Urban development

Ingerop supports its clients and partners from the first blank page to the final implementation of their urban projects. Our committed specialist teams design solutions that combine vision, pragmatism and innovation to:

• address the issues of today, particularly environmental concerns,
• anticipate tomorrow’s issues by meeting the challenge of a low-carbon city head on,
• rethink the complex ecosystem of cities over the long term.

Urban renewal and ecological engineering

Backed by our local footprint, we operate on a wide range of scales, from small town centers to metropolitan areas. As partners of sustainable cities, we leverage the diversity of disciplines within Ingerop to work alongside our partners and offer our public and private clients a broad range of expertise.

Aware of the need to adapt cities to climate change, we invest in R&D and training. For example, we are supervising a doctoral thesis dedicated to assessing the adaptation of cities to global warming.

Heatwaves, greater variability of rainfall, the rise of extreme weather events: the effects of global warming are all around us and adapting our cities is a necessity.

We support clients in meeting these challenges by drawing on our multi-disciplinary expertise to e.g. develop projects resilient to flooding and submersion, optimise the management of stormwater runoff, devise operational strategies to combat urban heat islands and develop cooling islands etc.

These issues are vital to our survival, so we work closely with the academic community on R&D projects to ensure that our clients reap the benefits of the latest state-of-the-art research in these fields.

Designing sustainable, low-carbon projects is the challenge our teams tackle every day. We start assessing the carbon and environmental impacts of urban projects from the design phase.

We identify and quantify levers for action: building materials and processes, water and waste management, energy systems, circular economies, etc.

Our staff work hand in hand with the different stakeholders on project variants to optimise the environmental efficiency of our clients’ finished projects.

To stay at the cutting edge of climate science, we are taking part in the development of UrbanPrint, the first reference software designed to apply the Quartier Energie Carbone efficiency calculation method developed by Ademe.

This expertise is based on a thorough understanding of different transport modes and the operational conditions for complex operations combined with experience in Inter-Site Scheduling, Supervision and Coordination (IS-SSC).

Ingerop works alongside clients to provide advice and operational solutions for managing construction supplies e.g. forward planning, regulation and timing systems, delivery route identification and preservation, establishment of repackaging and storage platforms, recycling centre creation and shared waste management.

Ingerop is one of the designers collaborating on the Réguly project, a jobsite regulation system for commissioned by the Société Publique Locale (SPL) Lyon Part-Dieu for the Lyon Part-Dieu station redevelopment.

As a member of the France 2030 Démonstrateurs de la Ville Durable consortium, we are working alongside the Lyon Metropolitan Authorities and Société d’Equipement et d’Aménagement du Rhône et de Lyon (SERL) on the Gratte-Ciel Nord project in Villeurbanne.

Whether drawing up cycling maps, defining routes, identifying funding or designing cycling or pedestrian facilities, our teams balance local transport demands with environmental protection at every stage of a project from concept to technical design and works supervision.

Ingerop is positioned as a key player in sustainable mobility, offering its clients a broad range of skills to support their active travel projects.

Ingerop’s dedicated expertise in urban mobility and sustainable construction makes us a key player in supporting local authorities in their response to:

• the environmental transition, especially in building renovations, waste management and transport optimisation and combating the urban heat island effect,
• the digital transition, advising on data management and measures to optimise energy consumption.

Independently and with our partners, we are helping local authorities streamline their transformations into the smart cities of tomorrow.