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A leader always strives to provide its customers with products which are innovative and offer high added value. In 2008, Lafarge intends to achieve 5% of its sales revenue from innovative products which were developed in the last 5 years. Research occupies a central position in the Group's strategy.

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innovative concretes & sustainable architecture

Innovative concretes and sustainable architecture with Columbia
In exclusive partnership with Lafarge, Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture is organizing a series of conferences on concrete, its future developments and potential uses. Leading architects, engineers and academics come together around the theme of concrete, environmental restrictions and the quest for aestheticism at a time of intense urbanization. On this occasion, Marc Mimram presents his "Living Infrastructures" study.

  • Concretes and architecture with Columbia University
  • The press release

R&D Director

Appointment

Pascal Casanova is appointed R&D Director. Based at the Lafarge Research center, the world's leading facility of its specialty, he will be in charge of pursuing the innovation strategy.

  • The press release
  • The Research center

Innovative architecture

The villa Navarra and its Ductal® roof: a world first

Rudy Ricciotti and Ductal® roof

40 m. long with a cantilevered surface of 7.80 m.: exceptional, both aesthetically and for its technical complexity, the villa Navarra's Ductal® roof is a world first by Rudy Ricciotti, laureate of the National Architecture Grand Prix 2006.

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  • Podcast

Lafarge & Columbia University

Innovative concretes & sustainable architecture

Find out all the program of the conferences dedicated to concrete and organized by Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture in exclusive partnership with Lafarge.

All the program