Operating in 23 countries across five continents, SOCOTEC experts deliver inclusive, customised responses to our clients' challenges in a wide-range of sectors. From one-time engagements to long-term management lasting decades, SOCOTEC offers hundreds of tailored services to assist all stakeholders in ensuring the safety, performance and sustainability of their assets.
Supporting every step of the project life cycle
Renewable Energies
INDUSTRY
INFRASTRUCTURE
NUCLEAR
REAL ESTATE
Renewable Energies
Conception
- Study and resolve the environmental challenges of the project
- Analyse the feasibility and the technical, financial, security, safety, environmental and reputational risks
- Confirm the results of the technical studies, the feasibility and the project quality
- Compile regulatory files
- Choose partners for the design and realisation
- Correctly scale the installation to optimise performance
- Anticipate risks to surrounding buildings
- Ensure quality
Construction
- Control costs and deadlines
- Ensure safety on the construction site and its surroundings
- Ensure the solidity, safety, quality and durability of the installations
- Avoid technical risks
- Meet regulatory obligations
Reception
- Deliver work that conforms to specifications with proper ENR certificates
- Meet regulatory obligations
- Achieve technical and environmental performance
- Ensure the productivity and energy efficiency of machinery, installations and equipment
Utilisation
- Optimise and improve the energy productivity and performance of machinery and equipment
- Know the state of the park and carry out necessary works
- Control the operating process quality
- Measure different types of pollution: atmospheric, acoustic, etc.
- Respect environmental constraints
- Implement a BIM strategy
- Enhance the park
- Meet regulatory obligations
- Identify and anticipate risks, protect employees and the surrounding community
Deconstruction
- Analyse the initial state of the site before beginning work or demolition.
INDUSTRY
Conception
- Anticipate environmental challenges by undertaking the necessary studies
- Analyse the feasibility and the technical, financial, security, safety, environmental and reputational risks
- Confirm the results of the technical studies, the feasibility and the project quality
- Compile regulatory files
- Choose partners for the design and realisation
- Anticipate risks to surrounding buildings
- Implement a BIM strategy
Construction
- Control costs and deadlines
- Ensure safety on the construction site and its surroundings
- Control environmental risks
- Ensure the solidity, safety, quality and durability of the installations
- Avoid technical risks
- Meet regulatory obligations
- Implement a BIM strategy
Utilisation / Maintenance
- Acceptance of work, contradictory testing, initial verification
- Meet regulatory obligations
- Achieve technical and environmental performance
Utilisation
- Protect employees
- Optimise productivity and energy performance
- Respect environmental constraints
- Optimise costs: management, operations, maintenance
- Control quality of operating processes
- Preserve the condition of the property
- Enhance the value of real estate assets
- Meet regulatory obligations
- Manage administrative and technical aspects
- Implement a “BIM Exploitation” strategy
- Dismantle or transfer the production facility
- Identify and anticipate risks, protect employees and the surrounding community
- Measure environmental performance
Deconstruction
- Analyse the initial state of the site before beginning work or demolition
- Prevent impacts on neighbouring structures
- Implementation of an environmental procedure for demolitions
- AMO demolition (ACA demolition)
INFRASTRUCTURE
Pre-project
- Analyse feasibility and the technical, financial and reputational risks
- Choose partners for the design and realisation
- Take out structural damage insurance
- Anticipate risks to surrounding buildings
Design - Construction
- Control costs and deadlines
- Ensure safety on the construction site
- Avoid technical risks
- Meet regulatory obligations
Delivery
- Acceptance of work
- Meet regulatory obligations
Exploitation
- Ensure the safety of users and nearby residents
- Preserve the property’s condition
- Meet regulatory obligations
Deconstruction
NUCLEAR
Conception - Engineering
- Technical assistance and AMO
- Hazard studies and risk analyses
- Digital simulations, metrics
- Technical inspections
- QA/QC inspection, expediting
- Assistance with CE certification
Training
- Safety training to intervene in nuclear plants
- Dedicated training for nuclear safety and radiation protection staff
- Human performance tools training
- Equipment and Facility maintenance jobs trainings
- Assistance for Owners, consultancy, audit
- Radiation exposure management
Construction - Renovation
- Technical inspections
- AMO and construction monitoring
- Works inspection
- QA/QC inspection, expediting
- Remote site or temporary construction site facilities
Production - Maintenance
- Notices about regulatory matters
- Regulatory inspections & non-destructive testing
- Technical assistance
- Equipment inspection and evaluation
- Dedicated training for nuclear safety and radiation protection staff
- Measurements and analyses of radioactive substances
- Measurement of occupational exposure limits
- Corrosion studies
Waste management
- Technical inspections
- Calculations, testing, modelling and simulations
- Waste and zoning studies
Decommissioning
- Assistance with planning process and specifications
- Coordination with the structural planner
- Special deconstruction training
- Structural inspection
REAL ESTATE
Conception
- Anticipate environmental challenges by undertaking the necessary studies
- Analyse the feasibility and the technical, financial, security, safety, environmental and reputational risks
- Confirm the results of the technical studies, the feasibility and the project quality
- Compile regulatory files
- Choose partners for the design and realisation
- Implement a BIM strategy
Realisation
- Control costs and deadlines
- Carry out pre-work diagnostics
- Ensure safety on the construction site and its surroundings
- Avoid technical risks
- Meet regulatory obligations
- Implement a BIM strategy
Reception
- Deliver work that conforms to specifications
- Meet regulatory obligations
- Achieve technical and environmental performance
Exploitation
- Ensure and anticipate the safety of occupants and neighbours
- Measure and optimise energy, environmental, health and quality of life performance of the property
- Optimise management, operations and maintenance costs by prioritising investments
- Know the state of the real estate portfolio and carry out necessary work
- Enhance the value of the real estate assets
- Meet regulatory obligations and comply with environmental constraints
- Control operating process quality
- Manage administrative and technical aspects
- Implement a “BIM Exploitation” strategy
Deconstruction
- Analyse the initial state of the site before beginning work or demolition
- Prevent impacts on neighbouring structures