The Sophia Antipolis Passive Test Facility

The Centre d’Energetique de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris has built in 1981 a passive test facility of reasonnable size, including two rooms, in order to test and to validate various simulation models. With a complete equipment (meteo, air and walls temperature, hygrometry etc…), it allows all kind of studies in transient conditions with a very good knowledge of different parameters.