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Author: Guillaume Habert ,
Verena Göswein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781032497723
ISBN 10: 1032497726
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 16 April 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Guillaume Habert is Professor of Sustainable Construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he completed a Master’s degree in Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean sciences, and he holds a PhD in structural geology from the University of Toulouse (France), obtained in 2004. After his doctoral studies, he held research and teaching positions in France and Brazil before joining ETH Zurich, where he is Professor of Sustainable Construction in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. His work bridges materials science, environmental engineering, and architecture, with a strong focus on regenerative and low-carbon construction materials such as earth, stone, bio-based and recycled materials. Through his research, teaching, and close collaboration with industry and public stakeholders, he aims to transform the built environment by reducing embodied emissions, strengthening local material cycles, and reconnecting construction practices with territorial, social, and ecological contexts. Verena Göswein was born and raised in Germany. She moved to Switzerland to complete her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at ETH Zurich. As an invited student, she did her Master thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Afterwards she was a research assistant for one year at ETH’s Chair of Sustainable Construction before moving to Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), at the University of Lisbon to do her PhD which she finished in 2020 with distinction and honour (summa cum laude). Since then, she has been sharing her time between practice and academia, implementing innovation into real World and identifying key bottlenecks to be addressed by further research. As an ESG manager for FREO Group, an international real estate investor, developer and asset manager, she supported many lighthouse construction projects where material demand was reduced while providing higher level of comfort. As a research associate at the Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zurich, her interdisciplinary works draws on Industrial Ecology and Urban Metabolism to better understand environmental, social and economic consequences of material use across different spatial and temporal dynamics.
