Skilled Mapping selected for local experimentation project in the Paris region
Skilled Mapping is joining the Quartiers Métropolitains d’Innovation adventure !
On 11 June, on the Métropole du Grand Paris stand at VivaTech, Issy-les-Moulineaux revealed the six solutions chosen for its Quartier Métropolitain d’Innovation (QMI) pilot in the future HydroSeine district, and we’re thrilled to be one of them. Over the next 18 months our team will work alongside the city to turn HydroSeine into a showcase for clean energy, sustainable mobility and smarter buildings
The QMI programme is a metropolitan test-bed run by the Métropole du Grand Paris and Paris&Co. It brings city halls, innovators and local stakeholders together to try out promising ideas on real streets before scaling them up. The aim is to accelerate the ecological and social transition while reinforcing evidence-based public policy.
Issy-les-Moulineaux’s challenge focuses on creating a hydrogen hub for the HydroSeine campus : a largely tertiary neighbourhood filled with office buildings. Hydrogen can only deliver its full climate benefit if those buildings are energy-efficient, so our winning pitch zeroed-in on that first piece of the puzzle: stop the heat leaks, then roll out the new heating technology.
Skilled Mapping will provide a high-resolution energy diagnosis of every façade, roof and technical room in the zone. By combining thermal imagery and AI, we will identify priority renovation actions, quantify potential savings and feed the data back to key decision-makers. This diagnostic layer is perfectly aligned with Issy’s ambition to strengthen its data capabilities and steer decisions with hard evidence.
We see our work as the enabler for clean hydrogen: if we can help seal building envelopes and lower demand, our QMI counterparts can step in to size electrolysers and storage correctly. Together, this will unlock a robust business case for zero-carbon heat in dense urban offices.
A few thanks before we roll up our sleeves, to Institut Paris-Region – for the groundwork territorial diagnostics that shaped the QMI challenges, Paris&Co and Métropole du Grand Paris – for orchestrating this inspiring programme and of course Commune d’Issy-les-Moulineaux for trusting us to help build France’s first urban hydrogen campus.
We’re excited to collaborate over the next 18 months and to share learnings with you. Stay tuned for field measurements, renovation success stories and, of course, the first kilowatt-hours of truly green heat flowing through HydroSeine.
