On 26 and 27 June 2023, two presidential visits highlighted two of our flagship projects. In sunny Marseilles, French President Emmanuel Macron came to take the pulse of our Baumettes site and discover our Cosquer cave replica operation.
Focus on the visit to Les Baumettes:
A presidential visit in sunny Marseilles for our Les Baumettes site with the arrival of Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, Eric Dupont Moretti, Minister of Justice, and Gerald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, in the presence of Olivier Genis, Chairman of Eiffage Construction, David Barjon, CEO of the APIJ (Agence publique pour l'immobilier de la justice), Renaud Muselier, Chairman of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Council, Benoît Payan, Mayor of the City of Marseille, and the Groupe-6 architectural firm.
The project, managed by the APIJ (Agence publique pour l'immobilier de la justice), involves rebuilding 740 prison places on the historic 4.3-hectare site.
Entirely built in BIM by our teams, this new prison will include five accommodation units and a disciplinary unit, for which particular attention has been paid to summer comfort, the regrouping of administrative services, a theatre, four sports grounds and a silo car park. The layout of the buildings on the site has been designed to minimise the impact of the facility on its immediate environment.
The project is being carried out by a "design and build" consortium led by Eiffage Construction's Sud-Est teams, with the architectural firms Groupe-6, WTF/A - Architectes Associés, CS Ingénierie, Eiffage Énergie Systèmes, WSP France and Inddigo as design offices.
Focus on the visit to the cosquer cave:
Installed at the heart of the Villa Méditerranée, the replica of the Cosquer cave is the fruit of our BIM expertise at Eiffage Construction.
On this project, the use of BIM was the nerve centre of the entire operation: after collecting data on the cave from the French government, a cloud of points was digitised and used as the basis for the 3D reconstruction of the original cave, enabling the artists to paint the moulded walls and resin panels.
Thanks to this process and this faithful modelling, visitors can project themselves into these caves with their rich cave heritage, made up of prehistoric paintings and now threatened by the rising waters of the Mediterranean.
Tempted by the experience? Climb aboard an electric gondola and discover the Cosquer Méditerranée cave as if you were there. You're guaranteed to be immersed in this prehistoric heritage site!