Saint-Gobain Making The World A Better Home
Whether they’re residential or commercial, the way that buildings perform is really important for our health and general comfort – especially since we spend so much of our time in them. Yet we rarely consider their impact on our state of mind and overall sense of wellbeing. So what should we expect?
At Saint-Gobain, we believe that feeling good in a building is about having the perfect amount of light, the proper level of sound and the ideal temperature. It is about design and technology, beauty and safety, efficiency and sustainability. A good living place is adaptable to us, rather than the other way around.
Buildings have the potential not just to protect people from negative aspects of the world outside – such as noise, weather and pollutants – but also to make us feel happier and enable us to live, work and play in healthier internal environments.
Through our Multi-Comfort program, we’ve been exploring many different aspects of building design to understand how comfort works in real built environments. Stay with us and support us creating great living places everywhere!
1 Wastewater and Rainwater Drainage Systems for Buildings
- Performance : Cast iron pipe systems are manufactured to withstand and tackle every challenge, it also has intrinsic acoustic properties, and provide an excellent acoustic comfort.
- Safety : Our entire pipe system (pipes, fittings, and couplings included) is classified as A1 non-combustible. It does not emit smoke or generate burning droplets during the course of a fire
- Sustainability : The service life of Saint-Gobain PAM cast iron pipe systems is currently considered to be twice that of alternative products made of plastic materials. Furthermore, all PAM cast-iron pipes are manufactured by using 99% recycled content, and they are 100% recyclable indefinitely without losing any of its properties.
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2 Fully bonded multilayer waterproofing system for exposed roof
User Experience : Quick and easy installation of insulated, waterproofed roofing system with low maintenance and easy to repair
Performance : Designed to last 25 years with minimum maintenance cost
Sustainability :Topcoat EPD certified with an SRI > 78 preventing heat island effect on roof
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3 External Thermal Insulation Composite System (ETICS)
User Experience : Excellent thermal performance providing a good and uniform temperature repartition in the room.
Performance : Webertherm MW ensures thermal protection for your building without losing internal spaces by providing double solution with decoration and insulation with no thermal bridges.
Safety : Fire rated A1 as per EN 13501 and complies with NFPA 268 requirement fire resistance
Sustainability : Can achieve more than 40% of energy saving by reducing considerable the HVAC consumption and therefore the electricity bill.
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4 Electrochromic glass that tints automatically
User Experience : SageGlass can help the user, control the light transmission through the window/glass facade at 4 different tint levels.
Performance : Reduces the energy consumption of a building by harnessing the sun’s warming rays in winter and deflecting them on hot summer days.
Safety : It protects the occupants from the harsh UV rays and creates better and safer environment for the occupants.
Sustainability : Helps to solve solar-control challenges without sacrificing aesthetics while bringing significant energy savings over the course of building’s lifecycle.
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5 Lightweight facade system with ETICS finishing
User Experience : Easy and quick to install.
Performance : U-VALUE up to 0.17 W/m².K with only 230mm thick wall system.
Safety : Meets Civil Defense requirements up to 120 mins.
Sustainability : Non-toxic wool, reduces the consumption of the building and treats thermal bridging. Dry construction so less water usage on site. Lightweight system reduces dead load of the building and embodied carbon of the building.
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6 Acrylic Facade coating reflecting infrared radiation
User Experience : Ability to use dark color coating for facades.
Performance : Reduces the surface temperature and improves the facade building durability.
Safety : Nontoxic water based material.
Sustainability : Reducing the energy consumption by reducing the surface temperature of the building. Very low VOC content
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Committing to Net-Zero Carbon
Because we aim to align our construction strategy to meet Net Zero-carbon neutrality by 2050, therefore our goal is to develop and design solutions that help with the de-carbonization of the environment. In order to reach this, all players should align their approach to deliver a range of solutions to reduce carbon emission and fit the need of your buildings, creating the perfect atmosphere by enhancing your well-being and comfort. A combined offering, that provides not only superiority in their performance but also adding aesthetical finishing feel.
As part of the industrial mortar activity, Saint-Gobain Weber delivers innovative solutions with EPD standard in areas related to external and internal walls, flooring, tile fixing, technical mortars, and waterproofing.
Saint-Gobain Gyproc offers a wide range of internal and external innovative plasterboard solutions for dry and wet areas with performances adapted for each use in all habitat spaces being in Residential, Industrial, Commercial etc…
The Glass Solutions Business brings desired luminescence effect to your internal spaces by providing the required feel in terms of light, transparency, comfort, aesthetics and UV protection.
For reinforcement solutions Saint-Gobain ADFORS develops products combining aesthetical and practical Fiberglass Wall Coverings with anti-bacterial or anti-fungal properties, Mosquito nets and glasgrid mesh for roads strengthening.
Saint-Gobain Abrasives offers precise and user friendly materials from wheels, diamond blades, cutting discs, grinding and polishing surfaces, as well as a selection of sanding sheets that could be used even in the most complex and challenging applications enabling customers to shape and surface-finish.
Being the first of its kind for Saint-Gobain in the Middle East, the Multi Comfort House will act as a real-time laboratory to monitor and study how cities use, conserve and share resources combining passive and intelligent design. Therefore, Masdar was natural home for Saint-Gobain to showcase its state-of-the-art capabilities in sustainable living.
While visiting this 400 m2 venue, you will have the chance to discover Saint-Gobain expertise in creating the perfect harmonized and well balanced environment, by associating the best of every industry to build systems in order to improve your living/ working environment.
We act every day to make the world a more beautiful and sustainable place to live in.
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Project Certifications
Upon completion, the project shall receive the LEED GOLD certification, Estidama 4 Pearl Rating System and is with Masdar Building Design Regulations & Energy Guidelines. Using Saint-Gobain sustainable solutions and materials in the construction is contributing in additional LEED credits as we are using minimum (25) products having EPD certificates from (5) different Saint-Gobain brands.
The building got awarded SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN OF THE YEAR 2019 in the MENA Green Building Awards organized by Emirates Green Building Council and was endorsed by World Green Building Council.
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AL-MUNTADA (Forum in Arabic) a knowledge space featuring digital and physical solutions library, a learning center that will target improving the technical awareness in the construction and will be open for all our customers, professionals in the industry, as well as University Students keen to discover the world of Saint-Gobain.
