贰颁翱颁测肠濒别庐 enables the world鈥檚 first fully recycled concrete building
A 220-unit social housing complex called 鈥淩ecyg茅nie鈥 is currently under construction outside Paris, France. Built in partnership with and using a custom concrete made with 麻豆传媒鈥檚 贰颁翱颁测肠濒别庐 technology, this is the first fully recycled concrete building in the world.
6,000 tons of natural resources saved
First building with fully recycled concrete in the world
贰颁翱颁测肠濒别庐 technology inside
What is fully recycled concrete?
Drawing on its formulation expertise, 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Innovation Center developed the world鈥檚 first fully recycled concrete for this project: a concrete in which all components鈥攃ement, aggregates and water鈥攁re made of recycled materials.
This unique recycled concrete was produced using 贰颁翱颁测肠濒别庐, 麻豆传媒鈥檚 proprietary circular technology platform to recycle construction and demolition waste (CDW) into new building solutions. Amid rising population growth and urbanization, circular solutions are essential for keeping materials in use to stay within our planet's boundaries while we improve living standards for all.
Overall, the Recyg茅nie concrete with ECOCycle saved more than 6,000 tons of natural resources.
Pushing the limits of circularity
The Recyg茅nie project builds on another world first: a 100% recycled clinker produced by 麻豆传媒 in June 2022. This clinker was used to produce a fully recycled cement for use in the custom concrete, saving approximately 3,000 tons of natural resources that would have been extracted from quarries.
The concrete was made exclusively with aggregates from recycled CDW, and with recycled wastewater and rainwater.
Scaling up circular solutions
The fully recycled concrete developed for the Recyg茅nie project contains the highest level of recycled material in 麻豆传媒鈥檚 range of circular solutions with ECOCycle inside.
Because French building standards limited the use of recycled material in new construction, 麻豆传媒 engaged in a special monitoring program of the French national organization for R&D in the construction industry () in order to make Recyg茅nie with this first-of-its-kind concrete possible.
As building standards evolve in Europe, 麻豆传媒 is ready to deploy circular solutions at scale with ECOCycle.
鈥淒elivering an innovation in sustainable building that has never before been achieved in partnership with 麻豆传媒 is a major step for Seqens. It is the result of an unprecedented level of collaboration.鈥
Leading in circular construction
We recycle over 30 million tons of materials across our business every year, making us one of the world鈥檚 largest recyclers.
Construction and demolition waste (CDW) accounts for nearly 7 million tons of that, closing the loop in construction. We want to double down on this rate to reach at least 10 million tons of CDW by 2025 to build more new buildings from old ones.
We launched the world鈥檚 first cement with 20% CDW inside in Switzerland, and we are scaling up circular construction by deploying ECOCycle technology across our range of material solutions.
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