The VITRES consortium encompasses 22 research teams affiliated with the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEMLV), Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC), Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées (LCPC) and Ecole supérieure d'ingénieurs en électronique et électrotechnique (ESIEE) which are members of the University Paris-Est.
VITRES has gained widespread recognition as a reference for research works conducted in the fields of civil engineering, urban planning and development, public services and regional planning strategies.
Areas of concentration
- The city with all its geographic, economic, social, administrative and organisational complexity, particularly as regards communication and the transport of both passengers and goods.
- Infrastructure and its uses, with a focus on transport infrastructure, geotechnical facilities, civil engineering structures, urban and public works engineering, energy and fluid distribution networks, as well as their collective impacts on the environment.
Missions
- Propose multidisciplinary research capabilities in pursuit of development efforts and expertise at the international scale ;
- Bolster the initiatives undertaken by laboratories engaged in partnerships research, with the aim of deriving applications and forging new paths for future research and innovation.
Expertise and competence
The research performed by VITRES teams combines theoretical analyses, modelling exercises, laboratory experiments and in situ measurement campaigns in their respective areas of expertise, coordinated around :
Technologies to promote "safe, sustainable and harmonious living"
- Geophysical and geotechnical capacities ;
- Construction engineering and public works, sustainability and recycling of material resources ;
- Energy and protection from nuisances caused by infrastructure or its uses ;
- Information collection and processing : sensors, nano and micro technologies ;
- Control, forecasting and prevention to improve air, water and soil quality.
Services devoted to "Living together in greater numbers and harmony"
- The city, urban layouts and space management ;
- Efficient planning of both urban and non-urban spaces, along major transport infrastructure corridors ;
- Transportation, centred around fluidity and accessibility, covering topics related to economics, management and sociology ;
- Examination of the links between urban issues and the various utility networks embedded in the city's fabric ;
- Generation of public policy models designed to promote "living together" initiatives ;
- Assessment of the impacts from public and private decision-making on the life of residents.
Sciences and techniques in support of "living together" initiatives :
- Modelling, simulation and control applications ;
- Materials, mechanical and physical properties ;
- Imaging, multimedia and software development ;
- Economics, sociology and political sciences ;
- Information and communication technologies.
Clients and markets
Wide array of actors in all the fields where VITRES is involved : infrastructure project owners, project architects and managers, engineering firms, building contractors, materials and equipment manufacturers, and energy and bulk fluid transport / distribution companies.
An exceptional and unique set of facilities
- A micro-technology centre (including 300 m2 of clean room),
- Radio frequency platform, digital electronics workshop,
- Testing room for civil engineering structures,
- Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI),
- Geotechnical centrifuge,
- Pavement structure fatigue carrousel,
- Scanning electron microscope operated in environmental mode,
- Anechoic chambers,
- Simple ring shear apparatus (ACSA),
- Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometer,
- Surface layer scintillometer.
Laboratories affiliated with the Carnot Institute
- Atmospheric Environment Teaching and Research Centre – CEREA (ENPC)
- Mathematics and Scientific Computing Teaching and Research Centre – CERMICS (ENPC)
- Information Technologies and Systems Teaching and Research Centre – CERTIS (ENPC)
- Water, environment, and urban systems laboratory – LEESU (ENPC, UPEMLV)
- Division of Concrete and Cement Composites– BCC (LCPC)
- Division of Water and the Environment– EAU (LCPC)
- Laboratory for road operations, perception, simulatos and simulations – LEPSIS (LCPC)
- Division of Road Operations, Signalling and Lighting – ESE (LCPC)
- Division of Structural Behaviour and Durability – FDOA (LCPC)
- Division of Transport Materials and Infrastructures – SMIT (LCPC)
- Division of Soil and Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology – MSRGI (LCPC)
- Division of Soil Mechanics and Site Surveying – RMS (LCPC)
- Division for Sustainable Approaches in Civil Engineering – DDGC (LCPC)
- Laboratory of Geomaterials and Engineering Geology – G2I (UPEMLV)
- Laboratory Modelling and Multi-Scale Simulation - Mechanics Team – LMSME (UPEMLV)
- Laboratory of Techniques used in Regional and Social Planning – LATTS (ENPC, UPEMLV)
- Laboratory for Vehicle-Infrastructure-Driver Interactions – LIVIC (LCPC)
- Laboratory on the Physics of Divided Materials and Interfaces– LPMDI (UPEMLV)
- City, Mobility and Transport Laboratory – LVMT (UPEMLV, ENPC)
- Communication systems and microsystems research team associated with Institut Gaspard Monge– ESYCOM (UPEMLV, ESIEE)
- Real-Time Embedded Systems – STRE (ESIEE)
- Navier Joint Research Laboratory, Mechanics and physics of materials, structures and soils – NAVIER (ENPC, LCPC)
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