FORMATS

Podcast

Quality of living

Resilience is the ability to bounce back after a shock or difficult ordeal, before returning to the initial situation. In the building and ...

Reading time: 6 min 6 min
Renovation

Energy efficiency is a cornerstone of sustainable construction. Consuming less energy while guaranteeing the same level of comfort is the goal set by ...

Reading time: 6 min 6 min
Decarbonization

Offsite construction is a model based on the prefabrication of building elements at a location other than the worksite. Instead of building a ...

Reading time: 6 min 6 min
Decarbonization

Chemicals are everywhere, including in the construction sector. They improve the performance of materials and products by giving them additional ...

Reading time: 5 min 5 min
Urbanization

The term “soil sealing” is the process of covering natural soil with impervious materials to make it stable for building new settlements. ...

Reading time: 1 min 1 min
Circularity

Building Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, quantifies a building's environmental footprint over its entire life cycle. From the extraction of raw ...

Reading time: 5 min 5 min