Key dates
Milestones in the development of the testing centre.
| 1917-1920 | Development of a subsidiary specialising in the manufacture of turbines and gates by Grenoble-based mechanical engineering firm Neyret, Brenier & Cie, which would take the name Neyrpic in 1948. Birth of a scale model study and testing centre on the site of the new factory, in the Beauvert district of Grenoble. |
| 1921-1923 | First scale models of hydropower schemes |
| 1923 | First fixed-bed physical model of a river |
| 1934 | First movable-bed physical model of a river |
| 1940 | First studies of industrial and urban hydraulics – First physical maritime model (wave disturbance and stability). The laboratory takes the name "Laboratoire Dauphinois d’Hydraulique" |
| 1951 | First movable-bed maritime model |
| 1955 | Creation of Sogreah (Société Grenobloise d'études et d'Applications Hydrauliques) |
| 1967 | Installation of the ship handling training center on manned models in Port Revel in the vicinity of Grenoble. Each year, the center trains more than a hundred port pilots and ship captains in restricted water navigation |
| 1987 | Creation of the new laboratory in Pont-de-Claix |
| 1987 | Construction of a torrent modelling area |
| 1991 | Construction of the multidirectional wave tank |
| 1998 | Development of control and measurement instrumentation - Active Absorption in wave generation |
| 2008 | New wave flume |
| Since 2015 | Ramp-up of digital conditioning in data acquisition systems |