Five challenges to approaching the future of cities and regions differently. And taking a more long-term view with their inhabitants.
Five challenges to design your building in a different way. And guaranteeing its value throughout its life cycle.
Five challenges to supporting energy suppliers. And fostering the energy transition.
Five challenges to supporting the industrial transformation.
the Industry division of SPIE Belgium, a subsidiary of SPIE, has moved into a nearly zero-energy building (NZEB) called ‘The Green’.
Published on 10 November 2020
The Tertiaire division of SPIE Industrie & Tertiaire, a French subsidiary of the SPIE group, has announced the completion of the electrical work at the head office of Crédit Agricole Toulouse 31, which has been fully renovated to meet smart building standards.
Published on 10 November 2020
As part of the extension works at Unipres’ manufacturing plant in Sunderland (United Kingdom), Unipres, a manufacturer of pressed parts for automobiles, awarded SPIE UK for the supply, installation and commissioning of additional Fire Alarm detection and graphics.
Published on 12 August 2020
SPIE is one of E.ON's most important partners in the development of our energy networks. We can only achieve the energy transition if we work closely together.
THOMAS KÖNIG
Know-how, adaptability and logistics efficiency are essential qualities for the smooth roll-out of our pan-European network of charging stations.
Marcus Groll dans le Rapport Annuel 2018 de SPIE
Ionity is a joint venture company of 4 car manufacturers, namely: BMW, Daimler, Ford and Volkswagen Group. The plan of Ionity is to build up 400 high power charging stations across Europe, in 24 countries, until 2020.
The partnership with SPIE is very important for us, because SPIE is a partner for us in many countries and SPIE is mainly doing the construction and installation work for all our high power charging stations along the motorways.
We see three main challenges for electric vehicles. The first one is the range of the cars which has to increase in the future. Second one is the charging capabilities, especially the high power charging to allow long-distance driving with electric cars. And the third one are the cost of the cars, the prices of the cars which have to decrease to make it affordable to everybody to drive an electric cars.
SPIE is a very important construction and installation partner for us which will allow us to reach our targets to build up the 400 charging stations in 2020. We work with SPIE on many sites in parallel. It is very important for us that our partners, like SPIE, are very reliable and efficient in the processes.
More than just maintaining our technical facilities, the quality of user services has become an overriding priority.
Emmanuel Deparis in the SPIE's 2018 Annual Report
SPIE steps in from the project outset to handle relations with grid operators and ensure smooth progress on project operations.
Henny Pelsers in the SPIE's 2018 Annual Report
NaGa Solar is a company that develops solar parks in several countries. We develop, construct and invest in these projects, sometimes with other investors. We have a portfolio of about 800 megawatts pick in development in several countries like UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden.
SPIE is a partner responsible for connecting the solar parks to the national grid. They arrange for all the design and the construction of these connections. They’re also, in the early stage, involved in the planning of these projects to avoid future problems and also take care of all the contacts with the grid operators in this country and in other countries.
The main challenges for us are obviously locally different per country. But here in the Netherlands, it is availability of lands and acceptance of the renewable energy projects by the communities. With regards to the relationship to SPIE, our challenge is the grid availability which becomes an issue in the Netherlands. It is very important for us, with SPIE, in the early stage, to check availability of grid and technics to manage the input of our electricity to the national grid.
The important thing is that we involve them in an early stage. The planning of all these projects have challenges during the process. Then the problem solving of these problems, that’s where we have good relationship with SPIE because they have knowledge and creativity. The European network of SPIE is for us a very important strength. We are active in the Netherlands, at airport like Schiphol 2 project. We actually have our first project in France. We invite SPIE there to work with us because it’s one point of contact. We know the company, we know the right person. For us it is a big plus to work with SPIE internationally as well.
SPIE has implemented a new industrial organisation that improves centralisation of services to Groupe PSA.
Quentin Rasse in the SPIE's 2018 Annual Report
PSA is a car manufacturer which produces four million cars every year, all around the world, with six main brands. Peugeot, Citroën and DS are all well-known but there is also Opel Vauxhall and recently Free2Move which is a brand dedicated to mobility.
We have been working with SPIE in several domains of the manufacturing process, such as body assembly, vehicle assembly systems and electrical works. To give you some recent examples, we worked with SPIE on the new Peugeot 208 in Trnava (Slovakia) and also on the new DS 3 CROSSBACK in our factory in Poissy (France). And then most recently, SPIE is going to install the electric charging points at the Opel development centre in Rüsselsheim.
So, we’ve had two new challenges recently. Firstly, there has been the integration of Opel into PSA Europe and, secondly, there is the development of all the new types of energy, such as electric and hybrid vehicles, which require a lot of modifications to all our factories and also the installation of charging points.
SPIE is a group which has lots of geographical entities active within many industrial sectors. Recently, new structures were put in place which enable the relationship with PSA to be better centralised. As for us, we have assigned a purchaser who is there to liaise more closely with SPIE. We are also carrying out feedback on all the new projects that we have led so that we can improve in the future.
