The wine industry has entered the digital era, with robotics, apps and artificial intelligence coming to the fore. France’s vineyards in the Hérault and Saône-et-Loire departments are cases in point. As the largest agricultural producer in the European Union, France intends to get it right when it comes to digitalising its rural areas. It’s an area […]
The wide use of the cloud in business can lead to a surge in costs. The FinOps approach seeks to take back control of spend by optimising resource usage in a fully efficient manner. In an age where there is ever more infrastructure to manage, software to be deployed and updated, and data to be […]
Citeos, the VINCI Energies brand specialising in infrastructure energy performance, low-carbon mobility, and preserving and enhancing urban spaces, has taken on a design-build project to illuminate the Pont Jacques-Gabriel in Blois (Loir et Cher). Corentin Duloy from Citeos explains, “Because the project has high environmental ambitions, especially in terms of biodiversity conservation, we teamed up […]
Actemium Cincinnati and Outbound Technologies have joined forces with Custom Design Applications to design enhanced packaging solutions using the innovative electron beam technology E-beam. What links flexible packaging, heat shrink wrap, architectural products, tyres, adhesives, and even sterilisation and disinfection processes? All these products and many others besides can benefit from: electron beam or E-beam […]
In order to meet energy performance-related societal and regulatory requirements, players in the property sector are increasingly opting for open data solutions. More and more digital systems and equipment – such as computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS), building management systems (BMS), automation systems and connected objects – are being installed in commercial buildings, generating vast […]
The Hauts-de-Seine department is trialling innovative software to forecast road traffic on the ring road around La Défense, Europe’s leading business district. The solution is then set to be rolled out elsewhere. Every day, around 30,000 drivers use a 4 km artery located west of Paris – officially named the RD993, but commonly known as the La […]
Creating pathways between big businesses and “game-changing” start-ups can help revive industrial processes. An ad hoc collaborative ecosystem is emerging in France, spurred on by the public authorities. One of the strands of the French government’s strategy to revitalise industrial activity involves bringing together two very different ecosystems – on the one hand, big industrial […]
A floating photovoltaic system located in a lake in North Rhine-Westphalia is set to generate green electricity and hydrogen. The challenge is to ensure all the system components communicate with each other in real time and maximise self-consumption of the energy generated on site. By 2023, Hüdderath gravel pit in North Rhine-Westphalia (western Germany) will […]
Property developers have started developing a small number of reversible buildings. However, if production is to be scaled up, there are technical, financial and regulatory obstacles that need to be overcome. During the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, some 6,000 athletes will be housed in a 125,000m2 development in the Saint-Denis district on the banks of the […]
