Cycle Up carries out the diagnosis of the Palais de Justice in Paris

An extraordinary diagnosis in a singular building

Since January 1, 2023, the PEMD diagnosis has been imposed on any client who carries out a significant deconstruction or renovation of more than 1000 m², and obliges him to inventory all the components of the building. The resource diagnosis thus studies all the materials to determine the potential for reuse on a project.

The Cycle Up teams, commissioned by the public agency for the real estate of justice (APIJ), thus carried out last April the PEMD diagnosis of building B5 of the Palais de Justice in Paris. The building has a strong heritage character, as it is entirely classified as a historical monument. The building concerned is the oldest in the Palace, with elements dating from medieval times, even though it has undergone several phases of reconstruction, particularly following the fire in the town in 1871. The teams were able to explore and diagnose more of 11 m000 and five levels of offices and courtrooms, which will be rebuilt with a strong desire to preserve this heritage character specific to the building.

To carry out the resource diagnosis of this building, the Cycle Up teams used Diag it, the application that allows them to easily characterize the products, materials and equipment of the work, to inventory the resources, locate the materials in the area, enter the reusable quantities with a view to the marketing of the reused materials.

Towards a second life

The mission does not stop there, because Cyle Up will soon begin, as AMO reuse, the search for ways to recover materials, both in-situ and ex-situ. Some of this equipment and materials could be found for sale online on the Cycle Up platform in order to have a second life. Indeed, the marketplace makes it easy to sell materials after the Resources diagnosis to building professionals looking for second-hand materials for their construction sites.

“The teams are very enthusiastic about taking part in diagnostics in extraordinary places. After the Comédie Française, a Parisian department store and a large champagne house, they have inventoried the potential for reuse of the Palais de Justice in Paris. It's incredible to think that this equipment will have a second life. The reuse of construction materials makes it possible to participate strongly in the reduction of the environmental impact of the project (carbon, waste, resources, etc.). Cycle Up is really part of a logic of circular economy valuing what was previously considered a cost item”, says Sébastien Duprat, founder of Cycle Up.