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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:
Of the 78 companies awarded, Bouygues Construction was once again the only one from the construction sector. The certification was awarded after studying the company's HR procedures, and attests to the quality of its practices, talent management, onboarding and training.
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.
A subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France is a player in the wooden construction sector. Today, it is investing in new construction methods to reduce the carbon footprint of the construction industry and develop new solutions for the cities of the future.
Where Grand Paris Express worksites are concerned, Bouygues Travaux Publics Région Parisienne is seeking to give a new lease of life to excavated soil. A review of a circular-economy pilot project with the restructuring of an agricultural plot in partnership with the conurbation of Grand Paris Sud Seine-Essonne-Sénart and the municipality of Ris-Orangis.
The number of digital technology uses in the health sector is multiplying. We seek to modernise operating theatres, facilitate medication, and shorten hospitalisation periods to relieve the burden on healthcare centres without harming the patients. Patients are monitored remotely and assisted during recovery, as digital technology allows health professionals to collect data on the patients’ […]
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.
Floatgen ©Ideol[/caption] Porté par un consortium européen de sept industriels et organismes de recherche, Floatgen fait figure de première à plusieurs titres. Première éolienne en mer qui entrera en service en France mi-2017, elle est également le premier démonstrateur grandeur nature de la fondation flottante développée et brevetée par Ideol. « Ce projet est un […]
The Floatgen project, the largest offshore wind turbine in France on which construction is soon due to be completed in the port of Saint-Nazaire, has won the Usine Nouvelle 2017 Renewable Energies Trophy for Energy Transition at the ceremony organised on Tuesday 16 May in the presence of Jean Jouzel, climatologist and former vice-president of GIEC.
The Liantang tunnelling project entered a new chapter on 1st March with the breakthrough of the southbound tube’s Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) section by Hong Kong’s largest dual-mode Earth Pressure Balanced (EPB) TBM. A milestone in this major project for Chinese regional planning.
