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