{"id":243691,"date":"2026-05-11T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/reocean-fund-backs-concrete-technology-that-turns-sea-walls-into-marine-habitats\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:50:07","slug":"reocean-fund-backs-concrete-technology-that-turns-sea-walls-into-marine-habitats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/reocean-fund-backs-concrete-technology-that-turns-sea-walls-into-marine-habitats\/","title":{"rendered":"ReOcean Fund backs concrete technology that turns sea walls into marine habitats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/monacolife.net\/reocean-fund-backs-concrete-technology-that-turns-sea-walls-into-marine-habitats\/\">ReOcean Fund backs concrete technology that turns sea walls into marine habitats<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/monacolife.net\/reocean-fund-backs-concrete-technology-that-turns-sea-walls-into-marine-habitats\/\">https:\/\/monacolife.net\/reocean-fund-backs-concrete-technology-that-turns-sea-walls-into-marine-habitats\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 10:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"monacolife.net\">monacolife.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Monaco Asset Management have announced ECOncrete as the third investment in their ReOcean Fund, backing a technology that transforms conventional marine infrastructure into living ecosystems capable of supporting biodiversity rather than destroying it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The investment addresses a largely invisible environmental problem. Nearly 70% of coastal and offshore structures \u2014 ports, seawalls, breakwaters and offshore energy foundations \u2014 are built using conventional concrete, which creates hostile surfaces for marine life, accelerating biodiversity loss, encouraging invasive species and degrading water quality. ECOncrete\u2019s response is to redesign the concrete itself: by optimising both material composition and surface texture, the company enables marine structures to actively support ecosystem regeneration without any compromise to their structural integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is not untested in Monaco. ECOncrete modules were first installed in the Port of Fontvieille in 2019 as part of the government\u2019s marine biodiversity protection strategy, and more recently in the Larvotto Beach district. Over the past 18 months, the company has delivered its bio-enhancing technology across more than 20 marine infrastructure projects globally, providing over 90,000 m\u00b2 of habitat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cECOncrete technology offers a robust and credible solution to the challenges of protecting marine biodiversity and has been positively experienced in Monaco since 2019,\u201d said Romain Ciarlet, Vice Chairman and CEO of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>ECOncrete modules support ecosystem regeneration along coastlines and are used in two locations in Monaco.<\/p>\n<h4>The ReOcean Fund<\/h4>\n<p>The investment forms part of ECOncrete\u2019s latest fundraising round, launched to expand its global operations. The ReOcean Fund \u2014 which targets \u20ac100 million in investments in next-generation ocean innovation \u2014 focuses on Series B companies aligned with UN&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/monacolife.net\/reocean-fund-backs-concrete-technology-that-turns-sea-walls-into-marine-habitats\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReOcean Fund backs concrete technology that turns sea walls into marine habitats https:\/\/monacolife.net\/reocean-fund-backs-concrete-technology-that-turns-sea-walls-into-marine-habitats\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/monacolife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/econcrete-eco-engineered-pier-blocks-installation-malaga-marina-6a01eae35c551.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,62],"class_list":["post-243691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-energy","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243695,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243691\/revisions\/243695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}