THE PICHET GROUP AND EDF: PARTNERS FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING

Jean-Pierre Benque, Deputy Managing Director for Commerce at EDF and Patrice Pichet, Chief Executive Officer of the Pichet Group.

Key informations :

GROUPE PICHET
20-24 avenue de Canteranne

33 608 PESSAC

- 19 estate agencies

- Almost 1,000 employees in France

- 3,000 sales forecast for 2008

EDF – Direction Commerciale Particuliers et Professionnels Sud-Ouest
109 avenue de Lespinet
31432 TOULOUSE

- 13 outlets in the Aquitaine region

- 58 service points in post office premises or city halls (Aquitaine et Midi-Pyrénées)

- 900 employees working for customers in the Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrénées regions

An initial partnership between the Patrice Pichet Group and EDF has already resulted in the design of a range of passive houses (SOLEA models) that consume four times less energy and emit four times less greenhouse gases than a traditional house.

These models have been marketed since April 2008. In order to consolidate this partnership, initial testing is underway for implementing photovoltaic solutions on residential buildings.

Signing this co-operation agreement will systematise the use of environmentally friendly construction techniques, increase the synergy of research and development efforts and strengthen communication operations with the general public and institutions to help build a sustainable future.

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integrated property developer, The Pichet Group has now expanded its expertise to include all the activities of the property sector: designing property developments and residences,, constructing buildings and houses, commercialising land plots (apartments, houses, land plots, commercial premises, etc) and managing property (management agency, management). To achieve this, the group now comprises more than 20 subsidiaries : South-west property development – Property investment – Becoming an owner of an old property – Building your own home – Renting an apartment or house - Management, joint owner management agency – Student residence at Bordeaux – Hotel at Le Teich (bassin d’Arcachon) – lSeasonal rentals in the Bassin d’Arcachon region – Tourism and business hotel residences – Top-end properties