GreenFlex Sustainable development strategy and roadmap Urban projects

Developing urban and regional projects with a positive impact

Local areas are undergoing profound changes: ecological transition, adaptation to climate change, combating social inequalities, reclaiming biodiversity and reconnecting with agriculture, etc. In the meantime, we need to think about new ways of sharing space, overhauling existing urban services, or developing new ones. An area or an urban project leader must qualify and prioritise the actions to be taken on these aspects.

 

GreenFlex experts’ mastery of these issues and our systemic, cross-disciplinary, multi-expert vision enable us to support the transformation or construction of urban projects with a positive impact.

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Set the right ambitions and prepare for their proper implementation, taking into account the expectations of stakeholders and the specific characteristics of the area, in order to roll out urban projects.

Local areas are the focus of many of the issues facing society today. The design, development, and improvement of urban projects (mixed neighbourhoods, business parks, energy and mobility infrastructures, etc.) influence the way we live, travel, shop, work and enjoy services.

It is undesirable that the hyper specialisation of certain parts of the city, inherited from our past, should once again become the norm: resilience comes from a mix of uses in our neighbourhoods, enabling rapid access to local services at an acceptable overall cost.

These areas of our towns and cities, such as neighbourhoods and activity zones, have historically used and captured a significant proportion of the resources in their immediate and distant environment to meet their needs. These areas need to reinvent themselves to move towards a more virtuous, sustainable, and circular mode of operation by producing their own resources. They also need to think about their links with neighbouring rural, urban, and peri-urban areas.

These areas are also constrained by more stringent regulatory requirements in terms of energy and carbon performance, the circular economy, land artificialisation, etc.

Against this backdrop, how can we transform our practices to build the regenerative buildings, factories, supermarkets, homes, neighbourhoods, and urban spaces of tomorrow? GreenFlex is committed to working with you to meet these challenges.

Analyse environmental, social and territorial issues and produce recommendations to put your urban projects on a regenerative trajectory

Our offer in terms of measuring and improving the impact of urban projects is designed both to help you build your progress strategy and to support you in its operational implementation.
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Characterise the impact of your urban projects, understand the area and build a roadmap for progress

  • Socio-economic diagnosis: assess and analyse the environmental performance of your urban projects and identify the key issues and levers for progress
  • Formalise your roadmap: identify actions for progress, inform your decisions and co-construct an ambitious and operational roadmap

Supporting the implementation of actions and putting our multi-expertise to work to advance your progress initiative

  • Project monitoring: supporting your teams in regularly monitoring the progress of the roll-out of progress actions
  • Searching for local synergies: understanding your ecosystem and putting the various players in touch with each other to ensure the success of an industrial and local ecology approach to progress.
  • Support for innovation: helping you to find and implement innovative solutions to the technical, financial and impact measurement issues associated with your urban projects.
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In-depth knowledge of local players and public/private partnerships

GreenFlex has developed a wealth of experience in supporting regional transition projects, at local, regional or industry level. As a result, we have a clear understanding of the issues at stake in such projects, from an organisational, technical, financial, and regulatory point of view, as well as in terms of the interplay of local players.


This enables us to propose an operational diagnosis, specific to your challenges and those of your region. This territorial vision, at the heart of our approach, underpins every recommendation we make. We work with you to identify cooperation and synergies between private and public players.


Multi-expertise as a lever for socio-environmental performance

There are many issues at stake in urban projects, both in environmental terms (impact on climate change and biodiversity, changes in land use, resource management, etc.) and societal terms (health, employment, acceptability, etc.).

The GreenFlex teams bring together a wide range of expertise in order to approach these issues strategically (awareness-raising and internal mobilisation, stakeholder mapping, roadmap development) and technically (environmental diagnostics, energy performance studies, recommendations on construction techniques, etc.). We also call on the specialist expertise of our partners to address specific or unusual issues.