A sustainable building is

• A comfortable, safe and reliable place to live and work
• Designed to achieve energy efficiency and optimize the use of energy during its life cylce
• Designed and built to have a low environmental impact all along its life cycle, including carbon footprint

Nexans’ response to these varying challenges combines several products and specific services, for any type of building, whether it involves residential housing, public and office buildings, or industrial sites.

We act for a sustainable future.

Low impact solutions

Every product around us has an impact on the environment, from the extraction of raw materials to the end-of-life recycling or disposal. Nexans is taking into account the life cycle of its products and is working all along the value chain, from purchasing the right materials to providing the right information to the designers of Green Buildings.

With its “à la carte solutions”, Nexans offers services and support to reduce the environmental impact of cables taking into account the entire life cycle. 

• Answer to Environmental classification of Buildings : Green buildings

One of the best way to achieve the targets of sustainable building is to follow the Green Building certification scheme that exist around the world, like HQE® Green Star, Green Mark… The 2 most widely spread and used around the world are LEED (created in the US) and BREEAM (created in the UK) .A product itself cannot be ” LEED” or ” BREEAM” certified, but it can certainly contribute to the overall targeted performances per credit categories required by the reference scheme. Contact us for more information about how our Nexans offer can help you gain points.

• Drum management and Green Drums Program (PEFC™ certified)

In 2010, Nexans became the world’s first cable manufacturer to upgrade to drums holding the PEFC certification. Now Nexans’ Green Drums initiative holds both PEFC (for Europe) and FSC (Worldwide) certifications. PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) and FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) are organizations dedicated to promote Sustainable Forest Management through independent third-party certification. They work throughout the entire forest supply chain to promote good practices and to ensure that timber forest products are produced respecting the highest ecological, social and ethical standards.

On customer’s request, empty drums are picked up on site by a logistic provider selected by Nexans. The returned drums are repaired and cleaned up and re-used (or in some cases recycles).

• PEPecopassport® environmental declaration of product

PEPecopassport® is the product environmental identity card, based on a standardized, reliable and recognized Program. It provides the results of the environmental impact evaluation of the product obtained using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. This methodology measures the impact of the product on air, water, soil and natural resources during the whole product life cycle, from the raw material extraction to the end of life. The PEPecopassport® complies with the ISO 14025 standard dealing with Type III environmental declaration. All PEPecopassport® are registered by the PEPecopassport® Program. The PEPecopassport® are useful today for public and private contractor, and design consultants involved in sustainable buildings, as well as OEM customers involved in the ecodesign developpement of their products and systems.