Two REMPART associations awarded for their use of sustainably grown wood!

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For the first time this year, the Fondation France Bois Forêt pour notre Patrimoine together with the magazine Atrium, patrimoine et restauration awarded the “Forest, Wood and Heritage” prizes.

This prize awards heritage restoration action that mostly includes wood grown in France, in forest sustainably managed. The reward gives to the associations the opportunity to continue to use this resource but also to promote the use of wood in heritage preservation as well as the related know-how and their teaching.

 

Two REMPART associations have been awarded for this first edition:

 

1st prize in the category “Heritage and modernity” (4,000€ prize)
Contemporary addition, mainly in wood, allowing reception or knowledge sharing
within a heritage complex
Château de Brie-Comte-Robert – Les Amis du Vieux Château 

 

 

Awarded item: construction of a lodge for stone-cutting activity in the courtyard of the castle

Construction date: XIIe century
Location : Brie-Comte-Robert (77)
Ressource : Made by the carpenters’ company Hans Février, located in Château-Thierry. The wooden shelter is made of local pine (Socobois sawmill, 10). The cladding is identical to contemporary buildings (Roëser sawmill in Crécy-La-Chapelle, 77).

 
 
 
2nd prize in the category “Heritage and modernity” (2,000€ prize)
Contemporary addition, mainly in wood, allowing reception or knowledge sharing
within a heritage complex
Château de Villandraut – Association Adichats
 

Awarded item:

• Installation of a wooden floor in the ground floor of the towers welcoming the public as well as wooden ramps,

• Restoration of a wooden guardrail, at the top of the counterscarp,

• Creation of an exhibition area under the western vault,

• Creation and installation of dry toilets,

• Creation and installation of a pergola in the eastern main building,

• Rehabilitation of the wooden walkway giving access to the clearing behind the castle,

Location: Villandraut (33)
Ressource: Villandraut is a locality located in the south of Gironde on the edge of the Landes de Gascogne regional natural park and therefore surrounded by pine forest, hence the predominant use of this species. We only use wood from 3 sawmills in our sector (Put-cabrey-Léogats 7 km / Labrousse-Préchac 8 km / Laouey-Grignols 29 km) practising sustainable forest management (PEFC certificate 10-31- 1348 and 10-4-8).