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Friday December 9th, 2016
Pollutec, the international exhibition on environmental solutions, took place between 29 November and 2 December. This 27th edition brought together more than 100,000 manufacturers.
As a player committed to the fight against global warming, depleting natural resources and excessive waste production, Bouygues Construction was keen to talk about and to present practical, efficient solutions to address this major environmental challenge. Let’s take a look at the pictures and videos from this event, showing an array of solutions for the cities of the future. With a programme including.
The Wattway solar road by the Colas group – the first road surface able to harvest solar energy and generate energy locally without encroaching on agricultural land or natural landscapes.
Citybox® – a unique innovation that uses street lamps as the base for a range of urban services based on remote management. It turns the public lighting network into a digital electricity grid.
“Explore the city”, an app presented on the stand, listing solutions for a sustainable, inviting city.
Modern urban development and the circular economy hosted by Olivier Bouygues and addressing the following issue: how can we apply eco-design principles to the cities of the future and make them more attractive?
Recycling waste and surpluses from the Building and Civil Works sector is one of the key issues for the future. The objective is to be able to reuse materials for new construction sites. This circular economy is already a reality for some projects. To go even further, companies will need to place the emphasis on R&D in order to re-use natural resources. “We need to make the transition from a linear economy to a circular economy, where waste from one project provides resources for another”, says Olivier Bouygues.
Energy, transport, living comfort: Descartes 21, an industrial demonstrator for a sustainable city. The cities of the future will consume less energy. They must place greater emphasis on generating and sharing their own energy. This has been shown by the Descartes 21 industrial demonstrator adopted as part of a call for projects. The objective? Better energy management, appropriate mobility and efforts to make cities better places to live. The local urban community and an industrial consortium are working on this at Marne-La-Vallée outside Paris.
The BBCA low carbon label contributing to the ecological transition
To address the carbon footprint of their activities (40% of emissions at global level), several players from the property and construction sector have joined forces as part of the Bâtiment Bas Carbone (BBCA or low carbon building) association, promoting the label of the same name. Set up in early 2016, its aim is to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings throughout their life cycle. Here is the presentation of BBCA with the viewpoint of contracting authorities and a focus on the first projects with this label.
To address these environmental challenges, Bouygues Construction presented its innovations in social and corporate responsibility in four key areas: renovation, low-carbon construction, eco-neighbourhoods, soft mobility & city management.
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In May 2015, when the peak reaches its highest point at 200 metres, the Incity tower will take the mantle from the famous “Crayon” to become one of the highest towers in France—only 30 metres behind its big sister the First tower in Paris. The Incity tower is not only a technical achievement but also […]
Training elite coding and digital technology students from all over the world: that is the purpose of the premier European digital campus that Bouygues Bâtiment Sud-Est will build for the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region in partnership with architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte.
On the construction site of The River in Bangkok, a residential complex consisting of two high-rise towers of 73 and 43 floors respectively, teams from Bouygues-Thai have raised the largest slip formwork ever produced by Bouygues Construction to the summit of the taller tower, which stands over 231 metres tall. The formwork used for this […]
In partnership with BYMARO (Moroccan subsidiary of Bouygues Construction), Terre Plurielle, the Bouygues Construction corporate foundation, is backing two projects in Morocco: the first is some 40 kilometres from Casablanca (Berrechid Hospital), the other near Rabat (Les Enfants de l’Ovale Morocco). Discover today the second of these fine initiatives sponsored by highly committed staff. On […]
“Keep your eyes open, listen and feel” In the last episode in the Bouygues Travaux Publics’ “A pilot’s life” mini-series, immerse yourself with Fabrice, 47, a TBM manager on Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link project in Hong Kong. With innovation and respect for the environment central to the project, the extraordinary tunnel was dug out by […]
More than 14,000 interns and students on work/study programmes have taken part in the Happy Trainees survey. Out of 450 companies evaluated, Bouygues Construction is ranked the 9th most professionally rewarding for students. 6301 interns and students on work/study programmes at Bouygues Construction took part in the Happy Trainees survey. They were questioned on six […]
Pupils at the Chengdu school complex in Montpellier, France, have just re-started school in brand new, and highly innovative, school buildings. This is the first positive energy school project for GFC Construction, the Bouygues Construction subsidiary that operates in the south-eastern quarter of France. The school complex, located in the Parc Marianne neighbourhood, is attended […]
Topping 2014’s most wanted present list, drones aren’t only used by the military and photographers – they can be a precious asset on building sites! How did these remote-controlled flying machines take up their place in the construction industry? From radio-controlled drones… Drones have been used at Bouygues Energies & Services since 2011. Initially used […]
The line between personal and professional life is increasingly blurred: more and more, a single space can be used for training, socialisation, and work. The omnipresence of the internet enables people to perform tasks remotely, and to combine different tasks. Today, people also give and seek feedback based on experiences. We receive advice from other […]
