Eco-design and Life Cycle Analysis

Smart supervision for responsible construction

Cristiane Vieira
Cristiane Vieira
Product Director - Environment & Climate Resilience
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Eco-designing a project means integrating sobriety, sustainability, robustness and circularity throughout its life cycle, while minimizing its environmental impact.

Our multi-disciplinary teams are involved in the eco-design of the project as part of an iterative process of co-construction on the 3 pillars:

 

  • Environmental: preserving biodiversity, reducing resource consumption (water, energy, low-carbon, geo- and bio-sourced materials), circular economy, climate resilience, water cycle, greenhouse gas emissions;
  • Economic: consolidating the cost of the project over its entire life cycle, analysing the issues involved, questioning needs, anticipating future problems, optimising raw materials, energy efficiency, reducing maintenance needs, replacing equipment, construction methods, etc;
  • Social plan: mobilisation of all project stakeholders to encourage buy-in, alignment and strengthening of relations in order to increase the project’s acceptability, durability and sustainability.

 

Tractebel has developed effective and proven in-house tools for analysing the life cycle of projects, in particular to monitor indicators relating to GHG emissions, climate change, depletion of natural resources, soil acidification and toxicity.

Field Supervision & Monitoring solutions

Your opportunities

  • Multi-criteria analyses, LCA analysis, carbon footprint, HQE and environmental assessments

  • Water resource management (water cycle with reuse and recycling), waterproofing, hydraulic studies

  • Circular economy: management of excavation soil, waste management, polluted sites and soils, re-use, re-employment of materials, etc.

  • Energy: available renewable energy sources, heat recovery, installation of electricity terminals, energy efficiency

  • Mobility: modal shift, traffic studies, quarter-hourly cities, etc.

  • Sustainability: supply of materials, change of use, increase in lifespan

  • Choice of materials and construction methods: low-carbon, geo- and bio-sourced materials, concrete, wood, etc.

     

  • Preserving biodiversity: natural based solutions, heat islands, green spaces, etc.

  • Effectively engage stakeholders throughout the project life cycle from concept and design to implementation

Our value

  • A full range of in-house eco-design experts experienced in working as part of a integrated team, in an iterative fashion, to design projects with the smallest possible environmental footprint

  • Active monitoring of technological and legislative developments

  • Development of in-house tools (ACV, BIM) adapted of project and technical issues

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