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The CIRCLE project is now coming to an end. Indeed, the technical and communication activities will end on 31 March 2023.

This is why, on 28 February, the French and British partners met at Dunston Hall in Norwich for the final event organised by UEA (University of East Anglia).

This was the last opportunity to present the results of the CIRCLE project to a varied audience: local authorities, representatives of the Interreg FMA, water management agency, etc.

On the agenda:

• • Formulations and monitoring
  • Adaptation in the plant for the production of CIRCLE concrete
  • UK pilot site and numerical modelling
  • Pilot site of the Eurovéloroute V4
  • Ostréapolis pilot site
  • Business models

Picture credit: Will Fielding : https://www.willfield.co.uk/

Good news!

The CIRCLE project closing event will take place in Norwich (UK) on February 28^th, 2023.

On the agenda: lunch, networking, presentation of the project results by all partners and Q&A sessions.

If you are interested, you can register via the following link: https://store.uea.ac.uk/product-catalogue/faculty-of-social-sciences/norwich-business-school/the-circle-project-event

For more information, please contact the following address: jade.santier@builders-ingenieurs.fr

The CIRCLE project team will be happy to welcome you! 😊

On December 19th, 2022, the English pilot site was inaugurated at the partner UCLan in Preston.

This event was an opportunity to present and highlight the CIRCLE project in front of an audience composed of academics, representatives of local authorities…

Picture credits: Karl Hopkinson

The CIRCLE project team wishes you all the best for the year 2023.

On 17 November 2022, the penultimate SCM of the CIRCLE project took place in Preston, hosted by partner UCLan.

As the project ends in March 2023, this was an opportunity to take stock of the final stages of the project.

We also had the opportunity to visit the English pilot site and to see its progress.

The last SCM will take place in Norwich on 1 March 2023.

Since October 4th, 2022, ESITC Caen, lead partner of the CIRCLE project, became BUILDERS School of Civil Engineering.

Work on the Eurovéloroute V4 pilot site is progressing well!

As a reminder, within the framework of the CIRCLE project, 1.2 kilometres of the cycle track will be used to implement the method of draining concrete based on cast-in-place shellfish co-products.

This pilot site is supported by the Communauté d’Agglomération des 2 Baies en Montreuillois, a partner in the CIRCLE project.

Picture credits: CA2BM

From the 8th to 11th of August 2022, the ICAE conference (International Conference on Applied Energy) was held in Bochum, Germany.

The conference provided the opportunity for our CIRCLE project partners at UEA to highlight and present the work titled “Sustainable Business Models for Sustainable Concrete – The Triple Layered Proposition”.

The presented work is to be published as a conference paper submitted and accepted by ICAE 2022. Once published, It will be available in the Energy Proceedings journal.

The newsletter of the CIRCLE project is back but this time it’s for a special edition!

Indeed, this one is about the event of June 21st, 2022 which took place in Conchil-le-Temple in the North of France.

Here is the link to the newsletter: Newsletter_N°04_June_2022

Hope you will enjoy it.

Have a good reading!

On Tuesday 21st of June 2022, the CIRCLE project event took place in Conchil-Le-Temple (FR).

Organised by and at EQIOM, A CRH Company, this event was an opportunity to present and highlight the CIRCLE project to an audience of elected officials, community representatives and industrialists….

The program included a visit to the concrete plant of EQIOM, A CRH Company, with an explanation of the washing and crushing of the shells, followed by a visit to the pilot site of the Eurovéloroute V4 by CA2BM with a demonstration of the draining quality of CIRCLE concrete.

This day was a real moment of exchange between the partners of the CIRCLE project finally together and the visitors invited to the event.

Thank you to EQIOM, A CRH Company and CA2BM for the organisation and to everyone for your participation !

On June 21st, 2022, in the afternoon, the 4th Steering Committee of the CIRCLE project will take place.

It will be the opportunity to showcase the structure of the sector of shell waste valorisation.

On August 31, ESITC Caen, CA2BM and Eqiom – A CRH company met in Montreuil to visit portions of Eurovéloroute 4.

These portions, with a total length of 4km, will be built with the pavement mix developed for the project from spring 2022.

This Steering Committee n°2 CIRCLE was the opportunity for all the partners to meet and share the progress on the CIRCLE project.

Communication of the project, progress of the pilot sites, identification of shellfish co-products, formulation & characterization of concretes …

Next technical meeting in October 2021

The partners, the objectives, the work axes…you will know more about the CIRCLE project.

To consult the brochure, please visit our “Resources” page.

Submitted on 24.06.2020, the CIRCLE project was approved by the Interreg VA France (Channel) England program on 01.10.2020.

The objective of the CIRCLE project is to develop a draining cast-in-place concrete pavement based on shell co-products, with low environmental impact and high drainage properties.

Until June 2023, 28 pilot areas in France and England will be implemented, instrumented and monitored over time. The data collected will be shared with all in order to promote the dissemination of the innovative product in the FMA zone.

All the partners of the project, academics, local authorities and industrialists, will benefit from a financial support from the Interreg VA France (Channel) England up to 69%, i.e. 2.5M(E) for a total budget of approximately 3.7M(E).

For more information, see our Project Brochure and follow us on this website and our social networks.