Perspectives

If we want to imagine what the next generation factory will look like in ten years, we can check out what is happening at the Airbus factory in Toulouse. Plane assembly in 2025 will take place in a high-tech factory with cutting-edge technologies currently in development or already being used: laser-targeting with RFID* for adjusting parts, cobot (collaborative robot) and augmented reality for operators, liquid electronic circuits integrated in the fuselage, crab robots for riveting, circular gantries for automated painting, tablets for guiding the assembly stages. Production costs and production time could be reduced by half! The cleaning, or rather extreme-cleaning, of such a factory must be of the same calibre! *An RFID chip (Radio Frequency Identification) is a computer chip connected to an antenna for remote activation by a reader and communication with said reader.

Will the city of the future be predominantly green? It’s highly likely. Many buildings now include green spaces and gardens. Health challenges with poor air quality in living and working spaces and the presence, for example, of planted walls to purify air. Patios with trees and shrubs to meet environmental challenges. People are also starting to discuss the creation of new towns designed as ecological towns, environmentally friendly, optimising and protecting resources which prioritise significant areas for gardens and green spaces.

In Chicago, kitchen gardens are planted on the rooftops. There are over 200, representing around 23 hectares of agriculture in the city centre! The future will also include vertical farms. Rather than horizontal agriculture, the concept is more one of vertical expansion by refusing the use of destructive chemicals in soils, an element specific to traditional agriculture, and replace it with above-ground farming. Buildings have not finished evolving and we must anticipate and adapt.

GSF follows developments in workspaces very closely. These innovations herald new approaches to hygiene and cleanliness, in terms of methods or services to provide. Today these changes essentially concern GAFA-type companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon), start-ups and co-working spaces. An example with this co-working space-nursery!

A need for better air quality, a desire to be surrounded by plants and live in greater harmony with nature... The future’s planted towers are involving more and more greenery. This is how Italian architect Stéfano Boeri is designing his new projects. Notably a building in Lausanne which is 117 metres high and includes a hundred-odd trees, 6,000 shrubs and 18,000 plants. One could believe that this approach will be echoed in office developments. A great opportunity for GSF, already tending the gardens of many customers! http://positivr.fr/stefano-boeri-tour-vegetale-lausanne/?mc_cid=7f2f48f2df&mc_eid=29b31329a3