The LOCIE laboratory

Sustainable energy and buildings

LOCIE conducts multidisciplinary research focused on buildings in their environment (sustainable, stable, high-performance, energy collectors/producers, comfortable, and healthy) in order to address the challenges of energy and environmental transition. 

The research is divided into three themes:

BASE – Sustainable Building: Structure and Envelope

BASE studies building components to understand and control the thermal, mechanical, and hydraulic responses of envelope and structural elements in new and existing buildings. It also focuses on the integration of unconventional, multi-functional materials and components.

STEP – Energy Systems and Processes

STEP focuses on researching systems that meet the needs of sustainable buildings. It designs, models, evaluates, and optimizes innovative energy and air treatment processes: exchangers, storage systems, solar components, and particle filtration.

SITE – Systems and buildings integrated into cities and territories

SITE focuses on issues related to the management of energy resources and vectors at the regional level. It characterizes, models, and optimizes the overall performance of buildings or building complexes in their environment and their interactions via energy networks.

The LOCIE laboratory is a joint research unit of the CNRS and the University of Savoie Mont Blanc that focuses its research activities on the central theme of "sustainable energy and buildings" withinthe INES ( National Institute for Solar Energy) .

The unit has 70 staff members: faculty, technical and administrative staff, doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers.