Green Office®

Positive energy building

We completed our first Green Office™ at Meudon in France.
Worldwide commitment through KYOTO which forces the industry to be more proactive and responsible in producing energy savings.
Integral to Bouygues' philosophy and commitment to sustainability and excellence in delivering buildings that exceed best practice and standards.
Our Green Site scheme assesses the environmental efficiency of our site offices through certification from silver to platinum.

Australia

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A positive-energy building is one that produces more energy than it consumes, by harnessing renewable energy sources. Green Office™, developed by Bouygues, is a model of moderating power consumption in buildings, both economical and ecological.

It is a cutting edge approach to the design of office buildings which enables the positive energy model to be constructed over and over, with the performance monitoring of the completed buildings feeding back into the design and thus improving the model.

Power consumption calculations take account of more than just the operation of the building (heating, ventilation, lighting) but the electric power consumption of users—for office systems—has also been included.

Other aspects of sustainable development have been taken into account in the design of the model:

Site cleanliness: the site’s impact on the environment and its neighbours has to be minimised (noise abatement, waste management, etc.); choice of ecological materials: for example, terraces will be decked with wood that has not been treated with toxic products or pollutants; end of the building life cycle: the materials used in construction will be recyclable (glass and aluminum for the façades and finishes, etc.)

The first Green Office® has been completed at Meudon in France (see Projects) and has been in use since March 2011. Use of renewable energy sources on the Green Office® Meudon site, and the use of natural ventilation, will make environmental savings by preventing the release of more than 400 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. Total offset of the energy consumption of the building by producing energy from renewable sources is even better than carbon neutrality. In addition, attention is paid to limiting carbon emissions during the construction phase.

Business Benefits

Integral to Bouygues’ philosophy and commitment to sustainability and excellence in delivering buildings that exceed UK best practice and industry standards.
Another innovative example of Bouygues’ technical expertise in raising environmental standards in the building industry.
Exceeds our clients’ expectations of buildings in the future that can be truly sustainable.

Global cost approach means that the high value of the building is counterbalanced through the savings on building charges and bills.

Design is tailored to not only reduce energy consumption through the build, but how the building is used and the well being of end users i.e. staircase in the middle of the building means that users are ‘encouraged’ to use this rather than the lifts.