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Moving from a linear urban metabolism to a circular resource economy is a major challenge for urban systems. The food-excretion system is no exception to this reality. The organic matter and nutrients from our food is found in biowaste and excreta and is little recovered, even though it is needed fo

Due to global warming, serious problems of buildings overheating during summer in temperate and hot climates arise. Thus there is an increasingly use of air conditioning. However, to address both comfort and energy savings issues, some alternative passive and soft cooling systems exist such as natur

Earthen culture heritage played a great role to revive interest for earth as a sustainable construction. The durability of earthen structure set a proof of its longevity. Nevertheless, earthen materials are sensitive to natural aggression from water, humidity, temperature. Moreover, due to climate c

The increased risk for powered two-wheelers (PTW) drivers is still very high: the risk of being killed for a PTW driver is 22 times higher than that of a car driver. The motorcyclists die on curves in 49% of cases. When taking a curve, riders alternate between taking short-term information to co

Environmental issues in building sector are huge, particularly in the context of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This concerns not only the construction phase, but also operation phase and end of life of buildings. Within this framework and following new RE2020 regulations, this project aims to i

The project tackles the matter of comfort and performances of Cable Transport (CT) systems in urban areas. Many recent transportation projects exploit these systems with two main advantages (i) an implementation/operation cost to carrying capacity ratio among the smallest of transportation systems,

The objective of MUFDD is to model in a data-driven framework the unsteady ventilation and transport processes taking place in the urban canopy. The project’s ambition is to exploit recent advances in data-driven modelling (among which Machine Learning algorithms) and data assimilation to reproduce

The growing energy needs linked to the expansion of urban areas, coupled with the environmental challenges facing our countries lead to the development of new energy technologies. In particular, since the 1980s, a new geothermal method has been developed: energy geostructures, consisting in fixing h

The optical properties of road surfaces are essential to many planning issues, both in urban areas and in the field of road infrastructures. Indeed, the interactions of light with these surfaces underlie important challenges such as the adaptation of cities to climate change or the visibility of roa

The master planning of sustainable urban nightscapes requires a parsimonious use of artificial light at night (ALAN) to meet societal needs for safety, mobility, economic and social life, while limiting energy consumption, and negative impacts for humans, for the climate and for biodiversity. But in

OLICOW aims to significantly improve capabilities to analyse and predict crowd behaviour in public areas. Crowd observation and simulation problems have been historically addressed separately by different scientific communities, and attempts to couple them are recent, have been performed offline so

To develop sustainable cities, urban mitigation policies reduced pollutant emissions and increased the number of vegetated areas to reduce urban heat islands, counteract carbon emissions, and improve air quality. But the impact of green infrastructures on secondary pollutants (formed in the air) rem

The MAGNETICS project aims to further understand the circular causality between local socio-economic development and transport activities, more precisely in the case of the port and maritime sector. While empirical studies on the economic impact and connectivity of ports are numerous, they remain di

The objectif of the present project is to develop solutions of composite steel-cross laminated timber (CLT) beams, considering mechanical connection in order to allow its disassembly and reuse. Various researches exist on the mechanical behavior of CLT panels. Some researchers worked on the combinat