Reconciling business performance with social and environmental responsibility for a sustainable future

As an international services group with 200,000 employees across 80 countries, Bouygues is aware of the impact of its activities and strives to wholeheartedly address the challenges currently faced by the environment, the energy sector and society.

We believe it is crucial that, whilst striving for excellent business performance, we must also respect the environment and society to work towards a sustainable future.

The Bouygues group’s CSR strategy is based on the following three priorities:

• Respect for people: Since its creation, the Bouygues group has provided its people with an inclusive and respectful working environment. To this day it continues to push forward with efforts to bolster its Health & Safety policy. We believe diversity can inspire us all, help us tap into new creativity and affords us a strategic advantage. It is about offering equal opportunities for all, boosting performance, and quite simply is a more logical approach to business. Gender balance is a cause about which we feel particularly passionate. Giving women the chance to reach positions of higher responsibility in management is a must.
• Protecting the environment: We strive to look after our climate and fight climate change at every level of the value chain. We work to preserve our planet’s natural resources and biodiversity. Across our Group, subsidiaries and operations, we coordinate our work together in order to positively contribute to the environmental and energy transitions, taking into account both the Earth’s finite resources and our clients’ demands, and making sure that our operations remain profitable. Our scope for progress here is based primarily on the development of our portfolio of commercial solutions and our production methods, but also on the progress made by our suppliers and sub-contractors.
• Social responsibility: We aspire to be a trusted partner for our stakeholders by placing a strong emphasis on human rights and complying with the highest standards of business conduct. Bouygues pursues a responsible purchasing strategy and contributes to the development of the communities and regions where we operate, demonstrating our conscientious approach. In this respect, our Code of Ethics is a strong asset as it steers our conduct every day.

A practical, collaborative and grassroots approach based on quantifiable targets: the credibility of the Climate strategy of all six Bouygues business segments now boasts independent certification following SBTi’s endorsement of Equans’ decarbonisation targets at the end of 2024. Far from being managed exclusively by the parent company, the subsidiaries are left to take their own CSR decisions at grassroots level, in keeping with our decentralised organisational structure. The Climate strategy is applied across the entire value chain and involves all of Bouygues’ stakeholders, whether employees, sub-contractors and suppliers, customers and partners.

We must constantly innovate if we are to adhere to such a strategy, as innovation is to prove critical if we are to move towards decarbonisation and boost low-carbon solutions and biodiversity for our customers.

Bouygues deems CSR both a responsibility that we hold and an opportunity to seize.

We still have some way to go, but momentum is building, and all our people are working diligently on solutions that will allow the Bouygues group to honour its commitments. It is our firmly held belief that meeting day-to-day needs with an ethical and responsible attitude helps make life better for society as a whole.

PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

In Hidden Valley, Alaska, Colas (via its subsidiary Colaska) has led a project to rehabilitate a salmon spawning ground in a bid to restore a habitat that is an essential reproduction site for wild salmon - itself a critical species within the local ecosystem and economy. This work contributes to the group’s civil engineering efforts aimed at preserving biodiversity through the regeneration of native species and creation of sustainable environments.

The Saint-Denis Aquatics centre built by Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France boasts concave structural timber framework made with 90 curved catenary beams, each 55-cm thick and spanning 90 metres, thus establishing a record for timber construction. Through its timber construction solution, “WeWood”, Bouygues Construction is aiming to have 30% of its projects within France built using wood by 2030.

Bouygues Immobilier’s signature garden concept is an innovative move that strives to reintroduce nature into the urban environment by incorporating biodiversity into urban property development projects. An environmental assessment is carried out prior to work commencing so that the right species are introduced, resources are handled sustainably (rainwater, water-saving measures) and sites are responsibly looked after. Information panels are set up to raise environmental awareness and thereby improve residents’ well-being and turn each space into a lively and educational ecosystem.

RESPECT FOR PEOPLE

The Bouygues group’s Human rights policy was published at the beginning of 2025 with the aim of protecting the rights of its employees and all those working for or with the Group. It formalises a common core of twelve human rights commitments shared by all the Group’s subsidiaries.

Since 2021, high-potential female employees of the Bouygues group have been following the Trajectoire programme to power their careers forward. The programme comprises a range of seminars, co-development workshops and one-to-one coaching, with the aim of giving women the chance to access managerial positions.

Equans is committed to protecting and ensuring the health and safety of all its employees and sub-contractors. In this vein, in 2023 it set up the Equans Safety Board, a management body which meets three times a year to monitor the progress made in regard to health and safety and offer potential improvements to all country-based health and safety directors.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

The Donate A Gigabyte campaign is launched every year by Bouygues Telecom to help fight against digital exclusion in France. Customers can donate the unused data from their mobile plans. This data is then converted into mobile plans and smartphones, which are shared out to those living in data poverty. 

The TF1 group’s advertising sales unit TF1 Pub is supporting the charity sector by giving away advertising slots to help them gain visibility and donations. Each week, special slots are distributed to select charities whose work aligns with TF1’s CSR policy. Handicap International France, Fondation pour le Logement des Défavorisés and Ruban Rose are among those regularly given this opportunity.