Editorial
A word from
Sylvie Ravalet
Hervé Charrue
Charles Baloche
Highlights 2017
5 major challenges
1
Energy performance: a challenge throughout a project’s life cycle
2
Improving user comfort in buildings and cities
3
Using BIM in urban development
4
Test engineering to support innovation
5
Certification: a boost for the development of construction companies
The CSTB in 2017
Governance
Ethics
Organization and teams
2017 key figures
Social responsibility
Subsidiaries
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Improving user comfort in buildings and cities
Challenge
As cities evolve, the CSTB gives guidance for improved user comfort
Project
Greater Nantes and the CSTB in partnership for the Water Taste Observatory
“Hear” the future urban environment at Place de la Nation
A pleasant ecodistrict for residents
Recreating a suitable climate under the greenhouse of the Beauval ZooParc
Tests for on-site sanitation systems
Bioguess hunting down invisible mold
Psychometric expertise to resolve crisis situations
R&D partnership in Korea to improve the acoustic comfort of buildings