ECT is strengthening the development of its projects in the Paris region and elsewhere in France with the arrival of Sofiane Chikh as Director of Development and Planning.  As the French leader in the circular economy for excavated earth from construction and public works, ECT aims to strengthen its position as a key player in non-built development by carrying out nature and leisure projects in cities and agricultural rehabilitation projects. With this in mind, Sofiane Chikh has joined the company as Director of Development and Planning. He is responsible for identifying, designing, and developing ECT’s new projects in consultation with

Toulouse, June 6, 2024 – ECT, leader in the recovery of excavated soil from the construction industry, announces the opening of a new regional branch in Occitanie. This opening reflects ECT’s ambition to actively contribute to the region’s dynamism by transforming derelict sites into undeveloped projects with an environmental or social vocation. The new regional branch will be managed by Anne Mondy. Originally from Toulouse, Anne Mondy brings over 20 years’ experience in the property development sector in the Midi-Pyrénées region. In May 2024, she joined the ECT Group as Occitanie Development Director, with the mission of ensuring the company’s

Biodiversity and construction According to the IUCN, invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the five global causes of biodiversity loss, along with habitat destruction, direct resource exploitation, climate change and pollution. In France, there are many examples of invasions: coypu, Louisiana crayfish, bullfrogs, ambrosia, tiger mosquitoes… A dozen plant species (EVEE) could concern land excavation sites and inert soil reclamation sites. In response to these growing challenges for construction and public works professionals, ECT is launching a unique offer to help them manage construction site soil impacted by invasive plant species. An important subject, given that an average of

In the heart of the Seine-et-Marne region, Safer de l’Ile-de-France and ECT inaugurated the agricultural redevelopment and environmental restoration of a former polluted and degraded site, in the presence of Pierre Ory, Prefect of Seine-et-Marne and Jerôme Regnault, Ile-de-France Regional Councillor and 1st Vice-President of Ile-de-France Nature. Grisy-Suisnes (Seine-et-Marne 77), January 23, 2024 Pierre Marcille, Chairman of Safer de l’Ile-de-France, Laurent Mogno, Chairman of ECT, Jean-Marc Chanussot, Mayor of Grisy-Suisnes and Seine-et-Marne departmental councillor, and Louis-Marie Saoût, Mayor of Coubert, officially opened the exemplary rebirth of the La Grange-le-Roy site, in the presence of Pierre Ory, Prefect of Seine-et-Marne, Sébastien

Buchelay, March 28, 2023 – Since mid-March, the first inert building and civil engineering soils have been arriving at the ECT site in Buchelay (78). By reusing excavated soil from local building sites, ECT brings a new landscaped park to life. The park will open to the public in early 2024. Built on communal land, this project is part of the circular economy of excavated soil. A new green space open to all, created by recycling excavated soil Following on from the Plaine des Sports Grigore Obreja sports complex along the A13 freeway, ECT is starting work on a new

Lille, November 15, 2022 – ECT a long-standing player in the field of non-built environmental development, announces the opening of a regional branch in the Hauts-de-France region. Its ambition is to contribute to the rehabilitation ofon industrial wasteland by recycling excavated soil. Based in Lille, this regional office operates under the direction of Julien Golaszewski, ECT’s Deputy Development Director. Guillaume Lemoine, previously Biodiversity Advisor at EPF Hauts-de-France, has joined a team of 4 people. This follows an initial operation to transform the Van Pelt site in Lens into an urban forest. A dozen projects are currently under study. Developing projects

This renaturation project is self-financed through the reuse of inert soil from local building sites.Waste removal operations are underway to enable agricultural, environmental and landscape rehabilitation of the site through the addition of soil. An emblematic example of the positive contribution of the circular economy of inert soils to regional development. Thursday, May 19, 2022, Boissy-l’Aillerie / Puiseux-Pontoise (95). A few kilometers from Cergy-Pontoise, the site visit organized by the ECT company enabled Philippe Court, Prefect of Val d’Oise, to Michel GUIARDMayor of Boissy-l’Aillerie, to Thierry THOMASSINMayor of Puiseux-Pontoise, and to the members of the municipal councils present, the Cergy-Pontoise

Annet-sur-Marne (77), October 1, 2021 – Saype, artist known worldwide for his land art paintings, continues his Human Story project with a new opus, “Un jeu d’enfant?”. Spread over almost 3,500 m², the work depicts a child playing with a bulldozer. A new illustration of the artist’s ephemeral, responsible land art, the fresco was created using soil excavated from construction sites and reused by ECT. A new ephemeral work by Saype continuing his “Human Story” series After New York, the mountains of Switzerland, South Africa, Colombia and Burkina-Faso, artist Saype continues his “Human Story” series in Annet-sur-Marne, 35km from Paris.

November 4, 2020 – On the Lil’Ô site on L’Île-Saint-Denis (93), “Les Faiseurs de terre”, a consortium comprising Halage, Neo-Eco and ECT, has deployed its fertile substrate demonstrator. The aim of this pooling of skills and resources is to validate the manufacturing process for a fertile substrate made entirely from recycled products: inert soil, crushed concrete and green waste compost. The conviction of “Faiseurs de Terres” is that this fertile, recycled, local and solidarity-based substrate should become the basis for the greening of territories, and a vector for the development of training and employment. This demonstrator, financed by Plaine Commune