EFFICIENT BUILDING™ with Lafarge is Lafarge's response to construction challenges.
With innovation as a key priority, the Group is incorporating environmental, economic and social dimensions into its research and development in order to explore, develop and propose solutions promoting increasingly sustainable and efficient construction throughout a structure's lifecycle.
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Energy efficiency |
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Buildings represent nearly 40% of global energy demand. Solutions exist to design more efficient buildings and even buildings which produce as much energy as they consume. Lafarge focuses on every stage in a structure's life. |
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The approach |
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How can solutions promoting sustainable and efficient construction, throughout a building's lifecycle be developed and proposed? Lafarge is committing to innovative solutions in order to tackle construction challenges. |
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Costs optimization |
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Through its research and partnership programs, Lafarge aims to ensure that the cost of buildings, however efficient they are, remains low in order to offer everyone decent and environmentally-friendly housing. |
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CO2 Performance |
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Committed to combating climate change, Lafarge is reducing the carbon footprint of its products and solutions, as well as the constructions whith its builiding's materials. |
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Specific needs |
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Building methods are different in Europe, Asia and Africa. Geography, climate, urban planning and the level of the country's development have an impact on the behavior of buildings and on the construction method used. |
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