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A leader always strives to provide its customers with products which are innovative and offer high added value.  Research occupies a central position in the Group's strategy.

Sustainable construction

Low-energy housing

Innovative at the heart of sustainable construction
Lafarge has identified the 6 challenges of sustainable construction and solutions to tackle them. The Group's R&D investments and innovation strategy are helping it to tackle these challenges.

Partnership

Lafarge and Columbia University

Lafarge and Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture are working together to tackle sustainable construction challenges creating a program on the use of innovative concretes.

Lafarge and Columbia University

Partnership

Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, copyright Gaston Bergeret

The Cité de l’Architecture

Lafarge has become a partner of the "Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine" in Paris. This is an opportunity for the Group to confirm its commitment to the world of architecture.

The partnership

Low-energy housing

Take the owner's tour!
Combining 20 sustainable construction rules with innovative solutions produced by Lafarge's R&D, low-energy housing is explained in this flash animation. From the foundations and the exterior to the insulation and the interior - see how a low-energy house is created!

Visit the low-energy housing
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