In the June 2020 issue of Le Moniteur, Laurent MIGUET devotes a special report to “climate change, disrupting the way cities are built”. The article “Un technosol fertile sur le parvis du château de Vincennes” is the 3rd step in this dossier. An 11,200 m² meadow will grow on the technosol produced by ECT, in place of the old parking lots. “The city’s air conditioning depends on fertilizing its technosols. The greening of the esplanade Saint-Louis, in front of the Château de Vincennes in Paris, supports this rule of urban metabolism. To transform a parking lot into a meadow, the

Laurent Mogno, President of the ECT Group, talks to Franck Boittiaux for ConstructionCayola.com ECT’s Chairman took the opportunity to give an initial economic assessment of the containment measures taken, and to explain the company’s approach to dematerializing the flow of information with its construction and public works customers. What are the economic and other consequences of the health crisis and containment on your your company’s business and your relations with your customers? “The consequences were severe! We shut down all our sites on March 17 and 18, while we defined new working procedures to protect the health of our employees

The international journal “Ecological Engineering” has just published a very interesting article. This article is entitled: “Tree growth and macrofauna colonization in Technosols constructed from recycled urban wastes”. It is co-authored by CharlottePruvost and Thomas Lerch (Paris Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Sorbonne University, CNRS, UPEC, Paris 7, INRA, IRD). The subject at hand is how to use technosols to offer sustainable alternatives to the massive importation of topsoil to meet the growing need for urban greening. A research topic already explored by Charlotte Pruvost as part of a Cifre thesis supervised by Thomas Lerch and supported by ECT.

Traceability of soil, smooth unloading, compliance with health regulations COVID-19 ECT launched its “FULL DEMATERIALIZATION” project for its unloading orders on June 4. ECT now dematerializes the entire voucher issue, transmission and validation process. And as of this week, 100% of ECT sites are equipped to scan their QR code. The “bon de passage” is an important link in the chain of traceability for soil and materials received at our sites. This e-voucher project, which was launched a few months ago as part of the company’s environmental initiative, has been accelerated by the current health crisis. The introduction of contactless

The upturn in construction activity is confirmed. This is the case for a growing number of building sites and several GPE lines. After an interruption of a few days to implement the necessary adaptation of teams and procedures to the fight against COVID-19, ECT reopened several of its sites from March 25 to meet the residual activity of the building and civil engineering sector, and then to support the resumption of activity. By the end of April, 5 sites were welcoming our customers. We were ready for further openings as demand from the construction industry increased. So, a week later,