Services offered

BRGM can help you characterise the underground resources available to meet your energy requirements by assessing the geothermal energy that can be mobilised, on different scales, for sustainable exploitation.

Are you a landscape developer or a community wanting to restore your site or region? BRGM experts can estimate the level of deterioration of your ground and offer suitable solutions to regenerate the ecological services it can provide, while taking into account circular economy principles.

BRGM can assist you with the characterisation and development of innovative processes for the treatment of mining and industrial fine tailings with a view to their recovery.

Are you an infrastructure or civil engineering works manager or a transmission network operator; are you wondering about seismic risk prevention on your site or nearby in the event of an earthquake? BRGM offers you its earthquake alert transmission and personalised management service to meet your needs for the prevention, safety and continuity of activities at your facilities and structures.

BRGM is mobilising its expertise in earthquake risk prevention to ensure that infrastructures are resilient. It assists project contractors, designers and managers of infrastructures and network operators to help them anticipate risks, comply with regulatory requirements and draw up business continuity plans.

BRGM mobilises its expertise in earthquake risk prevention to help protect industrial sites and dams. It assists project contractors and operators by helping them anticipate risks, comply with regulatory requirements and draw up business continuity plans.

BRGM is able to measure the environmental impacts linked to the supply of mineral raw materials. In this respect, through a better understanding of the flow of materials along value chains, BRGM helps economic players to reduce their environmental impact.

Does your activity mean you and/or your employees come into contact with materials that may contain asbestos? Are you concerned about potential health risks for local residents due to naturally-occurring asbestos in the area? BRGM provides you with all its expertise in detecting and characterising asbestos and elongate mineral particles (EMP) that could represent a health hazard.

Are you a public authority or organisation involved in managing water resources? Would you like to know the current state of the water table levels in your region and be able to establish reliable forecasts? BRGM's MétéEAU Nappes tool enables you to consult the status of your water resources and facilities in real time and thus to put in place an effective water-resource management and protection plan.

BRGM can assist you in analysing the mineral raw material markets and the specific risks associated with your economic activities, against a backdrop of increasing pressure on resources.

Are you interested in developing the reuse of mineral waste from construction sites for your spatial planning projects, but would like to know more about the impact of such practices on groundwater? BRGM has the modelling tools required to answer such questions.

BRGM offers you its expertise in mineral resource mapping and predictive assessment. In order to target the zones where deposits of the minerals you require are likely to be found, BRGM offers its expertise in mapping and predictive assessment.