The Franco-German consortium RenovAIte wants to put artificial intelligence at the service of the renovation of buildings and roads.
RenovAIte is the name of a Franco-German consortium whose objective is to put artificial intelligence at the service of the renovation of buildings and roads. Together, ten building and infrastructure players applied for the call for projects “AI for risk prevention, crisis management and resilience” led by the French and German Ministries of Economy, Bpifrance and the DLR (German aerospace agency playing the same role as Bpifrance on this file). RenovAIte will gradually deploy its first applications by 2025.
The consortium brings together six VINCI group entities around Leonard (Eurovia and Roadcare, VINCI Energies and Qivy, the environmental research lab, VIA IMC, RESALLIENCE), the Action Logement group, the German AI research laboratory OFFIS, and the company ALEIA, specialist in IT infrastructure dedicated to AI, member of the European sovereign cloud GAIA-X. It relies on construction-related data (BIM – Satellite, photogrammetry, etc.) and AI solutions in order to offer interoperable solutions to building renovation services. RenovAIte officially launched its work in March 2022 during a presentation organized at Leonard and on May 18 at the “IA Village” of the Global Industrie trade show.
While, for example, 17% of the French housing stock is now considered to be very energy-intensive and the 90,000 homes that consume more than 450 kWh per square meter per year can no longer be put on the rental market at From January 1, 2023, it is imperative to speed up environmental diagnostics and the design of renovation plans. Sectors in which AI and data could prove to be effective allies, in particular for integrating cost and adaptation data related to the environment.
RenovAIte will make it possible to offer innovative solutions for the renovation of buildings and roads based on construction-related data (BIM, photogrammetry, etc.) and artificial intelligence: new visualization tools, plan prioritization renovation, optimization of designs or diagnostics of climate resilience.
These solutions will be rolled out gradually by 2025. RenovAIte is notably targeting one million homes and 70,000 kilometers of roads.
