PROJECTS

Research at ENSTIB focuses on strategic areas aimed at addressing the environmental, technological, and economic challenges of our society. The Wood Campus is a centre of excellence for research and innovation in the field of wood and bio-based materials. At ENSTIB, we are committed to developing sustainable and innovative solutions to meet the challenges of tomorrow through the work of our students and researchers, who are recognised nationally and internationally. They work on pioneering projects in wood engineering, eco-design, and renewable energy.

In their third year, engineering students work alone or in pairs on a research and development project: the RDP. This allows them to get involved in technological research on topics of industrial interest, for research laboratories, or directly for companies. All the teachers are involved in this important step of the students’ curriculum. This research and development task is essential to their training. They must provide concrete work, directly linked to the skills of an engineer. Some of them will see this work continue within the company that proposed the project, through an end-of-study internship, which often leads to a first job.

The contact for proposing a RDP topic is

The branch of the Jean Lamour Institute specialises in research on bio-based materials, based on the ENSTIB Campus Bois and directed by Vanessa Fierro, CNRS research director, has joined forces with the Bordet Group, with the aim of developing and industrialising high-tech activated carbons. Bordet is a major player in activated carbons from responsible, environmentally friendly materials, sourced from short supply chains and 100% produced in Côte-d’Or. CarBioLab is part of the sustainable development objectives of the French 2030 agenda, a roadmap that relies on the new European Green Deal programmes. The National Research Agency funds this joint laboratory for Bio-based Carbons, with Alain Celzard, professor at ENSTIB, as its Director. Researchers from the IJL and Bordet are working on the production of high-tech activated carbons produced 100% in France for two main applications: supercapacitors and biogas purification. This research is conducted with a view to the eventual ban on thermal engines and the quest for energy independence for France, notably through methanation.

The partnership chair “Architecture and Wood Construction: from Heritage to Digital” stems from a scientific and field-based approach, undertaken for several years at ENSarchitecture Nancy and ENSTIB, which from the outset involved experimental and project territories. The partnership chair project values the potential of the material, strategic due to its renewable and recyclable nature, as well as its contribution to the fight against climate change. With low energy consumption in its implementation, it stands out as one of the basic materials in the design and realisation of high-energy-performance buildings with zero environmental impact.

Within the framework of this partnership chair, ENSarchitecture Nancy and its research laboratories (Centre de Recherche en Architecture et Ingénierie (Centre for Research in Architecture and Engineering), Laboratoire d’Histoire de l’Architecture Contemporaine (Contemporary Architecture History Laboratory)), ENSAS, ENSTIB, the Fibres Energivie Competitiveness Cluster, GIPEBLOR, FCBA, and CRITT BOIS have identified an interest in working together to implement a chair: “Architecture and Wood Construction: from Heritage to Digital.”