Resallience’s story
Many stories of successful companies start in a garage.
In Resallience’s case, it all started in the field.
Resallience: from an idea to its realization
To tell this story, we have to start with its founder’s: Karim Selouane.
Soon after graduating from ENS-Mines ParisTech, Karim decides to join a research program in the Sahara for 4 years. The barren shore areas and arid territories confront him quickly to the impacts of climate change.
Since then, he intends to create synergies between his field research (areas strongly affected by climate change) and the operational demands. Resallience’s work is built up on Karim’s work to develop strategic and technical solutions for land use planning and preservation of the territory for many private, public, and industrial actors around the globe.
Karim’s mission seeks to improve the resilience of our cities, territories, and infrastructures.
In 2015, he joins the VINCI Group, specifically VINCI Construction /Sixense. He becomes project leader for “Environment and Innovation” and assists VINCI Group entities and contracting authorities with issues of resilience and adaptation to climate change.
His experience, coupled with his innovative spirit allow him to comprehend the environment as a means of leveraging technical and business innovations. He promotes resilience engineering as key to climate change adaptation.
Meanwhile, VINCI launches the Leonard prospective program to promote innovation and the entrepreneur spirit within the group.
In 2017, Karim submits his project “Resilience as a business”.
For 2 years, he demonstrates why climate resilience is not only a crucial issue, but a business opportunity for the Vinci group as well as for potential business partners.
However, to meet such a challenge, he needs a team and resources.
In September 2018, his project becomes a Business Unit of Sixense. From then on, the project expands rapidly.
The entrepreneur selects a team to help him in his approach of climate resilience. Engineers, academics, PhDs, researchers, who are all experts in their field.
The strength of this company lays in its technical, cultural, and scientific multidisciplinarity. Thanks to its team, the young start-up conceives efficient technical and systemic solutions.
Resallience’s adventure officially starts in 2019.
Its ambition? Meeting the major challenge that is the adaptation to climate change for cities, territories, infrastructures, and projects.
Resallience and climate change
From 2019 on, projects come flying in from internal markets of the Vinci ecosystem as from French and international bodies.
Faced with the impacts of climate change, the stakeholders are worried.
First observation: it is a fact that adapting to climate change is costly, but not as much as inaction.
Second observation: it is necessary to assess the exposure level of the built environment that is facing present and future risks due to climate change and to provide efficient solutions.
This is where Resallience comes in.
Thanks to its position within VINCI/Sixense ecosystem, Resallience benefits from all the know-how and the expertise of the group. This deep knowledge of the engineering, civil engineering and urban planning industries allows for a better understanding of the challenges, along with a better conception of the solutions and actions necessary to cope with climate change.
At the same time, Resallience integrates different networks of international partners. This synergy allows the start-up to access climate models and accurate meteorological data, as well as satellite images.
These data are then compiled and used by the experts in charge.
This approach makes it possible for Resallience to:
- Simulate the impacts of climate change
- Foresee its consequences on the different infrastructures of an area
- Assess the different resulting domino effects
- Conduct vulnerability assessments for the built environment
Thanks to its expertise, Resallience supports its clients during the conception, construction, and operation of their projects. All stakeholders from diverse sectors, and national, European, and international institutions acknowledge its know-how.
Today, Resallience is a positive impact utility company assisting its clients on adaptation to climate change of territories, cities, infrastructures, and their uses.
By focusing entirely on resilience, Resallience became one of the world leaders in the field of climate change adaptation.
The origins of the name resallience
Resallience combines three words:
- Resilience
- All
- Alliance
Resilience – refers to the ability to adapt quickly to transitions, to assimilate risks and uncertainties of the future.
All and alliance symbolize the strength of our network, sharing of know-hows, and the synergy within our team, partners, and stakeholders of the carried-out projects.
Resallience carries all the values dear to us in one single word.
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