Bouygues Construction, Linkcity and Colas imagine solutions

What adaptation strategy should be implemented by construction and real estate players to deal with the heat waves caused by global warming? This is the question that representatives of Bouygues-Constructionof colas and promoter Linkcity at a conference in April 2023 in Paris. “Eighty days of heat wave would be possible in 2100, according to projections by Météo France. It is five times more intense than the heat wave that France suffered in 2003“, warns Xavier Chauvin, from the research and development department of Bouygues Construction. The company he represents has carried out studies to understand the causes of heat islands, he says. “An additional objective that we could set ourselves would be to work on