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He managed the technical research center of the French heavy clay industry and has written wrote a book on manufacture of clay bricks and roof tiles. He knows quite well how to develop new product and how to solve production and quality problems. He was involved in the new structural bricks with high thermal properties. Before he worked as a contractor to the European Space agency on the development and test of CMC materials. previously, he developed ceramic watch cases. He worked for the space agency on the test of heat resisting tiles for space insulation.




He was involved in the European standardization of construction material and in the French construction regulations

With the French administration, the building code of masonry was developed at the French level (DTU) and at the Europe level (Eurocodes).

He was deeply involved in production, product development and quality.


The Heavy clay industry produces structural clay products, such as bricks, chimney tubes. As manager of the French technical center for clay bricks and roof tiles, he knows these products quite well.

In addition some tiles (floor and wall) are red products, produced usually by brick makers. As the manager of the French and roof tile R and D organization, he was involved in the solutions of the issues of theses red products.

During more than 25 years, I worked with the Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus Ohio) and made numerous technical consultancies of processes and products.