Over the next few decades the European Commission plans to implement a proactive strategy in offshore wind, a high-growth market in which VINCI Energies is staking out a position following its acquisition of EWE Offshore in Germany. Europe wants to move up a gear in boosting offshore wind power. With this in mind, the European […]
Biotechnology-based construction holds great promise, maintains Professor Martyn Dade-Robertson, who coordinates a research network on the topic. Buildings that are designed to integrate natural biological processes could grow, live, breathe and even reproduce like living things. One of the network’s research strands harnesses the properties of fungus, mycelium, which is already being used to produce […]
The production management software publisher Courbon Software has migrated from client hosting to Cloud mode. Axians accompanied them in this quality upgrade, meeting the challenges of security and availability. MES – three little letters that represent a sizeable challenge for manufacturers. The Manufacturing Execution System, or production management software, covers the entire manufacturing chain, from […]
The modernisation of locks in the Centre-Bourgogne canal system, an initiative managed by Voies Navigables de France (VNF), the French navigation authority, with the support of VINCI Energies, is helping to rebalance modes of transport towards low-carbon options. This example demonstrates the resurgence of waterborne transport, a development that makes sense in the context of […]
The addHelix platform designed and developed by Axians in Austria uses AI algorithms to make logistics services more flexible and more agile. The near-instantaneous movement of data in an environment shaped by digital networks is contributing to the acceleration of both tangible and intangible exchanges. This new real-time temporality particularly affects the transportation of goods. […]
Brazil-based Actemium Oil & Gas Onshore has developed an innovative in-house application that enables different disciplines within the business to organise and share large and more often than not disparate datasets. Data is the fuel that drives any industrial project. But poorly handled and integrated, it can make the engine sputter, and slow down or […]
With support from Axians, the German hosting provider Windcloud is making extensive use of wind energy to reduce its carbon footprint. Its latest site also houses a rooftop algae farm that will trap a large quantity of the CO2 emitted. On a global level, according to most estimates, digital products and services represent around 3% […]
Fondations, Leonard’s new podcast, provides a platform for the entrepreneurs currently transforming mobility, construction, property and energy. Listen every fortnight to the people building the city of tomorrow. In this second episode, Guillaume Bazoin, Open Innovation & Startups Lead at Leonard, welcomes Guillaume Lafont, CEO and co-founder of Combo Solutions, a new startup applying new […]
Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) networks have long been reserved for voice communications, but they are currently experiencing rapid expansion with 4G and shortly 5G. Indeed, they can now be used to send complex data, a feature that is attracting growing interest from professional organizations and local authorities. Attacks, natural disasters, accidents and police interventions are […]
