Certifications are essential for construction companies and architects to ensure that the products they use in their projects really are sustainable. Fortunately for everyone, sustainable architecture is no longer an ideal vision, but the everyday commitment of many people. There are more and more architects, construction...
This unique construction, where bees, scientists and nature lovers share space, is manufactured with ACCOYA® sustainable wood. Melarium is a small summit of sustainable architecture. It is a functional, playful, respectful building, integrated with nature (animals and plants), and sustainable in both design and use. As if...
MOdA, the new headquarters of the Paris bar association, designed by Renzo Piano, incorporates wooden curtain walling made with VIGAM, the oak glulam beam by Grupo Gámiz. The Italian Renzo Piano (Pritzker prize 1998) is one of the most well-known architects in the world. He is also one...
The architect chose to clad the façade with ACCOYA® due to its high performance for exteriors and the aesthetic ability of this sustainable wood to be integrated into the rural setting. Sustainable architecture projects are designed from various fronts. The most noteworthy are the general inclination...
The main characteristic of this environmental protection strategy is that waste does not exist: it is a resource. The circular economy is a concept of consumption based on zero waste. The aim is to put into practice the opposite of “disposable”. The idea is that everything...
Most architects are aware that, despite being flammable, wood reacts very well against fire. Sustainable architecture is converting wood, an ancient material, into the innovative building material of the future. Its known virtues of warmth, beauty and elegance are complemented with the growing values of ecology...
The restoration of the façade of this community on the Zarautz beachfront required a beautiful, sturdy and resistant wood like ACCOYA®. If they so desire, the residents of this complex right on the seafront of the Guipuzcoa town of Zarautz can simply open the door, step...
The qualities of glulam wood are multiplied with the CE marking for structural use. In these mentally unsettling times, with radical changes in how we see the world, architecture cannot remain on the sidelines. Its role as a trigger for new ways of living and sharing...
The durability of ACCOYA® acetylated wood does not come from a mysterious technology, but rather a natural process. People who hear the expression for the first time ask, "What is acetylated wood?" The architects, construction companies and customers that already know ACCOYA® will likely have a...
Architects trust the structural use of wooden beams to combine beauty and sustainability. One innovation is wooden curtain walling. The concept of sustainable architecture seeks construction and building solutions that prioritise all that is sustainable and ecological and that, at the same time, spur creativity and...
