A sample of our research topics

Since its beginnings in its core businesses of water supply and sanitation, Safege has broadened its focus to include river hydraulics and the protection of coastal waters, as well as sectors peripheral to water, like urban development (roads, structures, power and gas) and transport systems.

An innovative tool to measure a community's ecological footprint

Local authorities and policy makers currently lack tools that allow them to conceptualize their overall ecological footprint (except for GHG emissions) and identify ways to reduce it. Which is why SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT has enlisted Safege's services to develop an educational tool that provides a graphical representation of the ecological footprint of a given community.   Aims : To help communities reduce their ecological footprint To allow SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT businesses to measure their contribution to reducing the company's footprint

Methodology :

• Construction of an evaluation matrix incorporating the different, scientifically-recognised methods known to the Group and aspects that have been left out until now, like biodiversity,

• Graphical representation of the footprint, integrating parameters like climate warming, biodiversity, health & safety and noise.

• Rapid assessment of the community's ecological footprint, in a visual form,

• Simulation of the impact of different practices and technologies on the footprint.

Real-time sewer system control

Safege has developed a method to improve the management of wet-weather sewer flows by allowing, for example, a CSO gate to be activated automatically when a given level of turbidity has been reached.

Underground assets

In an area where the financial impacts for local authorities are significant, Safege has developed methods and tools to assess the condition of underground assets and to optimise asset renewal programmes.

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