The pandemic has accelerated the revelation of factors that are transforming our businesses and our clients: the importance of the climatic element, the digital, the exploitation of data... Our major public and private clients await our initiatives to make things environment-friendly and cheaper. We have new, more local contacts such as public authorities that are armed with new competences, project companies, investment funds or international construction groups, with different perimeters depending on the country. The importance is to understand each client, to anticipate their needs by drawing on our expertise and constantly being attentive to our ecosystem. The creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of each one of our employees are essential, as is our presence in our countries and regions of intervention, without forgetting to communicate and share between us our experiences. It is up to us to be imaginative and flexible in this new landscape!
It is because our Engineers and Citizens approach comes from the inner core of our employees that it is so unique. It will be the breadcrumb trail that will guide us through the major transitions of the world and will dictate our CSR commitments with a 360 degrees vision on all environmental aspects, societal and governance. It allows us to fulfill the expectations of our ecosystem and to be the key players in our sustainable future.
The GIS Posidonie renforC project, winner of the 2020 call for project, had particularly caught my attention. This scientific experiment aims to enhance marine carbon wells in the coastal marine environment of the Bouches de Bonifacio Nature Reserve in Corsica, by transplanting cuttings from Posidonia grass beds. I am proud that the setec Foundation supports this project because it is a fundamental measure in favor of the renaturation of natural carbon wells which is essential in the fight against climate deregulation and the preservation of biodiversity.
Convinced of the environmental urgency, our employees are key players in low-carbon construction. They are fully invested in many research projects, whether they be academic, in partnership with specialists, or from internal reflections. The Low Carbon manifesto and the Low Carbon Project Guide are the means to an eco-design and ecoconstruction in order to reduce the environmental impacts of our projects.
By creating cycling facilities, dedicated lanes to carpooling, studying the redeployment of night-trains, promoting the installation of charging stations for electric vehicles or the energy transition of bus fleets, setec is working towards decarbonizing mobilities. By supporting the many stakeholders involved, we identify relevant means and offer credible alternatives to place decarbonization at the heart of transportation projects.
We are already exposed to the hazards of climate change that are more and more frequent and intense. Working on the resilience of territories, in all of their diversity, will allow these new forms of risk to be included into development plans and investment programs. As a responsible engineering company, setec can and must play its part. We thus wish to intervene throughout the entire process from the initial diagnosis and planning of adaptation measures to their implementation.
While the decarbonated energy sector is undergoing rapid change (new stakeholders business models and energies…) we intend to keep up with the needs of our market while being a force of proposition. That is why we have launched a “Decarbonized Energy Challenge" to co-develop our roadmap and its variation with our employees and external stakeholders. Convinced that access to energy must be associated with the highest level of environmental and societal requirements, we place the ethical issues at the heart of our projects, both in France and internationally.
Mutation of today’s workplace with collaborative tools, Internet of Things, proliferation of the Cloud, AI, cybersecurity… The digital transition is everywhere. setec has a competitive edge: the diversity of our expertise and our highly decentralized organization generate multiple initiatives at the crossroad between digital and our technical disciplines.
Why develop internationally? First of all to find large new infrastructure projects, which become less abundant in France nowadays, with it being so well-equipped… But also for the human adventure that comes with meeting people, exchanging ideas and learning from international projects. We have the ambition to achieve projects that contribute to the well-being of the local population, while sharing our knowledge and our values with local teams. Our aim is to work internationally with a multi-local approach, i.e., by exchanging skills, ideas and know-how while having solid-rooted teams that are fully connected to the issues of their respective areas. To achieve this we will rely on an efficient and a trusting work relationship between setec teams. Local companies will work with as much autonomy as possible, with support and expertise of other companies in the Group, as required by large or challenging projects. Mutual trust is the key to our success!
Learning, acting, growing: this is the commitment made by the setec Group vis-a-vis its employees. It guides all of the actions we undertake with the HR department. Common goals and objectives: attracting new talent, participating in the development of our expertise and our skills by promoting development of our employees, in France as well as internationally. Living the setec experience is living a human experience and of course citizen above all!
Innovation is a buzzword. With the setecLabs, we wanted to understand what it meant for setec, and to find our place in a rapidly expanding ecosystem. It is a well-thought approach that has gradually built over time. The employee roadmap of setecLabs is to be the ears and eyes for the Group, to identify projects and methods that are changing the world of tomorrow, and to embed them into our professions.
