The AFTRP has been carrying out pilot environmental performance planning projects for local authorities
for a number of years. Projects cover such areas as energy consumption, alternative water management, environmentally friendly site development and redevelopment of industrial and urban wasteland.
In line with the Grenelle forum on the environment, the AFTRP has embarked on a strategic process that encourages involvement, aimed at systematically incorporating sustainable development in all its activities, and it has drawn up a specific action plan for 2009-2010.
The resulting development strategies have formed the content of a “Grenelle” amendment to the contract of agreed objectives linking the Government and the AFTRP, signed on 22 June 2009, based on three objectives:
- To integrate sustainable development criteria in the organization and management of the Agency’s projects
- To advance and develop the AFTRP’s expertise in sustainable development
- To ensure exemplary operation of the Agency
Download the contract of agreed objectives (in french)
Within this framework the AFTRP, which is not subject to the obligations imposed on companies that are quoted on the stock market, has undertaken to produce a sustainable development report each year, the first copy of which covers 2008.
Download the 2008 Sustainable Development report (in french)
undertakings to respond to the challenges of sustainable urban development
For projects assigned to the AFTRP, it undertakes to :
Incorporate the natural and landscape characteristics of sites in projects
Take the social and cultural memory of places into account
Conserve property, natural and energy resources
Place water management at the centre of planning programs
Favour the use of public transport and alternative, less polluting transportation
Create high quality public spaces that encourage social interaction
Ensure high architectural and environmental quality of buildings
Limit the impacts of worksites on the environment
Favour the functional, social and generational diversity of neighbourhoods
Support local government at all stages of consultations
In its work methods, the AFTRP undertakes to :
Systematically examine its operations with regard to the principles of sustainable development
Offer its customers services that incorporate the quality requirements of sustainable development (property expertise, planning expertise, public building expertise)
Adopt the principles of social and environmental responsibility for its own operation
Encourage its suppliers and partners to improve their environmental and social performance
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