The SwissTech Convention Center is a conference centre on the campus of EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
The SwissTech Convention Center is one of the largest convention centers in the Lake Geneva region and has served many major events.
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 million Swiss francs.1 The Credit Suisse owns the building, while the EPFL pays an annual rent of 6 million Swiss francs.2 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".3
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.4
Events
Regular
- Magistrale (EPFL graduation ceremonies)
- Planète Santé
- Forum EPFL
- PolyLAN
- The Brain Forum
- Applied Machine Learning Days
Other
- 13 November 2015: The Moon Race
- European Space Agency - EUCLID
- Sport Accord Convention 2016
- 11 July 2017: meeting of the International Olympic Committee about the 2024 Summer Olympics, with delegations including Emmanuel Macron5
- 24 January 2018: draw for the 2018-19 UEFA Nations League
- June 2019: The 134th IOC Session
See also
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Swiss Tech Convention Centre.References
(in French) "L’EPFL recadrée par le Contrôle fédéral des finances", Radio télévision suisse, 27–29 April 2015 (page visited on 11 July 2017). https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/6735642-l-epfl-recadree-par-le-controle-federal-des-finances.html ↩
(in French) "L’EPFL recadrée par le Contrôle fédéral des finances", Radio télévision suisse, 27–29 April 2015 (page visited on 11 July 2017). https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/6735642-l-epfl-recadree-par-le-controle-federal-des-finances.html ↩
(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). https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2016/08/30/controle-federal-finances-accable-lepfl-batiments-spectaculaires ↩
"The SwissTech Convention Center, a lab for conferences of the future", press release, 3 April 2014 (page visited on 3 October 2014). http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-swisstech-convention-center-a-lab-for-conferen/ ↩
"Olympics: IOC prepares to award next two Games to Paris and Los Angeles", The Guardian, 11 July 2017 (page visited on 11 July 2017). https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/11/ioc-olympic-games-paris-los-angeles-2024-2028 ↩