Date of signature : 08/07/2026
- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Large company
Trade, commerce, distribution
7000 contributors
Saint Alban, France
chloe.bourda@chausson.fr
Presentation
Chausson Matériaux est une entreprise familiale et indépendante, spécialisée dans la distribution de matériaux de construction. Fondée par Albert Chausson, elle est aujourd'hui dirigée par Pierre-Georges et Philippe Chausson, et compte près de 100 ans d'histoire.
L'entreprise s'appuie sur un réseau de 800 agences réparties sur l'ensemble du territoire français, animé par 6 800 collaborateurs, pour un chiffre d'affaires d'environ 1,09 milliard d'euros. Le siège social est situé à Saint-Alban, en Occitanie.
Chausson Matériaux propose une offre généraliste couvrant l'ensemble des besoins des professionnels du bâtiment : plâtrerie et plafond, isolation, gros œuvre, charpente et couverture, bois et menuiserie, carrelage et parquet, outillage professionnel, ainsi que la chimie du bâtiment.
Engagée dans la modernisation de ses services, Chausson Matériaux propose à ses clients professionnels plusieurs outils numériques : une plateforme de commande en ligne (chausson.fr) et un service de retrait en agence sous une heure (Drive 1h).
L'entreprise revendique trois valeurs fondatrices : l'engagement auprès de ses clients professionnels, le respect de ses collaborateurs et de ses partenaires, et la confiance qui découle de son indépendance familiale.
Planned commitments and actions
- Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Implementing data governance of your organisation and GDPR compliance or by following the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules locally applicable data protection rules for other countries
- Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
- Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- Engage with actors in the reuse sector and/or the social and solidarity economy in the management of the end-of-life of my equipment
- Ensuring that its suppliers and service providers comply with their GDPR requirements or follow the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules for other countries, environmental, social and diversity
- Encourage diversity among my service providers, particularly in relation to disability issues
- Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
- Favouring low-impact energy sources
- Measure the impact of its digital services (e.g. frequency of use or energy consumption) using a multi-criteria and global approach to the entire service (equipment, servers, networks, etc.)
- Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
- Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
- Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
- Ensure diversity in the recruitment of IS teams (initial and continuing training, diversity of training, origins, disability status)
- Making anonymised data available to enable the development of innovative services that can benefit users and citizens
- Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services
Actions started
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Implementing data governance of your organisation and GDPR compliance or by following the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules locally applicable data protection rules for other countries
- Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
- Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- Engage with actors in the reuse sector and/or the social and solidarity economy in the management of the end-of-life of my equipment
- Ensuring that its suppliers and service providers comply with their GDPR requirements or follow the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules for other countries, environmental, social and diversity
- Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
- Favouring low-impact energy sources
- Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
- Measure the impact of its digital services (e.g. frequency of use or energy consumption) using a multi-criteria and global approach to the entire service (equipment, servers, networks, etc.)
- Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
- Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
- Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
- Encourage gender diversity in the digital field at all levels
- Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures
- Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data
- Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services