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50 Innovations by Egis CONVERGING VIEWS ON INNOVATION BY EGIS Climate change, the deterioration of biodiversity, the digital Creativity is one of Egis' core values and the revolution, demographic growth and galloping urbanisation are all DNA on which our employees draw every day major challenges that require us to display inventiveness and technical prowess. to contribute with passion and determination to the major challenges of our time. Our innovation policy lies at the heart of our three strategic development pillars: sustainable city construction, the mobility and transportation of the future and, The driving forces of our innovation dynamics are finally, the energy and ecological transition. Innovation and new technologies are founded upon co-innovation with our clients and our levers to develop the best solutions and to provide specifically for the current stakeholders, on strong partnerships with start-ups, and future needs of our customers. research organisations and major industrial groups, and on the fertile imagination and motivation of our Innovation also means constantly improving our production methods . in order to be ever more efficient at lower cost. With the tremendous potential employees generated by digital technology, our business areas are transforming and reinventing The pandemic and the climate and environmental emergency are themselves to enable the most audacious innovations to see the light of day in our projects. our impetus to step up our actions to shape the world of the future: a decarbonised and more resilient world, centred In this 2020 edition of the book Innovations by Egis, I am pleased to share 50 recent and on the well-being of populations and the protection of natural emblematic innovations with you. environments. Let yourself be surprised and discover how these new methods, tools and solutions contribute Nothing is more valuable today than to feel useful and to work to meeting the majors challenges around us! towards the accomplishment of meaningful projects! Laurent Germain, Chief Executive Officer Martine Jauroyon, of the Egis Group Chief Business Transformation and CSR Officer, Member of the Executive Committee of the Egis Group Egis – Innovation strategies 2020 page 2 CONTENTS 2 CONVERGING VIEWS ON 18 Wood for high-rise buildings 34 Autonomous goods transportation 51 Digital twin - ensuring continuity for the INNOVATION BY EGIS 19 Ensuring the reuse of materials in the 35 Mobility hypervisor life cycle of the building 4 ECOLOGICAL AND ENERGY BIM era 36 Image processing to objectivise dynamic 52 Asbestos diagnostic – incorporating a 20 Bioclimatic design carpooling data approach TRANSITION 37 Multiservice platform for users 21 The digital twin as a tool to control the 53 Optimising collective intelligence with 5 City on alert energy performance of buildings 38 Adapting transport services to the digital twin 6 Boosting biodiversity in constrained 22 Promoting straw for passive conditions observed in real time 54 IoT master plan environments constructions 39 Connectivity to improve road user safety 7 Preserving and leveraging your carbon 23 A connected platform for smooth 40 Egis view 360°, project immersion 55 Optimising the management of tunnel safe projects 41 For a more sustainable European sky assets using digital technology 8 Responding to the climate emergency 24 Knowing your urban assets for more 42 Connected and intelligent vehicle 56 A technique inspired by the work of sustainable cities 9 Committed to air quality weighing seismologists 25 Energy mix / New generation networks 10 Data for the benefit of biodiversity 43 A Web GIS application for the operation 57 Remote site supervision performance 26 RT thermal calculations: expertise and of rail infrastructure in Brazil 58 Engineering in aid of culture 11 Diagnosing and rehabilitating dams open data 27 44 ENGINEERING 4.0 12 Offering the port sector a more resilient Solutions for urban cool islands 59 OUR INNOVATION NETWORK pathway 28 Eco-construction of urban developments 45 Artificial intelligence to detect cracks 13 An innovative process to combat 46 When nuclear civil engineering leads its deforestation 29 MOBILITY & TRANSPORTATION OF digital revolution 14 Massive wastewater recycling in Qatar THE FUTURE 47 The digital twin as an operating aid tool 30 Virtual reality to train motorway 15 Predicting the impacts of climate change 48 From geological model to civil patrollers through modelling engineering design 31 Airports: smooth and safe passenger 49 Securing underground works with 16 SUSTAINABLE CITY CONSTRUCTION handling within the terminal building the detection of cavities in tunnels by 32 17 Keeping an eye on the natural heritage The dynamic bus lane imaging of your communities 33 Inclusive motorway 50 Parametric design Egis – Innovation strategies 2020 page 3 ECOLOGICAL AND ENERGY TRANSITION “The Environment is an issue that should be addressed in a holistic way. Carbon neutrality, safeguarding biodiversity, reducing noise pollution, restoring air quality, controlling industrial risks and reclaiming polluted wasteland, and the reduction of heat islands are all issues that will contribute to improving our living environment and preserving our planet. They are one and the same battle.” Catherine Jatteau, Environment & Energy Director 5 City on alert 11 Diagnosing and rehabilitating dams 6 Boosting biodiversity in constrained 12 Offering the port sector a more environments resilient pathway 7 Preserving and leveraging your 13 An innovative process to combat carbon safe deforestation 8 Responding to the climate emergency 14 Massive wastewater recycling in 9 Committed to air quality Qatar 10 Data for the benefit of biodiversity 15 Predicting the impacts of climate performance change through modelling Egis – Innovation strategies 2020 page 4 CITY ON ALERT REDUCING THE IMPACT OF FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS In a context of urban densification and climate change, cities are now facing higher risk of flooding. To improve the resilience of these urban areas, which are often densely populated, Egis has created a solution to manage crisis situations more efficiently, quickly and collaboratively. Egis offers the first comprehensive real-time monitoring and management system for hydrological This innovative platform was selected risk via a detailed risk mapping system associated with a matrix. Ville en alerte (City on alert) connects by the French Ministry for the up the various players involved in flood risk management virtually, around the same digital table. The Ecological and Inclusive Transition to urban flood risk management platform aims to: illustrate the theme of resilience in • Collect and visualise hydrometeorological data in real time the contribution of EcoCité projects to • Anticipate risks for frequent to extreme rainfall events thanks to a risk map covering different hydrological sustainable development goals. scenarios • Manage the crisis at intermunicipal level, in a collaborative manner, in real time, with all the local actors • Reduce the impact of floods on property and people The system has been deployed as a pilot in an urban community comprising the municipalities of Montpellier, Lattes and Pérols, and is currently being extended to the 31 communes of the metropolitan region. VILLE EN FLOODING IN ALERTE URBAN AREAS VIDEO PARTNERS Synapse Informatique, Ceneau CONTACT Clément CHETOUI Egis – Innovation strategies 2020 page 5 BOOSTING BIODIVERSITY IN CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS LANDBOOST AND SEABOOST Everywhere, human activity has an impact on the ecosystem in which it takes place. In cities, many invisible species that are essential for maintaining the major balances are no longer able to reproduce or rest due to the artificialization of urban land. In marine environments, the disappearance of coral reefs or mangroves leads to a disappearance of essential ecological functions which ultimately threatens marine biodiversity. Rebuilding these ecosystems is a priority in order to protect the environment. Egis has created the Seaboost and Landboost offers, whose 3D printed solutions, inspired by living Landboost totem unit organisms, are designed to provide an immediate habitat for biodiversity. • Landboost proposes to make the city of tomorrow more welcoming for biodiversity and compensate for the artificialisation of urban land. Thanks to modular devices that can be free-standing or attached to existing structures, Landboost offers cavities that can provide a home for various animal species and contributes to the reconstruction of the territory's green spaces. LANDBOOST and SEABOOST are pioneering • Seaboost aims to accommodate marine animal species while an autonomous ecosystem re-establishes solutions in eco-design and are produced itself, drawing on biomimicry and the characteristics specific to each environment. Seaboost provides the using 3D printing. Thanks to this conditions for the rapid reproduction of coral reefs and natural aquatic habitats that are necessary for the technology, the shelters quickly reproduce reconstruction of biodiversity. the cavities and other spaces necessary for the reconstruction of biodiversity. Seaboost has been implemented on more than twenty international projects, notably in the ports of La Ciotat and Menton in France. Landboost is currently deployed on a pilot site at Rungis. LANDBOOST SEABOOST PARTNERS CEEBIOS, XtreeE PATENT Seaboost CONTACTS Hippolyte POUCHELLE / Martin PERROT (Landboost) (Seaboost) Egis – Innovation strategies 2020 page 6 PRESERVING AND LEVERAGING YOUR CARBON SAFE SMART CARBON
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