"It is a veritable plague," said Didier Philippe, director of the land and environment division of the government's public works agency.
The spinoff of most of the environment division is expected to be completed by the end of the year, one person said, with the merger probably to take place in spring 2008, after shareholders' meetings at both companies.
Mr Sarkozy wants Suez to shed its environment division to bring the two firms to an equal size, thus preserving the size of the state's stake in the merged business.
Dr Nick Baker, head of the energy and environment division of the Martin Centre for Architectural Urban Studies in Cambridge, says: "You will find by changing your boiler and box of electrics that control it that you may achieve more than going through the heart-rending thing of insulating the wall cavities".
Mr. Gunster, 43, works in Duxbury as a senior research scientist for the energy, transportation and environment division of Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Columbus, Ohio, with research laboratories for new technologies and products; he evaluates cleanup needs for contaminated aquatic waste sites.
The environment division contains the configuration section and the input-output section.
Parc Cwm long cairn is maintained by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment division.
A COBOL program is split into four divisions: the identification division, the environment division, the data division and the procedure division.
The environment division specifies any program features that depend on the system running it, such as files and character sets.
"The amount of food wasted and lost around the world is staggering," said Dr. Tim Fox, who heads up the energy and environment division at the engineers' group.
