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A real-estate policy--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- to support research In 2011, CNRS defined its real-estate strategy for the next four years with a view to optimizing property management and promoting scientific activity. L inventory of its property and prepare a long-term plan defining of CPER.’ The Adream building in Toulouse was delivered in 2011 (seepartment (DSFIM). ‘We have invested €136 million since the inceptionike any other government operator, CNRS is required to take an its strategic orientations. The plan must comply with the objectives box below). defined by the French government to rationalize and optimize space, improve energy efficiency, and modernize real-estate assets. The first version of this plan, drafted in 2010, was modified in 2011 to reflect Rationalizing and defining priorities the organization’s new priorities through 2015. This involves optimizing infrastructure expenses by selling facilities that are either unoccupied or whose upkeep has become too expensive. Adapting infrastructure to meet research needs ‘Failing an effective strategy, our real estate increased every year,’ says Thibaut Sartre. ‘Today half of our facilities are over 40 years old, and The primary objective is to adapt laboratories’ real-estate infrastructure their maintenance represents a significant expense; other buildings to changing scientific activities, either by renovating existing facilities are no longer adapted to research requirements: by selling them, we or—as foreseen by the 2007-2013 State-Region Project Agreements secure new resources to improve and reorganize our remaining pro- (CPER)—by building new ones. CNRS is the contracting authority for perty.’ Thus half the land at the Meudon site will be sold and large- these projects and it contributes to their financing,’ says Thibaut Sartre, scale restructuring work has started in the other half, with particular Director of the Financial Strategy, Real Estate, and Modernization De- focus on reducing energy costs. On the other hand, €25 million will be earmarked for renovation each year. Priority will be given to closed-in buildings; heating, cooling, and ventilation; electricity; and compliance with health and safety standards. Improved management CNRS has finally acquired an IT system to manage its property with greater accuracy. ‘The application was delivered in September 2011 and deployed in four pilot offices, which feed it with data,’ says Thibaut Sartre. ‘Gradual deployment will continue in 2012. This reliable and shared information will enable us to control our administrative costs better and to identify areas for progress in order to opti- mize the management of our property.’ Adream, the first positive-energy CNRS building ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adream*, located on the LAAS** site in Toulouse, is both a scientific project on ambient intelligence and an experimental building dedicated to research in that field. The structure, which is part of the 2007-2013 CPER, and was delivered in November 2011, has exemplary environmental characteristics. It is designed to The Adream positive-energy building. produce more energy than it consumes thanks to features such as photovoltaic panels covering 720 m2, a ground-coupled heat exchanger, highly efficient heat pumps, and optimized control of lighting. Adream is the first CNRS positive-energy building. * Reconfigurable dynamic architectures for mobile embedded autonomous systems. ** Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems, a CNRS unit associated with the University of Toulouse PRES. 75 2011 A year at CNRS


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