Aurore WurtzPhD defended in 2022

A former PhD student at the lab, Aurore Wurtz carried out her thesis within the Building Eco-design and Thermics (ETB) team of the Centre for Energy Efficiency of Systems (CES) at the École des Mines. Her thesis dealt with developing a multi-criteria environmental optimisation method at the scale of a building block. She worked on a decision-support approach for building eco-design based on an optimisation algorithm, with the aim of reducing the investment cost and environmental impacts of neighbourhoods, such as their CO2 emissions, damage to human health and damage to biodiversity. She also studied the coupling between the Rhinoceros3D Grasshopper parametric modelling tool and the Pleiades building eco-design software, in order to make life cycle assessment accessible to stakeholders involved in the early phases of building design projects.