REDUCE SOIL ARTIFICIALISATION AND ACT ON THE HEAT ISLAND, WATER REGULATION, CARBON STORAGE, AIR AND THE GREEN GRID.
In short, here is the ideal AMO support to label your real estate programs
The soil is under lots of pressure: diffuse pollution, deforestation, concreteization, embrittlement by natural habitats destruction and loss of biodiversity, waterproofing, standardization, fragmentation. Soil looses in resilience and capacity to provide eco-systemic services. It is the artificialization of soils.Unique on the market, ProfilBiodiversity maps the initial ecological state of your project and at the same time identifies possible margins for progress.
Measurement and mapping :
– Infiltration – Runoff
– Soil reversibility
– Humic soils – Microbial biomass
– Erodibility
For ProfilBiodiversity, nature consists of a set of biological functionalities to be reintroduced wherever it is possible, including in highly artificialized environments:
– soils with water, air, humus,
– enriched biotopes to create fauna-flora processions,
– from plants to diversified strata to fortify the eco-system,
– Restored connectivity to allow interspecies exchanges
Measurement and mapping :
– Black grid – Zero disruption to net connectivity
– Zero depletion to net plant – Zero loss of net biotopes
– Specific habitat created – Blue grid
– Easily movable corridors
The principle of a better biological functioning benefits locally to the territories and populations, globally to the climate.
Measurement and mapping :
– Albedo
– Capture of micro-particles
– Depollution – Input Filtration
– Islands of freshness – Carbon storage
ProfilBiodiversity is a start-up born in 2011 from the double will of its founder: to allow the soil to play fully its role in the fight against climate change through the rehabilitation of its functioning and related ecosystems.
The team brings together professionals in land use planning and ecological engineering.
Frank Derrien, ecologist, landscape architect DPLG, passionate about environmental issues, land use planning and biodiversity preservation, “addicted to quantitative demonstration”.
Frank Derrien has been accredited by BIODIVERCITY since 2016 and EFFINATURE since 2018 to assist you and label your real estate programs.
“To measure is to know. If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it “
William T. Kelvin, Irish scientist (19th century)
Each year ProfilBiodiversity© is the subject of R&D work which guarantees the performance of these indicators. Its measurement of Ecological Potential in 2011 has been validated and taken over by AgroParistech.
THE OVERALL COST OF A BIODIVERCITY LABEL AND EFFINATURE CERTIFICATION
Cost of certification / labeling + Cost of AMO support by Frank Derrien, DPLG landscaper, supported by the ProfilBiodiversity tool
- Philosophy :
- Certification or Label :
- Type of referential :
- Siné qua non condition:
- Labeling / certification fees :
- Support cost AMO Frank Derrien – Landscape design included – Tree expertise included:
- Nombre d’audit :
- SDP < 2000 m2
- SDP 2 à 4000 m2
- SDP 4 à 6000 m2
- SDP 6 à 8000 m2
- SDP 8 à 10 000 m2
- SDP 10 à 14000 m2
- SDP 14 à 18000 m2
- SDP 18 à 20000 m2
- SDP 20 à 22000 m2
- SDP 22000 m2 et +
- BiodiverCIty Construction
- Biodiversity management tool in the project
- Private label controlled by an independent body
- Not all criteria are to be met. It is the total score that counts.
- Landscaper presence into the project management team is essential.
- 3.6 to 10k depending on the PDS below
- 10 to 19k according to the SDP regulation subject to each audit success
- Two audits: design and delivery
- 13,6k€
- 14,6k€
- 14,6k€
- 15,6k€
- 17,6k€
- 23k€
- 25k€
- 25k€
- 27k€
- 29k€
- Effinature Construction
- Concrete and operational technical tool
- Accredited Certification by the COFRAC according to the ISO 17065 standard
- All criteria must be met
- A 90% local plant palette or in line with climate change
- 4.9 to 17.8k according to the PDS below
- 10 to 17k according to the PDS below
- Three audits: design, production and operation
- 14,9k€
- 17,2k€
- 18,2k€
- 20,3k€
- 23,4k€
- 26,5k€
- 29,7k€
- 32,8k€
- 32,8k€
- 34,8k€
THE ACCOUNTING OF « LOCAL VEGETAL » VARIES FROM ONE FRAME OF REFERENCE TO ANOTHER.
It is a must to determine what is biodiversity or not and what are the acceptable plants in landscape projects. Here is the comparison table between BiodiverCity and Effinature.
- The “local plant” is that of one of the 11 French regions but de facto it has a low capacity of adaptation to other climate
- The “local plant” is also European, chosen carefully it has a strong adaptation capacity to other climate. Example: the hackberry tree
- The “local vegetation” unsuited to the 2050 climate is excluded. For example, the city of Rennes no longer plants beech or pedunculate oak trees
- What is the “local plant” rate to achieve?
- What is the rate calculation mode for the “local plant” to attain?
- How to consider in the calculation the “non-local vegetation” pre-existing to the project?
- BiodiverCIty Construction
- Yes
- No
- No
- 50%, 70% or 90%, a tree has as many points as a shrub or a grass
- A present species is worth one, regardless of the quantity. However, the ecologist is free to weight by the number of individuals and/or the surface occupied on the ground
- The pre-existing vegetation to the project is out of the calculation
- Effinature Construction
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- 90% for the shrub or tree stratum. 100% for the herbaceous stratum.
- The calculation is weighted by the number of individuals of each present species
- The pre-existing vegetation to the project is not calculated
WHICH TOOL TO ASSESS THE BIODIVERSITY OF REAL ESTATE ASSETS/PROJECTS?
The new reporting obligation on biodiversity risks will be integrated as of 2021, following the Energy and Climate Change Act.
The Responsible Real Estate 2020 barometer published by the OID recommends calculating the ecological potential of 100% of assets, and reaching 25% of assets with positive biodiversity.
- Ease of access :
- The tool allows comparing an existing condition and a project :
- The tool allows to make the existing condition evolve to the project state and therefore the calculations in real time:
- Who integrates the maps in the software?
- What training is required for manipulating the software?
- Type of deliverable :
- Calculation of a target species presence :
- Calculation of the intra site green screen :
- Calculation of the urban heat island :
- Calculation of carbon storage in soils :
- Cost calculation of the work of desartificialization :
- Projects maximum area :
- Scientific validation :
- Author :
- Date de creation
- COST
- Profil Biodiversité©
- Online access on profilbiodiversite.com by login/password. No software to install
- YES
- YES
- It is included in the Biodiversity Profile© service.
- Be sensitive to ecology
- Simple and attractive cartography
- YES in m2 of habitat, reproduction or feeding
- YES intra and extra site
- YES to 0.1 degree
- YES in T/ha
- YES in €
- 200 hectares
- Its measurement of the Ecological Potential in 2011 has been validated and taken up by AgroParistech. https://www.theses.fr/174576374
- Frank Derrien
- 2011
- 300€ / Project
- Biodi(V)strict®
- Requires the QGIS software installation on each computer
- YES/li>
- NO, each time you make a change you have to start the card over again
- The user has to enter the existing map and project itself
- Be an ecologist and know the QGIS software
- Mapping QGIS
- NO
- YES but intra site only
- NO ICU calculation
- NO calculation of carbon storage in soils
- NO calculation of the cost of desartificialization work
- according to the user’s courage
- AgroParistech
- 50% Vinci Construction 50% Agroparistech
- 2014
- Not marketed
WHICH PROJECT TOOL TO CREATE AND EVALUATE THE FRESHNESS ISLANDS?
The urban heat island (UHI) is directly linked to the degree of soil artificialization. Is considered as artificialized a ground whose occupation or use affects durably all or part of its functions.
- Ease of access:
- Who integrates the land use pattern into the software?
- What training is needed to handle the software?
- Type of deliverable:
- Criteria influencing the calculation:
- Principle of urban heat island calculation:
- Calculation of the impact of project choices on urban heat island reduction:
- Maximum project area:
- Author:
- Date of UHI modeling creation
- COST
- Profil Biodiversité©
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- Online access on profilbiodiversite.com by login/password. No software to install
- It is included in the Profil Biodiversité© service
- Be ecologically sensitive
- Simple and attractive mapping, criteria can be modified in real time
- Infiltration, vegetation type, biotope coefficient…
- Measures the influence of vegetation and land use on UHI
- YES to the nearest 0.1 degree
- The scale of a neighborhood
- Frank Derrien
- Since 2017
- 300€ / Project
- elioth by Egis
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- Requires QGIS software to be installed on each computer
- No information if it is the user themselves or Egis
- “ease of use so that it is accessible to various teams and external territorial actors…”
- Open source GIS mapping
- Albedo, vegetation evapotranspiration, solar radiation…
- Accurate assessment of urban heat island (UHI) before and after project
- No information on degree of accuracy
- The scale of a neighborhood
- elioth, a collective of engineers, designers, inventors, associated with Egis Villes Routes et Mobilités
- 2021
- Forecast end of summer 2021
The Surface Biotope Coefficient is gradually imposing itself on cities and developers. Rightly so, it is an excellent indicator of mastery of soil artificulation and of densification of the ecological network.
– [ ] But the calculation method assigning a value between zero and 1 to each eco-developable area is far from being standardized. Here is my comparison between 4 different CBS: that of the community of commune of @ Est-Ensemble, of @ADEME, of the city of Lempdes and of the agglomeration of @Nantes:
- Surface typology
- Semi-open surface: Covering permeable to air and water, with vegetation – ex. : pavers with grass joints, evergreen,
- thickness of topsoil of at least 10 cm , planting on a thickness of topsoil of at least 10 cm
- Classic roofing: Infiltration of rainwater to enrich the water table, infiltration into planted surfaces
- Semi-permeable surfaces: Coating permeable for air and water, without vegetation (clinker, mosaic paving, paving with a layer of gravel / sand).
- Water recovery: Surface of roofs subject to water collection (not applicable in case of green roof)
- Impermeable surfaces covered with mainly mineral substrate with an average thickness of 15 cm
- Vertical vegetated surfaces: Edges made of earth or devices ensuring the growth of plants along a vertical surface from the ground or device installed on the wall
- Partially permeable surfaces with a runoff coefficient less than or equal to 50%
- Topsoil thickness of at least 30 cm Planting with grasses and perennials
- Semi-open surfaces: Coating permeable for air and water, rainwater infiltration, with vegetation
- Permeable surfaces with a runoff coefficient less than or equal to 20%
- Impermeable surfaces covered with mainly mineral substrate with an average thickness of <15 cm with extensive vegetation
- Semi-open surfaces: Coating permeable for air and water, or semi-vegetalis
- Green spaces on slab: Terrace or roof planted with a topsoil thickness less than 30cm
- Green spaces on slab I: Green spaces on ground floor slabs and garages, underground with a topsoil thickness less than 80 cm.
- Green wall: Greening of blinded walls up to 10 m
- Impermeable surfaces covered with topsoil with an average thickness of 40 cm
- Green spaces on slab: Terrace or roof planted with a topsoil thickness of at least 30cm (eg: green terrace roof, green slab above a parking, vegetation above ground-bin-pot, …)
- Green spaces on slab II: Green spaces without correlation in full ground with a topsoil thickness greater than 80 cm .
- Green roof: Extensive or intensive green roofs
- Topsoil thickness of at least 70 cm : Planting with grasses and perennials, even shrubs
- Impermeable surfaces covered with topsoil with a thickness greater than or equal to 80 cm
- Space in the ground: Full vegetated and planted soil
- Green spaces in the ground: topsoil in direct relation to the strata of the natural soil, available for the development of flora and fauna.
- Space in the ground for water management: Vegetated space arranged to allow the retention and infiltration of rainwater. Eg valley, rain garden.
- Full earth with valleys on natural soil
- Full ground with existing and preserved trees (crown surface)
- Full earth with surfaces classified in EBC or EPP
- CC IS TOGETHER
- 0,2
- 0,2
- 0,5
- 0,8
- 1
- 1,2
- ADEME
- 0,2
- 0,3
- 0,5
- 0,5
- 0,5
- 0,7
- 0,7
- 1
- LEMPDES
- 0,3
- 0,3
- 0,5
- 0,5
- 0,7
- 1
- NANTES
- 0,3
- 0,3
- 0,5
- 0,5
- 0,6
- 0,8
- 1
- 1,2
- 1,2
- 1,2
The Surface Biotope Coefficient is gradually imposing itself on cities and developers. Rightly so, it is an excellent indicator of mastery of soil artificulation and of densification of the ecological network.
– [ ] But the calculation method assigning a value between zero and 1 to each eco-developable area is far from being standardized. Here is my comparison between 4 different CBS: that of the community of commune of @ Est-Ensemble, of @ADEME, of the city of Lempdes and of the agglomeration of @Nantes:
- Surface typology
- Authors
- Impervious artificial areas: Artificial surfaces Impermeable coating for air and water, without vegetation, (eg concrete, bitumen, pavers/slabs with cemented joints).
- (Semi-)permeable areas: Pavings/Slabs with open joints/Gravels. Surface coating provided with ridges or spacers allowing, once laid, to create wider joints that can be filled with gravel or substrate and possibly vegetated. Ex: natural stone pebbles, crushed quarry…
- Water areas: Mineralized body of water Body of water without vegetation and without substrate (conventional swimming pools do not fall into this category and are to be considered as artificial surfaces).
- Grassed alveolar systems. Perforated slabs in plastic or concrete and vegetated. Alveolar systems, if they are filled with gravel, are to be considered as gravel.
- Vegetable constructions – Vegetation on slab (substrate thickness 5 – 10 cm) – Vegetation unrelated to the ground but comprising a substrate thickness of less than 10cm. This can be, for example, green roofs or greening on parking slabs.
- Vegetation on slab (substrate thickness 10 – 20 cm) – Vegetation unrelated to the ground but with a substrate thickness of 10 to 20cm. This can be, for example, green roofs or greening on parking slabs.
- Vegetation on slab (substrate thickness > 20 cm) Vegetation unrelated to the ground but comprising a substrate thickness of more than 20cm. This may be, for example, green roofs or vegetation on parking slabs.
- Green spaces in the ground Lawn. Surface resulting from the sowing of grass giving a green carpet, homogeneous, little or not flowered.
- Water areas: Natural body of water Any body of water (pond, pond, etc.) that has enough substrate to ensure the development of vegetation.
- Flower bed / Flower meadow / Open-ground vegetable garden Semi-natural surface, sown or planted with a wide variety of flowers or species intended for food crops.
- Shrub and tree area/Hedge – Area planted with species of shrubs and/or trees. Hedges of shrubs or trees are also included in this category.
- CBS+
- 0
- 0,1
- 0,2
- 0,2
- 0.3
- 0.4
- 0,5
- 0,6
- 0,8
- 0,8
- 0.9
- CBS LABEL RE2020
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- expected end of 2022
- CBS BIG
- NC
- NC
- NC
- NC
- NC
- NC
- NC
- NC
- NC
- NC
- NC
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