How the Paris BIOME Building Set New Standards with Smart Building Technology

What You’ll Learn in This Blog

• Why modern commercial buildings face rising pressure to balance comfort, sustainability, and transparency
• How Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL) reimagined the BIOME building in Paris to meet these challenges
• How GENESIS64 unifies HVAC, lighting, metering, and occupant controls under one platform
• How BIOME achieved operational results such as proactive management, reduced energy waste, and enhanced tenant experience
• How GENESIS provides a scalable foundation for intelligent, future-ready buildings

Smart Comfort Meets Sustainability: A Familiar Challenge in Modern Commercial Properties

Delivering commercial real estate today isn’t just about location and architecture—it’s about creating intelligent, efficient, and responsive spaces. Tenants now expect more than comfort and aesthetics. They want workplaces that reflect their values: connected, sustainable, and human-centric.

At the same time, building owners face growing demands to reduce energy usage, support ESG goals, and maintain operational transparency—all while navigating increasingly complex building systems. Additionally, legacy platforms often make this harder, not easier. Without a unified interface to integrate HVAC, lighting, metering, and occupant controls, even cutting-edge developments can fall short of their full potential.

Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL) faced this exact challenge during its ambitious redevelopment of the BIOME building in central Paris.

Reimagining BIOME for Smart Building Excellence

The revitalized BIOME includes a wide mix of spaces, such as premium offices, retail and dining areas, a business center, fitness facilities, and landscaped terraces and balconies on every floor.

But to meet its goals for performance and comfort—and qualify for sustainability certifications like BBCA, HQE, BREEAM, LEED, and WiredScore—SFL needed more than upgraded infrastructure. They needed a single platform to unify building operations.

To power this transformation, SFL chose GENESIS64, the intelligent building automation and digitalization software from Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions.

Why GENESIS Was the Platform of Choice

GENESIS64 stood out for its openness, flexibility, and real-time control capabilities. In a complex, mixed-use building like BIOME, the ability to integrate various subsytems—regardless of vendor or protocol—was essential. 

The platform connected core systems including:

• HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) and radiant panel infrastructure
• BACnet/IP (Building Automation and Control network over Internet Protocol) field devices
• DALI and DALI-2 (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) lighting systems
• Energy and water meters

In addition to system integration, the platform supports advanced features such as automated blind control, brightness and occupancy detection, Bluetooth-based comfort adjustments, and dynamic space management. All this functionality was accessible through a centralized, browser-based interface—giving operators the visibility and responsiveness needed to manage the building efficiently.

By consolidating these systems, GENESIS64 provided the intelligence layer that helped to bring BIOME’s sustainability and comfort vision to life.

Operational Results That Speak for Themselves

With the software in place, SFL's operations team transitioned from reactive facility management to real-time, proactive control. System performance can be monitored and fine-tuned from a single interface—improving both efficiency and occupant experience.

Operators can now:

• Monitor HVAC, lighting, and metering data in real time
• Adjust systems dynamically based on occupancy or daylight
• Streamline workflows and reduce unnecessary site visits

These improvements enable SFL to deliver a modern tenant experience while supporting the building’s long-term environmental performance goals.

A Proven Foundation for Smarter, More Connected Buildings

In many ways, BIOME is like the best compliment you can give a person—beautiful inside and out. Behind its sleek, contemporary design is a highly tuned building system engineered for comfort, performance, and sustainability.

The BIOME project demonstrates that smart building success starts with the right foundation: intelligent, integrated software built for modern demands. GENESIS64 helped SFL move from siloed systems to a connected platform that improves oversight, reduces energy waste, and delivers flexibility for future certifications and needs.

And because GENESIS supports multi-site cloud dashboards, open APIs (like REST), and protocols such as MQTT, it provides a scalable foundation for landlords and operators—whether managing a single flagship building or an international portfolio.

The GENESIS platform offers delivers scalable, intelligent control that evolves grows with your business operational needs and data maturity. More than a software solutiontool, the platform serves as the engine behind modern high-performing, future-ready buildings performance.

See Smart Building Success in Action

Want to dive deeper into the BIOME building&’s digital transformation? Read the full BIOME success story.

You can also explore other additional real-world case studies and see how other forward-thinking organizations are using GENESIS to unlock smarter, more sustainable building performance:

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Still have questions about how GENESIS can transform building performance? Explore the FAQs below for more details on the BIOME project and the platform behind it.

FAQs

Q: What made BIOME’s redevelopment unique?
A: BIOME combined premium office space, retail, dining, fitness, and terraces, all within a single mixed-use property. This required an advanced platform to unify diverse building systems while meeting stringent sustainability certifications.

Q: Why did SFL choose GENESIS64?
A: GENESIS64 offered openness, flexibility, and real-time control. Its ability to integrate HVAC, lighting, meters, blinds, and occupant controls—across multiple protocols—made it the ideal choice for such a complex property.

Q: What tangible results has BIOME achieved with GENESIS64?
A: Operators can now monitor and optimize building systems in real time, respond proactively to occupancy and daylight changes, streamline workflows, and reduce unnecessary site visits—improving both efficiency and tenant comfort.

Q: How does GENESIS support sustainability goals?
A: By integrating and optimizing energy, water, lighting, and HVAC systems, GENESIS reduces waste and ensures compliance with leading sustainability standards like BBCA, HQE, BREEAM, LEED, and WiredScore.

Q: Can GENESIS scale beyond a single building?
A: Yes. GENESIS supports cloud dashboards, open APIs (REST), and protocols like MQTT, making it suitable for both single flagship buildings and international real estate portfolios.