Aubière, France
City population: 280036
Duration: unknown – 2000
Implementation status: Completed
Scale: Sub-microscale: Street scale (including buildings)
Project area: unknown
Type of area: Unknown
Last updated: October 2021

Trees and a park have been created and designed for the double building project called CEMAGREF/ENGREF in Clermont-Ferrand which was planned in 1994 (Ref. 2 and 4). CEMAGREF (Center for the Study of Agricultural Mechanization of Agricultural Engineering of Water and Forests) and ENGREF (National School of Agricultural Engineering of Water and Forests) are located within the IRSTEA (National Science and Technology Research Institute for Environment and Agriculture) (Ref. 3).

Overview

Nature-based solution

  • Nature on buildings (external)
  • Green walls or facades
  • Grey infrastructure featuring greens
  • Alley or street trees and other street vegetation
  • Institutional green space

Key challenges

  • Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
  • Green space creation and/or management
  • Regeneration, land-use and urban development
  • Regulation of built environment
  • Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development
  • Sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12)
  • Sustainable consumption

Focus

Creation of new green areas

Project objectives

-The project was set up "To use the climactic action of the photosynthesis mechanism to treat the south façade of a building." (Ref. 1) -To integrate the landscape into the architectural structure -Sustainable landscape within scientific research and actions (Ref. 1) -Simplified management without chemical treatment, (Ref. 1) -Bioclimatic, landscape integration (Ref. 1)

Implementation activities

-"Landscape integration and simplified management without chemical treatment, sustainability of the structure." -"Plantations of trees and hedges" -"To use the climactic action of the photosynthesis mechanism to treat the south façade of a building" (Ref. 1)

Climate-focused activities

Climate change adaptation:

  • Increase or improve urban vegetation cover to help reduce outdoor temperature

Main beneficiaries

  • Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)
  • Researchers/University

Governance

Management set-up

  • Led by non-government actors

Type of initiating organisation

  • Public sector institution
  • Researchers/university

Participatory approaches/ community involvement

  • Unknown

Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project

The main client (initiator) are ENGREF and CEMAGREF (educational institutions) (Ref. 1) Architect agencies are: Atelier 4 and David Besson-Girard (Ref. 1 and 4) Those educational institutions are part of the ISTREA building (National Science and Technology Research Institute for the environment and agriculture) which is itself a stakeholder within the French Ministry of Research. (Ref. 3)

Project implemented in response to ...

... an EU policy or strategy? Unknown
... a national policy or strategy? Unknown
... a local policy or strategy? Unknown

Financing

Total cost

€100,000 - €500,000

Source(s) of funding

  • Unknown

Type of funding

  • Unknown

Non-financial contribution

Unknown

Impacts and Monitoring

Environmental impacts

  • Climate change
  • Lowered local temperature
  • Strengthened capacity to address climate hazards/natural disasters
  • Environmental quality
  • Improved waste management
  • Water management and blue areas
  • Increased protection against flooding
  • Green space and habitat
  • Increased green space area
  • Other

Economic impacts

  • Increase of green jobs (e.g. paid employment positions)
  • Reduce financial cost for urban management

Socio-cultural impacts

  • Social justice and cohesion
  • Improved liveability
  • Education
  • Increased support for education and scientific research

Type of reported impacts

Achieved impacts

Presence of formal monitoring system

Unknown

Presence of indicators used in reporting

No evidence in public records

Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports

No evidence in public records

Availability of a web-based monitoring tool

No evidence in public records

References

1. David Besson Girard Paysagiste (n.d). "PARC DU CEMAGREF ET ENGREF". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 16, 2020).
2. CCD Architecture (n.d). "ECOLE NATIONALE DU GENIE RURALE DES EAUX ET FORETS (ENGREF) CENTRE D'ETUDE DU MACHINISME AGRICOLE ( CEMAGREF )- CLERMONT FERRAND". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 16, 2020).
3. IRSTEA (n.d). "Centre de Clermont-Ferrand". Website not available in 2020.
4. Atelier 4 (n.d). "CEMAGREF ENGREF". Website not available in 2020.
5. AgroParisTech (n.d.) "Clermont-Ferrand Center". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 16, 2020).