La Rochelle University, France
By Prof. Francis Allard, La Rochelle University, France.
Since humans have been looking for a shelter, Safety, Comfort and Health are defining the trilogy of their needs. Even if the energy stress modified a little bit the focus of a building goal, the recent pandemic of COVID19 revealed once more the need of a High Indoor Air Quality and well adapted ventilation strategies in order to minimize the infection risk indoors. After defining briefly, the conditions of a good indoor air quality and its health impact, but also its economic impact for our economy, we will consider the role and conditions of a good ventilation and we will stress this role on the infection risk in case of a respiratory viral infection as COVID19.
Biography
F. Allard is presently professor emeritus at La Rochelle University (France), and Chairman of Tipee, Building Innovation Platform.
F. Allard received his engineer degree and Master degree in Civil Engineering and Urbanism from INSA de Lyon (1975). He obtained his PhD in Building Physics at INSA de Lyon (1978), and his “Doctorat d’Etat ès Sciences” in 1987 (Insa de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon I). Staff Scientist at CNRS from 1982 to 1992, he worked during 2 years in Venezuela as Director of CEMERSOL (Centro de Estudios y Mediciones de la Energia Solar) in Caracas (1979-1981) and as guest scientist at NLBL in Berkeley (California) (1988-1989).
In 1992, F. Allard was nominated at the board of creation of La Rochelle University. He created LEPTAB (Laboratory of Transfer Phenomena Applied to Buildings) in 1993 (now LaSIE) and was the first director of the Civil Engineering Department (1993-1997). Director of LEPTAB from 1993 to 2007, and LEPTIAB from 2008 to 2011. F. Allard has been also Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (1997-2002) and vice-rector for research (2008-2012). F. Allard was vice president of REHVA (European Federation of HVAC Engineer Associations) from 2002 to 2008 and president of REHVA for the term 2008-2011.
His main domain of expertise is heat and mass transfer phenomena with application in energy efficiency and indoor environment in buildings and urban microclimate. He published more than 300 articles in international journals, international conferences or books. He is member of various editorial boards of leading international journals in his domain and was member of various scientific committees (CSTB, Fondation Bâtiment Energie, ANR défi6, CoNRS, INRS, CCRRD, …).
F. Allard has been granted Gold Medal of REHVA in 2015, he is Member of IAIAQ (International Academy of Indoor Air Quality), and Doctor Honoris Causa of UTCB (Romania).