Stirring up shovels and earth By Sibylle Vincendon – April 12, 2019 at 11:24 am [Each week, a story about towns, villages and urban issues. Today, the fate of tons of soil moved to plant construction sites. Large volumes. It’s the story of a guy who digs a hole. A second guy comes along and asks, “And where are you going to put the dirt?” And the first guy replies, “In another hole.” On any building or public works site, the hole is the first operation to be carried out. But as there’s no question of digging a second one

[The ECT company reuses this land to transform denatured areas into urban parks or agricultural fields. March 27, 2019, an article by Giulette Gamberini in the TRIBUNE The enormous volumes involved make this one of the main environmental challenges of the Greater Paris project: how can the tens of millions of tonnes of excavated soil generated by the works – 40 million tonnes for the Grand Paris Express project alone – be recycled? For ECT, this challenge is above all an opportunity. Active in this field since the 1970s, it has developed a solution that goes beyond that traditionally proposed

Radiant sunshine for schoolchildren from Moissy-Cramayel (77) who took part in a day of discovery of the future “Parc de l’Arboretum”. This park was created by ECT using inert soil from construction sites in the Paris region. With the enthusiastic help of the ECT teams, the children planted the fruit trees in the orchard and some of the ornamental trees along the main pathway. The future “Parc de l’arboretum” consists of 2 embankment mounds currently managed by ECT. It will offer Moissy-Cramayel residents : walks, an arboretum of local and exotic species, an orchard, a pond, a “street-workout” area. People

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!

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

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

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

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

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.