Cortizo and Metrovacesa team up to reduce the environmental impact of their developments

• For the developer, the agreement aims to reduce the environmental impact of the building process, as well as to reduce CO₂ emissions from its constructions.

• The developments will feature windows made from Cortizo Infinity, a 100% post-consumer recycled aluminium billet.

• Infinity allows you to give a second life to aluminium products that have reached the end of their useful life, such as windows, doors, facades and railings, among others.

• The carpentry systems will also use 100% recycled polyamides, a solution that reduces the energy consumption of the buildings and CO

Madrid, 10 January 2024. Metrovacesa, Spain’s leading real estate developer with more than 100 years of history and more than 150 projects under development nationwide, has joined forces with Cortizo, a leading company in the design and manufacture of aluminium profiles, to reduce the environmental impact of the construction process, as well as to reduce CO₂ emissions. To this end, the developments will have windows made from Infinity, the 100% recycled aluminium billet produced entirely from post-consumer scrap.

In line with its commitment to sustainability, the developer will use recycled raw materials from Cortizo’s foundries in its residential complexes. To this end, the Galician multinational manufactures aluminium from windows, doors and facades, among others, whose useful life has ended in order to reincorporate them into the construction process, thus reducing the generation of waste. In addition to these materials, the carpentry systems can also be manufactured from 100% recycled polyamides, a solution that helps to reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions.

In this way, the developer will promote sustainable architecture by focusing on the circularity of the materials used in its developments, whose carbon footprint is already being studied. Furthermore, the agreement, which has an initial duration of one year and can be extended, will represent a step forward in terms of sustainability for the developer, in addition to the efforts carried out to date.

For David Sierra Llunch, director of projects and sustainability at Metrovacesa: “At Metrovacesa we seek to go one step further in terms of sustainability, always remaining at the forefront. For this reason, agreements of this type are fundamental for us, as they allow us to improve the efficiency of our constructions and promote sustainable building. For his part, Cortizo’s general director of architecture, Daniel Lainz, welcomes the fact that “the country’s leading developer is joining the Infinity challenge”, committing to “high-performance joinery made from 100% recycled aluminium billet, whose production produces less than one kilo of CO₂ for every kilo of aluminium produced, which means a reduction of more than 95% in carbon emissions and energy consumption required in the production of primary billet”.

Decarbonisation of the real estate sector

In addition to the use of renewable construction materials, Metrovacesa, in its commitment to integrate sustainability throughout the value chain, also certifies all its new developments with sustainable building seals or the implementation of tools to measure the carbon footprint of the life cycle of projects, through Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), which uses Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology.

Another of its major milestones this past year has been the creation of the Department of Sustainable Urban Development (DUS), which has continued to open new channels of communication with citizens to promote participatory urban planning and co-design the cities of the future.