The research, development and innovation partnership agreement is for the construction of an experimental demonstrator in the form of a block of approximately 90 apartments. As well as aiming for self-sufficiency in water and energy, the scheme will also be designed to optimise waste management.
The first demonstrator of the Autonomous Building for Citizens (ABC) concept will be built as part of the Presqu’Ile development zone in the heart of the €1.3bn (£1.1bn) Grenoble EcoCité.
ABC is one of Bouygues Construction’s R&D programmes and has been developed in partnership with architect Valode & Pistre. The demonstrator is intended to incorporate the most technically and architecturally innovative solutions, optimise construction processes and introduce a new vision of housing based on ‘living better together’.
The ‘A’ for autonomous indicates that the scheme seeks to achieve self-sufficiency in energy – in terms of electricity and heat - and water and to optimise waste management. It will combine renewable energy production, energy storage and improved control of consumption.
Michel Destot, MP and mayor of Grenoble, said: “In welcoming the first ABC demonstrator, Grenoble is pleased to help find a new way of imagining the city of the future, the post-carbon city, in the heart of the Presqu’Ile EcoCité, which is acknowledged today as one of the biggest urban, scientific, academic and economic projects in Europe, with an investment over 15 years of approximately €1.3bn.”
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