To cope with a sharp increase in its population and to allow a better organisation of technical services, the municipality of L’Isle-d’Abeau has chosen to build a new technical center on the outskirts of the city. This building is intended to be exemplary on the energy issue, it provides for a bioclimatic design, a passive level insulation, very good equipment and photovoltaic electricity production to achieve a positive energy building level (reaching level E4C1 and BEPOS Effinergie label). This territorial approach is labelled TEPOS/TEPCV.