Innovation in 2008 mostly focused on sustainable development and energy efficiency.
In 2008, Bouygues Immobilier launched Green Office®, France’s first large-scale positive-energy building.
Located in Meudon, outside Paris, this 23,000-sqmetre office building will incorporate the latest technologies. It will produce more energy than it consumes by generating power on site (solar panels, cogeneration boiler, etc.). In this respect, the Green Office® programme is ten years ahead of legislation.
Bouygues Immobilier took the initiative of creating a Positive Energy Consortium, a group of seven partners seeking to improve the energy performance of positive-energy buildings in the operating phase and to increase their capacity to produce renewable energy. The consortium's aim is to develop synergies between the players in the industry in order to make positive energy more accessible.
Thermal renovation of office buildings is a major area of innovation for Bouygues Immobilier. Thermal renovation services for commercial properties have been defined, anticipating the requirements of the Grenelle environment laws, and an energy audit of a set of buildings has been carried out.
As Habitat and Environment certification is now sought for all residential programmes in France, the next step is to make customers more aware of the significance of certification and the importance of good environmental practice. With the Bouygues Group e-lab, Bouygues Immobilier is developing modelling software that will enable buyers to calculate the energy savings they can make.
(Updated: April 2009)
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