{"id":6652,"date":"2021-02-09T14:59:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/fr\/le-premier-ministre-a-inaugure-le-batiment-du-siege-social-de-lifremer-a-brest-ce-6-fevrier-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:59:48","slug":"the-prime-minister-inaugurated-lifremers-head-office-building-in-brest-on-6-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/le-premier-ministre-a-inaugure-le-batiment-du-siege-social-de-lifremer-a-brest-ce-6-fevrier-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister inaugurated the Ifremer headquarters building in Brest on 6 February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Co-funded by the French government and local authorities, Ifremer's head office is located in the institute's largest scientific research centre. It houses the institute's central services and governance, formerly located in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Named \"Bougainville\", the building was built to High Environmental Quality (HEQ) standards and is in line with the corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach now guiding the Institute's activities.<\/p>

The Ifremer centre in Brittany, a major centre for ocean sciences in France<\/p>

With Brest as the home of its headquarters, Ifremer has made a strategic choice to join its largest research centre and numerous partner research organisations.<\/p>

Today, 900 of Ifremer's 1,500 staff work in central Brittany, mainly in Plouzan\u00e9, but also in Concarneau, Dinard and Lorient.<\/p>

All the Institute's scientific fields are represented here: fisheries and aquaculture, deep-sea ecosystems and marine geology, observation of the ocean and coastal environment, marine renewable energies and the economics of the sea. Major experimental facilities such as the oceanic engineering test basin, the Sainte-Anne du Portzic offshore study site and experimental platforms are used here.<\/p>

The location of the head office in Brest also enables closer links to be forged between the administrative staff and scientific teams of the Brittany centre and the management of the French Oceanographic Fleet, which the Institute has been operating since its unification in 2018. The Plouzan\u00e9 site is also home to teams from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), the Universit\u00e9 de Bretagne occidentale (UBO), the Institut de recherche pour le d\u00e9veloppement (IRD) and the Agence nationale de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES). It is also home to the management of the European EuroArgo infrastructure, which monitors the relationship between the ocean and climate, OceanOps, the joint technical centre of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC - UNESCO) for oceanography and marine meteorology, the management of the Genavir subsidiary and the headquarters of the French Polar Institute Paul-\u00c9mile-Victor (IPEV).<\/p>

As part of the World Sea Campus, Ifremer benefits above all from a flourishing ecosystem in terms of higher education and research in marine science and technology. Ifremer's teams work with and benefit from numerous collaborations with teams from the UBO, the IPEV, the French Navy's hydrographic and oceanographic service (Shom) and several engineering schools: the \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des techniques avanc\u00e9es de Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne), the \u00c9cole Navale, the \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure Mines-T\u00e9l\u00e9com Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de Loire (IMT Atlantique) and the \u00c9cole nationale d'ing\u00e9nieurs de Brest (ENIB). Ifremer also benefits from the Technop\u00f4le Brest Iroise and collaboration with the companies in the Mer Bretagne Atlantique competitiveness cluster.<\/p>

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Funded by the State and local authorities<\/p>

The State, the Brittany Region, the Finist\u00e8re Department and Brest M\u00e9tropole provided funding for all the operations involved in transferring Ifremer's headquarters to the Plouzan\u00e9 site. In particular, the local authorities covered the construction of the new headquarters building in Plouzan\u00e9. They also financed support for the 14 employees previously based in Issy-les-Moulineaux who agreed to continue their work in Plouzan\u00e9.<\/p>

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A highly environmentally-friendly building<\/p>

Since autumn 2020, 160 permanent Ifremer employees have been able to take advantage of the services provided by this new building. With an extension of more than 2,100 m2 grafted onto a pre-existing building, it benefits from an approach dictated by the High Environmental Quality benchmark. It was designed by Nantes-based architects DLW.<\/p>

\"This building, which we are inaugurating today, marks the start of a new cycle of building construction at the Plouzan\u00e9 centre, always with a view to reducing our ecological footprint, but also integrating the new approaches made possible by the widespread use of teleworking and telepresence,\" says Antoine Dosdat, advisor to the CEO and former director of the Ifremer centre in Brittany until 2020.<\/p>

Its construction uses a large volume of bio-sourced materials, as shown by the building's exterior cladding of 60,000 chestnut tiles from forests in the Creuse d\u00e9partement. Other features underline the ambitious nature of the project in terms of sustainable development:<\/p>

Limiting the use of concrete,
Production of photovoltaic energy (for 15 % of installed capacity),
A natural ventilation system that uses the wind and temperature differences between indoors and outdoors to renew the air in the building in summer,
Extensive insulation thanks to exterior wood and flax wool envelopes,
Calculation of a daylight factor (DFL) to achieve the benchmark set for the environmental quality of Certivea buildings,
Rainwater recovery tank for the building's water needs (sanitary facilities).<\/p>

The new building's performance means that carbon emissions can be divided by a factor of 4 compared with the old building.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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