SwissTech Convention Center

The SwissTech Convention Center is a conference centre on the campus of EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

The building was designed by the architectural firm Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés of Lausanne.

[1] The Credit Suisse owns the building, while the EPFL pays an annual rent of 6 million Swiss francs.

[1] 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".

[2] 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.

Space pioneers Buzz Aldrin and Alexei Leonov at the Swiss Tech Convention Centre in 2015