Sustainability at Axians

Sustainable solutions accelerating the environmental transition

Dive into our Sustainable ICT series
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Towards a greener future

As the ICT brand of VINCI Energies, Axians is committed to sustainability through focused actions. We drive environmental transformation by acting for the climate, optimizing resources through the circular economy and preserving natural environments. From sustainable internal practices to offers, we are dedicated to reducing environmental footprints—yours and ours alike.

Smart irrigation saves 30% of water consumption

Working with Axians Italy, the City of Florence is saving 30% of water consumption thanks to the smart irrigation project, part of the Horizon European initiative.

This project is particularly important because it shows how technological innovation linked to the maintenance of green areas can achieve important objectives such as environmental sustainability.

Del Re Cecilia

Councilor for Innovation, Municipality of Florence

Sustainable ICT series

  • IKVS – Connecting Municipal Finances with SDG Goals

    Axians Germany is helping the city of Detmold align its financial systems with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) using Axians IKVS solution. With the SDG Compass, reporting is simpler, more transparent, and can be tailored without programming, making sustainability easier to track and act upon.

  • Intelligent Water Management

    In Montbéliard, France, Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération teamed up with Axians France to launch a project in intelligent water management. By combining IoT sensors, fiber optics and AI, this initiative helps detect leaks in real time, strengthen network resilience and optimize water use, turning innovation into sustainability.

  • E-Invoicing

    Axians Croatia has developed a fully digital e-invoicing solution using UBL 2.1 that integrates seamlessly with SAP ERP. This automation solution allows invoices to be sent directly from SAP systems (S4HANA, SAP ECC) in XML format, rather than the old-fashioned way using paper.

  • Circular IT

    At Axians Sweden, our teams show how thinking circular in IT can reduce costs and climate footprint while creating new opportunities. From reconditioning laptops to ensuring secure data wiping, circular IT means looking at the entire life cycle of hardware and unlocking value even after its first use.

  • ESG Planning Process

    Axians Netherlands turn sustainability goals into real impact with ESG Hub: a platform that makes ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) reporting simple, structured, and ready for the future. By combining sustainability expertise with digital know-how, the ESG planning process helps companies comply with frameworks like CSRD  and VSME while accelerating their sustainability ambitions.

  • Decommissioning a datacenter sustainably

    Axians UK partnered with N2S, reverse logistics specialist focused on circular economy, to consolidate their data center services, reducing operations from two locations down to one. Together, they mindfully mapped all equipment, audited what could be recycled, transported it securely, and ensured it was processed according to high recycling standards.

  • IT Networks Transformation for Justice Entities

    Sustainability and technology can go hand in hand. Axians Spain demonstrated this when working with the Generalitat Valenciana, to refresh and incorporate new IT networks across three major judicial centers of Valencia, Elche and Castellón. Our teams designed communication networks capable of connecting seamlessly and integrated StackPower and Cisco’s SD Access, facilitating automation, operation and maintenance.

  • vPack for Sustainable IT Infrastructure

    Axians Austria provides Sustainable IT Infrastructure through its dedicated focus on resource-efficient solutions: vPack reduces power consumption by up to 70% thanks to modern hardware and VMware vSAN. The solution is provided either on-site or hosted in our data center, which runs on 100% renewable energy; vPack green is designed for temporary use cases such as migrations, disaster recovery tests, or data center outages – based entirely on tested, reused hardware.

  • NaaS, FinOps & partnership with NGO – SOS Mata Atlântica

    At Axians Brazil, our teams are showing how technology can drive positive change. With solutions like Network as a Service (NaaS), advanced FinOps practices, and a partnership with Brazil’s leading environmental NGO: SOS Mata Atlântica, Axians is helping businesses reduce waste, cut energy use, and support biodiversity.

  • E-Mobility Charging Infrastructure Services for Compleo

    Axians Germany supports Compleo, pioneers of EV charging technology in Europe, with comprehensive services for e-mobility charging stations. With proactive maintenance and real-time monitoring, our teams ensure dependable performance, minimize downtime, and help build a truly sustainable transportation ecosystem.

  • Workloads migration to Public Cloud

    Axians Italy migrated workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the Azure public cloud. This resulted in a significant reduction in energy consumption for power and cooling, while benefiting from a datacenter that is between 72% and 98% more carbon efficient than traditional enterprise ones, and fully powered by renewable energy. The result? Lower operating costs, optimized management, and a lighter environmental footprint.

  • Advanced Analytics for Wildfires Risk Prevention

    Using high impedance fault detection systems based on advanced analytics, utilities can prevent fire risks resulting from contact between trees and medium voltage powerlines, protecting network assets, environment and communities.

  • Precision Farming in Action

    The Axians Harvest Coordination App and GrainCam Mobile are reshaping the harvest process with real-time insights and AI-powered optimization. Farmers gain instant feedback, reduce grain loss, and cut CO₂ emissions, boosting both productivity and sustainability.

  • Next-Generation Intelligent Wi-Fi Solutions for Universities

    Axians’ sustainable next generation Wi-Fi solutions not only enhance campus life, but also contribute to environmental and social responsibility by maximizing the use of existing equipment and recycling when necessary, with proceeds from material recovery donated to charity to enhance universities’ social responsibilities.

  • GreenEdge optimizes energy management

    GreenEdge, developed by Axians Sweden, is an innovative solution designed to help companies reduce their CO2 emissions and optimize their energy management.

  • Xsona and the Air Quality project for the city of Palermo

    Xsona, the IoT platform developed by Axians Italy’s Software Factory generates sustainable impact through the seven verticals of solutions offered: Air Quality, Energy Monitoring, People Counting, Smart Lighting, Water Metering, Smart Agriculture, Smart Parking.

  • eNature environmental platform

    eNATURE, developed by Axians Germany is an environmental platform that helps companies achieve their  sustainability goals by bringing transparency to their environmental metrics. Companies can digitize their waste streams, record and evaluate CO2 emissions in line with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and systematically plan and manage audits.

  • Multicast ABR Technology

    Multicast ABR technology, by Axians Spain, is revolutionizing live streaming and broadcasts, reducing their impact on the environment.Thanks to its implementation, our client has been able to reduce and optimize infrastructure, save on energy and resource consumption and reduce CO2 emissions.

  • Utelogy Supervision Tool at The Archipel – VINCI HQ

    Watch this video to discover how the Audiovisual team of Axians France made it possible for The Archipel – the VINCI headquarters – to achieve 50% energy savings, eliminating 450 pieces of control equipment and increasing equipment lifetime by 2.5 years through the deployment of the Utelogy supervision tool.

  • Axians Portugal Dataspheres

    Axians, in Portugal, was the technological partner chosen for the development of a digital platform capable of optimizing the management of Portugal’s Biosphere Reserves (Reservas da Biosfera Portuguesas). Watch this video to understand how technology is making a positive environmental impact.

  • AddHelix for smarter logistics management

    AddHelix, by Axians Austria, is a cloud-based web services platform which specializes in the optimization of logistics. AddHelix helps to optimize routes, make full use of capacities, and avoid unnecessary empty kilometers. The result: Saving several hundred kilometers a day and thus a considerable amount of CO₂ through automated scheduling and flexible route planning.

  • Axians Smart Energy Management System

    The Axians Smart Energy Management System, by Axians Netherlands, offers a data-driven approach to energy-usage measurement in real-time, which helps reduce waste and cuts down CO2 emissions.

Customer stories

Axians sustainable solutions help you meet and exceed the growing demands for ecology in corporate responsibility, attractiveness, and regulatory compliance.

  • Smart Building
  • AIO Tower

Committed to the environment

To address the climate emergency, VINCI has made the environment a strategic priority.  The commitment is to decrease our greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2018 to 2030 through clearly defined targets and ongoing measurement. Embracing our decentralized model, each business unit has developed its own CO2 reduction strategy, tailored to their regional and operational specifics.

3 levers of action

Axians, the ICT brand of VINCI Energies, is fully aligned with the Group’s environmental ambition across three main areas.

  • Act for Climate

    We help to reduce our customers’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by helping them transform the way they build, operate, and manufacture. We achieve this by taking action within our business and throughout the entire value chain.

  • Optimize resources thanks to a circular economy

    Given the growing scarcity of natural resources, we are rethinking how we consume, produce, and manage both our resources and waste.

  • Preserve natural environments

    We are implementing solutions that address environmental challenges in water management and ecological restoration and transparency, which we will further expand as we continue to innovate.

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