The transport sector accounts for a large share of greenhouse gas emissions. With climate change an urgent priority, what levers can be pulled to bring new travel modes, particularly electric ones, to a mass market? What is the role of the various stakeholders, citizens, businesses and communities? What lessons can be learned from the Covid-19 crisis? Nicolas Planteau du Maroussem, managing director of the Greater Paris and North-East France Infrastructure […]
Vincent Belot, director of the Engage programme at Michelin, looks back at the steps taken by the Group over the past four years to introduce a unified solution designed to manage its B2B customer relationship policy. When was the Engage programme initiated and what were its initial goals? V.B. In 2016, in the US, if […]
Axians has developed a contactless system to optimise logistics in the bulk goods industry. Named iDispo, this online portal provides end-to-end management of automated raw material loading. Contactless digital solutions can significantly improve industrial processes and their reliability. This technology is particularly opportune given the current pandemic. Axians IAS, a VINCI Energies business unit specialised […]
The rollout of fibre broadband in 6 schools in the Cologne area has provided an opportunity for VINCI Facilities to install smart boards as a replacement for blackboards and chalk. The town of Bergneustadt near Cologne in Germany has used a 25-year public-private partnership (PPP) with VINCI Facilities Solutions (VINCI Energies) to supply several of […]
Virtual networks Disaggregating hardware and software makes it possible to develop virtual networks. Some functionalities are hosted in the cloud, while core network features are placed near the base
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 […]
