Fibre cement needs 11 times more wáter to be produced VS Slate Fibre cement needs 6 times more energy to be produced VS Slate Fibre cement lasts 25 years VS 100 years for Slate Clay Tiles needs twice more water to be produced VS Slate Clay Tiles needs twice more energy […]
The world wide leader of production of Hooks and nails was represented at the SRCA CONFERENCE in Grove City (USA) last fall. It was obvious to see Yvens Decroupet in the USA in front of the best selection of American Slate Roofers. During the 3 days show, everybody has been very impressed with […]
Il y a déjà quelques mois que la Commune d’Abondance, propriétaire et gestionnaire du site abbatial s’est engagée dans une nouvelle démarche de conservation de ce patrimoine remarquable. Pour engager un tel projet, la Commune a fait appel à un maître d’œuvre spécialisé, ALEP Architectes, entreprise basée à Lyon et représentée par M. Philippe […]
This month I will not talk about my trips but about my brother Antoine who collaborate with be natural® every so often in France in the distribution of Natural Slate for internal and external uses. This month he went on holidays to Peru in South America with the idea of visiting not only […]
Typique des régions de montagne, la lauze s’est adaptée à la construction contemporaine en Savoie, grâce au renouvellement complet du savoir-faire des charpentiers couvreurs. Les lauzes ont beau être un matériau traditionnel de couverture en Savoie, l’utilisation qu’on en fait aujourd’hui n’a plus grand-chose à voir avec celle de jadis. Autrefois, on extrayait ces […]
The choice between a Vermont quarried domestic slate and an imported slate from Spain, the source for more then 85% of the world’ slate, is in many ways a decision on color and characteristics and sometimes matching an existing project. All Spanish Imported Slate, for the most part, is black and variations of black, […]
The legendary origin of slate as a roofing material centers on Saint Lezin, the French Bishop of Angers. Caught in a sudden storm, on a pilgrimage to Rome, he is said to have improvised protection by arranging, tent-like, slabs of outcropping rock along the pathway. In a later vision, he was instructed in the use […]
Au coeur de Paris, le Centre Pompidou s’associe au sommet de la COP 21 et rend hommage au "Land Art", présenté comme le "premier mouvement (…) à élire la terre comme lieu et matière de l’expression artistique". Un cercle d’ardoises de Richard Long, un des artistes emblématiques de ce courant, est exposé dans le Forum. […]
Casas Cube es una compañía dedicada a la fabricación modular de viviendas revestidas con mármol y pizarra. Este proceso consiste en el ensamblaje de distintos componentes dentro de una cadena de montaje industrial. La finalidad es conseguir módulos portables habitables que posteriormente son transportados y rematados en su ubicación definitiva. Todos los modelos Cube de […]
Victor Cardenes has been working on a poster summarizing the main roofing slate outcrops in the World. It compiles the location of the outcrops together with a new classification of roofing slates taking into account the color and the petrology. For example, the lithotype B1 corresponds to the black-grey metamorphic slates, the most common type, while […]
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