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One ambition: to improve the well-being of all Creating great living places

Comfort and sustainability: the Group’s response 2.2 The Group’s mission is to create great living places and at the heart of its strategy, offering responses to long-term improve daily life. The Group articulates its promise to its collective challenges. In an increasingly urbanized world, customers as designing, producing and distributing materials where nearly 90% of the time is spent indoors or in a vehicle, which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and there is a need to design and build living spaces that are both the future of all. Today, the Group places well-being and user more comfortable and more sustainable. comfort (thermal, acoustic and visual comfort, and air quality)

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WE HELP TO CREATE GREAT LIVING PLACES AND IMPROVE DAILY LIFE by combining

Comfort

Sustainability

Which answers today’s Individual needs

which addresses tomorrow’s collective challenges

(performance, safety, adaptability, accessibility, beauty)

(sustainable building, better mobility, resource efficiency, demographic growth, climate change )

TO ENHANCE THE WELLBEING OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE

The Group develops innovative solutions for construction and renovation that encourage the development of energy-efficient, comfortable, healthy and aesthetically pleasing buildings, while preserving natural resources. A novel approach has been developed around the concept of comfort and the benefits for users of the products and solutions: Multi-Comfort. It encompasses four types of comfort: acoustic, thermal, visual, and air quality.

The sustainable development criteria for the Multi-Comfort concept were clarified and supplemented in 2017 to better reflect the most recent developments in the sustainable construction market. The criteria in three of the areas (energy and carbon, materials and resources, and health and safety) are now part of the common core, alongside the four types of comfort, while for the other three areas (water, biodiversity and local value creation), the criteria will be adapted to suit local projects and challenges.

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