Environmental certification advisory
La Rochelle, New Aquitaine

In La Rochelle, environmental advisory takes place in a territory committed to a firm low-carbon trajectory, where many public clients build a certification requirement into the brief from the outset. The regional Bâtiments Durables Nouvelle-Aquitaine scheme is used here alongside HQE Bâtiment Durable and NF Habitat HQE. The marine-flooding risk, governed by the prevention plan, is a site constraint that the schemes address under climate-change adaptation and that must be dealt with ahead of the planning application. We run the assignment from the briefing stage to certification.

In La Rochelle, an environmental approach is steered through the right scheme: HQE, BREEAM, LEED or NF Habitat for national and international recognition, and regional sustainable-building schemes (Envirobat networks) wherever they apply. Our advisory sets the objectives from the briefing stage onward.