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Hestia | Expert opinion | 06/06/23
40% of French households have chosen gas for their domestic heating: how to anticipate and transition from the end of gas to responsible energies? Constructions or renovations, homes are affected by the 2020 environmental regulations (RE2020). Aiming to considerably reduce the energy consumption of buildings, this new standard has enabled the creation of the BEPOS label and the advent of buildings with very high energy performance and/or self-sufficiency as well as dependence on certain energy sources.
Hestia | Expert opinion | 31/05/23
50 years of immobility in the heating market: How will it reinvent itself? For 50 years, the heating market has not evolved. In question: behemoths struggling to reinvent themselves in a frozen market. However, the ecological policy aimed at the energy transition towards a new mode of heating has nevertheless allowed a slight jump in the sector. The heat pump has benefited from this with a 30% increase in installation in 2022(1).
Expert opinion | 29/05/23
Real estate crowdfunding: “The fundamentals of the new real estate market remain buoyant in the long term” Although new real estate recorded a historic fall of 34,3%* in total sales in the first quarter of 2023 compared to that of 2022, its fundamentals remain buoyant in the long term. In the shorter term, certain market sub-segments even offer great investment opportunities.
Expert opinion | 26/05/23
Making roads safer with data It's 2023, and road safety remains a major global public health issue. Each year, more than 1,3 million people around the world lose their lives in road accidents, and millions more suffer life-altering injuries.
BauWatch | Expert opinion | 16/05/23
Video surveillance of construction sites in France: Update on regulations and confidentiality requirements Video surveillance of construction sites is an important tool for developers and construction companies in France. It makes it possible to monitor operations, improve security and prevent theft or any intrusion. However, the use of CCTV cameras raises regulatory and privacy issues.
Expert opinion | 10/05/23
Cry of anger and right of reply from a diagnostician It's starting to do all its anti-diagnostic actions well. All these structures, media, public services which dump their little problems, their incompetence, their irresponsibility on the diagnosticians. Prey so easy to reach and subdue. I hope that these critical media will agree to give them a right of reply.
coBuilder | Expert opinion | 09/05/23
How Standardized Data Can Optimize Digital Twins for “Zero Carbon” Buildings As the construction industry strives to meet the World Green Building Council's goal of full decarbonization by 2050, digital twins are giving stakeholders a better understanding of how to make new and existing buildings more durable.
Expert opinion | 02/05/23
Hors-Site and BIM, a winning duo to improve productivity in the construction sector In France, in 20 years, productivity gains in the construction sector, and more broadly in the construction industry, have remained at a standstill. Worse, the sector's productivity has even fallen by 20% since 2001, unlike that of the industrial sector, which has been constantly increasing since 1995. To meet the time - cost - quality equation, the solution lies, no doubt , in the industrialization and digitization of construction projects.
Pixid | Expert opinion | 17/03/23
How is digital helping the construction sector to reinvent its recruitment? Construction companies face many recruitment difficulties: today, 300.000 jobs are unfilled in the construction industry. A problematic situation caused in particular by the shortage of skilled labor, due to a less attractive image of the profession. But this is not the only reason and solutions exist to remedy it.
CAPEB | Expert opinion | 01/03/23
What if the pension reform was an opportunity to strengthen the social rights of women in the building trades? Since January 1, 2022, the mandatory social protection currently enjoyed by collaborating spouses, represented in the vast majority by women, has lost its immutable nature. A provision of the social security financing law for 2022 has limited the exercise of this status to 5 years.
Unit | Expert opinion | 07/02/23
Photovoltaics: the best of the most widespread fake news Photovoltaic energy has made dazzling progress over the past 10 years. The performance of the panels has increased by 25% and the price has been divided by…10! This upsets the role that photovoltaics can play in the energy transition.
Vandersanden | Expert opinion | 30/01/23
Energy crisis in construction: how the brick sector contributes to providing solutions We had barely recovered from the rise in building material prices when energy prices began to soar – gas prices even increased more than tenfold. The energy crisis is leaving traces in all sectors, including construction.
Eaton | Expert opinion | 24/01/23
How does energy storage reduce fears of power cuts for tertiary players and reduce their energy costs? To deal with the risks of power cuts, announced by RTE, from January 2023, and avoid a costly cut in activity, professionals have the possibility of equipping themselves with energy storage or inverters (autonomy of up to 'to 2 hours depending on the application) in order to ensure business continuity.
Eaton | Expert opinion | 17/01/23
After a turbulent year 2022, building trends in 2023 in France are to be watched A turbulent year is coming to an end, it's time to look at the trends that will shape the tertiary, industrial and residential building sector in 2023. Unsurprisingly, the theme of energy dominates.
Acorus | Expert opinion | 16/01/23
It is urgent to accelerate energy renovations by favoring global and efficient renovations During the 24 hours of the building, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Lemaire recalled that there were in France seven million thermal strainers and that 500.000 dwellings were renovated each year. And to conclude that it would take twice as much to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050.
Expert opinion | 04/01/23
Aiming for 10% energy savings in commercial buildings is easy and profitable To reduce energy consumption, you need to be able to measure it. Optimizing the management of existing equipment is the first step in an energy saving approach, the most accessible and above all the most profitable. The economic, political and environmental conditions are now met to respond to the urgency and challenges of sustainable energy efficiency.
Expert opinion | 03/01/23
How telcos can put energy management first and fight climate change According to a recent survey, energy would represent more than 92% of the operating costs of telecommunications networks and the development of 5G should be the source of significant increases in consumption on all of these networks.
helexia | Expert opinion | 22/12/22
Energy management: the best energy is the one you don't consume With rising energy costs, the financial impact of energy consumption is increasingly significant for companies. Reducing energy-related costs is becoming a priority for organizations seeking to rationalize their consumption and limit it to what is strictly necessary.
Expert opinion | 15/12/22
Let's no longer waste our energies opposing them, let's commit to a responsible mix! Energy crisis, heat wave, multiplication of fires, extreme drought…, global warming is seen and experienced more and more in our daily lives. While we are up against the wall, the energy transition is no longer an option. It is urgent to question our dependence on nuclear power and fossil fuels, to build a new energy mix and to rethink in a global way our way of producing – and consuming – energy. In short, to initiate a truly green and truly sustainable energy transition.
Expert opinion | 14/12/22
Why is the wood energy sector a sector of the future? In a context of major energy crisis, the wood energy sector was waiting for the Government to make a commitment. The implementation of the tariff shield in October 2021 for gas and electricity, with a budget exceeding 50 billion euros, could almost lead the French to believe that there has been no increase in the price of electricity. and gas.