal engagement of the participants.

Language of Instruction: Courses are typically held in English. Visits and discussions with practitioners will be sometimes given in French, German or Italian but will always be translated into English.

These programmes use innovative teaching practices with participative methods, experimental lectures, hands-on exercises, visits to inspiring projects, and project-based learning. Each module combines the following activities:

Lectures: Input lectures from well-known specialists gives an overview on the most innovative recent developements. Some online lectures are opened to a large audience to support public awareness (see our dedicated webpage).

Hands-on: These exercises are a great opportunity to put hands-on with construction materials. Experimentations on natural fibers, earth or reused/reclaimed materials allow a deep understanding of the main properties and specificities of these materials and corresponding building systems.

Visits: Visits to exemplary buildings using regenerative materials is one of the most inspiring way to engage in regenerative construction. Those visits are conducted by the stakeholders involved in their realisation.

Group exercises: Group work strenghen the interactions within participants. They focus on realistic calls for tenders placing the students into a real-life professional situation.

ETH teaching partners :

• Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert
• Dr. Arnaud Evrard
• Prof. Dr. Bryan Adey
• Prof. Dr. Catherine De Wolf
• Prof. Roger Boltshauser
• Prof. Dr Andrea Frangi
• Prof. Dr. Michael Klippel
• Dr. Tobias Luthe

Ricola Foundation:
The creation of the CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials has been supported by the external page Ricola Foundation.
One of the main focus of the Ricola Foundation is to improve the people’s quality of life, through initiatives that promote a combination of nature and culture.
Each year, this Foundation is supporting participants with financial difficulties.
For more details about this scholarship, please contact Arnaud Evrard <> before applying.

Energie Schweiz:
Our news programmes — CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials - Hygrothermal Specialisation and CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials - Structural Specialisation — are supported by external page Energie Schweiz as these programmes help achieving of the Swiss 2050 energy and climate objectives.

Other Partners: 
We also have the chance to recive the support of many expert guests.
They accept to share their knowlegde and experience with the participants, helping us to create a growing network of potential partners.
(See details on deticated webpages of each programme).

CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials - Alumni

A growing network

See list of CAS Alumni here