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Work for summer 2024

27 August 2024

Institute

Faster, higher, stronger! While the athletes of the Olympic Games pushed their limits on the field, the teams of the Building Services Department and the service providers of the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations took up other challenges to enable all our users to take full advantage of our facilities from the start of the new school year. Take a look at the photos below.

Installation d'un châssis de ventilation naturelle et de sa grille en salle de lecture BULAC © Vincent Chagniot‎

Travaux de l'été 2024 © Vincent Chagniot‎

Left: first cleaning of moss and vegetation from inaccessible parts of the brick facades. On the right: drainage systems, which are impossible to clean out, are rerouted to allow for maintenance.

Left: electrical connection of Inalco's bubble chairs. Right: creation of inspection hatches enabling maintenance in inaccessible technical voids.

Left: diagnosis, with Eau de Paris and the sanitation department, of the seepage that has been affecting the building's infrastructure for several weeks. Right: replacement of the batteries powering the fire safety system, which have reached the end of their service life, in preparation for this autumn's safety commission.

Left: cleaning and checking elevator pit bottoms. Right: troubleshooting out-of-service cameras.

Left: annual statutory inspection of all electrical, safety and smoke extraction installations. Right: cleaning of all windows.

Shampooing of 5000 m² of carpeting and metallization of all brown linoleum floors.