The specialist in prefabricated construction systems KP1 unveils its environmental strategy

Since its origin, it has been committed to an environmental approach by offering prefabricated systems in prestressed concrete, synonymous with frugality: less concrete, less steel, less carbon. Today, it unveils its environmental strategy with the ambition of reducing its carbon impact by 50% by 2031. This objective responds to societal changes in terms of carbon footprint and goes beyond the requirements set by the timetable for the RE 2020.

Innovation

The company has put its visionary spirit and its expertise of more than 60 years at the service of innovation to develop products with reduced environmental impacts.

For Florent Goumarre, Marketing, Communication & Product Innovation Director: "The prefabricated construction systems approach that we have been advocating for years now takes on its full meaning with RE 2020. For example, a Silence floor (beam/between you/switches) is 30% less impactful at the environmental level than its equivalent in full slab. We are going further today by exploring new cements, which will make it possible to achieve even better structural and environmental performance. »

KP1 launched its new eco-designed range called Impakt at the start of December 2021. It consists of the EMR interjoists (100% recycled material), the Prédalle and ThermoPrédalle®, and soon a Prémur developed with H-cement. UKR (0% clinker), supplied by Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies.

Industrial relevance

At the service of the territories, with 20 factories spread across France, KP1 is a major player in French local industry. This local network is anchored in the brand's DNA. It makes it possible to build in a short circuit and thus participate in the reduction of the carbon impact. Its environmental commitments also involve the continuous improvement of its sites.

For Florent Goumarre, Marketing, Communication & Product Innovation Director: “Today, 68% of the steels we use come from recycled materials, our objective is to reach 100%. We are also working to limit and reuse our scrap as well as to reduce the environmental costs linked to our industrial process, such as steaming, lighting, energy sources...”

The Grigny plant (69) is one of the concrete illustrations of this responsible industrial strategy. For example, it has just equipped itself with a new silo which houses the low-carbon cement for the new Prédalle and has optimized its wastewater treatment system.

For Vincent LICHET, CEO of KP1: “KP1 has all the keys to be a major industrial player in environmental transformation in the world of construction. Beyond product innovation and our industrial sites, we are also investing a lot in training the women and men of the company, and new talents to achieve our objectives set for 2031. Because it is together, at each of the levels, that we will manage to build the responsible world of tomorrow. »