Comfort and health
Event
Heat in the city: understanding and mitigating urban heat islands
Cold materials, wind corridors, cool zones, mixed revegetation, green walls and roofs are among the solutions that make it possible to attenuate urban heat islands.
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Practitioner group
Energy and environment optimisation
Dynamic thermal simulation and life-cycle assessment are decision support tools that comprehensively assess the environmental performance of a building or neighbourhood project and guide its design in order to reduce the
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Practitioner group
Urban mobility
Research work on mobility at the neighbourhood level focuses on the development of environmental impact assessment methods that make it possible to better plan the offer of mobility services in the broad sense
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Pilot site
Les Lumières Pleyel neighbourhood in Saint-Denis
A development project in the Les Lumières Pleyel neighbourhood in Saint-Denis (93) is the testing ground for research work by MINES ParisTech and École des Ponts ParisTech.
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Tool
STEM
This simulation model of mobility scenarios on the metropolitan scale assesses the economic, social and environmental impact of different transport policies. This includes pricing measures and changes to the mobility
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Tool
Pleiades STD Comfie
This dynamic thermal simulation model of buildings anticipates energy consumption and the risk of discomfort in all seasons. Thanks to the Amapola module, this software program makes it possible to identify the least
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