After 3 years of research, Arcora presents Héméra*, a silent, compact, and autonomous system, developed with researchers from the Navier laboratory at École des Ponts ParisTech with the support of the Ingérop group as part of its active innovation and R&D initiative, and Wicona France, the project’s industrial partner. It is the first solar...
Reusing thin stone from urban façades means combining heritage with environmental performance. Thanks to its durability and low carbon footprint, stone becomes a powerful lever for the circular economy. But be warned: the location of the machining process is decisive. Stone reused nearby can be 6 times less polluting than stone reused 1,500 km...
La conception conjointe de l’enveloppe et de sa structure fonde le projet architectural par la définition de la forme, de la transmission des efforts, l’expression d’une matérialité et la maîtrise des assemblages....
Can solar heat gain be reduced while limiting the carbon impact of materials? Carbon impact is currently a major issue in the construction of building envelopes. This is why Arcora developed ecale.io, a free, online version of its low-carbon design tool (1). Among the multiple functions of an envelope, the solar filtering capacity is...
One year ago, at the Salon de l’Immobilier Bas Carbone 2022 (Low Carbon Real Estate Fair), we released ecale.io, our tool for assessing the carbon footprint of building envelopes. Now, ecale is evolving towards greater precision with new features. Ecale was born from a conviction held by Arcora’s teams: our sector’s energy transition will...
Arcora continues its work on raw earth construction processes: getting to grips with earth material during a manipulation session supervised by the Atelier matière à construire (Amàco: https://amaco.org/) and visiting the Cycle Terre raw earth material factory, located in Sevran (93). Carazas Test The Carazas Test, through material manipulation, invites us to understand the...
RE2020 and simplified dynamic Life Cycle Assessment Click here to read the full article....
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