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
4
Test engineering to support innovation
Challenge
Determine and optimize the performance of innovations through test engineering
Project
Fire test campaign on the segment linings of the tunnel under the Suez Canal
Opportunities for reuse of vitrified bottom ash
Full-scale tests on large sliding windows
5 000 m
2
Hydraulic test facilities
Calculating the acoustic performance of cylindrical components
New test of the mechanical behavior of concrete structures
Mesh cladding for the Grand Theatre of Casablanca submitted for an ATEx
Guarded hot box for thermal analysis of envelopes