By identifying real-world use cases, consulting residents, and making use of sensors, data and digital twins, four American cities – Aurora, Illinois (population 180,542), San Antonio, Texas (1.5 million), Raleigh, North Carolina (480,000) and Mesa, Arizona (510,000) – are transforming into smart cities. They are using sensors and data processing solutions to monitor and manage […]
Formula Student is an international automotive engineering competition open to students across the world. The FST Lisboa team from Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon is supported by VINCI Energies Portugal and the brands Actemium, Axians, Omexom and Sotécnica. On 19 August 2024, twenty students from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Lisbon, Portugal’s largest […]
The switch from fossil fuels to renewables requires significant investment, which can be difficult to justify using existing economic models. Decarbonisation “as a Service” offers an innovative and agile solution for businesses. Manufacturing businesses face major challenges in the current context of ecological transition. To phase out highly carbon-emitting fossil energies, which still represent over […]
Katrin Orth has made a success of both work and study. During just over two years at Axians in Portugal and then Germany, where she is working on innovation and technology management, Katrin has relished her role as a student in the corporate world. As a child at school, Katrin Orth dreamed of becoming a […]
Finding new ways to store low-carbon energy is a crucial step toward ending our dependence on fossil fuels. Here are five innovative and promising battery storage solutions that could help us create a zero-net-emissions future. Batteries without rare metals for cars of the future In the United States, chemists at MIT have developed a lithium-ion […]
Since 2022, the climate control system at the hospital in Pira’e, Tahiti, has been operating using water from the deep ocean. This offers stable comfort for the building’s users and a drastic reduction in energy spending – a saving of 40%. A saving of almost 9 GWh a year, equivalent to 5,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions: […]
AI-based data analysis can optimise resource management and energy consumption in industrial processes, reconciling production and environmental imperatives. We look at examples in the agricultural and maritime sectors with the VINCI Energies brands Actemium and Axians. At the end of last year, the Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies H2 factory, the world’s first vertical cement plant, […]
In Portugal, Axians has developed EcoSentinel, a new, highly ambitious solution designed to warn of impending natural disasters such as forest fires and floods. In Portugal, forest fires are becoming increasingly frequent and intense, often burning thousands of hectares in just a few hours. Flooding in Portugal is also becoming more severe and less predictable. […]
In the European Quarter of the Belgian capital, the office complex Commerce 46 has replaced fossil energies with geothermal power. Cegelec HVAC Commercial South has been entrusted with the HVAC installations and energy monitoring for this vast office block. Developed by Immobel, Commerce 46 is a 12-storey office complex with three underground levels and total floor area […]
