2024 Integrated Report

Raise the bar for operational excellence at grassroots level

Under Equans’ decentralised model, local teams are empowered to develop and roll out solutions and services that raise the bar for quality and performance, whilst enjoying the backing of the group’s worldwide experience. It is working to continuously improve its working methods and provide its people with ongoing training in project management best practices. It is also embracing lean organisation approaches for its sites, logistics operations and prefabrication activities, with a strong focus on quality, ergonomics and employee well-being.

Attract and train employees

Equans’ employees are its driving force. It recognises that training and empowering its people is key to successfully navigating the transitions ahead. It is determined to build an increasingly diverse workforce, driven by the deeply held belief that difference – in terms of origins, gender and educational background - is a powerful source of innovation and agility. The“Our Teams” strategic plan focuses on three priorities: attracting talent, developing its people and taking care of employee well-being. Equans rolls out a number of initiatives, such as:

• hiring of around 10,000 people on permanent contracts worldwide, despite tight Labour-market conditions in most of its lines of business and geographies.
• apprenticeship: 8.4% of the workforce in France.
• developing skills by guaranteeing at least one training course per year for every employee.
• target: 20% of managerial positions to be held by women by 2026^b.

Equans is also taking practical steps to promote inclusion and equal opportunities such as dedicated youth employment programmes, inclusive purchasing initiatives and partnerships to support vulnerable communities as well as going the extra mile to enhance quality of life at work for its people at all its sites around the globe.

Climate action

In 2024, Equans’ short-term greenhouse gas emissions-reduction targets were endorsed by SBTi as being consistent with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. It aims to achieve these targets, which cover scopes 1, 2 and 3, by building on the work it began with its main suppliers in 2023 to ramp up decarbonisation efforts.

Opportunities linked to the green transition

The Carbon Shift offer, which launched in 2024 in Europe and North America, provides holistic support to businesses and local authorities as they work towards their climate targets. Backed by hundreds of experts, the programme has the following aims:

• reduce energy use through sustainability and process-optimisation measures;
• promote sustainable solutions such as renewable energy and heat pumps;
• boost energy flexibility through innovative storage technologies.
• develop the resilience of customers’ infrastructure through innovative services and solutions.

Corporate citizenship

In France, the Equans Foundation operates in line with the Bouygues group’s values, focusing its work on two key areas:

• Fighting fuel poverty by funding projects that provide non-profits working with vulnerable communities with guaranteed access to heating, hygiene and food preservation systems.
• Providing training and occupational integration opportunities for the long-term unemployed to retrain to work in the energy sector, along with an employee-led mentoring programme.