A former prison repurposed into a lean and green marketplace; the façade of an old business centre recycled into state-of-the-art shutters; a hospital transformed into a carbon-neutral modular hotel … After over a century of designing light-weight fibre-cement cladding that lasts a lifetime, we are shifting our focus to ‘What Lies Beyond’. Working with like-minded engineers, academics, suppliers, fabricators, architects and installers, we are determined to push the boundaries of our industry and close the loop on our materials.
Certifiably Sustainable
EQUITONE has achieved Cradle to Cradle Certified at the Bronze level for all fibre cement materials. Recognized as a preferred product sustainability standard throughout the building industry, certification allows architects know immediately that a material meets some of the world’s most rigorous performance standards for humans and for the environment.
Our 2030 ambitions
At EQUITONE, we dedicate ourselves to reuse and recycle all our materials, giving them a second life. With your help, we want to take it one step further and rethink the way they are designed and used, reducing our natural resource consumption and cutting out waste.
The circular potential of fibre-cement cladding
Made of water, Portland cement, cellulose and natural minerals, our materials are the perfect building blocks for a circular construction industry.
Recyclable
Durable (+50 years)
Low material usage/m²
Lightweight
Low maintenance
Modular
Our 3 areas of focus
How we want to go from long life and lightweight to light impact and circular by design:
Circular design
Circular design
Designing our materials as a modular system that is easy to dismantle, repair and rebuild – making sure they can be reused and recycled over and over again.
Light-impact construction
Light-impact construction
Reducing our footprint across the value chain to create materials that are built to be light-impact.
Radical collaboration for lasting change
Radical collaboration for lasting change
Breaking down industry silos to eliminate the total footprint of our materials – not just in production, throughout their entire life cycle.
Total transparency
Real change starts with complete transparency. Download the Material Sustainability Datasheets below to see
the current environmental impact of each of our materials.
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Our plan of action
Learn from our teammates how we are all working together to challenge the boundaries of construction.
- Sustainable innovation
— Eric Bertrand — Chief Innovation Officer
(Y)our projects
We work together with architects worldwide to transform the built environment as we know it by completely
rethinking traditional building design.
ACA flats in Utrecht-Overvecht
Founded in 2014 by Karin Dorrepaal and Saskia Oranje, DOOR architecten is the architectural firm behind the renovation and revitalisation of 362 homes in the ACA flat in Utrecht-Overvecht.
Experimental construction using recycled fibre cement panels
Following on from the concepts of grey energy and resource conservation, recycled sauna benches, old industrial cast glass panels and EQUITONE fibre cement panels (previously known as Eternit panels) were used for the façade of an innovative pilot research project in the Kronsberg World Exhibition district of Hanover.
3D Modular Facade Reclad with EQUITONE for the Hong Kong Museum of Art
EQUITONE [tectiva] was chosen to create bespoke 3D modular panels for the reclad of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. The approach provided a stunning new and modern facade to the harbour-side museum.
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Warehouse Transformed with EQUITONE [natura]
A novel perspective on warehouse architecture. EQUITONE [natura] combines precision and superior materials to create a functional and visually impressive German Army warehouse
Why circular construction
is the only way forward
The construction industry is a major consumer of raw materials, responsible for:
- 50% of the total amount of extracted natural resources
- 35% of the EU’s total waste generation
- 38% of all energy-related carbon emissions
There is resource scarcity, and there is the fact that all of the above contribute significantly to the climate crisis. Which is why we call on you to help us turn things around.
Get answers
Find the answer to every question ever asked about our circular ambition(s), the environmental impact of our
materials, repair and replacement instructions, you name it.
Explore circular building with us
Explore circular building with us
Circularity calls for collaboration. In order to eliminate the total footprint of our materials – not just in production, but throughout their lifecycle – we need to look beyond our business and develop shared solutions with stakeholders up, down and outside of the value chain.
Join our network or share your circular building designs with @equitone_facade and #ExploringCircularity.