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Begun in 2017 and set to be finished at the end of 2020, the "Bergère 2020" Project is set to renovate the buildings in the Nestlé HQ.With a higher accent brought on Building automation, this thesis views itself as an exploratory journey in the literature ...
In the present project a not well-known method has been studied, the dry reopening test DRT. This is a method used to estimate the in-situ stress field of a soil and was. In the context of the project, the test was used to estimate the stress field in the ...
Large-scale seismic risk assessment requires knowledge of the vulnerability of buildings. Under the action of an earthquake, buildings with different properties also behave differently. Since it is not possible to analyze each building individually, it is ...
The present article gives an overview of the first experimental campaigns carried out in the AKR-2 and CROCUS reactors within the framework of the Horizon 2020 European project CORTEX. CORTEX aims at developing innovative core monitoring techniques that al ...
The assessment of the risk maps for the seismic vulnerability at large scale is based on the vulnerability of each building. In order to determine these vulnerabilities, it is first required to assign to each building its construction class. The constructi ...
In the Freudian theory of the psychical apparatus, the introduction from the 1920s onward of the second drive dualism appears as a major turning point. The idea of a "death drive," first expressed in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, 1920), is generall ...
In light of increasing sustainability requirements, one of the challenges related to the heritage building stock consists in finding a balance between preserving the existing architectural character and improving energy efficiency. The project presented in ...
This article presents a mapping method that seeks to provide urban planning with a diagnostic overview of the underground resources of an urban area. Resource potentials (for buildable space, groundwater or geomaterial extraction and geothermal energy) ten ...
"The cost of training machines is becoming a problem". This is the title of an article from The Economist published in June 2020 that highlights the staggeringly unappreciated the financial impact of AI [38]. However, these costs on are not limited to mone ...
By studying approximately a century of cement and concrete in Switzerland, this project examines the relations between institutions, discourse, and technology as they intersect in the material. The project is framed so that the establishment of organizatio ...
