Villeneuve St-Georges is the 9th biggest train station in Ile-de-France. To fully renovate this 870m² train station from 1995, the building owner SNCF Gares & Connexions missioned the architecture agency AREP for technical studies and its integrated REAP reuse expert team to work on a reuse strategy. Among others, steel beams and columns, facing and paving stones, or glass panels have been reintegrated into the new project.
Villeneuve St-Georges is the 9th biggest train station in Ile-de-France. To fully renovate this 870m² train station from 1995, the building owner SNCF Gares & Connexions missioned the architects agency AREP for studies and its integrated REAP reuse expert team to work on a reuse strategy.
REAP operated a reuse strategy from deconstruction studies step to construction site supervision. The team realised a reuse inventory, assessed the reuse potential of every materials from deconstruction and studied where those materials could be integrated into the new project construction. REAP also sourced other reused material from close surroundings for the new project. For quality materials for which a need has not been demonstrated, buyers have been founded. This approach then helped the building owner to integrate strong reuse objectives into the tender document and to select the deconstruction and construction companies on reuse criterias. The project has been delayed and could finally not start during the Digital Deconstruction project. However, here is the list of the materials that should have been shifted away from waste :