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Major projects, infrastructure, acceptability: what every region needs to anticipate

Major projects, infrastructure, acceptability: what every region needs to anticipate

Friday, May 16, 2025

Launching a major industrial or urban project no longer depends solely on political will or investment capacity. In today's context of energy and ecological transition, the success of a project depends first and foremost on its technical, environmental and social feasibility. At ARKORIS, we get involved where intentions need to become real operations. We support the implementation of complex projects throughout France, without ever confusing acceleration with improvisation. What we find is that certain parameters are still too often tackled too late - or ignored.

1. Energy: a transition that can't be improvised during the construction phase

Tensions on networks, changes in standards, and changes in usage linked to electrification are now at the heart of new construction, major renovation and re-industrialization projects. ARKEMEP, an entity of the ARKORIS Group, integrates energy requirements into the technical design of buildings and equipment from the outset.

Without visibility on supply times, available power and land arbitration, no project owner or local authority can guarantee delivery of a program that meets expectations. This is where fluid, thermal and infrastructure engineering becomes a factor of security, and not a late correction.

2. Ecology: anticipate constraints rather than suffer them

Large-scale projects systematically come up against ecological issues - continuity, protected species, wetlands, cohabitation. These are not ideological obstacles. They are operational realities that need to be documented and integrated methodically.

ARKENOR, which specializes in environmental expertise and regulatory diagnostics, helps make projects compatible with today's ecological requirements. Biodiversity is not an extra. It is an often decisive parameter of territorial acceptability.

3. Acceptability: considering uses before tensions

Whether in terms of induced employment, daily mobility, pressure on public services or the management of land development, structuring projects produce a chain of effects. Yet political and planning timeframes are rarely aligned. Without a realistic framework, projects can generate more tension than support.

The ARKORIS Group strives to articulate the challenges of engineering, social impact and ecological trajectory in an integrated approach. Our aim is not to convince, but to make possible.

Conclusion: for a project to last, it must be tenable

The ecological and energy transition is a collective obligation. But it can only be deployed if projects are anchored in a logic of immediate, measured feasibility, compatible with territorial constraints.

ARKORIS operates at this interface between ambition and execution. As a technical engineer, environmental expert and independent certifier, our role is not to promise. It's to equip those who have to decide quickly - and deliver just.

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