8 th NASA

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8 th NASA ESA WORKSHOPon PRODUCT DATA
EXCHANGE Data exchange and Virtual Environment
for the space domain

• CSTB, Sophia Antipolis, France
• 27 April 2006

CSTB welcome address by Patrick MORAND Head of
the Information Technologies Knowledge
Dissemination Department
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Summary

• Some words on CSTB
• Information Technologies Knowledge
  Dissemination department
• Takeoff of the numerical model in the
  Construction industry

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Some words on CSTB
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A mission

• Improvement of the wellbeing and safety
• in the buildings and their environment

Status industrial and commercial public body
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Major stakes

• Reduction of greenhouse gases emissions
• Search for improvements of the energy
  performances for the existing park and the new
  buildings
• Environmental health
• Improvement of knowledge of the quality of the
  interior air, installation of a procedure of
  evaluation of the medical and environmental
  impacts of the products of construction
• New approach of engineering Fire protection
• Identification of scenarios of fire, evaluation
  of the effects on the people, goods, structures

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Four complementary activities

• Applied research
• Including urban environment, health in the
  building, sciences of the information and
  communication, the economy and the social one
• Innovating engineering
• Optimization of the buildings, in all their
  physical and constructive dimensions
• Evaluation of quality, certification
• Materials, products, buildings, compagnies
• Knowledge dissemination

2005 total operating income 69,6 million Euros
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A structuring set of themes

• Construction quality and optimising building
• Evaluation, tests, certification
• Technical experimental assessment for innovating
  buildings
• Sustainable development
• Energy, environmental quality (products,
  buildings and districts), health
• Safety and risks prevention
• Buildings and occupants

• Social and economic approach
• Urban sustainable development, governance, social
  cohesion
• Information and communication technologies
• Development of applications and uses
• Edition of products and services of information
  in the technical fields and regulations

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A positioning in Europe and the international one

• Implication in European and international
  research programs
• Development of innovating engineering abroad at
  the sides of architects and engineering and
  design departments
• Transfer on the Chinese marketof the French
  approach of sustainabledevelopment in
  construction
• Presence in the international networks

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CSTB organisation and plants

• Eight departments five plants
• Marne La Vallée (head office) sustainable
  development, thermal comfort, health in the
  building, safety, structures and fire
  performance, envelope and coatings, hydraulics
  and sanitary equipment, knowledge dissemination
• Paris economics and social sciences, continuous
  training
• Nantes climatology, aerodynamics, pollution and
  sewage treatment, lighting
• Grenoble acoustics, materials
• Sophia Antipolis information technologies,
  renewable new energies
• Four subsidiary companies
• ACOUSTB ? Aérodynamique Eiffel
• CEQUAMI ? CERTIVEA

750 people in all among which 50 engineers and
researchers
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Information Technologies Knowledge
Dissemination department
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Sets of themes of the department

• Improving applications and uses of IC
  Technologies
• By investigating and prototyping innovative tools
  and ICT-based services in order to improve job
  efficiency and increase company competitiveness
• By developing and testing new ICT-based services
  to the occupants, more particularly for the
  maintenance in residence of the dependent people,
  old and handicapped people
• Through finalized research works and studies, at
  the national and European level

• Informing professionals in the technical and
  lawful fields applied to construction, housing
  and towns
• By publishing and marketing editorial products
  and services books, software, electronic
  products and Internet services, offer of
  continuous training
• Thanks to an integrated editorial organization
  which ensures the design, the manufacture, the
  promotion and the dissemination

About 65 people, based in Paris, Marne La Vallée
and Sophia Antipolis
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ICT fields of competences

• Concurrent engineering, collaborative work and
  knowledge engineering
• Facilities Management systems
• New Ambient technologies applications to active
  building components and smart home
• Modelling physical phenomena and numerical
  simulation, dynamical simulation software
• Numerical tools of design development and virtual
  reality applied to construction and urban
  development project
• Document engineering and natural language
  processing
• Internet services and Multimedia applications