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the Research & Development and Innovation
department, to understand and anticipate
changing markets and needs, incorporating a
sustainable construction skill centre.
Sustainable construction, a
source of innovation
Bouygues Construction is focusing on a number of
specific issues in order to design and build solutions
that meet its customers' demands:
> energy: reducing the consumption of new and
renovated buildings through the use of diagnostic,
design and measurement tools that lay the
foundations for a genuine commitment to energy
performance;
> carbon: CarbonEco ® , a software package
developed in-house, measures the impact of
structures. Research into low-carbon solutions
is continuing, including cooperation with Lafarge
on low-carbon concretes;
> resources and materials: an eco-product database
is available to entities and processes are
being implemented to reduce water consumption
in buildings;
> biodiversity: methodological guides on urban
biodiversity have been prepared and work to
optimise offsetting measures is continuing;
> health and comfort: several campaigns to
measure air quality within buildings have been
carried out in order to reduce levels of pollutants;
> usage: Bouygues Construction is studying the
behaviour of building users in order to better
control energy consumption;
> eco-design: with the CSTB, the French building
technology research centre, the company
is developing Elodie ® , a multicriteria building
lifecycle analysis application;
In their own words
Hervé Charrue, R&D director of the CSTB
"The CSTB is developing
a lifecycle analysis (LCA)
application for the building
sector called Elodie ® . On
the basis of a multicriteria
analysis, it will evaluate
a project's environmental
impacts at every stage,
from design to demolition.
In this context, the
CSTB and Bouygues
Construction have entered
into an R&D partnership
in order to strengthen the
> worksites: a number of innovations have been
developed to improve on-site working conditions,
including robots for sanding ceilings and
cleaning formwork.
Bouygues Construction forges strong
partnerships
approach and develop new
functionalities.
The data produced as a
result of LCA will inform
choices relating to building
construction, operation
and maintenance and
integration into the
local neighbourhood in
order to enhance overall
performance in terms of
quality of life and usage.
To date, Bouygues
Construction has already
Bouygues Construction participates in European
research programmes such as Clear-up (energyefficient
renovation technologies), Open House
(rules and benchmarks for evaluating European
buildings) and the Energy Efficient Buildings
Association, which it chairs.
In France, Bouygues Construction is engaged in
fruitful cooperation with ECP, ENPC, Supélec and
the CSTB to support a chair in sustainable building
and innovation, which coordinates research on
energy efficiency, carbon, usage, lifecycle analysis
and innovative materials. In 2011, Bouygues
Bâtiment Ile-de-France launched an Eco-Campus
chair with the University of Saint-Quentin-en-
Yvelines to develop a programme for the campus of
the future. Bouygues Travaux Publics and Norpac
are involved in the creation of Railenium, the
European Institute for Technological Research in
Rail Infrastructure at the University of Lille Nord de
France, to develop sustainable rail infrastructure.
Sustainable construction
at all stages of the lifecycle
Design
carried out 40 or so
complete LCAs on different
types of project and is
planning to roll out Elodie ®
in all its subsidiaries in
2012."
In order to reduce the environmental impacts of
buildings and structures while seeking to optimise
the lifecycle cost, Bouygues Construction:
> designs energy-efficient projects,
> incorporates comfort, safety and usage requirements,
> limits the carbon footprint of its projects,
> conserves resources and limits waste,
> seeks environmental certification.
In 2011, buildings under an environmental labelling
or certification scheme accounted for 55% of the
order intake in France (266 buildings), compared
with 53% in 2010.
Construction
Bouygues Construction endeavours to limit the
environmental impacts of its worksites. 278 worksites
had the Ecosite in-house environmental label
at the end of 2011, 76% of the potential total.
> Ecosite label:
Ecosite assesses the measures taken to reduce
a worksite's environmental footprint, wherever it
is located, on the basis of eleven criteria derived
from the most stringent French regulations and
best practice within the company.
Operation and maintenance
Bouygues Construction encourages energy-saving
behaviour and supports its customers in their
management of consumption in order to achieve
predefined levels of performance. The company
also aims to ensure that buildings are operated
sustainably, through measures such as low-energy
buildings for its subsidiaries, energy-efficient
renovation, corporate travel plans, green behaviour
campaigns and fleets of electric vehicles.
On completion of renovation work on Challenger,
the company's headquarters delivered in 1988,
its energy consumption will have been cut by a
factor of ten.
Bouygues Construction's control of environmental
impacts is based on an ISO 14001-certified environmental
management system that covered 88%
of its activity at the end of 2011.
CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility - CSTB: French building technology research centre - ECP: École Centrale de Paris- ENPC: École nationale des ponts et chaussées
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