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Recreating ecosystems in the Parc Zoologique de Paris, monitoring developments with an “eco-friendly” mindset, constructing the tallest building in France, creating connected habitats: for each project, Bouygues Construction develops innovative solutions. By using technology, especially digital models and BIM (Building Information Modeling), we are rising to innovative challenges that are important to us. We are doing everything we can so that our building techniques take energy saving issues into account and are in line with our philosophy of building a better life.

interview lafhaj chaire construction centrale lille ace workshop

Innovative solutions

3 questions to Zoubeir Lafhaj, Construction 4.0 Chairholder

Central Lille welcomes the 5th edition of the ACE Workshop which brings together world experts in construction of the future. The Construction Chair 4.0, created by Bouygues Construction and Centrale Lille in 2017, will benefit from this event. Interview with Prof. Lafhaj, holder of the chair.

Perfony

Innovative solutions

Perfony, a cure for acute meetingitis

At last, an end to meetingitis and email addiction. This tool facilitates the management of meetings and follow-up in businesses. Bouygues Construction’s new partner is Perfony, a software program that makes everyone’s life easier at work.

smiile smart city

Innovative solutions

Smiile, the revolution in inclusive refurbishment in the Smart City

Smiile is a way of pooling resources and neighbourhood networks on the scale of an apartment block, a neighbourhood or even a city. The solution is one of the services proposed in the WIZOM Réhabilitation 2018 offer by Bouygues Construction. It is a great example of the Group's collaboration with a ‘French tech’ start-up.

leanco lean management construction

Innovative solutions

LeanCo, the open innovation solution for democratising lean management

The Matching Up Challenge is back! This call for innovative projects ‘matches’ start-ups with Group employees. What's it like working with a start-up? Yolaine Perrot, Lean Management Director at Bouygues Construction and Xavier Motsch, the founder of LeanCo, tell us all about it.

Innovative solutions

Smart cities will have to be transparent and inclusive

More and more sensors and cameras are popping up in cities. So what is being done to protect people’s private lives?

Innovative solutions

Experiencing smart cities

Whether you call it a smart city, a connected city or, even better, a smart region, digitalisation is primarily all about improving and offering new services to citizens and then to the persons behind local policies in order to allow them to run the city more effectively.

Innovative solutions

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.

Innovations on construction sites

3D printing, a technology to serve humans and human art

With the aim of reducing occupational health risks on work sites, improving productivity and producing complex items, 3D printing, while still in its experimental stage, is taking the building sector into an industrialisation process that will result in some exceptional achievements. Technology to serve US, not vice-versa.

Innovative solutions

Solar thermal energy: a world first in France

In Llo, a town in the Pyrenees mountains, France just installed a thermodynamic solar power plant.

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Morocco – future solar energy giant?

A few kilometres from Ouarzazate, in the heart of Morocco, is one of the world's five largest solar farms.

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Orleans: a place with ambitious objectives #3 An encounter with Stéphanie Anton

According to the UN News Centre, over two thirds of the global population will live in towns and cities by 2050. What with the increase in population and evolving ways of life and of consumption, urban centres are undergoing an in-depth transformation, accompanied by changing requirements in terms of mobility.

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Delivery, an issue for the transport of tomorrow #2 An encounter with Emmanuel Bonnaud

According to the UN News Centre, over two thirds of the global population will live in towns and cities by 2050. What with the increase in population and evolving ways of life and of consumption, urban centres are undergoing an in-depth transformation, accompanied by changing requirements in terms of mobility.

Innovative solutions

3 questions for Grégory Besson Moreau, founder of Energie IP

Winner of the Bouygues Construction innovation competition, Energie IP is rethinking the world of technical management in construction by offering secure, open technology via an ethernet cable. Founded in 2015, the company has just partnered with Nexity on an office building project in Saint-Ouen.

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Bouygues Construction goes down the path of artificial intelligence

April 2018 – Cédric Vilani, a deputy of the La République en marche (LREM) party in Essonne, publishes a reference document on artificial intelligence. It namely gives a few indications on the consequences of artificial intelligence development on the construction sector. At Bouygues Construction, are we ready?

grenoble abc bim

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4 innovative uses of BIM. Episode 2: The ABC EcoCité Grenoble demonstrator

Sharing information so that all project stakeholders have the same view of the project. Welcome to the BIM era! Every week for a month, you can learn about one project where BIM is being used innovatively. Today we are looking at the ABC demonstrator in Grenoble, by Linkcity Sud-Est.

maison de santé eureka

Innovative solutions

A new Health & Prevention space

Take advantage of the Smart City Congress in Barcelona and discover the solutions offered by Linkcity, real estate subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, for a city that is smarter and more efficient with regard to health.

Sustainable construction

When termites inspire the future of the construction industry

Nature provides an endless source of inspiration. Observing nature to inspire technological innovation is the very essence of biomimicry.

Innovative solutions

The circular economy: at the heart of Bouygues Construction’s strategic thinking

Transforming waste into resources: when the circular economy disrupts our growth models and the way we consume and produce goods. Bouygues Construction is fully committed to acting as a responsible and committed industry player.

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Open Data, at the heart of local government strategy

Seen as the new "black gold" of our society, data, and particularly the use of data, is central to the strategy of organisations, services and, more recently, local government.

Innovations on construction sites

Smart Impulse, an eco-friendly solution to help manage your building’s power consumption

Smart Impulse offers large businesses and localities a solution to help them better manage their buildings' power consumption. Discovered by Bouygues Construction in 2012, the start-up has become one of the Group's go-to partners for its business and CSR needs.

Habitat : comment vivrons-nous demain ?

Développement immobilier

Housing: how will we live in the future?

Virginie Alonzi,

Directrice Prospective, Bouygues Construction

Construire la santé de demain

Construction

Building tomorrow’s healthcare

Claude Rolland,

Head of the health unit at Bouygues Entreprises France-Europe

Construction

Modular construction

Aurélie Cléraux,

Modular construction and innovation manager at Bouygues Bâtiment International

Construction

Campus 2050

Etienne Gaudin,

Directeur Innovation Groupe Bouygues