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Land reclamation by securing quarries on France 2’s 8 p.m. news programme

France 2’s February 14, 2019 TV newscast retraces the route taken to reclaim excavated soil from the Grand Paris Express. ECT uses some of the soil from the site to secure  gypsum quarries in the Paris region. Step 1: Laboratory analysis. Stage 2: quarry inspections.  During the report, ECT’s plant technician checks the quality of the soil in front of the camera. It provides olfactory and visual control. Thank you Guillaume for  this great demonstration!

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[PRESSE] Les Yeux du Ciel, an official event covered by the press

Les Yeux du Ciel”, a work by Antoine Grumbach and ECT depicting giant eyes, was an event covered by the press. Here’s a panorama of this unique project at the gateway to Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport. Ile-de-France “La colline de terre du Grand Paris Express aura des yeux”, an article by Hendrick Delaire, published on 25/01/2019 for Le Parisien Read the article “A Roissy, des yeux géants vus du ciel”, an article by Marie-Anne Kleiber, published 20/01/2019 for Journal du Dimanche Read the article Dubbed the “Eyes of Heaven”, this work by Antoine Grumbach and ECT depicts giant eyes”, an article by

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“ECT reuses excavated inert soil for development projects”, by Raphaël Richard in the Journal du Grand Paris

Interviewed by Raphael Richard of the Journal du Grand Paris, Laurent Mogno, Chairman of ECT, describes the company’s waste-to-soil business, which includes a number of innovative projects in the Paris region. Enhancing sites by contributing land, agricultural development by SAFER Ile-de-France, setting up a photovoltaic power plant in Annet-sur-Marne (77) in partnership with Akuo Energy, a Land Art project with architect and urban planner Antoine Grumbach, Corporate Chairs with EIVP and ENS de Paysage de Versailles, Laurent Mogno details ECT’s news in this last quarter of 2018. Read the article

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New partnership between Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage de Versailles and ECT

A partnership agreement has been signed between the École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles and ECT, paving the way for a new “Landscape and Landscape” corporate chair. ENSP Director Vincent Piveteau and ECT President Laurent Mogno, signatories of the agreement, wanted to strengthen a collaboration initiated in 2017. ECT has joined forces with ENSP to support a multi-year research-action program, the forerunner of a new corporate chair dedicated to land and landscape issues. The partnership between ENSP and ECT stems from a simple fact: every year, some 15 million cubic metres of soil are excavated in the Paris region

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ECT and EIVP create a chair dedicated to reclaiming soil from urban construction sites

On October 23, 2018, EIVP, Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris, Grande Ecole of Urban Engineering, and ECT, a leading company in high value-added development in territories through the reclamation of backfill and excavated soil, signed an agreement. sponsorship agreement marks an important stage in their close collaboration. The 2-year partnership covers creation of a dedicated teaching and research chair recycling soil from urban construction sites. This interdisciplinary chair will focus on training and research into the reuse of soil from building sites and excavation work in large urban areas. In particular, this reuse can take shape as

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FROM GRAND PARIS TO PARIS EN GRAND

This is the vision of “a new model of global metropolis” developed by Roland Castro in the report submitted to the French President. One of our ambitions is to extend Paris beyond its historical boundaries, while building a “metropolitan oasis”. This is the background to architect and urban planner Antoine Grumbach’s contribution, in which he asserts that “ inert soils are a material of the circular economy” and that their reuse is one of the challenges of a concerted development of “Greater Paris”. As a major player in the reuse of inert soil, ECT is fully committed to this approach.

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Opening of an ECT site in Saint-Pierre-du-Perray

ECT opens a new site in Saint-Pierre-du-Perray (91). The aim of the project, carried out using soil from Ile-de-France building sites near Saint-Pierre-du-Perray, is to improve the golf course for the greater comfort of golfers, and to enhance the entrance to the town with landscaping along the RD 947 road.

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Opening of an ECT site in Moissy-Cramayel

ECT has just opened a new site in Moissy-Cramayel (77). The aim is to open to the public in summer 2019 an arboretum of remarkable species, a vineyard (run by a local association) and a fitness trail. The area accessible to the public will also be equipped with a PRM pathway. The land is located to the north of the commune, adjacent to the future Chanteloup eco-district. Photo credit: Gil Fornet

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A visit to the tunnel boring machine on lot 1 of line 14

5 very interested and impressed ECT Environment Department employees visited the tunnel boring machine (TBM) on lot 1 of Line 14, guided by teams from Razel-Bec and Eiffage, the civil engineering contractors for this first 3.6 km section extending Line 14 from Saint-Lazare to Porte de Clichy. Excavated soil from the TBM is managed by ECT.

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