ISBA-TP and Ecole Pratique have combined their research activities to create a new laboratory called Lab2ITEC: LABoratoire de recherche des Infrastructures Intelligentes et des Technologies de l’Environnement Connecté (“Research laboratory in smart infrastructures and connected environments technologies), which focuses on intelligent technologies linked to the connected environment.

Our laboratory is located on the Campus Plurimétiers de Vaufrèges in Marseille, close to the CCIAMP training organizations. These include ISBA TP, an engineering school specializing in civil engineering and construction with a postgraduate degree, and Ecole Pratique, which trains students in digital and tertiary fields such as real estate, accounting, commerce and management from bachelor to master degrees.

A showroom laboratory

The campus is a university building with two operational areas: an older area and a renovated zone. These two areas are located on the same site, on two different floors. This configuration makes it possible to compare the life of a building with two environments. The instrumentation of the campus, based on a study of the data already available from the sensors already in place, the addition of well-positioned additional sensors, their power supplies and the processing of the data is a research project in its own right.

The goal of implementing intelligent buildings on the campus, ones that would reconcile ecological guidelines and occupant comfort is the culmination of all the research themes previously introduced within the Campus.

This first theme focuses on civil engineering issues. It focuses on the development and planning of urban areas:

• Area 1: Soil-structure interaction, including excavation of deep structures, complex structures and soil stability studies;
• Area 2: Materials and ecological impact, including the study of various constituents, thermal aspects and material behavior.

This second theme addresses the modeling of structures, infrastructure, energy flows, and urban flows, based on evolving data from carefully selected and positioned sensors. Thus, information is transmitted via:

• This second theme addresses the modeling of structures, infrastructure, energy flows, and urban flows, based on evolving data from carefully selected and positioned sensors: Thus, information is transmitted via:
  sensors and associated communication protocols;
• integrating artificial intelligence-based processing of this data predictive maintenance tools;
• through an evolving BIM model
• in order to provide predictive information for the safe maintenance of structures.

In this way, structures will be monitored, thereby preventing damage related to safety, environmental, and other constraints.

A research team

A small team dedicated to excellence by merging research and education, to prepare our students to the world of tomorrow

• 3 HDR
• 2 PhDs
• 1 Ingénieur R&D
• 3 Doctorants

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