2024 Integrated Report

Assessing suppliers’ CSR performance with the EcoVadis platform

Under a framework contract signed in 2022, the Group’s six business segments use the EcoVadisa platform to assess the CSR performance of their suppliers.

The EcoVadis questionnaire, which is tailored to each supplier’s size and sector, covers four broad themes: environment, labour and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement. Suppliers who achieve an inadequate rating are advised to take remedial measures and offered the opportunity to complete online training to improve their performance on each theme, with ongoing monitoring until they bring their score up to the required level. By the end of 2024, a total of 1,502 Bouygues suppliers had been assessed via the EcoVadis platform. The initiative gained further momentum last year, with 827 of these suppliers having been invited to complete an assessment in 2024 alone.

The business segments assess all strategic suppliers associated with material issues against the EcoVadis framework. As well as requiring its business partners to assess their performance, the Group is gradually building CSR clauses into its purchasing contracts, all of which now include Bouygues’ CSR Charter for Suppliers and Subcontractors as an appendix.

Working together for more sustainable and inclusive purchasing practices

Multi-stakeholder cooperative arrangements of various forms continued to progress across the Group’s business segments in 2024:

• In its first year of existence, Cyneo, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction specialising in repurposing building materials and equipment, built a community of 90 potential partners and other organisations committed to developing circularity in the construction industry.
• As members of “Collectif d’entreprises pour une économie plus inclusive”, a non-profit that works to promote a more inclusive economy, Equans and Bouygues Immobilier have pledged to increase their expenditure, on a proportional basis, on initiatives in the organisation’s three focus areas: providing access to employment and training for young people, fighting poverty, and using purchasing as a way to promote employment opportunities and occupational integration for the long-term unemployed and people with disabilities.
• Bouygues Telecom is one of 27 telecoms operators from around the world working with the Joint Alliance for CSR (JAC) to transform their supply chains by assessing their key suppliers’ CSR performance, including through pooled social audits. It continued to work with this organisation in 2024.
• As a signatory of the “Pacte PME” alliance charter, Bouygues Construction has pledged to share its decarbonisation experience with the small and medium-sized companies with which it does business. In 2024, it delivered webinars and held meetings in pursuit of this goal.

Leveraging partner innovation to develop new, sustainable business models

At SIBCA, the low-carbon property fair held in Paris, Bouygues Immobilier announced a fresh round of innovative partnerships as part of its drive to shrink its carbon footprint. For instance, with Saur in order to streamline the integration of solutions for treating and reusing up to 45% of grey water (water from showers, hand basins, etc. in buildings), while the partnership with Groupe Atlantic focuses on promoting heat pumps and other individual and collective heating and ventilation solutions offering a high degree of energy efficiency.

In 2024, Colas also signed a partnership with Purple Alternative Surface, whose solution recovers non-recyclable plastic and composite waste and transforms it into permeable slabs for surfacing urban spaces such as roads and car parks. Over 4,000 m² of permeable slabs have already been laid, equating to 100 tonnes of plastic waste that was not previously recycled.