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| Bouygues Construction starts works on low-consumption building French group Bouygues Construction has just started construction of a new low-consumption building in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, south-west of Paris. The 50 million euro project will be the new head office of ETDE, the group's electrical contracting and maintenance subsidiary. Designed by architect Hubert Godet, the new building ideally located just 50 m from the station will have a floor area of 11,800 sq metres on eight levels. It is designed to accommodate more than 600 employees. It is being built by a consortium made up of Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France and ETDE. Bouygues Construction subsidiaries Sodéarif (property development) and Elan (HQE consultant) will provide project management services for Erestone. Handover is scheduled for the end of 2010. The building will be to the standards of both "BBC Effinergie" low-consumption-building certification and HQE high-environmental-quality certification, in the "NF Bâtiments tertiaires" office sector. The building consumes only 35 kWh/sq metres/year. This compares very favourably with the 180 kWh/sq metres/year for a building compliant with France's current thermal design regulations (RT 2005) and 70 kWh/sq metres/year for a low-consumption building (BBC). write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |