The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 37 A SUSTAINABLE AND ACCESSIBLE CITY A UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE Solideo wanted to adopt an Environmental Excellence ATHLETES’ VILLAGE AND MEDIA strategy with great ambitions. It applies to the projects CLUSTER it carries out directly as well as those it supervises. All accommodation at the Athletes’ The key focuses of the Solideo Environmental Excellence Village will be fully accessible from strategy are: the legacy phase, which means 1. ensuring carbon neutrality by 2050 specific requirements for living across the entire life cycle of buildings in the spaces (bathrooms, lifts, sufficient neighbourhood by using bio sourced and low-carbon space in communal areas, etc.) and materials, reusing and recycling waste on construction high architectural standards must sites, and consuming renewable energy; be adhered to so that these 2. guaranteeing urban comfort in the climate requirements are perfectly of 2050, accounting for climate pressure and the integrated into the design. increase in extreme weather events by taking The Media Cluster will also be measures to mitigate urban heat islands, developing highly comfortable for users, both resilient and reversible structures, and carefully within the built environment and monitoring indoor air quality; public spaces. The accommodation 3. making a positive contribution to urban built will be an opportunity to biodiversity by creating an ecosystem with new review the quality of life of habitats and plants suited to the climate expected everyone, particularly older in 2050, boosting green infrastructure and accounting people. for issues relating to the water cycle. SOLIDEO TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION Solideo also coordinates a large network of stakeholders Solideo aims to centre innovation in its operations involved in innovation including and construction and redevelopment projects. It has also operators, promoters, very mobilised companies and the innovation ecosystem small, small and medium-sized to make sure the Games demonstrate the values of the Paris businesses, start-ups and other Agreement on climate change. It therefore plans to set up innovators. experiments and demonstrators for small scale innovative For example, it established: solutions alongside its construction and redevelopment projects. Solideo is also interested in more mature ideas 1. An innovation committee; that may be long term innovations and solutions that may 2. An innovation fund; lead to new experimental uses. 3. Communication with companies that may produce To facilitate this new dialogue between the city and its innovative solutions users, Solideo aims to establish a connected environment for contracting parties. that will enable people to express their needs, and the city and innovative companies to respond to them.