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Interview “We need to promote the reuse of inert soil excavated from building sites” (Laurent Mogno, ECT) AUA – Paris – Friday, May 17, 2019 – Interview n° 146743 [We need to promote the reuse of excavated inert soil. The recovery of this material from construction sites is noble. It’s not recycling. Soil reuse objectives vary from site to site, depending on local issues. In terms of landscaping, the field of possibilities is immense. Our aim is to develop a circular economy for excavated soil, so that we can design useful developments that contribute to local dynamics,” explains Laurent Mogno,

Artificial hills on the ECT Moissy-Cramayel site The town hall of Moissy-Cramayel (Seine-et-Marne) will soon be inaugurating a park created entirely from recycled soil. What to do with soil excavated from construction sites ? In a few weeks’ time, the town hall of Moissy-Cramayel (Seine-et-Marne) will inaugurate a park created entirely from recycled soil. In twenty years or more, as the zones are depleted, the gypsum galleries exploited by Placo in the Ile-de-France region will be filled with the same soil. It makes good sense to use the spoil excavated from all construction sites to fill in or backfill. This

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. This is the story of a guy who’s digging a hole. A second guy comes along and asks him, “Where are you going to put all that dirt?” And the first guy replies, “In another hole.” On every construction or public works site, digging a hole is the very first step. But since digging a second hole to dump the dirt

[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

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