SIXENSE ENGINEERING

Their core work

SIXENSE ENGINEERING is a French engineering company that brings technical expertise to the built environment and infrastructure resilience domains. In H2020 research, they have contributed to two distinct but complementary challenges: how society perceives and manages risk from natural and man-made disasters (CORE), and how digital tools like Building Information Modeling can drive energy efficiency in connected urban buildings (PROBONO). Their work sits at the intersection of physical infrastructure, digital engineering methods, and human factors — making them relevant to both risk management consultancies and the construction technology sector. As a private company, they bring an applied, implementation-oriented perspective to predominantly research-driven consortia.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

SIXENSE ENGINEERING entered H2020 with a focus on societal resilience — disaster risk, cascade hazard events, and human behaviour under threat — through the CORE project starting in 2021. Their second project, PROBONO (2022), marks a clear shift toward the digital transformation of the construction sector, with BIM, green building standards, and building-integrated renewables taking centre stage. In just two projects, the trajectory moves from risk and resilience consulting toward smart, sustainable building engineering — both domains rooted in the physical built environment but with quite different toolsets and client communities.

SIXENSE ENGINEERING appears to be moving toward digital construction and sustainable building performance, making them a potential partner for any consortium targeting the energy renovation of buildings, smart neighbourhoods, or AEC digitalisation.

How they like to work

SIXENSE ENGINEERING has participated exclusively as a consortium partner — never as coordinator — across both H2020 projects. Despite this, they operate within exceptionally large consortia: 78 unique partners across 21 countries from just two projects, averaging roughly 39 partners per project. This points to a preference for, or comfort with, large pan-European collaborative structures where they play a defined specialist role rather than driving the overall agenda.

SIXENSE ENGINEERING has built a network of 78 unique consortium partners spanning 21 countries through only 2 projects, indicating participation in very large, geographically diverse European consortia. No clear geographic concentration is apparent from the data — their reach is genuinely pan-European.

What sets them apart

SIXENSE ENGINEERING occupies an unusual dual position: linking disaster resilience and infrastructure risk management on one side with BIM-driven sustainable construction on the other. For consortium builders, this means they can bridge safety engineering and digital building design — a combination rare in a single private-sector partner. As a French private company (not a university or research institute), they bring industry applicability and deployment experience to predominantly academic consortia.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PROBONO
  The most forward-looking of their two projects, combining BIM, building-integrated photovoltaics, and neighbourhood-scale energy performance in a 2022–2026 Innovation Action — directly aligned with EU Green Deal construction priorities.
• CORE
  Addresses an underserved intersection of engineering and social science — how communities perceive and respond to complex, cascading disaster risks — with a focus on youth and social media misinformation that is unusual for an engineering firm.