Societal commitments and partnerships

Our main commitments

• Strengthening local ties and promoting social inclusion

  Icade Promotion has taken a number of steps to promote access to inclusive and affordable housing. These include a land leases that promote affordable home ownership (bail réel solidaire, BRS) which aims to facilitate access to home ownership for low-income households and a new inclusive housing solution by investing in Domani, a pioneer in shared housing for people with disabilities and seniors . In 2023, Icade Promotion launched its second BRS operation in Cognin (73) and aims to sell 10% of its new housing developments under a land lease that promotes affordable home ownership by 2026.

• Improving the well-being, health and safety of occupants

  Changes in habits and lifestyles have permanently transformed the real estate market. This is evidenced by the continued rise in shared housing and housing that can be easily adapted, digitalisation, the increasing focus on wellness, the growing use of hybrid spaces and mobile working. To face these challenges, Icade constantly expands its range of solutions.

  The Commercial Property Investment Division has developed a new generation of workspaces, focused on openness to territories, conducive to meeting and sharing, which stimulate innovation by including new urban and digital solutions.

  “Imagin'Office“ offers coworking space solutions adapted to freelancers, startups and compagnies of any size thanks to modular and customizable workspaces. 

  “At Home Naturally” solution was designed by Icade Promotion in partnership with architect Nicolas Laisné and is based on two main pillars. The first, “Building with Nature in Mind”, aims to make nature more central to housing design, both to enhance occupants’ wellbeing and help Icade meet its environmental commitments. The second, “Building Homes for Every Need”, embodies the commitments Icade made to provide housing solutions that suit its customers and find new ways to promote home ownership.

• Supporting the CSR efforts of customers

  More than 50% of the environmental impact of a new office building is directly linked to its use. 

  In 2022, Icade created a new contract to coordinate its efforts in the fight against climate change with those of its tenants : the Lease with Climate Criteria. This partnership include climate objectives in line with the Paris Agreement and rely on the monitoring of an index that assesses both overall environmental performance and the measures implemented.

• Reinforcing our responsible procurement policy and supplier relationships

  With an annual amount of nearly 1 billion euros of purchases, made from a network of about 10,000 suppliers and partners, Icade is one of the major contractors active in France. In order to make its values and requirements known to them, Icade has implemented a responsible procurement charter for its two business divisions. Icade sought to introduce more stringent requirements and has included CSR criteria in the requests for quotation and evaluations issued by the Procurement Department specific to each supplier category.

• Ensuring business ethics

  Compliance with the rules of good conduct in terms of business ethics and transparency with our partners are fundamental to Icade.

  The Compliance Department works every day to counter the risk of corruption, money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It also ensures the protection of personal data. To accomplish this, robust measures have been put in place. These measures include a Code of Ethics, an anonymous whistleblower system and targeted training.