Teams at the French Ministry of Armed Forces trained in BIM

Multiscale model of the Defense Infrastructure Facility (ESID), Brest, in GéoSID - Photo: SID/Ministère des Armées

In 2016, the CSTB initiated a research partnership with the French Defense Infrastructure Service to develop a strategy for the rollout of BIM at the Ministry of Armed Forces as part of supporting projects to build, renovate and maintain defense infrastructure.

As part of new R&D work involving the CSTB, SID and French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA), this novel approach will be tried at the military site of the DGA thruster test facility in Saclay. We will model a digital twin of the site with an experimental tool connected to the Dassault Systèmes 3DExperience platform.

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Corporate Social Responsibility report

With this first CSR report, structured around three major challenges, the CSTB aims to share information about its CSR initiatives - those pertaining to its missions and to its internal operations - and its flagship projects in 2020.