Projects - lab recherche environnement

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25 projects found

Integration of energy storage systems coupled with photovoltaic power plants at airports

Study of photovoltaic electricity generation and storage to meet the need for airport decarbonization.

Collective housing gardens and urban biodiversity: understanding morphological and ecological factors for resilient cities

Study of interactions between urban planning, ecology and biodiversity in collective housing in Paris, Lyon and Marseille.

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Optimum management strategy integrating local renewable energy production

Energy management involves taking into account the building’s behavior, described using a dynamic model: its contribution in terms of thermal storage and its interactions with a system including other buildings, as well

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Redistributive effects of transport projects and equity: how can they be better taken into account in evaluation?

Integrate the notion of equity into the evaluation of transport policies, by developing tools to better analyze the redistributive impacts on populations, particularly in the Paris region.

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Savings on reserved freeway lanes and associated infrastructure and services.

Understand the framework in which a reserved lane infrastructure on freeways can or cannot produce a positive socio-economic balance, and how this is distributed.

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Integrate the effects of overheating on human health into building life-cycle analysis.

Study the resilience of buildings to heatwaves, and in particular the impact on occupants’ health.

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Integration of global limits and regionalization of environmental impact calculation methods applied to buildings and neighborhoods

Explore the possibilities of integrating planetary limits into the life cycle assessment (LCA) of buildings.

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Environmental assessment and forward-looking scenarios: towards sustainable planning practices

Against a backdrop of declining biodiversity, it is necessary to consider the best strategies to incorporate ecological challenges into plans and projects. One possible avenue to achieve this is to encourage stakeholders

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Revegetation of sites transformed by planning projects

Revegetation has long been a strategy used by planners to meet operational needs such as soil stabilisation and landscape aesthetics. Today, it is valued for its potential to contribute to restoring biodiversity,

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Including indoor air quality into buildings’ life cycle assessments

Taking into account indoor air quality in buildings’ life cycle assessments is a means of designing buildings with a reduced impact on occupants.

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Validation and application of the energy simulation of buildings to the study of control strategies

A comparison between the simulation results and the measurements will supplement the previous work concerning the validation of the thermo-aeraulic model, which will then be applied to the study of predictive control

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Use of secondary raw materials

The physical characterisation of features of existing building structures will make it possible to consider their conventional reuse and the environmental assessment of conventional reuse via the life-cycle assessment

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