Sustainable construction

The environmental dimension is becoming an important selling point for new buildings. The Bouygues group's construction subsidiaries have already started to build low-energy and positive-energy buildings.

Residential and commercial property rehabilitation services have been developed. The renovation of Challenger, Bouygues Construction's headquarters, aims to cut energy consumption by a factor of ten. Challenger will showcase the Group's know-how in this field.

Research and development and partnership programmes have been stepped up. Bouygues Construction has established a sustainable construction skill centre, overseeing 17 research programmes.

Colas' Scientific and Technical Campus is devoting many of its programmes to sustainable development and Bouygues Immobilier has launched the Positive Energy Consortium with nine partners.

Bouygues also launched BYpedia, a collaborative extranet site to encourage the sharing of knowledge and to help employees with common centres of interest to get in touch with each other. The BYpedia site is open to partners outside the Group.

 

(Updated: March 2010)