RenovAIte is the name of a Franco-German consortium that aims to put artificial intelligence at the service of building and road renovation. Together, ten players in the building and infrastructure sector have applied for the call for projects “AI for risk prevention, crisis management and resilience” issued by the French and German Ministries of the Economy, Bpifrance and the DLR (German aerospace agency playing the same role as Bpifrance on this issue). 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 environment research lab, VIA IMC, RESALLIENCE), the French Action Logement group, the German AI research laboratory OFFIS, and ALEIA, a specialist in IT infrastructure dedicated to AI, a member of the European sovereign cloud GAIA-X. It relies on construction-related data (BIM, satellite imagery, photogrammetry, etc.) and AI solutions in order to offer interoperable solutions for building renovation. RenovAIte officially launched its work in March 2022 during a presentation organised at Leonard and on 18 May at the “AI Village” of the Global Industrie trade fair in Paris.
As high as 17% of the French housing stock is currently considered to be very energy-intensive and the 90,000 homes that consume more than 450 kWh per square metre per year will no longer be able to be put on the rental market from 1 January 2023. Therefore, it is imperative to speed up environmental diagnosis and the design of renovation plans. These are areas where AI and data could prove to be effective allies, particularly in integrating environmental cost and adaptation data.
RenovAIte will make soon propose innovative solutions for the renovation of buildings and roads based on construction-related data (BIM, photogrammetry, etc.) and artificial intelligence: new visualisation tools, prioritisation of the renovation plan, optimisation of designs or even climate resilience diagnosis.
These solutions will be deployed progressively. RenovAIte is targeting one million homes and 70,000 kilometres of roads by 2025.
