To meet the growing demands of the ecological transition, the real estate sector must change its approach. Sustainable performance cannot be decreed; it must be built. It requires a coherent network of stakeholders, reliable tools, and the ability to reconcile environmental ambitions with technical, financial, and regulatory realities. It is in this spirit that the ARKORIS group combines the expertise of ARKEMEP, ARKENOR, and IRICE, providing project owners, developers, and investors with a structured, operational, and independent framework.
A new standard for the ecological transition of the real estate sector
Faced with accelerating environmental, social, and regulatory requirements, the real estate sector can no longer rely on fragmented initiatives. Sustainable project performance cannot be achieved without an integrated approach, grounded in real-world conditions, driven by reliable indicators, and supported by independent expertise. This is the ambition pursued by the ARKORIS Group, by leveraging the combined skills of its three entities: ARKEMEP, ARKENOR, and IRICE.
Applied environmental engineering: ARKEMEP at the service of real performance
ARKEMEP supports projects from their technical design stage, integrating thermal, acoustic, and fluid considerations to ensure quality of use, energy efficiency, and occupant health. This applied engineering approach provides an operational lever for controlling environmental impacts and guaranteeing expected results.
🌿 In concrete terms: dynamic thermal simulations, custom sizing, consumption modeling, acoustic strategy adapted to uses, etc.
Ecological expertise, compliance and project management support: ARKENOR's key role
ARKENOR acts as a cross-functional partner throughout all phases of the project, ensuring compliance with environmental standards, integrating biodiversity requirements, conducting regulatory assessments, and implementing ZAN or E+C- strategies. It also supports project developers in managing certifications such as HQE, BREEAM, or BBCA.
🧭 ARKENOR enables project owners to structure their approaches, to make arbitrations more reliable, and to articulate regulatory requirements, territorial expectations and low carbon trajectories.
IRICE: measuring, certifying, structuring environmental value
IRICE complements this approach as an accredited certification body. Independent and impartial, it notably issues the Effinature certification, which has become a benchmark for assessing biodiversity in real estate. By being recognized by local authorities and investors, IRICE enables projects to demonstrate their environmental credibility, going beyond mere declarations.
📊 Certification, traceability, readability: IRICE brings to projects an objective commitment value, compatible with the ESG requirements of financial and institutional players.
A unified approach, serving projects and territories
The combined expertise of ARKEMEP, ARKENOR, and IRICE enables the structuring of a coherent value chain, from design to operation, without conflicts of interest or dilution of responsibility. This methodical integration guarantees continuity of commitments, transparency of technical choices, and the ability to deliver on environmental promises over the long term.
🤝 It is this approach which today allows several territories (such as Toulouse Métropole, Grand Paris Sud or Est Ensemble) to prescribe indicators from the Effinature certification, and allows project owners such as CDC Habitat, Poste Immo or Kaufman & Broad to structure their biodiversity strategy around robust tools.
Conclusion: building sustainably is no longer about aiming for conformity, it's about organizing transformation
At ARKORIS, we firmly believe that sustainability cannot be left to intuition or rhetoric. It must be based on evidence, embodied by expertise, driven by synergies, and rooted in the realities of local communities. This is the essence of our integrated approach, dedicated to real estate that demonstrates its commitments.