Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) awarded the contract for the Tour Triangle in Paris.
The tower has been designed to comply with the BREEAM Excellent as a minimum and HQE Exceptional environmental certifications, as well as the Effinergie label. It will include geothermal systems, a district heating network and energy and heat recovery systems, as well as a bioclimatic fa莽ade and 1,000 m虏 of photovoltaic panels.
Pierre Sironval, deputy CEO of Besix Group, said: 鈥淏esix is very proud to build the Tour Triangle, a technically, logistically and architecturally demanding building. We are particularly grateful for the trust placed in us by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield in awarding us the construction of this building. It joins the prestigious buildings built by Besix around the world, including the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest tower.鈥�
The planning, logistics and construction methods have been developed by Besix Engineering, the in-house design office of Besix, in order to reduce the impact on local mobility, the neighbourhood and the operation of the Parc des Expositions. Besix Engineering will also carry out execution studies for the structure.
The Tour Triangle will include office space, a conference centre, a health centre, a cultural centre, a cr猫che, a hotel and a restaurant. The building's carbon footprint will be controlled, in particular through the use of low-carbon materials, including a minimum of 50% concrete with reduced CO2 emissions, and recycled materials, in particular for the aluminium facades. The tower site will also offer 100,000 hours of social integration in partnership with EPEC, the Ensemble Paris Emploi Comp茅tences association.
The tower, which will generate 5,000 direct and indirect jobs, is due to be completed in 2026. Besix will work closely with the project management team appointed by URW: the engineering firms Setec and Egis, respectively in charge of the design studies for the structure and fluids, and Artelia as the execution project manager.
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