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Wednesday March 8th, 2017
A key player in urban planning, Bouygues Construction is interested in the new practices that will be implemented in the cities of the future.
Reflecting this, Group projects include Third Places, hybrid areas opening up new possibilities in work, services and leisure, creating a new neighbourhood dynamic for local residents. These Third Places include the Fablabs, which are developing at high speed, buoyed by the DIY wave sweeping the entire world. Let’s take a closer look at these drivers of innovation.
The main purpose of the FabLab is to promote knowledge-sharing and exchange amongst a target audience who want to manufacture, rather than purchase.
They provide a support team and digital technology, such as 3D printers, for all, whether individuals or professionals. The goal of this process is to create a local manufacturing subsidiary. Somewhere between a workshop and a factory, these creation and manufacturing spaces offer artists, engineers, artisans, and entrepreneurs the opportunity to design, prototype, produce, and sell their creations.
Bouygues Construction is interested in these new small-scale working areas and their development, and is keen to include them in its urban projects in order to provide its customers with equipment that is more flexible and sustainable.
A meeting place that repositions the manufacturing process in the city 
centre, the Fablab may be designed as a simple shared working area placing high-performance tools at the disposal of local residents.
Nicolas Bard, co-founder of MakerSpace Ici Montreuil and Virginie Bursi, head of business development and partnerships with the XXL project in Marseille, share their expertise in this area:
The Fort d’Issy-Vanves-Clamart station took a crucial step in the night of 12-13 August: the 7,000 tonnes of concrete forming the roof were slipped briskly into place by Bouygues Travaux Publics teams.
Saturday 19 March, the Russian Orthodox spiritual and cultural centre, being built by Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France-Construction Privée, was adorned with a great golden dome, the most impressive of the five domes that will top the building upon its completion. Newcomer in the sky of Paris, the great dome, now visible from the Pont de l’Alma, […]
Manhattan Loft Corporation, Bouygues UK and VSL have carried out a tall order: the construction of Manhattan Loft Gardens, one of London's highest buildings.
For some people, living in the countryside is synonymous with isolation and loneliness. The hamlet of Les Noés in Val-de-Reuil (Eure) proves the contrary: this environmentally friendly eco-neighbourhood promotes the individual and collective well-being of its residents on a daily basis.
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 […]
On October 19, the new Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech was opened to the public. This haute-couture museum was imagined by the Studio KO architects, and designed & built by the teams of BYMARO, the Moroccan subsidiary of Bouygues Construction. This inauguration, which has received international media attention, is for BYMARO, the end of an exciting journey to deliver an exclusive and high end project to one of their most discerning clients.
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.
Bouygues Construction’s top priority is the health and safety of the teams who work on its construction sites. 13 June 2017 marks the launch of a global awareness campaign intended to reinforce the Bouygues Construction Health and Safety policy and achieve “zero accidents”.
With the growing number of seniors in our societies and the changes in their lifestyle, it is necessary to rethink our vision of housing to conceive homes that better meet their new expectations.
