Forézienne, specialist in earthworks

Our top priority: zero risk! Safety is at the heart of our production processes. To guarantee the highest level of protection for our teams, we implement a range of prevention and awareness-raising initiatives to create and reinforce a genuine "safety culture".

• 100% of staff trained in safety know-how
• 1,000 Safety Times per year
• 1,500 prevention visits per year
• 500 best practices shared per year
• 1,200 deviations corrected per year: shared vigilance

A strong policy and objectives:

Controlling the risks of our business
Low-carbon commitment 2030: 46% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions and 30% reduction in upstream scope 3 emissions.
Biodiversity objective: increase the positive impact of our activities on the environment, by developing our ecological engineering business, avoiding and reducing pressure on nature, building with living things
Circular economy: recovering materials by reusing and recycling our excavated and waste materials.

Our dedicated resources : 

Environment Department
Low-carbon department
Ecological Engineering Department

Our concrete actions:

Training: 100% of staff aware of and trained in environmental risks
Eco-driving: 100% of car and machine drivers coached in eco-driving techniques
Circular economy: 97% of excavated material recycled, 88% of surplus recycled
Training our teams in ecological engineering and adapting practices to promote biodiversity

The equipment department pays particular attention to safety and to reducing the carbon footprint generated by the use of its machines. Every new equipment purchase includes environmental and safety clauses in its specifications. Tailor-made machine configurations ensure that worksites are carried out in the best possible conditions for our customers and employees.

• Investment, management and maintenance of the entire equipment fleet
• Transfer of our machines (logistics, planning)
• Collection and analysis of digital machine data
• Increasing percentage of hybrid machines
• Use of organic oils
• Average age of fleet: 5.5 years
• 11 mechanics and 5 truck drivers
• 2,000 m² central workshop 

Specializing in geology, geotechnics, soil and rock mechanics, Forézienne's geotechnical design office deploys its expertise and know-how in the following areas:

• responses to invitations to tender for works contracts, proposing alternative solutions and additional geotechnical investigations and tests,
• studies (mission G2, project phase, as defined by standard NF P 94-500*) as part of design-build projects,
• execution geotechnical studies (mission G3, study and follow-up phases, as defined by standard NF P 94-500*),
• calculation resources: calculation and dimensioning software for studying and justifying geotechnical structures, and for understanding soil-structure interaction issues.
• occasional geotechnical diagnostics and expert assessments (G5 assignments, as defined by standard NF P 94-500*).

The geotechnical design office has a central laboratory based in Lempdes (63) and 3 mobile laboratories equipped with all the equipment needed to carry out :

• additional geotechnical investigations and tests required for geotechnical studies,  
• soil and rock analysis and identification tests in the laboratory, and in situ tests to monitor earthworks.

* A standard specifying the content and limits of geotechnical engineering missions, as well as their sequence, to help control geotechnical risks.

This department is made up of topographers, guidance managers, designers, surveyors... who provide their skills and know-how at every stage of a project:

• Invitation to tender 
• Operation 
• Completion 
• BIM