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Lucy Project - Modifying the storage conditions of mine tailings - New Caledonia

Meeting the environmental needs of industry

Sogreah has always worked The development of this environmental aspect has been one of the notable features of the past
in industry, with water, its core decade. Confronted with the tightening of regulatory requirements, Artelia recruited nearly a
business, being a fundamental hundred environmental specialists and, in 2012, integrated within the Group two companies
component of a wide range of specialising in polluted sites and soils, Copramex and Haskoning France. Thanks to these
industrial production projects. new acquisitions, the Group was in a position to undertake a multitude of impact studies, in
Even so, since the 1990s, France and internationally, notably for the mining and oil industries, while also dealing with
it has tended to concentrate its the restoration of many brownfield sites.
engineering services on four
main categories of projects: It also took the opportunity to acquire Spretec (2011), a mechanical and hydromechanical
water supply to industrial engineering expert which had previously worked on some well-known major installations
establishments, protection of (Cigéo Andra repository project, Jules Horowitz Reactor, Eiffel Tower) by contributing its state-
facilities from natural risks, creation of-the-art expertise in the design and construction of hoisting, handling and test facilities.
of maritime structures and a host of Moreover, Sogreah's historical activities in water production, flood protection for industrial
environmental services for industry, sites, and maritime infrastructure schemes were also actively pursued. Artelia was thus
ranging from regulatory studies to involved in well-drilling and water intake schemes, the creation of protection structures and
the engineering of polluted sites the building of specialised port terminals throughout the world.
and soils.

Marc Giroussens
Executive Director I Water & Africa Middle East

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