JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #101 - November/December 2015 - 3

The winds of change
are blowing for composites
in the construction sector

52nd year
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The construction sector is incredible
for its fantastic range of applications
and the potential there for composite
materials. To be convinced, all you
have to do is look at the news. There
have never been so many conferences
and other events on the subject as
now. However, even with its extraordinary scope, construction remains a
difficult sector for composites. There
are hardly any - if any - large companies in the sector to set standards
or even to introduce strong, lasting
trends. Most projects are the result
of individual initiatives on the part of
architects or specifiers, or one-shot
initiatives on the part of pioneering
companies.

to ignore the fact that more often
than not, they do meet the expectations and needs of the construction
sector. The absence of corrosion
immediately comes to mind, but I
could just as easily refer to the weight
savings they procure or the design
freedom they give architects.

On the occasion of the international
biennial Batimat trade show in Paris,
there are innovations galore! One
with huge potential caught our eye
in particular: a wall+façade building
system from Solutions Composites,
consisting of pultruded composite
structural profiles made of glass
fibre-reinforced thermoset resin.
The simple, yet high-tech system
Still, even if the construction sector is makes it possible to create walls
the work of small and medium-sized
and façades with high environmencompanies pretty much everywhere,
tal performance. The profiles are
composite materials and the people
designed as hollow beams that can
who believe in them continue, like the receive all types of insulation. With
trail-blazers they are, to forge ahead.
this solution, a building can recover
The use of concrete and steel (among more energy than is consumed. The
other materials) is entrenched in the profiles are fabricated and pre-asconstruction industry, and it is not
sembled in the factory, arriving at the
easy to change ways. However, more
construction site in the form of readyand more people are being trained in to-install wall elements.
the use of composites. Once that is
accomplished, composite materials
Many innovative solutions are being
often become a natural choice for
developed, and we invite you to disproject managers. I don't need to
cover some of them in the Construcdetail all the many highly appreciated tion report in this latest issue of JEC
qualities and technical properties of
Composites Magazine, #101 - the
composites here, but it is impossible beginning of a long series.
No101 November - December 2015 /

Cécile Lagoutte
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lagoutte@jeccomposites.com

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