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The activities were developed within the International Energy Agency of the European Community of the Federal State of Belgium by means of research and energy contracts, and, from time to time, in collaboration with the industry.

In 2005, we created the MATRIciel spin-off², because we gave a lot of advice to developers, design offices and architects, without being able to take legal responsibility. MATRIciel is a research and consulting office in energy, the environment and special techniques (as TRIBU is in France).

Here are some results in figures, provided by the research team: 3 international conferences, 25 books, the Energie+ website (Cstb in France), 115 articles over the last 10 years and 32 doctorates presented.

In 1995, the European community was looking for a way to get the bioclimatic message across in architecture schools without having to rewrite an umpteenth book on the subject. Teachers had to be given material, and what is better than existing exemplary buildings? We presented the educational portfolio. It was a portfolio containing educational material by means of examples drawn from bioclimatic buildings in Europe. There was a portfolio on housing, on the tertiary sector, on schools. We found all the materials that could spark the interest of any architecture teacher, whether at the workshop, for theory courses, in terms of structure or the physics of building. There was even a floppy disk with Autocad with a building model for the computer teacher. For the structure teacher there were the plans with the details in 1:10 and 1:20 scales. The portfolio also included overlays, slides, the architect’s resume, sometimes an architect’s text, climate and energy analysis. All the schools got one of the three portfolios, so there must be one at the school here.