repli immeuble

09:24 Apr 3, 2020 

Don't be too brash with "there is nothing to suppose".
London is not awash with empty offices awaiting to be fallen back on in the event of a disaster and nor are smaller cities.
Governments don't even have a stock of emergency masks so don't tell me that all serious companies have an emergency building stock.
The situation in reality is probably much more fine cut than you describe where emergency facilities do exist.

09:05 Apr 3, 2020 

businesses who are serious about staying alive and kicking in spite of any potential disaster have "alternate locations" at the ready at all time.

This a contract between a service provider and their client. Evacuation procedures (from the primary location) in case of emergency are not the client's problem (that's internal to the service provider). What does concern the client is that in case of emergency there would be no interruption as the the whole operation will be moved to a "alternate site".

11:14 Apr 1, 2020 

For parsing purpose I think the understanding needs to be "plans de continuité d’activité & repli immeubles" = "plan de continuité d’activité et plan de repli immeubles"

01:51 Apr 1, 2020 

I agree with PH-b's definitions of the word 'repli' in French.

00:19 Apr 1, 2020 

Interesting. I took it as falling back onto a defensive strategy for their own existing building but I suppose it could be another 'alternative' building.
Indeed, it could be both like falling back to one particular building which is already there and theirs.
That would make sense too as it must be very hard to fall back onto an empty 'alternative' building and then achieve business continuity.

21:29 Mar 31, 2020 

Here's my understanding if this is IT:
plan de continuité d'activité = Business Continuity Plan
plan de secours informatique = IT Fallback Plan
You would expect the other one "plan de repli utilisateurs" (user backup plan) instead of "plan de repli immeubles" (building backup plan?)

16:58 Mar 31, 2020 

In this source, referring to building sites, "repliement" is defined as "closing down": https://books.google.fr/books?id=SgYqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA75&lpg=PA...

Transposing this to your context, it seems to me that the basic idea is indeed vacating the building since it is being taken out of service (temporarily closed down).

14:30 Mar 31, 2020 

can mean "organised withdrawal": Retrait volontaire d'une troupe, d'un corps d'armée sur des positions moins avancées et préalablement définies. (CNRTL) In the same context of emergencies, French firemen talk of itinéraires de repli: https://infopompiers.com/incendie-prevoir-repli/, not to mention the current health crisis, during which établissements/sites de repli play their part: https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/organisation_offre...

13:39 Mar 31, 2020 

Hello
To answer your question, yes, I think this is possibly meant. These are business continuation plans and if they meant to abandon the buildings, I think they would more likely speak of "télétravail" or similar