# ECOncrete

> ECOncrete is a New York-headquartered climate and construction technology company that turns marine concrete into habitat. Its patented package combines a bio-enhancing admixture, rough surface textures and site-specific shapes such as tide pools, caves and crevices. Ports, coastal cities, utilities and offshore developers use the system in seawalls, breakwaters, revetments, cable protection and other infrastructure to meet structural requirements while creating measurable biodiversity gains. The company sells technology, design, engineering, molds and monitoring expertise, while local concrete suppliers do the manufacturing.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Dr. Ido Sella (CEO and Co-founder), Dr. Shimrit Perkol-Finkel (Former CEO and Co-founder (died 2021))
- **Team size:** Approximately 48 employees; LinkedIn lists 11-50, and the company says it operates expert teams across four global hubs.
- **Products:** Bio-enhancing admixture, Nature-inclusive textures, liners and molds, Tide Pool Armor, Marine mattresses and cable protection, COASTALOCK
- **Notable:** Named one of TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2019., Selected as a 2021 BloombergNEF Pioneer., Co-founders were finalists for the 2022 European Inventor Award.

## Products & services

- **Bio-enhancing admixture** — A patented concrete additive made predominantly from recycled and byproduct materials, used at roughly 10% of cementitious material to alter chemistry, reduce permeability and encourage marine settlement.
- **Nature-inclusive textures, liners and molds** — Surface treatments and casting tools that replace smooth concrete planes with rough, complex attachment points for marine organisms.
- **Tide Pool Armor** — Water-retaining coastal armor units that preserve intertidal refuge at low tide and add habitat to shoreline protection.
- **Marine mattresses and cable protection** — Articulated mats and tailored blocks that stabilize shorelines, subsea cables and pipelines while creating complex benthic habitat.
- **COASTALOCK** — A single-layer interlocking coastal armor unit whose cavity can act as a tide pool, cave or overhang depending on orientation.
- **Droplock scour protection** — An offshore scour-protection unit developed with Holcim US to protect foundations while reducing material use and supporting seabed ecology.
- **Ecological design, engineering and monitoring** — Site assessment, product tailoring, construction guidance, biological monitoring and natural-capital reporting for marine infrastructure owners and project teams.

## Achievements

- Named one of TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2019.
- Selected as a 2021 BloombergNEF Pioneer.
- Co-founders were finalists for the 2022 European Inventor Award.
- Living Ports won the IAPH 2022 Sustainability Award in the Infrastructure category.
- Living Breakwaters was completed in 2024 with ECOncrete armor and tide-pool elements integrated into the coastal defense system.
- Won the 2025 Sustainability Delivery Award for Nature Positive projects jointly with WSP.
- Won the inaugural Seanergy Award for Environmental Coastal and Maritime Protection in 2025.
- Reported more than 90,000 square meters of habitat delivered across over 20 projects in the 18 months before May 2026.
- Port of San Diego monitoring found more than 60 marine species on the initial COASTALOCK installation before the port announced an expansion.
- The company's ECO P-1/TP admixture has a verified Environmental Product Declaration under ISO 14025 and EN 15804.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — ECOncrete won the inaugural Seanergy Award for environmental coastal and maritime protection.
- **2025-09** — The company announced ECOncrete HAV, a Nordic office in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- **2025-11** — Living Ports monitoring reported measurable biodiversity gains on enhanced infrastructure at the Port of Vigo.
- **2026-03** — The Port of San Diego announced an expansion of habitat-friendly shoreline installations after the initial COASTALOCK site supported more than 60 marine species.
- **2026-05** — ECOncrete completed a $14 million fundraise led by Builders Vision, with impact investors and an Open Road Impact financing facility.
- **2026-05** — ECOncrete and IHCantabria completed wave-flume physical-model testing for COASTALOCK 2.0.
- **2026-07** — First monitoring at the Port of Esbjerg found algae, barnacle recruitment and shore crabs on six COASTALOCK units after ten weeks, ahead of a planned expansion to several hundred units.
- **2026-07** — The company announced three Climate Week NYC sessions for September 2026 focused on resilient waterfronts and subsea infrastructure for data-center growth.

## Links

- Website: https://econcretetech.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/econcrete/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@econcretetech
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/econcrete_/

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Last updated: 2026-08-22