Circular construction with Guardian
Sustainable buildings
The new circular economy revolves around the intelligent use of resources, products and commodities such that they can be reused over and over. A closed loop. For buildings for example, circular means that materials are reused. An existing building provides raw materials for a new building.
In order to make a flat roof circular, mechanical fastening is the best solution. The tube-screw combinations from Guardian can be disassembled and are reusable; they are easy to screw out of the roof build-up. The Guardian tubes are made of polypropylene (PP). This material is not affected by moisture and also contains an anti-degradation filling, which makes the products very long-lasting. Because our products can be screwed out of the roofing membrane and insulation, these components of the roof build-up are also reusable.
When you choose Guardian products, you choose a completely removable and reusable flat roof!
Last year, we started production of tubes that contain 10% recycled material from old tubes and rejected batches. This percentage will increase still further in the future.
With this production process, the entire waste stream is less than 0.02%!
Guardian is also an active partner in New Horizon Urban Mining. This is a network organisation with new and existing companies that believe in circular enterprise as the new economy. Together with other New Horizon partners, Guardian develops circular solutions in the whole building, among other things by making new connections, new forms of cooperation and highly targeted investments in technologically innovative solutions!
At Guardian, we look further than just making our own products more sustainable. It is important to us that the total build-up of the roof is built circularly. With the tube-screw combinations from Guardian, you can keep ahead with us in this development!
