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Eiffage through its subsidiary Eiffage Immobilier currently delivers the 100 apartments in the Hyperion tower in Bordeaux to its occupants. This mixed wood-concrete tower of 17 levels spread over 50 meters the tallest wooden structure in France is recognized by the State as an industrial demonstrator for the sustainable city and was awarded the BIM dOr 2019 for its design. BIM.The operation was initiated in 2015 when the Bordeaux Euratlantique Public Planning Institution EPA launched as part of the development of the Bordeaux Euratlantique National Interest Operation OIN a call for projects aimed at building a wooden structure tower of a height never before produced in France to support the structuring of the French construction timber industry.Eiffage Construction has accomplished this feat by ensuring the construction of the tower using an innovative construction method which combines on the one hand a concrete base on 3 levels and a concrete core and on the other hand a wooden structure made up of wooden beams. glued laminated timber cross laminated timber panel floors and 304 timber frame walls. Its construction partly prefabricated used more than 1500 components produced off-site including facade elements in the workshops of Savare - a subsidiary of Eiffage Construction - and assembled in just 5 months.The construction of the tower thus required 1400 m of solid wood benefiting from a guarantee of local forest provenance from New Aquitaine as part of Eiffages commitment to an ecological approach of a short and labeled circuit. Wood waste was recovered on the No inter-site shared services platform the first of its kind set up by Eiffage and Suez in 2018.Exemplary in more than one way this E3C2 level operation perfectly illustrates the low carbon strategy of the Eiffage group. Due to its construction solution in particular Hyperion will store at least 1400 tonnes of CO 2 over its lifetime ie a volume comparable to 9 years of energy consumed for a building of this size. Designed by architect Jean-Paul Viguier the Hyprion tower is integrated more broadly into a mixed real estate complex comprising 182 housing units a 151-space car park 360 m 2 of shops and 3820 m 2 of offices distributed on 4 buildings.
