Technocentre Renault

Inaugurated in 1998, the Technocentre Renault is the center where the future cars from Renault are designed. The site is with Guyancourt in the Yvelines to approximately 30 km in the west of Paris and employs nearly 12.000 people - including the people receiving benefits, subcontractors and subsidiary of Renault. The employees of the Renault company working in Technocentre exert exclusively trades of the Automobile, while very many activities of the center are sub-contracted with external people receiving benefits, in particular the restoration, cleaning, maintenance, the reception, safety, the management of the vehicle fleet, data-processing and electronic engineering, etc

The site was conceived to gather all the actors of the design of a new car model. Renault thus avoids an investment of 200.000 euros due to displacements. The time-saver for the originators is appreciable: it is enough for them to take a corridor to meet their colleagues working on another body of the vehicle, where before it was necessary to take the car or even the train.

Technocentre is equipped not only with 8 restaurants intended for the use of the employees of the center and with its visitors, but still with conference rooms, a bank, a mutual insurance company, a hairdressing salon, a shop selling the derivative products of the Renault mark, of a school of formation to the trades of engineering conveys, etc

The atmosphere of the places is often compared by the visitors with that of a vast shopping mall. The architects of the center optimized the luminosity and the functionality of the buildings. Large green alleys connect the various blocks, of picture windows open on outside. The interior architecture of Technocentre is evolutionary: the offices are open ( open space ) and can be reconfigured according to the organization of the teams.

Buildings of Technocentre

the Projection , northern side, which gathers all the activities of Avant-projet: development and research, Design…
the Hive in the center of the complex, where all the vehicles projects are carried out.
Proto , prototype center of manufacture of S.
the Laboratory , where one applies to the study of the Matériau X and the chemical processes.
the Tuning fork , for all that relates to the quality of the products.
the Gradient , which gathers the other activities of Technocentre.

Architects of the project

The Technocentre Renault was carried out by several French great architects:

Denis Valode and Jean Pistre built, in 1996, " Ruche" who is the heart of the Technocentre Renault,
Philippe Chaix and Jean-Paul Morel constructed two buildings: botany and the northern projection side, which gathers all the activities of preliminary draft: development and research, design…
Jacques Ferrier carried out the tuning fork for all that relates to the quality of the products,
J. Brownish and E. Salt maker carried out the laboratories, where one applies to the study of materials and the chemical processes.
H. Fricourt carried out the autoservice,
J. - P. Hamonic, the work's council,
J. - F. Schmit, the logistic unit,
J. - B. Lacoudre carried out the transfer and the power station.

Some figures

1 billion euros of investment
700 meeting rooms
12.000 employees
100.000 Arbre S were planted to replace those which had been cut down during construction
150 hectares of ground
410.000 m ² of floor space
11.000 Ordinateur S
170 waiters
1.750 stations of CAD
2 walls of virtual images on the scale 1:1
1,5 kilometer of footbridges and shady walks.
8 restaurants

Cars designed in Technocentre

The first conveys entirely conceived in Technocentre is the Laguna II (2001), followed Espace IV, Vel Satis, Mégane II, Scénic II, Modus, Renault Clio III, Laguna III…

Let us note well that in Technocentre, only the private cars are conceived. The commercial vehicles are designed with Villiers-Saint-Frederic.

Other research centres in the world

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