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 […]
The Data Act, which comes into force in September 2025, will bring significant changes to the production, use and value of data in the European Union. Businesses and professionals in the building sector will play a key role in these transformations. Published in January 2024, the Data Act creates a framework within the European Union […]
Against a backdrop of climate emergency, the decarbonisation of economic activity and the implementation of new business models are among the main challenges facing business leaders. But things are not moving quickly enough. How can we accelerate progress in CSR and sustainable development? We meet Pascaline Hayoun, Director of Strategy & Sustainability for Saint-Gobain Surface […]
A new communication system based on 5G will revolutionise the use and management of the European rail network from 2035. Axians is positioned to be a key stakeholder, in the role of impartial integrator, in this new ecosystem. From 2035, the European Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS-5G) will replace the Global System for Mobile […]
The liquids and gases used in refrigeration systems are highly polluting and are gradually being phased out in favour of replacement technologies. One VINCI Energies Building Solutions business unit has designed a solution as unexpected as it is competitive. As industry body the Association Française du Froid itself admits, refrigeration installations and technologies present in […]
To make reduced greenhouse gas emissions a shared lever for cost savings and productivity: this is the vision VINCI Energies is pursuing in its facility management business, moving to make decarbonisation targets and tools key components in all its contracts. Pierre-Yves Dehaye, Facility Management Managing Director – South-Centre-East Region, at VINCI Energies in France, provides […]
