Infrastructure domain
The domainal strategy serves as a framework for setting priorities and overarching principles and fields of action for the departmental and sub-strategies to be drawn up for the 2025-2028 strategy period.
Overview of our strategic principles Download
MAKE - personable, together, sustainable!
This mindset is the result of cross-departmental, collegial collaboration and a lively interpretation of ETH values that strengthens our daily cooperation, our work and our efficiency. It represents what we stand for and how we can be successful as an infrastructure domain.
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Engineering and Systems is taking care of the laboratory technology, teaching and research infrastructures, building automation and energy supply. Engineering and Systems bears overall system responsibility for our complex infrastructure.
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Dominik Brem
Head of department | external pageLinkedIn
The ETH Library is the largest public technical and scientific library in Switzerland and a national centre for engineering and scientific data. It offers access to digital information with a broad portfolio of customer-orientated services.
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Rafael Ball
Head of department | external pageLinkedIn
The Real Estate Management department develops university sites, manages the ETH Zurich real estate portfolio and ensures punctual, cost-efficient facilities and buildings on behalf of the ETH Board and the Executive Board.
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Hannes Pichler
Head of department | external pageLinkedIn
The IT Services department is responsible for ETH Zurich's information and communication technology and operates the necessary extensive network infrastructure, information systems and applications.
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Rui Brandao
Head of department | external pageLinkedIn
The Safety, Security, Health and Environment department (SGU) deals with safety at the work, study and research place, implements measures to reduce environmental pollution and offers advice, prevention and training.
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Annette Hofmann
Head of department | external pageLinkedIn
The members of the Infrastructure staff support the Vice President in the management and further development of the domain, in financial matters, strategic projects and strategic matters.
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Katrin Schnadt
Head of | external pageLinkedIn?
HR Consulting Executive Board and Administrative Units
The HR Consultancy for the Executive Board and Administrative Units ensures the implementation of the HR policy and the legal HR requirements in the area of infrastructure. The HR Consultancy team is available as a point of contact for all questions relating to management, personnel planning and strategy.
Contact: Dagmar Doege
A selection of our projects
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The Future of Work @ Octavo project aims to develop user-centred working environments and focuses on the requirements of the users.
Further information on the project can be found here.
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One VPIN is an initiative of the domain management board and aims to make the collaboration in the Infrastructure domain more efficient in order to increase employee satisfaction and productivity.
Further information on the program can be found here.
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Over the next few years, people with disabilities or special needs are to be given largely unrestricted access to ETH buildings and services.
Further information on the programme can be found here.
Locations
The main location of the Infrastructure domain is the Octavo in Zurich Oerlikon.
Individual departments have additional premises both at Zentrum and and H?nggerberg campus.
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Octavo
Binzmuehlestrasse 130
8092 Zurich
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Zentrum campus
The departments of the Infrastructure domain are located in various buildings in the zentrum campus.
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H?nggerberg campus
The departments of the Infrastructure domain are represented in various buildings on the H?nggerberg campus.