An eye on reconstruction in Ukraine

Viacheslav Troian in the concrete lab at ETH Zurich. (Photograph: ETH Zurich / D
Viacheslav Troian in the concrete lab at ETH Zurich. (Photograph: ETH Zurich / Daniel Winkler)
Viacheslav Troian in the concrete lab at ETH Zurich. (Photograph: ETH Zurich / Daniel Winkler) - Ukrainian building materials professor Viacheslav Troian left his homeland with his family because of the war. At ETH Zurich, he is researching the role that recycled concrete might play in future reconstruction. After experiencing the tragic first days of the war in the suburbs of Kyiv, Viacheslav Troian, a professor at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, left with his family to Western Europe. As a father of four children, he was allowed to leave Ukraine. Coincidence played no small role in how he ultimately ended up in Switzerland and then at ETH Zurich. "We were standing at the train station in Budapest, and my wife and I were trying to decide where we should go," Troian says.
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