Vis ta ville The Building Site
The building site as a place for innovation and changing practices
Building sites are an intrinsic part of daily life for local communities. They are unavoidable, frequent and ubiquitous and illustrate a local authority’s vitality in renewing itself and in ensuring the upkeep and maintenance of infrastructures – essential roads and structures. For residents, however, they are primarily a source of annoyance – noise, disturbances for pedestrians crossing and moving around, traditional transportation route disruptions… And for local authorities, they often cause damage to road surfaces and claddings with financial consequences that can be significant.
Building sites therefore hold significant potential for improvement for all stakeholders in a bid to offer a better experience of community life.
This is the purpose of this new area within the exhibition, designed as an ideal space for events and demonstrations in the heart of the ‘Planning & Construction’ section (pavilion 3). It aims to align closely with network operators and to explore and enhance building sites as a place of innovation and changing practices among professionals to reduce their still widespread impact and disturbances for as many people as possible.
Building sites will therefore provide the opportunity to promote major work themes for professionals in improving the building site experience and, inevitably, the sustainability of building site practices:
- reclamation of building site waste;
- management of materials, recycling and also preferences for bio-based building materials and, more broadly speaking, the circular economy of building sites;
- roads, their materials and the new urban mining;
- construction work with no trenches and gentle methods for operating networks and sub-soils;
- the fight against fly tipping;
- management of basic life requirements for building site workers;
- building site safety and signage for pedestrians;
- air quality and dust management;
- resident relations and information;
- protection of wildlife and natural spaces, environmental continuity and biodiversity on building sites and landscaping projects;
- modelling and digital resources for works management.