BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION's "New Generation" Buildings : Collaborative & Sustainable

The New Generation” buildings are made with friendly-environmentally materials and offer a whole range of innovative services (child-care services, caretakers lodge, tele-center and offices at disposal for parents…). They are also connected are therefore in line with the technology people use today.

In setting up this practice of « new generation » building, Bouygues had to conduct some changes inside its own company.

-  Information and training for the employees themselves. The group leads actions in order to inform them about the practice and train them accordingly to their environmental new standards.

- Environment /pollution : major changes in the group’s policy regarding environmental and pollution risks, recycling and waste management by developing considerably their labeled Ecosite construction sites.

-  Energetic transition : many initiatives like Embix, a service society created along with Alstom that specialized in energy management for green neighborhoods, or Hypervision, a software that pilots and tracks the energy performance of a building, or again Energy Pass, a tool that enables to measure precisely heat, water and electric consumption, and that guarantees the real energy performance of a building and raises awareness amongst users.

The "New Generation" Building are meeting the demand of customers concerning connected houses, better warming and ventilation systems, ..."

Best Practice spotted in 2014 by the World Forum for a Responsible Economy.