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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.

Opportunities for students

Young talent? Create land for the future!
Explore our vacancies for recent graduates, our traineeships and job fairs near your university or school campus.

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.