Materials, structures, geotechnics

In the field of materials and structures, the School’s Navier Laboratory (CNRS mixed research unit and joint lab with IFSTTAR) houses expertise in mechanics, geotechnics, the physics and chemistry of materials, and digital simulation, relating to questions of materials and structures for engineering works, construction and energy, in concert with industry. 
This laboratory has strong connections with other disciplines: firstly with applied mathematics and the Centre for teaching and Research in Mathematics and Scientific Calculus (the School’s applied mathematics research lab), but also with other construction related fields, such as the automatic construction of digital urban models at the Gaspard Monge Computer Science laboratory, or the interactions between structures and flows, for example at the Saint-Venant Hydraulics Laboratory.

Public policy, planning and transport

In the field of public policy, planning and transport, the School applies a systemic approach to transport at the City-Mobility-Transport Laboratory.  In the Technologies, Territories and Societies Laboratory, the School explores the complexity of cities, their infrastructures and their territories, linking the economic, physical, spatial, temporal and demographic aspects, and applying its threefold expertise in sociology, planning and engineering, whilst emphasising issues of management and risk forecasting.

Environment

The School is involved with the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory and also in a range of activities in atmospheric environment at the Atmospheric Environment Teaching and Research Centre, as well as in matters of hydrological environment and urban engineering at the Water - Environment - Urban Systems Laboratory.

Economics, Finance

In the field of economics and Finance, the School is a founding member of the Paris School of Economics and oversees the Paris-Jourdan Economics Research Unit. It works on questions allying not only engineering and sustainable development, but also the environment and planning, in particular at the International Environment and Development Research Centre, and continues its long tradition of activity in the field of mathematical tools for finance.