Construction & Buildings

Four major challenges for the construction sector:

• Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of existing buildings: the no. 1 challenge for France is thermal and energy renovation. The national targets set out in the Law on Transition of 2015 aim at a renovated building stock regarding LCB (Low Consumption Buildings) from now to 2050.
• Limiting the environmental impacts of new constructions, in both the upstream phase (materials, equipment) and during their utilisation. The environmental regulations of 2020, based on the Energy-Carbon Label experimented since 2016, will replace the Thermal Regulations of 2012 and directly include carbon thresholds.
• Anticipating the physical risks linked to the effects of climate change, in other words adapt to more intense and more frequent climatic episodes that affect buildings and the comfort of those that occupy them.
• Anticipating the risks of transition linked to the effects of climate change on regulations, client behaviours, technologies, markets, work practices, processes, etc.