The improvement of our quality-of-lifeis the challenge that our western societies have confronted in the last few decades.

But, at the same time, we have discovered the fragility of our environment :

  • worries over quality of what we eat and the air we breathe and our urban environment,
  • in particular, noise, pollution and traffic problems.

, from the heads of government down to local community level These are questions that demand a commitment from public authorities from the heads of government down to Local Community Level.

Continuing our economic development depends especially on fossil energy resources and their exhaustibility.

It is therefore already time to impose a type of development that satisfies the needs of today's populations and preserves those of future generations.

This commitment must also be present in social, economic and environmental preoccupations at local town and village level of our department.


The AUDABRAM marble-works, principally through its Grès de Carcassonne Quarry, is desirous of questioning and sensitisation of its partners to need for a real, durable local development policy.

We are thus committed to the valorisation of our territory through concrete actions concerning Urban and Rural Architectural and Landscape Heritage.

This commitment to Living Environment is a basic generator of awareness of the value of this heritage and consequently forges a cultural identity.

At the same time, the revival of the stonemasonry industry is a veritable "motor", it implies heavy local investment and a reintroduction of the ancestral know-how of Stonecutting and Construction. Our making the choice of development through the local construction material is a generator of added value and therefore of employment.

Other plusses are that the locally extracted sandstone requires little transport and is re-usable as building stone in the future of the construction industry.

Grès de Carcassonne stone is helping in the preservation of our resources and improving our everyday environment...

It has to be said !