NGE (New Generations of Entrepreneurs), one of France’s largest and most innovative construction groups, has expanded its use of ALICE Technologies’ construction schedule optimization platform across multiple capital projects. By transitioning to ALICE Core upon its launch, NGE is transforming the way it plans and delivers projects.
With operations spanning 17 countries and a focus on innovation, NGE has consistently sought innovative tools to improve project delivery. The team initially turned to ALICE Technologies with a clear objective: to gain a competitive edge through advanced AI tools that streamline workflows. NGE wanted to test new strategies and make their tendering and scheduling processes more cost-effective across their projects.
NGE has now implemented ALICE Core across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure, rail, and tunnelling projects to optimize its planning, bidding, scheduling and construction processes.
Agathe Destang, Chief Digital Officer at NGE explained: “Following a successful testing phase, we are excited to implement ALICE over extended periods to fully realize and validate the substantial optimization benefits it offers.”
NGE’s adoption of ALICE Core marks a turning point in the construction industry, where innovation and adaptability are becoming essential. This partnership represents a shift towards redefining construction planning and scheduling by integrating AI-enabled optimization technology into workflows to address a critical unmet need in the industry today. The result is substantially improved project outcomes.
René Morkos, Ph.D., founder and CEO of ALICE added: “AI is transforming how capital projects are planned and delivered, and it will adapt careers to make them more efficient, without making them redundant. What sets NGE apart is its mindset—a vision to incorporate change and use generative scheduling and optimization as a tool to make its teams more powerful.
“The company is not just enhancing its capabilities but also setting an example for the broader industry about what success with AI can look like.”
About NGE
NGE (Nouvelles Générations d’Entrepreneurs), the fourth-largest French construction group, builds large-scale infrastructure and urban or local projects. With expertise in financing, design, construction, and maintenance, the Group is a key player in creating works that meet the economic and ecological challenges of various regions. Its entrepreneurial dynamism is supported by robust employee ownership (72% of the Group's capital held by founders, management, and employees), strengthened by the French investment fund Montefiore (28% of the capital). Generating €4 billion in revenue, NGE operates in 17 countries, assisting private and public clients in financing, designing, and delivering transition projects in water, mobility, urban renewal, energy, and telecommunications. NGE’s 23,000 employees take pride in building projects that shape the world.
Learn more about NGE at www.nge.fr
About ALICE Technologies
ALICE Technologies is the creator of the world’s first construction schedule optimization platform built to optimize, de-risk, and recover capital projects with AI. Founded in 2015 and spun out of research from Stanford University, ALICE enables large contractors and owners to discover the most efficient path for their projects with reduced risk. The company works with large customers worldwide in the infrastructure, industrial, and commercial construction segments, such as Andrade Gutierrez, SCS JV, and Implenia. Headquartered in the U.S., ALICE also has significant operations in the Czech Republic, the U.K., and India.
Learn more about ALICE at www.alicetechnologies.com.