The principle is a derivative of the concept of solar chimney: it involves using thermal air currents to generate electricity through turbines.

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In January 2008, the French Government launched the first phase of the Grand Paris mission. A marathon call for ideas then took place, spread over the space of a year, to propose a new vision of how Paris would change and evolve in the next 50 years. Elioth was thus given the opportunity to enter into this great adventure alongside Jean Nouvel architects. The study that Elioth proposed provided a global and exhaustive description of environmental solutions which would reinforce each and every one of the nine scenarios developed by the Jean Nouvel team.

http://www.jeannouvel.com/projets/grand-paris/

Nicola Delon, Julien Choppin and Raphael Menard won the Metropolis Next Generation Prize.
Inserting wind turbines into broken electrical towers, thereby turning the towers into wind energy powerhouses and providing an energy boost to a ready-made grid.

4 separate externally funded research programs were launched in the period from 2011 to 2014. These concentrated on the impact of climate change and scientific reseach into energy.
These were Resilis, Reforme project, Impetus ANR and Adaptatio.

Elioth won an award for its BREEAM and LEED ratings for this tower in which we developed one of the first naturally ventilated systems for high rise office space, with Jean-Paul Viguier architectes.

In 2014, Elioth was given the opportunity to design the lightweight structure, environments and envelopes for 4 of the stadia used for the UEFA Euro 2016 football championships.

Urban modelisation can no longer be considered as a prospective activity and is fully integrated into our environmental design process. 

Together, they now form the “Environment” division.

The French National Engineering Awards (Grand Prix National de l’Ingénierie) present their Industry and Technology prize to the project Wind-it, an innovative renewable energy generation solution developed since 2007 by Elioth.

A radical zero-carbon structure to host the COP21. As part of our actions during the COP21 in Paris,  Elioth took steps towards trying to clarify misused or misunderstood environmental concepts for a larger audience.

Elioth joins the ADIVbois association to promote the timber industry and to help redefine european timber building regulations. Francois Consigny is appointed chairman of the technical committee.

Following this debut, Elioth has gone on to design some of the most challenging high rise timber towers currently under construction.

The competition asked participants to design the transformation of a district by projecting it into the future, taking into account climate warming and greenhouse gas reduction requirements. Our winning project, “The Factory of the Renaissance” offers a very precise and clear prospective vision, a true account of the world and society in 2050.

The Elioth consortium with Quattrolibri, the Egis Conseil teams and Mana contributed to this study, for the City of Paris to have an external, independent and impartial vision of the various issues to be considered.
The measures proposed by the consortium opened debate for a political, technological and sociological transition towards a low carbon city and to offer a vision shared by all its inhabitants.

In 2018, the BBCA Association presented an unprecedented "BBCA Quartier" study carried out with CSTB and Elioth, which lay the foundations for a future operational approach to reduce carbon emissions on the scale of a district.

The Séquences Bois award is presented to Elioth and 169 architectures for the architecture and design of the Porte Marguerite de Navarre: a 300-sqm sandblasted glass canopy with a composite wood-steel structure, in the very heart of Paris.

A combined specialized consultancy practice is formed with a focus on Facade Engineering and Environmental design. It draws its strength from Elioth’s European experience and the breadth of Inhabit’s International expertise and resources.

Catherine De Wolf is postdoctoral researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The aim of her research with Elioth is to develop a method that goes beyond the current existing state of the art in carbon footprint assessments for buildings, to also include the evaluation of circular economy principles.