Sustainable Construction
World Green Building Council sets goal for all buildings to be ‘net zero’ by 2050
WGBC CEO Terri Wills said the organisation will go all out to make all buildings generate clean energy and produce zero net emissions.
Blog: Creating Great Living Places
In this short blog post, Pascal Eveillard, Director for Sustainable Construction at Saint-Gobain, explains why the company has reinvented its brand story and logo to state more clearly its ambition to bring wellbeing to people around the world
Saint-Gobain Goes LEED Platinum
USGBC invites you to take a look at Saint-Gobain’s sleek new $80 million LEED Platinum North American headquarters, which was designed from the ground up to center on an open architectural plan, where the 800-plus employees have a constant view of the outdoors. The new headquarters—with core, shell and lobby designed by the architectural firm Bernardon and interior by Jacobs—contains more than 40 building products from the portfolio of Saint-Gobain, the world’s largest building materials company.
Saint-Gobain’s new headquarters is a lesson in employee comfort and productivity.
"Almost every aspect of the new headquarters, situated on a gently rolling 65-acre suburban property, has been designed for sustainability and employee comfort. 17,000-sq-ft of electronically tintable SageGlass, a Saint-Gobain product, is installed on the building’s west and south sides. The product’s high-tech nature means that SageGlass can reflect three different zones of tinting within one pane of glass; this maximizes daylight and gives employees unobstructed views of the natural environment, which boosts productivity and workplace satisfaction."
British Gypsum launches revolutionary BIM Waste Estimator
British Gypsum launches revolutionary BIM Waste Estimator
Les entreprises françaises travaillent à l'après-COP21 – Énergie – Environnement-magazine.fr
A quelques jours de la signature officielle de l'Accord de Paris à New York, l'Institut Montaigne s'interrogeait sur l'après COP21 côté entreprises. Et les témoignages des dirigeants de Saint-Gobain, Solvay, …
La discrète révolution de la performance énergétique des bâtiments
"Partout dans le monde, les méthodes de construction ont engagé une mutation accélérée vers davantage d’innovation et d’efficacité, qu’il s’agisse de la conception des bâtiments, des solutions constructives mises en œuvre, ou de la distribution et de la pose des matériaux de construction. Le résultat de cette discrète révolution industrielle est que le degré de confort des bâtiments construits et rénovés augmente rapidement, dans le secteur résidentiel comme dans le secteur non résidentiel. Ce phénomène concerne à la fois les économies avancées et les économies émergentes. Il devrait contribuer de manière importante à répondre à certains grands enjeux du XXIe siècle tels que le vieillissement de la population, l’accélération de l’urbanisation dans les économies émergentes, ou le développement d’une économie plus sobre en ressources. Une des dimensions de cette révolution est l’efficacité énergétique des bâtiments. Les solutions d’isolation, en particulier, connaissent une vague d’innovation sans précédent." François Michel / Président, Ecophon (Groupe Saint-Gobain)
Do you speak Green?
For several years now, green certifications in Romanian real estate project development moved from the blurry area of "nice-to-have" to the clearer area of "must-have". This is mostly because having a green-certified building on the market makes a strong differentiator in terms of landing business. By Magda Purice
Health, wellbeing and productivity in retail: The impact of green buildings on people and profit | UK Green Building Council
This report is an output of WorldGBC’s Better Places for People campaign. It is the result of a task group process that has been led by the UK Green Building Council, drawing on leadership from member companies in the UK and on international leadership from a global retail group. The input and support of several other Green Building Councils has also been invaluable.