CSTB and RIVP renew their partnership to advance research

In the continuity of a first collaboration initiated in 2018, the RIVP (Real estate agency of the City of Paris) and the CSTB (Scientific and Technical Center of the Building) renew their research partnership for 3 years.

This new step is part of the RIVP's asset management strategy and allows the exploration and study of various subjects related to key themes of sustainable buildings and cities: biobased materials, thermal renovation & industrialization, carbon trajectory, summer comfort on a district scale (ICU), Indoor Air Quality and Linked Data.

Based on CSTB's multidisciplinary expertise applied to RIVP projects, this work will strengthen the convergence between Research and the reality of the construction, rehabilitation and operation of buildings.

Deploying innovation with confidence: a priority for both CSTB and RIVP

A public establishment, CSTB structures its research and expertise, evaluation, testing, certification and dissemination of knowledge activities to meet the challenges of environmental, energy and digital transitions in the world of construction and urban development. The objective is to anticipate the building and the city of tomorrow, by supporting innovation in a systemic approach. A vision fully shared with the RIVP, an innovative, united and ethical social donor.

“Our long-term partnership with CSTB makes it possible to forge relationships of trust in areas of innovation in the service of social housing, which benefit more widely the fields of construction and the environment. This year again, we are continuing our collaboration and our experiments on concrete problems not resolved by current best practices, in order to support the transition in the building of tomorrow, but also the evolution of uses for the inhabitants. And I am proud to be able to sign this agreement in order to contribute to a better quality of life for our tenants and to meet environmental challenges ”, Says Serge Contat, Managing Director of RIVP, a major player in housing in Paris with more than 62.000 social housing units.

Bolstered by this common ambition, the two players had forged a first research partnership in 2018, around digital, energy & carbon, asbestos and fire safety. A partnership renewed today to deepen some of these subjects and explore new ones.

“The exchanges between our teams during the first collaboration proved the usefulness and the real interest of working together to advance research on many subjects. And the results are concrete, since significant progress has been made on subjects such as bedbugs, summer comfort and fire safety. There are still important subjects to work on together, so it was only natural to continue this work with CSTB. "
Serge Contat, Managing Director of the RIVP

“The first phase of our partnership with the RIVP enabled CSTB to experiment, in real situations, with numerous approaches and tools, at the service of buildings in all the diversity of their functions and uses. I am happy to continue this collaboration, to deepen the knowledge already mobilized and to broaden the areas explored, in connection with the major challenges of social housing, and more broadly of the building and the city of tomorrow. "
Etienne Crépon, President of CSTB

New period of collaboration: programming & themes

Biobased materials: to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, the use of biobased materials is a relevant lever, to be organized, structured and reinforced, in a systemic approach. As part of the RIVP - CSTB partnership, research will be carried out to explore multi-criteria analysis methods for these materials combining issues of durability, pathology (s), thermal, safety, etc.

Renovation / industrialization: the industrialization of the processes, through the use of the digital model at all stages of the projects, makes it possible to massify, secure and optimize efficient renovation operations, helping to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and reduce tenant costs. The CSTB and RIVP teams will work on this issue, combining thermal renovation and digital mock-up. Processes that can be industrialized and duplicated, but nonetheless “tailor-made”, will thus be studied, in particular in the field of ITE.

Carbon trajectory: to reduce the carbon footprint of its fleet, partly linked to the energy consumption of buildings, the RIVP wishes to develop its use of less carbon-intensive energies. To speed up the process and feed the decision-making process, the research partnership with CSTB will include a series of works dedicated to this issue.

Summer comfort at district level (ICU): the RIVP and the CSTB recently carried out work on summer comfort in housing, at the building scale. The objective today is to extend this reflection to the scale of outdoor spaces, by addressing more particularly the issue of urban heat islands.

Indoor Air Quality: A major topic in terms of public health and comfort, indoor air quality will be the subject of more exploratory work that complements the national programs already underway. In particular, beyond regulatory obligations, this will involve defining specific requirements for construction operations.

Linked Data: making it possible to constitute a single warehouse of multiple data, connected to business tools, Linked Data technology could be mobilized to optimize the management and processing of heritage and technical data integrated into BIM Management Operations Maintenance. In collaboration with other donor partners and publishers of asset management software, work will be carried out to study the use of such technology in technical information systems.