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  • November 13, 2014 (Nantes): Andy Andrianandraina defends its PhD thesis on the combination of Life Cycle Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis for eco-design, applied to the study of a hemp based insulation material for buildings.
  • November 6, 2014 (Nantes): the chaire participates to a conference and world café on circular economy, organised by the Young Economic Chamber from the Junior Chamber International.
  • November 1, 2014 (Saint-Nazaire): the chair welcomes a new PhD student

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  • July 12, 2014 (Versailles): the Philéas team, for which the chaire and Evéa bring their scientific support on the Life Cycle Assessment study, won 2nd price of the international contest Solar Decathlon

Former events

  • March 27, 2014 (Nantes): the chaire co-organized in partnership with Evéa, the second international thematic workshop of the EcoSD network.
  • February 20, 2014 (Nantes): the chaire participates to a conference on Life Cycle Assessment during "rencontres 360°" of the network Novabuild
  • January 17, 2014 (Saint-Nazaire): the chaire sensitizes students of the IUT civil engineering of Saint-Nazaire city to Life Cycle Assessment in the frame of their ecoconstruction project. The chaire also provides courses in Life Cycle Assessment to students of IUT.
  • December 12, 2013 (Rennes): the chaire presents basis of Life Cycle Assessment to local authorities during a conference "Structural Work and Sustainable Development"
  • November 29, 2013 (Saint-Nazaire): 5th year students of Polytech civil engineering present the results of their projects in their Sustainable Development courses,  contributing to the work of the global project Philéas (proposed by several Schools around Nantes to challenge the international contest Solar Décathlon)
  • November 11, 2013 (Rome): the chaire civil engineering presents some research results in the international congress Life Cycle Assessment Case Study. Anne Ventura was also invited to contribute to a workshop on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for buildings.
  • June 7, 2013 (Nantes): a conference on Life Cycle Assessment during the Scientific Days of the Université of Nantes.
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  • March 21, 2013 (Paris): Anne Ventura was invited to participate to an international research workshop about consequential LCA organised by the the EcoSD network.