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...
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...
Designing building structures and envelopes with reused materials is one of the challenges of Arcora’s approach. This note (February 2021) presents a map of reuse: the material sources in the trade (metal structures, timber, concrete; cladding, solar shading, window frames, glazing; roof coverings, insulation, roof frames) and examples of reuse in structures and façades....
Visit to Recyverre, a subsidiary of Sibelco Green Solutions specialising in the collection and recovery of flat glass (laminated, tempered, double glazing), notably from the dismantling of building façades. The plant produces pure cullet, used for flat glass, enamels, bottles, glass wool and road marking. Recyverre notably recovered the glazing of Landscape in Paris...
Selon l’ADEME, le secteur du bâtiment génère à lui seul près de 42 millions de tonnes de déchets chaque année en France......
