About
Sustainablity
100+ Years Experience in Construction
Sustainablity has always been core to how we build and operate
Our efforts to expand our ESG (Environmental
Social and Gouvernance) are driven by our
commitment to be a good corporate citizen , model
employer and conscientious environmental Builder
and Real Estate Developper.
ETIK BUILD is a reflection of our convictions and
vision , all our activities of Building and Real Estate
Development reflect our desire to have an impact,
to transmit and modernize a heritage and to
constantly innovate.
Our Convictions
Our convictions contribute to creating the unique vision of Sustainable Construction and Real Estate Development that is ours:
Our positioning is marked by a strong act of creating the first sustainable real estate Cluster and a direct investment platform that brings together niche strategies, for our fundors and recognized expertise in Building and Real Estate Development debt.
Each financing request is linked to a Real Estate Development project, clear and well-defined, with an introduction and a precise business plan.
Our Vision of Construction and Real Estate Development Future:
We have a unique and engaging vision of wealth. Wealth is an opportunity to build the world of tomorrow. Unlimited growth and ignorance of external factors is no longer an option.
The long term is the only horizon and privileging people is the center of our economic model, with sustainable development becoming the only standard.
First Principles Thinking
Our Approach to Sustainable Construction Technology :
First principles thinking is one of the most effective strategies you can employ for breaking down complicated problems and generating original solutions. It also might be the single best approach to learn how to think for yourself.
The first principles approach has been used by many great thinkers and inventors, but no one embodies the philosophy of first principles thinking more effectively than entrepreneur Elon Musk.
In 2002, Musk began his quest to send the first rocket to Mars—an idea that would eventually become the aerospace company SpaceX.
After visiting a number of aerospace manufacturers around the world, Musk discovered the cost of purchasing a rocket was astronomical—up to $65 million. Given the high price, he began to rethink the problem.
Physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
What is a rocket made of? Aerospace-grade aluminum alloys, plus some titanium, copper, and carbon fiber. Then Musk asked himself , what is the value of those materials on the commodity market? It turned out that the materials cost of a rocket was around 2% of the typical price.”
Instead of buying a finished rocket for tens of millions, Musk decided to create his own company, purchase the raw materials for cheap, and build the rockets himself. He created a more effective and cheaper solution and SpaceX was born.
First principles thinking is the act of reduing a process down to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there.
The Power of Thinking for Yourself
The human tendency for imitation is a common roadblock to first principles thinking. When most people envision the future, they project the current form forward rather than projecting the function forward and search for new solutions
CONCLUSION :
When using the First Principles Thinking and After Thinking for Yourself , you tackle a complicated problem and generate an original solution , you end up :
MAKING IT SIMPLER , MAKING IT BETTER , MAKING IT CHEAPER
Employees and Management
Last but not the least, we have a 100% motivated team of experienced construction workers and construction managers to answer the shortage of sustainable construction qualified workers, ETIK BUILD had no solution, but to train their own workers to the new technologies that ETIK BUILD had created .
At ETIK BUILD we value our employees, we like to say:
Our employees do not work for us But we work together
At ETIK BUILD, without noticing we invested in constant training an we have introduced from the begining a thorough consulting and partnership with our employees to implement the application of our new sustainable construction technologies with the full commitment of our employees.
The employees response was above expectations translated in a full commitment and loyalty to ETIK BUILD , due to the fact that we totally rely on our workers and do not use undertakers in our concept of efficient SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION.
In fact we discovered later on that this approach of enterprise management was already in practice in Japan and was called KAIZEN
- KAIZEN is a concept referring to business activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the workers.
- Kaizen also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain.
- Kaizen aims to eliminate waste and redundancies.
- Kaizen may also be referred to as zero investment improvement (ZII) due to its utilization of existing resources
Point kaizen is one of the most commonly implemented types of kaizen, it happens very quickly and usually without much planning. As soon as something is found broken or incorrect, quick and immediate measures are taken to correct the issues. While these measures are generally small, isolated and easy to implement, they can have a huge impact.
Cube kaizen consists in training our employees that all the points of construction are connected to each other and no point is disjointed from any other.
This awareness has spread across the entire organization of ETIK BUILD, Improvements are made up and down through the whole process of construction , or upstream or downstream, including the complete organization, suppliers and customers.
Advantages
Living together and friendliness:
A construction site can be a stressful place to be at some points, so it is important to create a permanent harmonious atmosphere.
On the ETIK BUILD Construction sites, there is a permanent friendly attitude
At ETIK BUILD we value friendliness , everyone is a respected member of the team and it is translated in simples facts that are highly appreciated by the employees:
- Daily supply of hot meals , coffee and snacks , taken together on the working site.
- Weekly barbecue organised by the workers themselves
- Small Celebrations of Birthdays, Weddings, light religious events etc..
- Any decent reason is considered to live and enjoy together
- Everyone participates from CEO to workers
Building and construction workers on the site
Group of workers sharing stories around a table for a hot meal during lunch at a construction site
