Sidney Hue, an entrepreneur in the construction sector in Paris, says he is ready to “demotorize” his activity. “Our utilities? It would be difficult, if not impossible, to do without it.

And it is, for the moment, financially and technically very complicated to replace them,” he says. Hue, the boss of Eugène et Gustave, a small plumbing, heating and air conditioning company located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, is one of these artisans.