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Purchase of largest brownfield project ever in Flanders

ZWIJNDRECHT (28 June 2010) – The joint venture DEC, Dredging International, Jan De Nul and Envisan has finalised today the purchase of 140 hectare (approx. 345 acres) derelict and contaminated land. The area was released after the failure of the companies Nilefos Chemie and MisaEco and is located on the territory of the municipalities Zelzate, Evergem and Ghent. The joint venture has now purchased the entire site and has taken over all remediation obligations, including the capping and aftercare of the gypsum stack.

DEC UK: Thermal desoprtion kit arrives at The Avenue

Parts of the thermal desoprtion plant, intended to tackle 500,000t of contaminated soil through seven-day-a-week operation over the next two-and-a-half years have arrived at The Avenue site near Chesterfield.

DEC do Braseil: Prince Filip visits Santos project (Brazil)

Within the context of a princely mission titled “Multisectoral – Brazil”, prepared by FIT (Flanders Investment & Trade), the Belgian crown prince Filip has visited the remediation project of the contaminated site “Lixão da Alemoa” in Santos, executed by DEME subsidiary DEC.

London Olympics: Interview with our Project Manager

"Costing the earth" is a BBC 4 radio show, looking at man's effect on the environment and how the environment reacts. The episode "The Big Clean Up" was broadcasted on Monday, 1 March 2010. Listen to the podcast.

DEC UK: Avenue site rated “excellent” for consideration

The huge Avenue Coking Works remediation project near Chesterfield has received an excellent score from the Considerate Constructors Scheme. The construction industry scheme rates sites against a code of practice judging its impact on the working environment, the work force and the public. This was the Scheme's first visit to the site.

DEC Sweden: three more projects awarded

DEC was awarded three public procurements in Sweden: the remediation of Stugsundsudden Söderhamn, the remediation of the canal Stenborg in Gävle and the remediation of the Fagervik site in Timrå. Since the establishment of the Swedish branch in 2004, DEC has now performed ten projects in Sweden.

DEC: winner of the IADC Safety Award 2009

The Board of the International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) has presented the Safety Award 2009 to DEME Environmental Contractors (DEC), the environmental specialist company of the DEME Group for its exemplary safety performance on the challenging project "Remediation of the Acid Tar Lagoons in Rieme (Ertvelde), Belgium".  The award is a confirmation and a definite result of the fact that all safety issues are given a top priority status within the DEME Group.

DEC UK: Olympic park clean-up on track as 'big build' gets underway

The unprecedented Olympic Park clean-up is nearly completed after three years, beating its tough sustainability targets and allowing the construction of all permanent Olympic Park venues to start on or ahead of schedule.

Mother holding DEME wins Flemish Export Lion

On September 9th, Kris Peeters, Flemish prime minister and minister of Economy and Foreign Affairs, awarded DEME with the "Export Lion 2009". The prize marks "exceptional export achievements in the past year", says Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT), the Flemish Agency for International Enterprising. The jury praised DEME's enforced and sucessful innovation and diversification policy, its persuading and growing export figures and its significant impact on the Flemish economy.

DEC UK: new contract Avenue Coking Works

£82m contract awarded to clean up one of Europe's most contaminated sites

VSD Avenue, a joint venture partnership between VolkerStevin, DEC and Sita Remediation, has been awarded the contract to remediate the former Avenue Coking Works in Chesterfield; one of the most heavily contamianted sites in Europe.

DEC UK: London Olympics Site remediation

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is redeveloping 2.5 square kilometers of Brownfield Land within the Lower Lea Valley that will house five major venues for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The site was acquired in July 2007 by the London Development Agency, and the ODA is completing the remediation of the site on their behalf. Since July 2007, over 215 buildings have been demolished, 90 per cent of the site has been cleared and over 1.3 million cubic metres of soil excavated. The site has historically been used for a range of uses including light retail and heavy industrial processes. The majority of the area being excavated consisted of made ground as a result of land reclamation of the old marshes in Victorian Times or early industrial revolution and land raising over the last 50 years.

DEC do Brasil: new contract in Santos (Brasil)

Brasil Terminal Portuario, a Brazilian terminal operating company whose main customer will be shipping company MSC recently signed an important contract to clean up harbour sites in the Brazilian harbour city Santos with DEME Environmental Contractors (DEC), the environmental subsidiary of the Antwerp dredging, civil engineering and environmental group DEME. The contract is valued at € 75 million.

DEME and De Nul awarded with Antwerp super project

4 September 2008 - Today an important assignment for the design, construction and exploitation of a silt treatment and storage system in the port of Antwerp – the AMORAS project – has been awarded to Dredging International and Jan De Nul, supported by their respective environmental subsidiaries DEC (DEME Environmental Contractors) and Envisan. This group of specialised contractors has joined forces within the joint venture company SeReAnt. The contract calls for a design and construction period of 30 months, followed by the exploitation of the installations for a period of 15 years. The entire operation represents a total turnover of 400 million Euro, excl. VAT.

23 October 2008: EIC National Land Conference in London

Get a discount in the registration fee!

The Environmental Industries Commission organises the National Brownfield Development Conference in London. Would you like to attend this event? DEC is sponsoring and would like to offer our contacts a discount in the registration fee.

DEC: new organisation structure

DEC is continuously growing. Therefore, we renewed the internal organisation structure. In this way, we hope to be able to provide better solutions for our clients. An overview of the most important changes.

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The DEME Group rebranded

The Belgian DEME Group, of which DEC is a subsidiary, has recently completed a rebranding exercise. DEME offers dredging, environmental and marine engineering services worldwide.

DEC: Winner of Golden Bridge Export Award 2007

The prestigious ‘GOLDEN BRIDGE EXPORT AWARD 2007’ presented by the Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain for achievements in exporting to the UK has been won by Deme Environmental Contractors (DEC).

DEC: Specialist in Brownfield Development

DEC Flanders: Remediation Carcoke Zeebrugge

In September 2006, following a public procurement process, OVAM (the Flemish public authority for wastes and contaminations) awarded DEC three of the four phases of the remediation contract of the Carcoke site in Zeebrugge, Belgium. The works started recently.

DEC UK Ltd: newly formed subsidiary

Following the successful development of the activities in the United Kingdom, DEC has decided to combine the British and Irish activities into the subsidiary DEC UK Ltd.

DEC Flanders: new contract with Colgate in Gentbrugge (Belgium)

The Colgate site in Gentbrugge (close to Gent, Belgium), is contaminated with chloroform. Project developer Sovapex awarded DEC a contract for the excavation and removal of the contaminated soil to the soil recycling centre in Kallo. Also, the placement of a drain is needed for the remediation of the groundwater in a later stage. The works will have a duration of one month.

August 2007

DEC UK: the Belgians are coming

DEC is part of a joint venture that has been awarded the next stage of the remediation of one of Europes most contaminated sites, the former Avenue Coking Works in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The contract has a value of over 100 million euros, and means an important breakthrough for DEC in the United Kingdom.

DEC Flanders: La Floridienne finished

Following successful remediation, the site La Floridienne, alongside the Kluizendok in Gent (Belgium), was delivered to the owner of the site, the City of Ghent.