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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Poet Engineer

Event Details:

Date: Monday 2nd October 2017
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Venue: The Cyprus Institute – Guy Ourisson Building, Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Athalassa Campus
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Guéno

* The talk will be in English, the event is open to the public, light refreshments will be served after the talk.

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Abstract
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is an aviator and a writer. He is also a poet engineer who combined his poetic imagination and engineer training to improve aircraft take-off, flight and landing conditions at night and in heavy weather and to meet the ecological and climatic challenges that already characterized his time, 70 years ago.

About the Speaker
Writer, Historian, Journalist, and High Civil Servant, Jean-Pierre Guéno led the cultural development of the French Bibliothèque Nationale for 7 years alongside Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and then Radio France Publishing for 12 years. He was also deputy director of communication for La Poste. He was Director of Culture of the Museums of Letters and Manuscripts of Paris and Brussels.

The author of "Paroles de poilus", "Paroles de Verdun", "Visages de Saint-Exupéry", "Paroles d'exode" and "In the Skin of the Unknown Soldier" published some seventy books . This former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Postes et Télécommunications, reminds us that history is not only written by the heads of posters of our class books but also and above all by these simple and ordinary people who were our ancestors.

He likes to define himself as a "memory transmitter." Different versions of “Paroles de Poilus” found 3 million readers.

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August 2016
September 2016

For the initial monitoring of the building the SUI CyI research team installed a weather station on the roof, placed sensors inside the building and performed a thermal comfort assessment survey.

1. Climate data monitoring

Exterior
A Vantage Pro2 weather station was placed on the building roof to collect data from the SUI area. Regularly updated information about the climatic conditions could be found on the station webpage: http://www.weatherlink.com/user/suitepakcy/. The weather station base was designed and installed by the CyI technical equipment development team.

Interior
Twelve (12) HOBO data-loggers were placed in the building, for collecting temperature, humidity and light data. The data are collected every 30 minutes and will be elaborated with the HOBOware software.

2. Thermal comfort assessment questionnaire

A survey on occupant comfort satisfaction with the indoor environment in summer was conducted. The questionnaire was based on templates proposed by the HSE (http://www.hse.gov.uk/temperature/index.htm). A third of the total employees were asked and complementary measurements were made using a Heat Stress WBGT (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature) Meter, both for the indoor and the outdoor climatic conditions at the time of the survey.

Images below, from left to right:
Left: The Vantage Pro2 weather station
Middle: HOBO data logger placed in the working place – 1st floor
Right: Completed questionnaire (first page) – Ground floor.

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1. Thermal imaging

Thermal images were taken using a T440 Flir thermal camera in order to find missing, damaged, or inadequate insulation, building envelope air leaks, moisture intrusion and other problems. Also, the main sources of radiant temperature were determined.

2. HOBO sensors data collection and analysis

The temperature, humidity, air movement and dew point data from the HOBO sensors were collected and analysed. The mean predicted vote (PMV) was calculated using the CBE Thermal Comfort Tool (http://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/EN). In all the spaces under monitoring the people are expected to be in thermal comfort, since all values are within the thermal comfort range of -0.7

Images below, from left to right:
Left: A thermal image from the mezzanine
Right: Graph. Thermal Comfort PMV

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