Promoting eco-design
Deploying an eco-efficiency policy
VINCI is very conscious
of the changes the fight against climate change will bring for its
companies. The reflection process begun in 2007 on the need to speed up
the process of re-engineering constructive solutions and professional
practices continued, with all involved in the value chain being made
aware of their responsibilities. VINCI companies increased their
contacts with the various stakeholders making up this chain, from
project initiator through to user, in order to share the agreed global
design-construction-operation approach
Deployment of the eco-efficiency policy also involved developing guidelines and shared measuring instruments, in addition to the first tools already being used: Equer (assessment of a building's energy performance); Gaia.BE (an environmental comparator used for road works) and Freyssinet's Sustainable Technology approach. These tools make it possible, when responding to calls to tender, to offer alternative options that are relevant both environmentally and economically. More generally, the synergies between activities engendered by VINCI's integrated concession-construction business model tend to favour the emergence of integrated solutions offering high environmental performance.
Deployment of the eco-efficiency policy also involved developing guidelines and shared measuring instruments, in addition to the first tools already being used: Equer (assessment of a building's energy performance); Gaia.BE (an environmental comparator used for road works) and Freyssinet's Sustainable Technology approach. These tools make it possible, when responding to calls to tender, to offer alternative options that are relevant both environmentally and economically. More generally, the synergies between activities engendered by VINCI's integrated concession-construction business model tend to favour the emergence of integrated solutions offering high environmental performance.