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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.

alan mossman

Innovative solutions

Interview with Alan Mossman

Alan Mossman is Managing Director of The Change Business Ltd, a lean design and construction consultancy. He is an occasional author and professor of lean construction at universities such as Loughborough and Nottingham Trent. If BIM is about technology, then lean is about the people who use that technology! Alan Mossman tells us about it today, through his favourite field, lean construction.

transport mobility service

Innovative solutions

What’s the situation with “Mobility As A Service”?

Buses, underground systems, trams, car-sharing or short-term rental cars, car-pooling, mini-cab services, bikes, mopeds and self-service scooters, with or without stations: with the proliferation of forms of mobility, the residents of major cities have never had so many means of travel available to them.

mouton ville

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Eco-grazing in the city, a practice that appeals to communities and social housing providers

The end of pesticides in public parks. Since 1 January 2017, in application of the law on energy transition for green growth, local authorities may no longer use plant protection products to maintain parks, roadsides or forests.

villes flottantes

Innovative solutions

What are the challenges for a floating city?

What if tomorrow we lived in cities that floated on the sea? It’s an idea that is gaining ground through a UN-supported initiative. But is it a maritime pipe dream?

btp construction réalité virtuelle

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Three questions to… Mehdi Hafsia

Mehdi Hafsia, research engineer for the R&D division, attended the 19th International Conference for Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR19), an international event dedicated to new technologies in our sector. He would like to share his feedback with us.

bureaux connectés

Innovative solutions

Focus on connected offices

Digitalisation is having an impact on all those who use our buildings. The real estate sector, which includes planning, major construction companies, marketing and services must adapt.

chaire construction 4.0

Human stories

3 questions to Emna Attouri, PhD student at Chaire Construction 4.0

Cast in situ, precast twin walls, precast slabs, modular construction, 3D printing... how do you choose? This, in essence, is the research project being carried out by Emna Attouri, a PhD student participating in the Chaire Construction 4.0 research

construct lab - Bouygues Construction

Innovative solutions

Construction Industry: Together, we are stronger!

Bouygues Construction joined Construct Lab in July. This group of construction and public works firms fixes frequent problems in these sectors, and start-up companies apply solutions. Julien Bourcerie, Open Innovation Manager for Bouygues Construction, on “collective intelligence” in construction.

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“We are in the process of making history, with the big bang of energy efficiency”

Meet Emmanuel François, Chairman of the Smart Building Alliance (SBA).

interview lafhaj chaire construction centrale lille ace workshop

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

résilience territoires villes

Construction

Resilience

The question is no longer “why” but “how” we’re going to stop the ticking clock that’s looming over us,

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