Cortizo associated architects without borders
May 27, 2008
Cortizo supports as a partner for architects without borders (AWB) in its efforts to improve the quality of life of the most deprived populations of national and international level. ASF develops comprehensive projects related to architecture, urban planning and infrastructure, promoting local development not dependent, participatory, sustainable and respectful with the environment.
This initiative comes to complete other Corporate Social responsibility actions that allow Cortizo to maintain a business model that creates value in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner.
A company committed
' Cortizo Recycling'. The company has spread 1,735 collection points distributed to all its customers to deposit the surplus of aluminium profiles. A fleet of five trucks are exclusively, responsible for collecting the deposited aluminium and move it back to the centres of production to proceed with its foundry and thus close the cycle of 100 percent reusable and recyclable aluminum.
'Training courses on energy-saving'. Aiming to promote energy efficiency in building processes, Cortizo organises the official colleges of architects and quantity surveyors and technical architects of all Spain, a Conference on the implementation of the technical building code (CTE) in which dealt with rules designed to ensure maximum energy savings in installation of Windows and doors (doors and Windows) of the buildings.
' Sustainability Cortizo'. Every productive Center of the company has its own sewage plants to ensure comprehensive treatment of the wastewater generated in the plants of anodized and lacquered (treatments used to give colour to aluminum profile), ensuring the minimization of the environmental impact of all production processes.
'Thermal exhaust gas exploitation'. Cortizo welcomes 2 plants of co-generation of energy with thermal utilization of exhaust gas that ensures the continuity of the energy supply of the production centres and optimize the total efficiency of energy consumption in its facilities of Padrón (A Coruña).
