Acting to preserve and restore natural environments
The construction sector can play a key role in protecting and revitalising biodiversity. Beyond taking practical measures to preserve biodiversity and limit its operations’ impact on ecosystems, VINCI Construction is leveraging its expertise to make cities greener and repair natural areas.
Ecological engineering, in other words, is now an established field of expertise at VINCI Construction. It for example enables us to protect or regenerate land and water ecosystems on our public works projects.
“We now integrate regreening measures – for instance restoring wetlands or opening up ecological corridors – into many of our projects, starting at the design phase.”
Lorène Dumeaux
Environment Director of VINCI Construction
Our vision
Preserving or restoring natural environments helps to build more resilient, sustainable and people-friendly cities and regions.
Progressively
reduce water consumption
Zero
major environmental incidents
How we take action
VINCI Construction is actively fostering biodiversity and preserving natural environments. The regreening measures we include in our projects range from restoring wetlands to opening up ecological corridors and on to rehabilitating brownfields.
Our 4 focus areas:
- Rebuilding ecological continuity
- Restoring wetlands
- Remediating human-altered sites
- Protecting natural environments at all our sites
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Showcasing our ecological engineering expertise
VINCI Construction opened an eco-demonstrator, Agrinature, near Paris in 2024 to showcase the array of ecological engineering solutions it is using on its projects (ponds, hedges, hibernation habitats, conservation agriculture, green grazing, orchards, observation stations, wetlands, drylands, etc.). Agrinature also aims to heighten awareness of the issues revolving around biodiversity among customers, partners, employees, environmental activists and anyone else interested in nature.
