French low carbon cement manufacturer Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has partnered with the Cougnaud Group in its first construction project undertaken off-site.
The partnership with off-site modular construction company the Cougnaud Group covers the building of the extension to the IFACOM training centre, a vocational school in La Ferrière (Vendée, western France) specialising in work-study business courses.
The centre comprises around 220m2 of buildings made from Hoffmann Green low-carbon concrete slabs. Hoffmann says the construction method is based on prefabricated components, with the elements’ planning, design, manufacturing and assembly stages all carried out in a factory. Only the assembly of the modules and the finishing touches are carried out on-site.
The La Ferrière project is the first step in the partnership with the Cougnaud Group, which consumes a surface area of approximately 20,000m2 of concrete slabs a year.
Julien Blanchard and David Hoffmann, co-founders of Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies, said that the construction of the IFACOM training centre is a first step in our shared desire with the Cougnaud Group to help reduce the building sector’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Eric Cougnaud, chairman of the Cougnaud Group, added: “The climate emergency is making it necessary for us to improve our construction processes, because tomorrow we will no longer to be able to build like we used to. The use of Hoffmann Green low-carbon cement within the framework of this new eco-designed and eco-constructed training centre is perfectly in line with this approach. Thanks to the off-site construction and Hoffmann Green’s technology, we can already build responsibly today.”
