Elsa Favreau
Elsa, a trained geographer and tower planner, has worked alongside territorial collectivities to support them in their town planning and territorial development efforts. She joined Lab Prospective Bouygues Construction in 2016 to strengthen ‘cities and territories’ expertise and to analyse the way in which urban macro-trends and practices shape the cities of tomorrow. She is […]
Anne Borrel
Anne Borrel is a writer at We Demain: un média pour changer d’époque. She is a regular contributor to the Shared Innovation blog, with reports that tackle how territories are changing with the practices of today and tomorrow.
The station of the future – challenges and prospects
Providing a link between here and elsewhere, stations constitute an essential centrality for cities of the future. At the heart of major disruptions on a number of levels, stations are the subject of numerous innovations in areas that go beyond the field of mobility. After an open and collaborative approach to mobility, which resulted in the trend book “Cities & mobility, a reinvention of proximity”, we are now focusing on the outlook for the railway station of the future.
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How do we think about regions in a changing world? This question is asked every day at Bouygues Construction as part of being an increasingly open, mobile and digital company. Our teams design, build and manage buildings with the goal of contributing to the creation of sustainable, progressive, vibrant and inclusive regions, as well as […]
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To facilitate the circulation of ideas, innovation and experimentation to create the regions of tomorrow Bouygues Construction needs to anticipate any future challenges for and uses of regions in order to better design, model and construct them for the future. This blog brings together our vision, analysis, monitoring and prospective work related to the construction of […]
What are the expectations of the French public in terms of quality of life and ecological transition?
As the 3rd survey* carried out by the Observatory of Uses and Representations of Territories confirms, living in the city increasingly appears to be an oxymoron, and the desire to migrate is intensifying among the hyper-urban population. This is a powerful trend, and the pandemic seems to have accentuated the discontent, intensified the search for a new work/life balance, and even in certain cases to have created conditions that are more conducive to turning these desires into reality.
Preserving biodiversity in urban regeneration and construction projects
Around 28% of the world’s animal and plant species are now under threat of extinction . This includes one in four mammal species, one in seven birds and more than one in three amphibians, as well as a third of conifer species. Scientists are warning of an ongoing collapse of biodiversity, with some even talking about a “sixth mass extinction”. The principal causes are the destruction and fragmentation of the habitats of these species, the overexploitation of ecosystems, the development of invasive species, climate change and pollution and eutrophication (the introduction of nitrogen, phosphorus and other excess nutrients into the environment). Many of these factors are caused by human activities, which have such a strong and rapid influence that the biosphere is unable to adapt to them. What action can we take to halt the trend and prevent ourselves from crossing critical thresholds? Pierre Lopez, Sustainable Construction Project Manager at Bouygues Bâtiment Nord-Est, gives us his point of view on the construction sector.
How can urban metabolism contribute to circular economy policies?
Although cities occupy a mere 2% of the surface of the planet, they consume 75% of its resources, emit between 60% and 80% of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and generate 50% of waste . Cities are a privileged gateway for the entry and exit of a large concentration of flows (food, electricity, cold, heat, fuel, consumer goods, waste, etc.) that enable them to meet the needs of their users: remember that cities today account for 55% of the world population. The study of these flows according to the principles of urban metabolism is a field that is growing in popularity. More and more urban authorities are using it as a basis for defining their circular economy policies.
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Interview of the month : Maud Bougerol
Maud Bougerol, Environment Manager and Ecological Works Supervisor for the offshore urban extension project in Monaco at Bouygues Travaux Publics, tells us about the actions led to promote biodiversity within the framework of the project.
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Living labs are good for your health!
Do-it-yourself projects are good for your health. Specifically, they can help improve the lives of patients. That is how living labs can help the medical field. These are “third places” dedicated to innovation. Their methodology brings together ordinary citizens, public and private actors, aiming to test services, tools, and new uses in real life.
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[Panorama Sustainable Cities] #5 Pontevedra, the car-free city
The city of Pontevedra has adopted a mobility strategy that has brought the use of cars down to the bare minimum. As a result, traffic and pollution levels have dropped dramatically, inhabitants enjoy a new sense of well-being, and the city centre has been given an economic boost.
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Strategies for resilient real estate: interview with Camille Gautier, innovation leader at Elan
Without denying the ostensibly anxiety-provoking prospects anticipated by scientists, it proposes keys to designing a liveable and desirable future: knowing and reducing one’s vulnerabilities, learning to react to unknown phenomena, applying principles of continuity, redundancy and sobriety. How can we implement this concept and develop a methodical and operational resilience strategy at the scale of real estate projects? Insights from Camille Gautier, Innovation Leader at Elan.
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The Stade de France turns 20
Twenty years ago, the stands of the Stade de France buzzed with the first chants of football supporters during the 1998 World Cup. As the 2018 World Cup gets underway in Russia, let's take a look back at the construction of this legendary stadium with a few pictures.
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Temporary urbanism is transforming cities
Creating new spaces and experimental urban projects – whether they’re cultural, social or economic – revitalising spaces before their conversion for future use, making use of empty buildings, creating a dynamic in which members of the community can get involved, encouraging them to take part and to contribute to the creation of an area’s identity etc. A look at temporary urbanism-–building cities differently so that they can adapt to fit the changing needs of their inhabitants.
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What if, in the future, facial recognition was used in our towns ?
What if, in the future, facial recognition technologies went into general use in our towns and buildings? In China where this is already happening, the increasing use of such technology in both public and private spaces raises the spectre of mass surveillance and the risk of new attacks on privacy. While the number of experiments is increasing around the world and certain American towns are already taking the lead in preventing its use, the debate is beginning to take shape in Europe.
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Cities Are Taking Steps to Become Carbon Neutral
Responsible for 67% of global GHG emissions, cities are on the front line of this challenge. Two high-emissions sectors - transport and construction - are of direct concern to them. What are their margins of manoeuvre and trajectories to become low carbon and carbon neutral? What are the major assets of the local scale?
