{"id":1761,"date":"2023-05-23T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-arch.eu\/?post_type=solution&#038;p=1761"},"modified":"2023-05-23T16:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:33:56","slug":"gwilen","status":"publish","type":"solution","link":"https:\/\/www.the-arch.eu\/en\/solutions\/gwilen\/","title":{"rendered":"GWILEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"TA23_BLOCK_CHAPEAU\"><p>The transformation of marine sediments into products for design, architecture and construction, using technology inspired by the cycle of nature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-solidification-technology-with-many-applications\">A solidification technology with many applications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. Starting from this premise, a small team of about ten people, including an engineer from the Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es and an architect specialized in the construction sector, have imagined exploiting marine sediments, which are irremediably formed downstream of rivers, for new uses. Based on an innovative process that solidifies, without cooking at high temperature, alluvial deposits from port dredging, the GWILEN team designs and offers products made from this 100% mineral material, without cement or resin, directly inspired by the natural phenomenon of diagenesis, which transforms particles into rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through its approach of using abundantly available resources and its process that is twelve times less impactful than cement production, this start-up is developing, in its Brest workshops, a new material that constitutes a solid ecological alternative for the construction sector, which is responsible for 41% of the world&#8217;s energy consumption and 40% of raw material consumption. Halfway between terracotta, concrete and stone, molded and tinted in the mass thanks to natural pigments, these solidified marine sediments present a unique aesthetic. They therefore offer numerous applications that the GWILEN team &#8211; from the Breton name of the river &#8220;La Vilaine&#8221; &#8211; likes to experiment and develop in view of the numerous perspectives offered by guaranteed natural properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"TA23_TEMOIGNAGE\"><div class=\"TA23_TCI_TEXTE\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab An estimated 40 to 50 million cubic meters of sediment are dredged in French ports each year, equivalent to the consumption of concrete in France. \u00bb<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"TA23_TCI_NOM\">Yann Santerre, founder of GWILEN<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1760,"menu_order":0,"template":"","thematiques":[30],"localisations":[29],"class_list":["post-1761","solution","type-solution","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thematiques-habitat-en","localisations-france-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GWILEN | Les 100 solutions | The Arch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-arch.eu\/en\/solutions\/gwilen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GWILEN | Les 100 solutions | The Arch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A solidification technology with many applications Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. 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