Heat wave: the Germaine Tillion school group in Toulouse, an example to follow?
Report at the Germaine Tillion school group in Toulouse, which has been open for two years and integrated with insulating materials and air-conditioned rooms.
All students in Toulouse are not housed in the same boat during episodes of high heat. Some schools in Toulouse benefit from real advantages in this area, even “if it is still warmer than usual in some classrooms”, confides Alexandra De Giusti, the director of the brand new school group Germaine Tillion, opened two years ago.
Until then, students were educated in kindergarten and elementary school in prefabricated classes. It is clear that, on site yesterday, no one complained about the heat and the classes functioned normally. “We are really lucky to have these premises,” enthuses the director. We also make sure that the students can drink when they want, they can bring bottles of water. »
Fans, islands of freshness
In a classroom equipped with ceiling fans, the temperature displays 25 ° C, this Thursday, June 16, while the Haute-Garonne has entered into red heat wave vigilance. A few children play ball in the yard in the shade, but “not for more than a quarter of an hour”. If necessary, on the water asparagus with a jet.
“Sometimes in the summer I come to work at school,” admits Alexandra De Giusti in front of the air-conditioned toddlers’ dormitory. The school group benefits from air conditioning in two rooms of the refectory, two multipurpose rooms and in the dormitory. The rectangular building, designed with insulation intended to respond to climatic hazards, obtained, in September 2020, the BiM d’or.
An award requested by the Monitor and the Cahiers techniques du bâtiment and which highlights the best projects carried out using the digital model. The project partners have set up a 6D collaborative approach in order to obtain dynamic thermal simulations and global cost modelling. That works.