Ecology

Our Beliefs

Climate change adaptation and developing climate resilience are real challenges our teams face every day. Bolstering our expertise and activities in this field is one of our top priorities so that we can provide our clients with innovative, resilient and high-performance solutions. We consider it not just a business goal but a moral imperative.

It is now vital for us to integrate consideration of climate and biodiversity into our projects by raising our clients’ awareness of the latest environmental issues and supporting them in their responses.

To boost the resilience of our projects, we draw on the expertise of our in-house ecological and environmental experts, longstanding members of staff in our regulatory and sustainable construction teams, and that of our subsidiary Actierra.

Founded in January 2024, Actierra is a dedicated climate change consultancy that reflects the rapid growth of Ingerop’s engagement with the climate emergency. We have gathered over 200 specialist environmental scientists who can advise our clients and partners throughout the whole life cycle of a project from initial strategy to operations. They embody the environmental excellence to which we aspire.

Our environmental scientists are world-leading experts in analysing environmental and climate data, identifying project vulnerabilities, and devising adaptation and action strategies, which enables them to propose truly effective solutions.

Supported by this wealth of expertise, we can offer tailored, high-performance solutions to the challenges facing not only our clients but society as a whole.

Ingerop is working towards a fully integrated eco-design approach to engineering that will enable us to build a sustainable world today and tomorrow.

Group innovation and R&D: a continuous drive

The Group is supporting several doctoral theses related to environmental issues:

• Evaluation of measures to adapt the urban environment to the constraints of climate change (Merveil Muanda Lutete, CIFRE PhD student with scientific supervision from Cerema and the Gem laboratory, in collaboration with CSTB).
• Evaluation of additive manufacturing in raw clay – from material to architecture (Ola Nashed Kabalan, PhD student whose host laboratory is GSA Géométrie, Structure et Architecture – University PSL and Université Gustave Eiffel)
• Adapting port structures to climate change (Yasmine Ben Belkacem, PhD student supervised by CNRS/LOMC)

We also invest every year in employee-led projects to develop new tools and service offers, such as:

• Ecale, a simple and fun online decision-making tool that allows you to vary the design parameters of a façade grid to assess its carbon impact using calculations from an in-built database that is constantly being improved and updated.
• XChange, a cross-disciplinary consulting service dedicated to the reuse of materials and excavated soil for construction and development projects.
• InfraCost, a tool for assessing the carbon impact of urban infrastructure and developments (validated by France’s Carbon Footprint Association in 2022).
• Ecothemis, Ecothemis, a tool that measures biodiversity gains and losses and helps to size offsetting areas based on French Biodiversity Office recommendations.

Leading by example

Ingerop Group is committed to finding sustainable ways foward not just for our clients’ projects but also for ourselves as a company. For us, sustainability is not just experts’ business, it’s everyone’s business.

This is why we have made a commitment to reduce the Group’s carbon footprint by 35% (compared with 2019) by 2027.

Our other climate actions include, everywhere we can, encouragement to use cycle or public transport to travel to work.

We also strive to raise awareness of the latest environmental concerns and sustainable practices through our employee training programme. In most of our locations, we offer training courses on environmental risk management, mainstreaming climate change adaptation solutions and the latest environmental regulatory frameworks, as well as webinars covering biodiversity, low-carbon concrete, hydrogen technologies and the IPCC’s Assessment Reports. We also organise regular in-house Climate Fresk workshops on climate science, the circular economy, biodiversity and digital technologies.

We are also working on introducing two new key indicators to our design process, which will monitor 1) carbon footprint reduction and 2) adaptation to climate risk, at every stage of a project’s development.