The 101 words of building engineering for everyone

Conceived as a manifesto for engineering, this primer includes no fewer than 50 expert opinions and illustrates from A to Z the technical ingenuity at the service of unlimited inspiration.

Claude Labbé, engineer by training, author and former director of the company TERRELL, and Vincent Moraël, engineer specializing in LEAN MANAGEMENT and CEO of the consulting firm COEFF, bring together building engineering professionals around a committed and generous work, to help them discover and share a professional universe. From “A” for architecture to “Z” for... Zorro (yes, really!), this little dictionary, which is as technical as it is mischievous, and which is written by people who love the discipline, allows you to (re)discover engineering from a new angle...

The contributors express themselves with their own sensitivities, without imposing on the writing, the length of the text, or even the tone. The words are humorous, poetic and offbeat as well as serious, even highly technical. “The world of building engineering that shines through in this book is quite simply just a piece of humanity,” notes Jean-Marie Duthilleul in the preface he wrote for this little treatise.

L'Atelier Franck Boutté defines the term ‘energy’ through its different states and colors. Energy can be white, gray, but also kinetic, useful, primary or even social. In relation to this, the studio tackles the acronym kWh, which, “although a universal unit of measurement - or almost - perhaps never has an indicator that is apparently scientifically objective and therefore innocuous been the subject of so many divergent interpretations”.