The idea of the DomoLab emerged in 2007, following the first Batimat tradefair where eleven companies of the Saint-Gobain group were together on the same stand. It springs from a shared wish of the marketing and research department : to use the diversity of skills and the jobs complementarity in order to create a permanent dynamics of innovation for the Group’s strategy.The development of specifications and requirements is entrusted to the designers agency Les Sismo, who drive many workshops in 2008 to define the program of the future innovation center. Following a first formalization of the project by Les Sismo, Saint-Gobain order a study to Encore Heureux that will create the outline of the current project, in November 2009. After 15 months of study, the site started in 2010 and Domolab opens in autumn, the October 3, 2011.