JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #113 - June 2017 - 3

EDlTORlAL

The Future of Building

54th year

President and CEO/Publisher:

Frédérique Mutel - mutel@jeccomposites.com

Editor-in-chief & Media director:

By

Frédéric Reux - reux@jeccomposites.com

Technical editor:

Franck Glowacz - glowacz@jeccomposites.com
Cécile Lagoutte - lagoutte@jeccomposites.com

Contributors:

Marie-Hélène Corbin - corbin@jeccomposites.com
Stéphanie Viallefond

Deputy-editor & Graphic designer:
Antoine Morel - morel@jeccomposites.com

Graphic designer:

Candice Herbreteau - herbreteau@jeccomposites.com

Development Director:

Anne-Carole Barbarin - barbarin@jeccomposites.com

Marketing Director:
Sandrine Dumarquez - presse@jeccomposites.com

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Thierry Saint-Martin - saintmartin@jeccomposites.com
Tel: +33 (0)1 58 36 15 73

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Kim-Oanh Truong - kim@jeccomposites.com
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BPA December statement 2016.
Print circulation of 23,203 and
electronic circulation of 15,036.

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Frédéric Reux

Editor-in-chief
reux@jeccomposites.com

Construction - and by construction,
we mean building and civil
engineering - accounts for a volume
of more than two million metric tons
in the composite market, a far from
negligible share that makes it the
second largest application segment,
after transportation. If you take the
potential that this segment represents
for the development of composites
into consideration, however, it would
undoubtedly come first. The global
requirements in residential buildings,
hospitals, factories, offices, airports,
houses, schools, theatres, bridges,
tunnels, sanitation infrastructure, and
who knows what else are significant,
and the world's population keeps on
growing. You also have to factor in
the renovation market, which speaks
for itself - all it takes is a look around,
wherever you are, to see the needs.
Figures aside, composite materials
in all their diversity offer far
more potential to innovate in
the construction sector than do
traditional materials. They contribute
not only amazing properties, like
low weight, durability, corrosion
resistance, thermal insulation, and the
possibility for part integration, but
also design freedom. This additional
freedom is essential for highly creative
architects and design/engineering
departments. Composite materials are
used everywhere as façade elements,
for roofs and structural purposes,
in facilities, pipes and conduits and
electric cabling... the list goes on. If
you want to find out more and discover
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the latest achievements in this area, I
refer you to our new publication, "The
Future of Building: the Growing Use
of Composites in Construction and
Architecture". This 190-page work will
appeal to all professionals involved
in the sector, but also to anyone less
familiar with this flourishing, wideranging field with endless potential.
All of the obstacles to more widespread
use of these materials in construction
have not been overcome with respect
to aspects such as standards, training,
supply, and dialogue between the
different stages of the value chain.
The accounts by architect Jean-Michel
Wilmotte and Fabrice Bonnifet,
Managing Director of Sustainable
Development at Bouygues Group,
are very clear on the subject. Other
problems remain, for example the
environmental issue. Some are easier to
resolve than others, of course, and the
market players can help by becoming
more deeply involved in the dialogue.
The difficulty often lies there.
To continue this discussion, we invite
you to come to Chicago on 20-22
June for "The Future of Composites
in Construction". This three-day
event is entirely dedicated to the
construction sector, and includes
meetings, conferences on the subject,
and examples of achievements and
solutions. The full programme is
available on pages 31 to 33 of this issue,
which of course is largely devoted to
composites in construction. I wish
you fruitful reading in the meantime!

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Writer & Conference manager:

jec composites magazine

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