Sigma Orionis and Beywatch are pleased to announce that participants of ICT for Sustainable Homes will have the opportunity to visit the “Scientific and Technical Centre for Building” of CSTB in Nice, France.

The visit will take place in the afternoon of Octobre 25, 2011, 14:30 – 16:00.

Program of the visit

♦ GerHome lab (GerHome website)
♦ The Immersion Room ‘Le Corbusier’ (Immersive Room website)
♦ Solar lab (LEPS website)

CSTB (Scientific and Technical Centre for Building) is a French public industrial and commercial establishment under the joint supervision of the Minister of Housing and the Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea (Habitat, Town Planning and Countryside Directorate).

It works alongside its subsidiaries to support innovation and act as a trustworthy third party in the building industry, to develop, capitalize and share essential scientific and technical knowledge with its partners and customers so that buildings and their environment provide solutions to sustainable development challenges. It is one of the major players in innovation for the quality and safety of sustainable construction.

Its missions:

• To provide a solution to sustainable development challenges by imple- menting an integrated approach to construction, to improve environmental and energy performances taking account of safety and health, adapting to users’ needs and achieving economic competitiveness.

• Innovate confidently, from the conception of a product/process until feedback from experience. Research workers, engineers and experts in evaluation and certification, specialists in dissemination of knowledge gather, opti- mize and apply research results.

• Accompany all construction players at all scales of the structure during construction from facilities, products and materials to buildings and their integration into districts and towns.

The “engineering of innovation and services” division is specialized in the design and experimentation of ICT solutions for energy efficiency in construction. It contributes to several EU collaborative R&D projects, and coordinates the REEB initiative: the European Strategic Research Roadmap to ICT enabled Energy-Efficiency in Building and Construction.

For more information about the “Scientific and Technical Centre for Building”, please visit CSTB website.

More details on 2011 conference program are available here.

Only few places left to take part in the visit, register now!