Landscape insertion

Submitted by inexia on 22 August, 2011 - 16:06

INEXIA strives to take account of the landscape to improve development projects' aesthetic and quality aspects to ensure harmonisation with the sites concerned.

Our teams are able to respond to projects' landscape integration stakes at different stages:

During upstream studies by highlighting landscape stakes,
During project studies through structure and development insertion,

During the work phase by monitoring planting work, green dependency management, etc.

The landscape studies are used to define measures to minimise impact in protected landscapes or landscapes with high heritage value, to ensure the preservation of the day to day setting for landscapes and to rehabilitate landscapes that have been damaged or "landscape black spots" by redeveloping them. This expertise relates to rail and road projects or to urban and peri-urban developments.

In addition, our discussions take account of the stakes related to biodiversity, linked with natural environments.

"The landscape developments for line structures favour their insertion into the regions they cross. These developments are successful when the landscapes that are recreated look like they've always been there." Pierre Lebrun, Landscape Centre Manager.

Ecology management

Integrating transport infrastructure projects into their environment requires acknowledgement of the conservation and protection issues relating to biodiversity and natural environments as early as possible
and throughout the projects.

Structures

The "Structures" department has 45 staff divided between Paris and Lyon. They carry out design studies and are involved in creating bridges, viaducts and all types of support structure.