Saint-Gobain Türkiye Meets Construction Sector Players in Eskişehir

Saint-Gobain Turkey participated as a sponsor of the 6th National Building Congress and Exhibition titled "Built Environment in a Changing World," bringing together leading experts in the Turkish construction sector in Eskişehir. Operating in Turkey with 14 brands including Weber, Vetrotech, Ecophone, Saint-Gobain Glass, PAM, Chryso and Saint-Gobain Abrasives, with subsidiaries İzocam and Dalsan also within its portfolio, Saint-Gobain Turkey continues its activities with the aim of building a sustainable future together with all construction and building sector stakeholders. Saint-Gobain, which provides significant contributions to building durable and sustainable cities, supports the design of innovative buildings that cause less harm to the environment and nature for a sustainable world, use natural resources more efficiently, have low carbon emissions and high energy efficiency. Hosted by Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality and organized in cooperation with the Chamber of Architects Turkish Union of Chambers of Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) Ankara, Antalya and Eskişehir Branches, the 6th National Building Congress and Exhibition brought together participants with views and studies from different disciplines related to the building sector across building materials, space, building, city and environmental scales, addressing the impact of a changing world, environment and living conditions on the construction sector and the adaptation of the built environment to these conditions. The Congress was built on multiple themes including "Circular Design, Climate Change, Digital Design, Virtual Reality and Spaces of the Future," discussing the built environment's adaptation to the sensitivities of a changing world. Many experts in the field shared views on different themes. At the Congress, within the scope of the expanding architecture discipline's agenda and research-application topics, current issues of interest such as design for extraordinary conditions and environments, future space design and adaptation, virtual reality technologies and digital design, developing resilient built environments for future conditions and producing solutions were shared with the public.

"We are responding to people's pursuit of comfort"

Saint-Gobain Turkey Architectural Solutions Manager Kubilay Büyüklü, stating that they are producing lightweight construction solutions by addressing the decarbonization of light construction and construction industry and striving to respond to people's pursuit of comfort in daily life, continued his remarks as follows: "To be able to build the cities of the future, we need to think about how to design the buildings of the future. People spend a large part of their lifetime inside buildings and the environment we live in needs to be based on infrastructure that will serve human comfort. We are aware that the key to achieving safe and sustainable living is to take action from today. We are supporting our building construction techniques structurally with innovative and sustainable materials. An important step was taken with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that came into force in 1992. With the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 and subsequently the European Green Deal published in 2019, these steps taken to prevent climate change have become binding targets and action packages for countries and organizations. By 2030, overcoming climate change is one of the important items among our targets that need to be addressed. As the Saint-Gobain group, serving this purpose, we have set targets to reduce our industrial water consumption by 50 percent and carbon emissions by 33 percent by 2030, use 100 percent recyclable packaging and conduct 100 percent life cycle analysis for all product groups. We have committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2050." Büyüklü concluded his remarks by stating that resilient and sustainable structures are aligned with Saint-Gobain's targets.