JCDecaux initiates the roll-out of next-generation public toilet facilities for the City of Paris

JCDecaux initiates the roll-out of next-generation public toilet facilities for the City of Paris

Paris, 15 May 2024 – JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces the roll-out of the next-generation public toilet for the City of Paris, enhancing the service it provides to citizens as well as the millions of tourists at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In 2022, JCDecaux – a global-leading player, the inventor of the self-cleaning public toilet and the current operator of 435 facilities – was commissioned by the City of Paris to replace and modernise its facilities, following a competitive tender process that began in August 2020. The roll-out began after a 2-year manufacturing process.

More hygienic, more eco-friendly and with a higher capacity, these new facilities will gradually replace the current models to promote universal access to hygiene services in the public realm.

The toilets will be installed by early July 2024 on all the Olympic Games sites. Installation of the remaining models will take place from September 2024 to May 2025.

JCDecaux and its partners Enedis and Eau de Paris (Paris Water) will replace around 10 toilets a week, located throughout the districts of Paris, to ensure consistently high service quality in each of the city’s districts. Facilities will be removed and installed at night, to avoid disturbing traffic and pedestrian flows. The new installation will perfectly fit the current footprint.

Combining technology and manufacturing performance to serve Paris, Parisians and its visitors
Thanks to its 40 years of industry experience, JCDecaux harnessed the expertise of its fully-integrated teams in R&D, engineering, ergonomics, design and operations to jointly develop a facility that caters to every need of the City of Paris. The all-new model will operate faster, with hands-free interfaces and equipped with a second urinal cabin. JCDecaux was supported by an industrial value chain across France, mainly comprising SMEs, to manufacture facility parts assembled at its manufacturing centre in Les Yvelines.

The completion of these new self-cleaning public toilets represents an achievement, both from a technological and manufacturing standpoint. The Group overcame numerous challenges, whether technical, ecological or societal, to deliver an even higher quality service for Parisians and visitors alike.

With functionality as a top priority, JCDecaux’s teams designed a toilet facility with a spacious main cabin that enables universal access and a second urinal cabin, respecting the same footprint as the current facility. The waiting time between each visit to the main cabin is now reduced by a third, with the time between a customer leaving the toilet and it being available for the next customer reduced to just 30 seconds. During this time, the toilet cabin is cleaned and disinfected for the comfort of the next user. The urinal cabin is disinfected immediately after each user visit and available immediately with no waiting time. As a result, the capacity of the automatic public toilets in the capital will be doubled to accommodate 870 users simultaneously, while the availability of the service will be multiplied by four, making it the largest network of public toilets in any city worldwide.