[VIDEO] Astainable®: The promotional tool for the french-made sustainable city

Since 2008, the Eiffage group imagines the evolution of the city. Its prospective urban laboratory, "Phosphore" invents and develops practical and sustainable solutions for cities of the future.

Astainable®, contraction of "Astana" and "Sustainable" is a digital demonstrator for sustainable cities. Based on the Kazakh capital topography, the tool highlights various French innovations that provide concrete solutions and take into account the issues of the territories. Led by three major players in the French building and construction industry (Eiffage, Egis, Engie), the project showcase to the world, the capacity of French companies to respond to the issues and challenges that large urban areas will face soon.

An urban design tool in 3D images, Astainable® is a digital platform allowing an immersive experience that include many innovations in a virtual environment. Various solutions are integrated in the territory and provide a glimpse in the urban ecosystems of the future. This French vision of the future sustainable city feature three main components:

• A global and systemic analysis that highlights all aspects of the sustainable city and provides full diagnostic to urban needs

• Respect of the genius of territory to provide concrete and achievable solutions in adequation with climate, geographical, human, cultural and economic specificities of the place.

• Sustainable cities presupposes that the pursuit of quality of life and customs of the inhabitants is well in the heart of the process, not the promotion of technical solutions for themselves.

Astainable® industrial club, a provider of practical solutions for urban demonstrator:

Launched in March 2014, the industrial club brings together competitiveness poles, technological research centers, clusters and companies of all sizes and from all regions of France. Contributing to various topics for sustainable cities and who are willing to submit innovations they promote in the Astainable® urban design tool. The only requirement is that the integrated solutions in the digital tool: engineering, products or processes must be French made, corresponding to jobs on French soil.

Using this tool, the consortium hopes to attract attention and convince many local decision makers around the world. The goal is to promote French know-how and to be entrusted with the future urban development of many cities.

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