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- City
- Performance
The continuous improvement of light rail vehicles: a reservoir of performance

With increasing urbanisation, public transport needs never cease to grow. In response to demand, granting a second life to metros, trams and other suburban trains in service seems to be a complementary solution to the purchase of new equipment. Economically, environmentally and socially, and also in terms of road safety and physical activity, the benefits […]
- ICT
- Innovation
In Germany, a new generation of carbon-neutral datacentres

With support from Axians, the German hosting provider Windcloud is making extensive use of wind energy to reduce its carbon footprint. Its latest site also houses a rooftop algae farm that will trap a large quantity of the CO2 emitted. On a global level, according to most estimates, digital products and services represent around 3% […]
- Industry
- Innovation
Actemium revisits pharmaceutical powder handling

Actemium has designed a robot to transport pharmaceutical powder on demand from one point on the production line to another. For its pharmaceutical laboratory client, AZO, the specialist in automated raw materials handling, joined forces with Actemium, the VINCI Energies brand dedicated to industrial processes, to design an innovative robot. The idea was to find […]
- Buildings
- Innovation
Smart windows that control heat in offices

Everyone knows what it feels like in the summer, whether at the office or at home, when windows intensify the sun’s heat. So much so that there’s no other option but to lower the blind, close the shutters or pull the curtains. But what if the solution to the problem was the windows themselves? Researchers […]
- Energy
- Acceleration
Electric mobility: what opportunities does it offer for power networks and the energy transition?

All lights are green for electric mobility! With more than 400,000 electric vehicles in France in 2020 and sales rising strongly, and given the French government’s intent to accelerate the rollout of both public and private charging stations, the e-mobility market is expanding rapidly. This increasingly raises the question of how to integrate the growing […]
- City
- Innovation
Fondations #2 – Data for greener projects

Fondations, Leonard’s new podcast, provides a platform for the entrepreneurs currently transforming mobility, construction, property and energy. Listen every fortnight to the people building the city of tomorrow. In this second episode, Guillaume Bazoin, Open Innovation & Startups Lead at Leonard, welcomes Guillaume Lafont, CEO and co-founder of Combo Solutions, a new startup applying new […]
- ICT
- Transformation
The many advantages of multicloud

In making use of different private or public clouds, a business gains both agility and the capacity to innovate. But reaping the full benefits of multicloud involves a learning curve. Many French businesses are using multicloud without knowing it. According to the “Multicloud 2020” survey conducted by Axians and Dell Technologies, 47% of CIOs surveyed […]
- Energy
- Innovation
Smart charging: the electric bus operator’s best friend

To meet the operational needs of transport companies engaged in the transition to all-electric, Mobility, a subsidiary of VINCI Energies, has integrated new functionality into its intelligent charging platform. Replacing combustion-engine buses with all-electric vehicles is a major part of the energy transition in public transport. The transition is happening at different speeds in different […]
- ICT
- Innovation
VigiAlert boosts security in schools

Integrated at the deployment stage of a private mobile network, this easy-to-use technological solution developed by Axians is designed to meet the need to secure public access buildings against hostile intruders. The attacks that took place in Paris on 13 November 2015 led the French public authorities to review the “Plans Particuliers de Mise en […]