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Saint-Gobain calls for a “Marshall plan” for renovation

2022-10-04T17:43:50.616Z


Its director general regrets that public aid is mainly used for partial works. "Installing a heat pump in a poorly insulated apartment is like using the air conditioning in a car with the windows open" . Benoit Bazin, the general manager of Saint-Gobain, has a sense of the formula. On the occasion of the opening of the Batimat exhibition in Paris, the manager pleaded for a more ambitious policy in terms of building renovation. “We should launch a sort of Marshall plan for re


"Installing a heat pump in a poorly insulated apartment is like using the air conditioning in a car with the windows open"

.

Benoit Bazin, the general manager of Saint-Gobain, has a sense of the formula.

On the occasion of the opening of the Batimat exhibition in Paris, the manager pleaded for a more ambitious policy in terms of building renovation.

“We should launch a sort of Marshall plan for renovation

,” he insisted.

To justify this request, the boss of the building materials giant explains that

“construction can be both a solution for the decarbonization of the economy, the climate, living well together, purchasing power and comfort”

.

Today, new construction is going low-carbon on a forced march.

Problem: new buildings represent less than 1% of the stock each year.

Renovation is therefore essential to meet the objectives of the Paris agreements.

Knowing that housing and offices represent just under 20%…

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Source: lefigaro

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