Club Terre & Communes

Club Terre & Communes

The idea of Club Terre & Communes is to promote dialogue between local authorities, but also between them and the Terreal Group, with the focus on our common heritage – clay.

Action

We set up Club Terre et Communes in 2011, with the idea of stimulating dialogue among different municipalities and between those municipalities and the Terreal Group.

Our plan was to take various initiatives based on the trades and industries involved in clay and terracotta, such as talks and activities in leisure centres, exhibitions and events such as the Festival d'Argile, setting up training centres for installing our products, etc.

Results

The club was an immediate success, attracting the keen involvement of many elected officials and giving rise to several specific plans and projects with Terreal staff.

In 2012, Club Terre & Communes held its second meeting at Castelnaudary, the home of our R&D centre. Its key theme was innovation:

Innovative town planning, involving the ideas contained in the Promotoit white paper to which Terreal made a substantial contribution.
Innovative construction, with a presentation of the HSP site. Project HSP, officially opened by local representatives in December 2013, involved building two positive energy houses in Castelnaudary – the first houses with Bepos Effinergie certification in the social housing sector.
Innovative building systems, with a presentation of the work of the work of the Terreal Research & Development Centre.

The theme for 2014 was the circular economy. The meeting was held at Chagny, in Saône-et-Loire, where the elected officials were given a sneak preview of the SMET 71 ECOCEA household waste methanisation unit, which is located close to Terreal's plant and which now supplies the plant with biogas.

In 2018, in Bavent (14), this event was placed under the sign of "Bavent Terre d'Argile" Festival, a biannual event that promotes the artistic and technical heritage of clay. The exchanges also made it possible to share the Group's strategic vision, the main investments and the CSR strategy.

Originally planned for 2020 but postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic; in 2021, Terre & Communes took place in Colomiers (31). On the central theme of decarbonization and energy transition, everyone was able to present their news and commitments in terms of renewable energy through concrete projects.

Our other actions

Group

Environment

Heritage and territories

A quarry with archaeological excavations

Before operating the new quarry at Amigny, located on a major historical site, TERREAL wanted to work with an archaeologist and the local authorities to develop the quarry.

Group

Heritage and territories

Talents & Diversity

Experts committed to transmitting knowledge to CFAs, Olympiades des Métiers ...

TERREAL supports the teaching of building trades through partnerships and donations of products and skills.

Group

Environment

Energy transition

New GHG report from Terreal France

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a strategic and priority CSR issue for the Group. In order to accelerate the transition to low-carbon technologies, we are mobilised through a clear roadmap and good practices applied on a daily basis.

Group

Heritage and territories

Terreal sponsors the association Le Printemps de Septembre

In 2021, TERREAL is sponsoring the association "Le Printemps de Septembre" to build an ephemeral brick pavilion at the Institut Supérieur des Arts et Design de Toulouse for the 30th edition of the "Le Printemps de Septembre" festival in Toulouse. With a donation of more than 2,300 bricks, TERREAL wished to support cultural and artistic initiatives as well as to participate in this educational project where specialised students learned how to build the structure. After the event, the bricks were collected by training centres in order to give them a second educational life.

Group

Environment

Circular economy, study with ENSAL for the recovery of construction site soil

Since 2015, TERREAL has regularly offered study topics to young architectural students at ENSAL, whose mission is to experiment and prototype with materials for architectural projects. Nearly 5 projects by some thirty students have been presented in this way, two of which have led to the filing of patents. In 2021, Terreal proposed to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Lyon (ENSAL) a study partnership as part of its students' curriculum. This project, in line with the Group's commitment, highlights the interest of using these soils in combination with clay products, such as the Brique Hauteur d'Etage.