Lille: the town hall is firing on all cylinders to clog its thermal colanders

Lille: the town hall is firing on all cylinders to clog its thermal colanders

Exterior insulation, photovoltaic panels, local materials, the town hall is completing the pilot renovation of the Launay school in Moulins this summer. By 2026, the municipality plans to invest €50 million in the energy transition of its buildings, the keystone of its climate ambitions.

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sharetwitterThe bricks of the Launay school are gradually disappearing as the prefabricated wooden panels are assembled to form the second skin of the establishment. - VDNPQR

Building blocks. Like a giant Lego. But with wooden bricks rather than plastic. One by one, the large prefabricated panels are hoisted by a crane and fixed to the north facade of the Thierry-Launay school, on the Boulevard de Belfort side. “The framework is in poplar, the cladding in alder, the frames in oak from the Mormal forest, lists Laurent Baillet, the architect of this heavy energy renovation. The insulation, sixteen centimeters thick, is made of wood wool and wood fiber, effective for winter comfort, but also summer comfort,...

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Lille: the town hall fires everything wood to clog its thermal colanders