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2 ONE AMBITION: TO IMPROVE THE WELL-BEING OF ALL 2. Creating great living places

This work made it possible to highlight three key findings: from three months’ use, on average, the Group’s solutions ‹ offset production-related emissions (1) . Beyond those three months, the savings continue to accumulate; solutions produced and sold in Europe in 2014 will, over ‹ their entire lifespan (1) , yield potential net cumulative savings of over 550 million tons-equivalent of CO 2 ; the estimated potential savings from these solutions are ‹ equivalent to about 90 times the Group’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2014 for the same geographic scope. Extrapolating from this, the calculated ratio is similar over a global perimeter.

Through its insulation solutions installed in buildings, Saint-Gobain is making a major contribution to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. and good practices. As a result, the Group is continuing its joint efforts to improve the effectiveness of its products through innovation (see chapter 3, section 3) and to reduce their environmental impact (see chapter 4, section 2.3), through a shared culture

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The Group’s exemplary program for its buildings

CARE:4 (Company Actions for the Reduction of Energy by 4) program. In line with its sustainable construction strategy, Saint-Gobain is committed to improving its own buildings by applying the

CHALLENGES OF THE CARE: 4 PROGRAM

the Group, constitute “Buildings of Interest for the Group” (BIG). They are intended to become demonstrations of solutions and Saint-Gobain’s expertise. renovation operations since 2008. At the start of each project, objectives are defined in collaboration with the project owners, in alignment with the best local standard and based on a locally devised benchmark. As symbols of Saint-Gobain’s skills and capacity for innovation, hosting the public, research, training and innovation centers, showrooms, major sales outlets and headquarters of General Delegations and Activities take priority. These sites, owned or leased by CARE:4 has been applicable to new buildings and complete An illustrative example of this desire to prove the concept is the headquarters of the General Delegation for North America in Malvern, in the US state of Pennsylvania. At the end of 2015, staff moved into a building that had been fully renovated to the most stringent standards in terms of the environment and comfort. Since then, comfort measurements Benefits were observed in terms of employee productivity, particularly in a building call center, and these were published as a case study in the latest report from the World Green Building Council’s Better Places for People campaign (Building the business case: Health, Wellbeing and Productivity in Green Offices, October 2016). (encompassing acoustic, visual and thermal comfort) for the building have been monitored by the local team of building science researchers, with additional satisfaction studies carried out in partnership with the University of Oregon.

REDUCING CARBON FOOTPRINT OF ITS OWN BUILDINGS

INSPIRING THE MARKET WITH SUCCESS STORIES SHOWCASING ITS SOLUTIONS

IMPROVING COMFORT AND WELL-BEING AT WORK FOR ITS EMPLOYEES

DEVELOPING CUSTOMER-ORIENTED CULTURE THROUGH REAL-LIFE LABORATORIES

30 years for insulating glazing and 50 years for thermal insulation (1)

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