|  | The Western Civil Engineering cluster is a platform for trial and studies in civil engineering. It gathers the main scientific equipment, training centers and industries of Western France.
It is specialised in studying civil engineering works that have a complex or extreme situation with the ground, the water or the atmosphere. |
| Engineering studies in: | - Stability: conceptions, foundings, structures, operating
- Durability and life cycle
- Varying or degrading climatic conditions : with the sea or the atmosphere
- Interaction between civil engineering works and their environnement
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| Large-scale testing platforms |
A unique concentration in the world :
| - within the LCPC (Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées): a cable fatigue testing bench, a vibration bench, a geotechnical centrifuge, a geophysical test site, a climatic chamber, a pavements material laboratory, a photometry and colorimetry lab for road signaling, a pavement fatigue carrousel, a reference track for characterizing pavement surfaces, a structural test facility, a pavement material mixing test facility, a test facility for research and study of positioning systems, a magnetic resonance imaging device, an experimental site and a partial reverbaration room for environmental acoustics...
- within the CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment) : a climatic wind tunnel, the LABE (European Laboratory of Building Acoustics), the Base Feu to test materials or parts of structures under realistic conditions, the ARIA to study the sanitary quality of building products, facilities and structures, an immersion room equipped with graphic supercomputers and three-dimensional vision and sound systems to review building projects within their urban environment, the technical platform for architecture,softwares to test acoustics, lighting, smoke removal and the evacuation of persons, thermal engineering and comfort, thermohygromechanics...
- within the Ecole Centrale de Nantes : has platforms in hydrodynamics, dynamics (materials, crash tests), high speed machining, durability mechanics, virtual reality : a towing tank, a wave tank, a multiflap wavemaker, a wind tunnel used to make PIV measurement for the study of lower urban atmosphere, four test-stands for testing internal combustion engines.
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| Engineering offices, project builders, companies: SCE, Arcadis, AIA-Cera, ETPO, Colas, GTB, Eiffage, Coca Atlantique, Charier, Lang, GTM, SOGEA, Eurovia, VM Materiaux, EDF... | 
If you want to attend this event, contact us |
The ENR GREEN business meetings is the first event (business convention and congress) dedicated to the renewable energies industry (solar, energy performance of buildings, wind, biomass, geothermics, bio-fuels, hydraulics) and gathering all the players: contractors, manufacturers of materials and equipments, sub-contractors, design offices, engineering consultants, elected representatives...). It takes place in Le Mans. |
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