Prize list for "Biosourced and exemplary buildings 2023" organised by Envirobat Centre.
The CNCP's sustainable building training centre is the winner in the "Education and Training" category.
The prize is awarded by a public vote and a jury of professionals.
It is also a reward for the work of the various people involved in our project and the CNCP team.
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A successful opening!
On 13 November we officially inaugurated the CNCP's new training centre in the presence of our European partners and financial backers Interreg NWE and the Centre-Val de Loire Region.
Nearly 80 people joined us to celebrate this new facility, which has a bright future ahead of it:
a tool for delivering professional training, awareness-raising and educational engineering strategies for the entire region.
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On 13 November, the CNCP will be making history with the inauguration of its sustainable construction training centre.
The event will bring together our partners, institutions and users of the training centre.
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The CD2E and FIBOIS Hauts-de-France organised the eighth edition of the Regional Meetings dedicated to wood and straw construction.
Presentation of the CNCP eco-construction training centre building.
The realization of the new CNCP eco-construction training centre was in the spotlight with the presentation of the project by Patrick Thomas, associate architect at VIVARCHI (project manager).
How does the training centre construction project enhance the existing heritage (4 buildings are listed as historical monuments) by constructing a new building and also rehabilitating existing buildings?
In accordance with the UP STRAW project, Interreg ENO programme, the CNCP has favoured bio-sourced materials: wood prefabrication and straw insulation (80 m3 of straw) as well as local companies.
More than 200 people attended this event with many sectors of activity represented: companies, local authorities, architects and farmers.
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Save the date!
The grand opening of the Bale House Visitor Center will take place on Saturday, June 4
A day of events is planned from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the opening ceremony taking place at 12:30 p.m.
The 'Bale House' is the new Visitor Centre in Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve.
It is the first public straw bale building in Hastings and will act as a community facility and café with interpretation that showcases the management of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve.
From the foundations to facade, it is constructed from natural and recycled materials which are healthy, fireproof, breathable, and they lock up carbon from the atmosphere, recycling agricultural by-products. It requires next to no energy to run and due to the level of insulation will require no additional heating to keep people comfortable.
This sustainable and exemplary building was designed by Cave Cooperative architects and built by a consortium of straw building specialists led by Huff and Puff Construction and Green & Castle.
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We participated on Friday 8 April at 2pm
Workshop C6 on the forum:
conference dedicated to "Biosourced prefabrication" moderated by Olivier Gaujard for a presentation of "The extension of Plankstetten Abbey and the use of a mobile bundling machine" with Stéphanie Ventre from the Centre National de la Construction Paille and Benedikt Kaesberg for Plankstetten Abbey and Sonnenklee .
An opportunity to meet one of the 5 exemplary buildings of the UP STRAW Interreg Europe project!
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Opening ceremony of the largest straw-insulated building, "Haus St. Wunibald", in the Benedictine Abbey of Plankstetten, on 1 April 2022.
This is the celebration of a milestone in ecological building in Germany.
It was very festive and high representatives from church, politics and society were present for this event.
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder, praised straw building as a unique answer to the climate crisis!
He listed the main advantages of straw construction and mentioned the fact that in Germany, more than 20% of straw remains unused in agriculture every year.
This would be enough to insulate more than 350,000 family houses.
The fact that a German Prime Minister is now talking about straw building is a milestone in the history of this ecologically remarkable and market-ready building method.
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On 7 December, the most important results of the UP STRAW project were presented in the Centre-Val de Loire Region.
We were very happy to celebrate four years of intense collaboration between Germany, England, Belgium, the Netherlands and France.
About forty people were able to participate in this event.
A morning animated by the actors and partners of this Interreg ENO project, as well as by our institutional supporters.
Then visit of the straw/wood social housing site in St-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, near Orléans.
UP STRAW is 4 years of collaboration, 5 countries and 14 partner structures.
It is also an inspiring project!
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📽 Video presentation of the 5 buildings.
UP STRAW is also 5 demonstration buildings in each partner country.
These buildings use straw materials as insulation for construction or renovation and promote new techniques of implementation.
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The closing event of the UP STRAW Interreg ENO project will take place on 7 December at the Hôtel de Région
9, rue Saint-Pierre Lentin in Orléans
All project partners will present the results of 4 years of remarkable transnational collaboration. //
Program:
8h30 : welcome of participants
9h : Introduction by François Bonneau President of the Region Centre and Charles Fournier Vice-President of the Region Centre in charge of sustainable dev -
Mickey Leclercq President of the CNCP
9h30 : UP STRAW / Project presentation + deliverables achievements by work package
10h35 : coffee break
11h : Overview of the 5 demonstration buildings
12h : Testimony of the partners
12h15 : European programmes in the Centre-Val de Loire Region
The Interreg ENO programme
12h35 : Straw bale building market Regional Development
12h45 : Project for an Institute for Biobased Materials in France
13h00 : cocktail/refreshments
15h : site visit - social housing buildings in straw - Saint Jean de la Ruelle
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