Efficient data collaboration for 58 entities: the Sweep solution for Ateliers De France

Background

The Ateliers De France group of companies spans 58 entities across 15 countries, mastering 55 specialty crafts in multiple domains. It was assembled with the sole purpose of producing the highest quality construction and finishes either for contemporary projects, or for the preservation and restoration of architectural heritage.

The combined history and proficiencies of the group can be seen in countless public and private buildings, historic monuments, iconic hotels, as well as exceptional private residences.

The Group has worked on projects as diverse as the Château de Versailles, the Oval Office of the US White House, Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, the French Presidential residence -the Elysée Palace, Paris’ Opéra Garnier, the Matarazzo building in São Paolo, London’s Hôtel Péninsula and Paris’ Hôtel de Crillon.

Ateliers De France’s craftsmen are the heirs of traditions of workmanship dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries. The company also sees itself as having a duty to preserve and pass on these traditions for future generations.

As ESG Projects Officer Violette Courtois says: “Committing to sustainability initiatives is a way of ensuring that we can continue to pass on these “savoir-faire” practical skills, and assure that they are carried on into the future”.

Challenge

Ateliers De France has set SBTi-certified greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, and needs to prepare for CSRD compliance.
By 2033, the company aims to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 54.6%, and Scope 3 emissions by 32.5%.

Staff initially used questionnaires to gather data, but these proved too broad to achieve the required level of detail.
The data was then collated in spreadsheets, which teams found increasingly cumbersome and time-consuming.

What’s more, the 58 entities which combine to make up Ateliers De France, are increasingly required to provide detailed evidence of their ESG credentials when replying to tenders. The representatives of each of the 58 entities needed to request the data from the Ateliers De France head office each time, adding to workloads and prolonging timescales.

Solution

Flexibility of data management

Needing a high degree of personalization, adaptability and data visualization, Ateliers De France turned to Sweep. 

ESG Projects Officer Violette Courtois tells us: “Our data management was very dispersed around our various entities. Now that we are using Sweep, we have reliable data, which our shareholders can easily access.”

Since implementing the Sweep platform, Ateliers De France’s ESG team has been able to send bespoke questionnaires to each of its 58 entities, with personalized data collection in line with the various ways of working at each. 

Violette describes how this has transformed internal collaboration:
“It brings real efficiency, and a feeling for each of the entities that their work is being seen.”

Dashboards and personalisation

Violette underlines one of Sweep’s biggest selling points for the ESG team at Ateliers De France: the platform’s dashboards, via which users can create at-a-glance views of their sustainability data based on Sweep’s single source of truth, and personalise these in line with their specific needs.

This particularly comes into its own when Ateliers De France is responding to an RFP:
“Each entity had to request the data via head office, and wait for us to send it to them. This took up a lot of time, when in fact each entity could have been in charge of their own data.”

“One of the biggest plus points of Sweep is the dashboard visualisations, with personalisable options.”
“Now, it’s very convenient for our companies to log in to Sweep, type in the data that they want, download it and then send it for the call for tender. It’s a big win.”