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Urban soils: critical area for environmental transition
Newsletter the A-Side / October 14th, 2021
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This month, urban soils are the guest of honour in Leonard's newsletter. Institutions and professionals are devising alternatives to the artificialization of the "critical zone", the fragile seat of chemical interactions between air, water and rocks essential to the regulation of the Earth system. More circular urban planning approaches are being developed to reuse the land extracted from building sites, while new ecological engineering activities are giving increasing importance to "brown corridors" in order to promote biodiversity.
Enjoy your reading!
Like a good vinyl record, our newsletters are divided into two sides. Side A analyses a major trend. Side B (in 2 weeks), offers reading advice to go further on the same theme. You can also find our news and the programme of our next events at the end of these lines.
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A Manifesto for more Down-to-Earth Cities |
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The issue of soil in the city is receiving renewed attention. Awareness is growing of their fragility and importance. There is also increasing talk of the ecosystem services provided by "living soil". In this context, institutions and professionals are reinventing their practices and imagining alternatives to artificialization. |
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Site Excavations: Fertile Ideas for Valuable Land |
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While cities are extracting fantastic amounts of soil - often of good quality - from their subsoil, they are at the same time importing fertile land to meet the demand for urban renaturation. To address this inconsistency, more circular urban planning approaches are being developed. Soil extracted from building sites is now the focus of attention for the development of new living soil. |
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[conversation] with Lionel d'Allard, Director of Equo Vivo, VINCI Construction |
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On sites where Equo Vivo, a VINCI Construction brand carried and developed by VINCI Construction Terrassement, is active, ecologists, earthworkers and civil engineers work together to promote the (re)development of biodiversity. In this interview, Lionel d'Allard, director of Equo Vivo, explains how "ecological engineering" activities are placing increasing importance on soil to achieve their objectives. |
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RADAR
Our selection of innovative businesses #39
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Germany's Schuttflix raises $50 million for its digital building materials marketplace. France's AOS raises €9 million and becomes Saqara. Two fundraisings in the field of construction project optimisation.
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— THURSDAY MEETING
Who will disrupt construction? |
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At Leonard, we believe that technology is one of the levers that will enable us to meet the challenges of transformation in the construction sector. It is thanks to the Contech innovations (contraction of construction and technology) that we will be able to build more cheaply, more sustainably and more safely.
Join Tara Mirkovic, incubation project manager at Leonard, to discuss the digitalisation of construction at the round table organised by Sifted: "Built to last: Is construction too big to disrupt?"
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— LATEST NEWS
🔥Hydrogen events cycle The cycle of events - "The hydrogen sector, a key player in the energy transition" - organised by Leonard in partnership with the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale and the Energy Observer Foundation came to an end. More than 1,000 of you took part in the six live conferences! Haven't had the time to dive into this fascinating subject yet, or do you want to go deeper?
🚀 Innovative programs Only a few days left to apply for the Intrapreneurs and SEED programmes, two of Leonard's offers to support the development of innovative projects in the construction, real estate, mobility and energy sectors. You have until Friday, October 15 to refine your applications.
🎥 Close Up festival |
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13.10 at 3.40pm
Lyon Eurexpo + online
Pollutec Meet Julien Villalongue, Director of Leonard, at the round table: "Low-carbon trajectory of public works: mobilising together
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14.10 to 19.10
Leonard:Paris Festival Close Up : city, architecture and landscape in film Leonard will host four sessions of the 1st edition of the film Close Up Festival: city, architecture and landscape. Free access!
14.10 at 6.30pm
City Dreamers
With Stéphanie Dadour
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15.10 at 7pm
Cine-conference : "Fauves et usages de fauves" With Nicolas Gilsoul
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18.10 at 6.30pm Bonne maman et le Corbusier + Modulor
With Marjolaine Normier, François Chaslin and Freaks Architecture
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19.10 at 6.30pm Homo Urbanus Shanghai
With Jean Yves de Lepinay and followed by an interview with film directors Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
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26.10
Final of the "Construction Startup Competition 2021" Leonard is a partner of the "Construction Startup Competition 2021" alongside Cemex Ventures, Dysruptek, Ferrovial, GS Futures, Hilti and NOVA by Saint-Gobain, to identify and support start-ups working to transform the construction industry. See you on 26 October for the final!
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Leonard est la plate-forme de prospective et d'innovation de VINCI. Nous rassemblons des entrepreneurs, penseurs et esprits créatifs de tous horizons. Ensemble, nous cherchons à inventer les services, équipements et infrastructures qui feront la ville et les territoires de demain.
Prospective, rencontres et échanges, entrepreneuriat et accélération… Bienvenue chez Leonard ! C’est ouvert.
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