On 16 October was celebrated in Oviedo, the first anniversary of the disconnection of Sunthalpy, the first fully autonomous house installed in an Atlantic climate.

This single-family house has spent a whole year without being connected to the electricity grid and without using fossil fuels, maintaining electricity, hot water, a heated swimming pool and charging an electric car, with sunlight, in a place like Asturias, which has only 2,000 hours of sunlight per year.

Sunthalpy has created the low enthalpy solar building. It is a system of solar capture and accumulation integrated into the building, which is patented at European level and allows to convert into thermal solar panels of very high efficiency any facade or roof material (such as those manufactured by ALUCOIL) being able to cover all energy needs of buildings, even on completely overcast winter days.

Sunthalpy, together with ALIBERICO, through its subsidiary ALUCOIL, a world leader in the manufacture of panels for facades of unique buildings, with its brands larson® and larcore®, are carrying out an integration of their materials with Sunthalpy’s patented solar collection technology and developing the industrialization of this technology that allows buildings to operate with clean energy, without depending on the electricity grid, thus reducing CO2 emissions and with the ultimate goal of creating a world free of greenhouse gas emissions in 2050.

The event, which was held in the house itself, was chaired by Enrique Fernández, Minister of Industry of the Government of the Principality of Asturias and by Belén Martín, Managing Director of ALUCOIL, together with Omar Suárez, CEO, founder and host of Sunthalpy.

ALIBERICO, betting today, for the materials of tomorrow

During these days, the National Congress of Advanced Architecture and Construction 4.0, Rebuild 2021 has taken place. One of the most important architecture fairs on the international scene.

This space of convergence is where the leading companies of the sector meet to discuss the future of architecture: innovation, sustainability and digitization for this sector. The President of ALIBERICO, Clemente González Soler, has participated as a speaker in one of these events.

Within the Industrialization forum, under the slogan ‘Industrialization: Road with no return‘, important topics such as the industrialization of architecture, the challenges to overcome to implement industrialization in construction or how the industry can drive the transformation of the sector have been discussed. Also the evolution of materials, the investment in R&D, or the unification and planning of processes as a basis for promoting the industrialization of construction have been conversed.

Developing industrialized construction can ultimately lead to savings in processes, materials and something that is currently of great concern, which is the improvement of sustainability, the reduction of the carbon footprint and the recycling of materials to encourage the circular economy. In this sense, the President of ALIBERICO explained that « One of the fundamental pillars for the success of industrialization is the selection of MATERIALS, which lighten the weight, are recyclable, sustainable and offer high properties« .

The industrialization of construction in the housing sector is a great opportunity that is also accompanied by opportunities in other large constructions such as hospitals, hotels… Something that ALUCOIL® is already working on with its project for the creation and assembly of SANILUX, modular operating rooms and that in the near future, as ALIBERICO‘s President, Clemente González Soler, has revealed for the first time, will be accompanied by the creation of aluminium bathrooms in series.

In ALIBERICO we design today the materials of the future.

Alucoil® est un bel exemple d’internationalisation, il n’y a aucun pays qu’il ne puisse atteindre. De plus, ses produits sont un gage de qualité, de durabilité et d’élégance, ce qui donne une touche distinctive à tous les projets architecturaux développés avec ses panneaux.

Les panneaux fabriqués par Alucoil® ne sont pas seulement utilisés pour les façades, mais aussi pour les revêtements intérieurs, c’est le cas de la nouvelle station de métro de Moscou, prévue et réalisée avec des panneaux larcore®. Pour ce projet, Alucoil® a fourni 6 300 m2 de son panneau structurel nid d’abeille en aluminium larcore® A2 de 22 mm d’épaisseur.

Le projet “Nizhnie Mnevniki” réalisé avec des panneaux larcore®, a reçu la nomination pour “La meilleure solution architecturale et urbanistique pour une installation d’infrastructure de transport”. Le maire de Moscou, Sergueï Sobianine, a récompensé les lauréats et remercié les architectes, les constructeurs et les participants de ce projet pour leur talent et la compétence qu’ils ont mis dans leur travail.

Alucoil®, accompagnement dans l’amélioration des infrastructures (ODD 9).

L’Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) est un organisme de certification et de normalisation qui reconnaît et encourage la production, l’approvisionnement et la gestion responsables de l’aluminium. Cette initiative mondiale a été créée pour soutenir les membres des chaînes d’approvisionnement responsables. Elle est le résultat du rassemblement des producteurs, des utilisateurs et des parties prenantes pour créer un accord sur « l’aluminium responsable« .  Cela permet à l’ensemble de l’industrie de l’aluminium de faire preuve de responsabilité et de fournir des preuves indépendantes, crédibles et vérifiables de ses performances environnementales, sociales et de gestion.

Certification selon la norme de performance ASI la certification est basée sur 11 principes et 62 critères, dont la gestion de l’usine, l’intégrité commerciale, la transparence, la gestion des matériaux, la protection de l’environnement, les émissions de CO2 ou les droits des travailleurs.

ALUCOAT, spécialiste du revêtement de bobines d’aluminium entre 20 et 500 microns, rejoint cette initiative en tant que membre depuis juin, ce qui constitue le début du chemin pour obtenir la certification ASI Performance Standard dans les deux prochaines années, afin de démontrer une production, un approvisionnement et une gestion responsables de l’aluminium.

ALUCOAT s’engage en faveur des ODD: industrie, innovation et infrastructure (ODD 9), production et consommation responsables (ODD 12) et action climatique (ODD 13).