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This fast development fosters today an extensive review of structural systems and constructive principles suited to the material’s specific properties and design process. While steel and concrete have shaped our city landscape for more than a century, timber cannot stand for a pure substitute, but it has to find its own structural and architectural expression.

We have created DESsim, an open source framework, for the simulation and optimization of building energy systems connected to a district heating and cooling networks

At Elioth, we believe that open source is the future of engineering. We have therefore decided to publish some of our tools and gradually make a large part of the software we create accessible.

Clarifying mis-used or mis-read environmental concepts

We live in times when cities must reinvent themselves. The impact of climate change is more and more visible, as in France where the five hottest years since 1900 have occurred during the last decade. In this context, a good environmental design based on multidisciplinary urban engineering competences is crucial for the future development of our cities. More specifically, urban physics must be at the center of the design choices in order to improve urban living. Resilience facing climate change should be conducted also by controlling the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.

The envelope is a major factor in the architectural expression of the project, but it is also an item that plays an essential role in the comfort and well-being of users.

E+C-, going beyond the regulatory equation to adopt low carbon building Article originally published on the Egis group website in December 2019. Launched at the end of 2016 in France, this experimental label, which anticipates the major upcoming revolution of […]

Expertise in geometry applies simultaneously to many different building disciplines and can be called upon very early in the project.

Take a trip three years back in time, and at Egis we were already staunchly advocating our vision in “Paris, an air of change”*: aiming for carbon neutrality is an imperative that is rational, reasonable and feasible.

The Montparnasse Tower begins its energy transition Article originally published on the Egis group website in December 2019. Living in harmony with the climate, the wind and natural light, the new Montparnasse Tower will be a step ahead of its […]

The current digitalization has opened up a lot of possibilities to scale up engineering and architecture work both spatially and temporally, from building to city scale and from point-in-time to long term analysis.