On February 4th, 2025, the UrbanTwin annual plenary took place at EPFL in Lausanne, bringing together around 100 project partners from academia and industry. The event provided an excellent opportunity for partners to share project achievements, strengthen existing collaborations, establish new ones, and discuss the next steps. It also fostered the exchange of innovative approaches, knowledge sharing, and discussions on the challenges related to the design, modeling, monitoring, and control of future sustainable urban infrastructure.

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Presentations

A summary and a link to the presentation of each session is available below.

Introduction

The Project coordinator, Prof. Atienza, provided participants with a summary of 2024 project achievements and 2025 expectations.

WP1 on the energy urban infrastructure

At the WP1 session, chaired by the WP1 lead, Prof. Paolone, the project team presented activities on the energy infrastructure monitoring and operation. Special focus was put on the demo activities in Lausanne, undertaken in collaboration with the local utility, Services Industriels de Lausanne.

WP2 on social and behavioural aspects

At the WP2 session, chaired by Prof. Sonta, partners presented activities related to the analysis and modelling of socio-economic and environmental linkages with energy

WP3 on the digital twin technologies

At the WP3 session, chaired by Dr. Constantinescu, partners from EPFL and ETHZ presented their activities' progress on the development of edge-to-cloud and multi-scale digital twin technologies for data gathering and application-driven optimization of resources. Special emphasis was put on the activities undertaken at the EPFL EcoCloud demo site.

WP4 on models integration

The WP4 session, chaired by Prof. Marechal and Dr. Braz, was focused on activities related to the impact of the climate change on the urban infrastructure, market aspects and buildings matterials recycling. Furthermore, the overall models integration in one UrbanTwin tool was presented.

WP5 on water urban infrastructure

At the WP5 session, chaired by Dr. Calvani and Dan Andersson, partners presented activities on the climate change impact assessment on water urban infrastructure. Special focus was put on the implementation of the sponge-city concept at the EPFL demo site.

Workshops

Three workshops took place back-to-back with the plenary meeting on: (a) energy urban infrastructure, (b) water urban infrastructure and (c) ICT platform

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Prof. Mario Paolone
Chair of the Energy urban infrastructure workshop
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Dr. Giulio Calvani and Dan Anderssen
Chairs of the Water urban infrastructure workshop
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Dr. Denisa Andreea Constantinescu
Chair of the ICT platform workshop

Speakers

Pictures of all the speakers at the event is following, along with along with their names and affiliations.

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Prof. David Atienza
Project Coordinator,Head of EPFL
Embedded Systems Laboratory
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Dr. Denisa Andreea Constantinescu
WP3 coordinator; Scientist, EPFL-
Embedded Systems Laboratory
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Golnoosh Abdollahinejad
PhD students, EPFL-ESL/EMPA
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Patrik Okanovic
PhD student, ETHZ-Scalable Parallel Computing Lab
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Dr. Victor Kartsch Morinigo
 Scientist, ETHZ-
Integrated Systems Laboratory
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 Dr. Yoshimichi Nakatsuka
 Postdoctoral Researcher, ETHZ-System Security Group
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 Ali Ansari
 PhD student, EPFL-
Parallel Systems Architecture Laboratory
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 Prof. Mario Paolone
 WP1 coordinator, Head of EPFL-
Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory
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 Dr. Wenlong Liao
Scientist, EPFL-Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory
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 Pål Forr Austnes
 PhD student,
EPFL-Distributed Electrical Systems
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 Dr. Lu Wang
 Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL-Distributed Electrical Systems
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 Dr. Catarina Braz
 Scientist, EPFL-Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering
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 Dr. Yaman Evrenosoglu
 Scientist, ETHZ-Research Center for Energy Networks
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 Prof. Andrew Sonta
 Head of EPFL-Engineering and Technology for Human-Oriented Sustainability
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 Dr. Matthias Heinrich
Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL- Laboratory on Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems
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 Prof. João P. Leitão
Group leader, EAWAG- Urban floods & hydroinformatics
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 Prof. François Maréchal
 Project coordinator, Head of EPFL-Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering
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 Dr. Bingqian Liu
 Scientist, EPFL-Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering
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 Dr. Mahmood Ziabari
Scientist, EPFL-Laboratory of Cryospheric Science
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 Riccardo Saporiti
 PhD student, EPFL-
Scientific Computing and Uncertainty Quantification
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 Prof. Maryam Kamgarpour
 Head of EPFL-Systems Control And Multiagent Optimization Research
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 Saurabh Vaishampayan
 PhD student, EPFL-Systems Control And Multiagent Optimization Research
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 Dr. Aldrick Arceo
 Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL-
Structural Xploration Lab
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 Dr. Han Gao
 Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL-
Structural Xploration Lab
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 Dr. Giulio Calvani
 Scientist, EPFL-Hydraulic Constructions Platform
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Dan Andersson
Scientific Assistant, EPFL- Environmental Microbiology Laboratory

Plenary video

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