Socotec Group launches Bluegen, its generative AI

The group has been working for over a year on BlueGen, its generative AI platform based on a market AI model that it has specifically trained in the context of risk management and analysis on the business side, as well as for the daily operations of all its employees.

Launched in late 2024 in the USA and the United Kingdom, the group launched BlueGen in France in early 2025 with more than 8000 employees having access to the platform to date. The deployment will continue on all its platforms (Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, etc.) during the first half of 2025.

SOCOTEC also set up in February 2024, a global international governance, the "AI Driving Hub" composed of nearly 30 business and Data experts who meet several times a year (the last one took place last week in London) to review the AI ​​plans of each country platform, share best practices and define priority developments for the group. To support this change across the entire group for all employees, an AI challenge will also be launched before the summer on an international scale. "The group tests, studies, decides, shares with sometimes different visions, which enriches the group vision, it is very promising. The agility offered by AI changes uses but not professions. Anticipating risks related to buildings always requires the expert's perspective and experience.", confides Raphael Leclercq, Data Director of the group and head of the AI ​​Driving Hub.

For Romain Dumas, CIO of the SOCOTEC group: "Our internal development teams in France and the United States have been working on this project for a year. In addition to having a tailor-made and permanent business assistant, our business experts know that BlueGen has been trained on proven references, with essential methodologies and that it integrates the many regulations related to construction (technical, energy, environmental, etc.), the responses are thus clearly contextualized. In addition, everyone can create their own specialized agents to automate their daily tasks and thus optimize their efficiency. All this takes place in a highly secure and confidential environment, essential to our mission as a trusted third party."

For Hervé Montjotin, CEO of the SOCOTEC Group: "AI is already a strategic lever to gain competitiveness. It is essential to our Ambitions 2028 plan. It is an asset for our customers who thus have an analysis based on considerable volumes of data and AI in our processes thus guarantees credibility and reliability throughout a business process. SOCOTEC's unique strategic focus on the Building and Infrastructure markets allows for unparalleled leverage effects on building data and rapid scaling up on locally successful POCs."

Finally, the group is a winner in the call for projects launched for the "AI Summit" in Paris, Summit for Action on AI, which took place this week of February 10. The AI ​​project, SOFIA, artificial intelligence dedicated to the fragility of infrastructures, attracted attention. The tool was developed by SOCOTEC, in partnership with CEA List and SANEF within the ecosystem of these companies and their customers. SOFIA will be presented on the "AI Observatory" platform, which will be launched a few days after February 11. Its goal is to unite the main national players by sharing recommendations and tools for responsible AI. It will allow the work programs of the different players to be cross-referenced and allow for better complementarity of this work.