Having recently moved into the former Renault works site in Boulogne-Billancourt, BNP Paribas Real Estate is committing to energy transition. The building’s design is a glimpse of the post-Covid future of commercial property development. Tasked with creating the heating, ventilation and climate control systems, VINCI Energies will also be responsible for their maintenance once construction […]
The British capital is launching multiple projects to offer its inhabitants a more fluid and sustainable life, and is currently considered one of the world’s “best smart cities”. According to the latest edition of the IESE Cities in Motion Index, published in 2021, London is the best smart city in the world. Certainly, the British […]
Insular regions are so-called non-interconnected areas. One possible solution is to use batteries, as shown by a VINCI Energies project in Corsica. Most French islands, including Corsica, Ushant, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Reunion, are not connected (or to a limited extent in Corsica’s case) to the mainland power grid. As a result, these “ZNI” or non-interconnected […]
Omexom Conversion & Storage has built the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) in France for TotalEnergies in Dunkirk, to the north of the country. The system helps, among other things, to regulate electricity grid frequency. The issues surrounding the management of power generation and distribution have never been more critical. Indeed, the international situation […]
Of all commercial buildings, spaces used for sport perhaps require the most sophisticated HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) expertise. With electricity prices rising, many town and village councils are no longer able to heat some buildings. Because sports facilities consume on average 50% more energy than other commercial-sector buildings, they are often among the […]
Information technology’s evolution toward “Everything as a Service” is leading the way towards a more sustainable, lower-carbon economy by offering its users increased economic value and less usage of raw materials. SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, DaaS, etc. A plethora of terms now gradually merging into a single overarching abbreviation: XaaS. But this market trend conceals a […]
Near Antwerp, a cooperative network is transforming residual heat from an Agfa-Gevaert factory into residential heating. The overall control in this innovative project for the distribution of this heat in the net, is engineered by Actemium, and consist of the automation, (remote) visualization, electrical engineering, panel building and commissioning of the installation. What if the […]
The company Fournié Grospaud Synerys has developed an ad hoc, open, scalable and cost-effective solution to help elected officials of small towns remotely control electricity consumption according to their needs. In France, street lighting accounts for 41% of the electricity consumption of local and regional authorities, 16% of their consumption across all energy sources and […]
In January 2022, Leonard, the VINCI Group’s foresight and innovation platform, introduced the 44 startups and projects selected to join its four acceleration programmes in 2022: “SEED”, “CATALYST”, “Intrapreneurs” and “AI”. Their brief was to develop solutions dedicated to ecological transition, safety and productivity in the construction, property, mobility and energy sectors. The selected projects […]
