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

France, Annet-sur-Marne, September 29, 2020 – ACT-E, a joint venture between Akuo, a French independent producer of renewable and distributed energy, and ECT, a company specializing in the recovery of inert materials from construction sites, today inaugurated the “Les Gabots” photovoltaic power plant in Annet-sur-Marne. With a production capacity of 17 MWp, it is one of the largest solar power plants in the Paris region. One of the largest solar farms in the Paris region The plant, comprising 44,000 photovoltaic modules, covers an area of 18.5 hectares. It avoids 847 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. Electricity production covers the

July 1, 2020 – By reusing excavated soil from building sites in the south and west of the Paris region, ECT is bringing two “city sports” projects to life in a landscaped setting. one is the creation of a complete equestrian center (arenas, dressage, cross-country) at Chevannes, in the Essonne region, on a derelict site. The other concerns the construction of the 1st mountain bike and trials stadium in the Île-de-France region, on municipal land. ECT’s environmental, agricultural, leisure and sports projects are all designed to make an environmental contribution to local communities and their inhabitants, and to benefit society