Projects - lab recherche environnement

All research areas Biodiversity Sustainable mobility LCA of neighbourhoods Energy efficiency

15 projects found

Studying the application of machine learning to the design of retrofit projects

Optimising the energy retrofit of buildings through the use of machine-learning-based meta-models.

Integrating bio-based materials into the eco-design tools for buildings and neighbourhoods

Integrating bio-based materials into the eco-design of buildings by refining their environmental assessment through prospective life-cycle assessment and energy-simulation methods.

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Taking overheating and indoor air quality into account in the life-cycle assessment of buildings

Integrating the health impacts linked to overheating and indoor air quality into LCA, in order to design buildings that are more sustainable, comfortable and adapted to the future climate.

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Modelling the water balance of vegetated areas in urban or heavily artificialised environments

Designing, implementing and testing a water-balance model for vegetated urban areas.

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Studying the contribution of artificial intelligence to the robust optimisation of building energy management

Exploring the use of AI to improve the energy management of buildings.

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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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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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Robust multi-criterion optimisation of zero-energy buildings

The eco-design of zero-energy buildings involves the identification of optimal solutions, in reasonable calculation times, resulting from the analysis of several performance criteria, more influential parameters and

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Multi-criterion environmental optimisation at the scale of the building block

An optimisation procedure will be used to complete the environmental assessment of a block of buildings while reducing economic costs and the overall impact on the environment.

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Assessment of the environmental impacts of buildings in China

This thesis focuses on the development of the life-cycle assessment of buildings in the Chinese context. It also made it possible to supplement the existing dynamic energy simulation tool by integrating a seasonal

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Study of a methodology for measuring the energy efficiency of buildings

A comparison between the existing methods for measuring in situ the determinants of the energy efficiency of buildings has identified their advantages and the limitations of the different approaches.

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Enrichment of the energy simulation of buildings thanks to smart sensors

Data from smart sensors makes it possible to better understand the behaviours of building occupants and improve the reliability of energy simulation.

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