JULY 2010
France
Higher platforms
The consortium headed by Chantiers Modernes BTP (VINCI Construction France), with Eurovia’s Mitry-Mory and Aubervilliers offices, is to start raising the platforms at the stations serving the Villepinte exhibition ground and Roissy CDG 1 Airport, by Paris, on line B of the RER (regional express network). The project will be handed over during the first quarter of 2011. Value of the works: €3.7m.
Upgrading Caen-Carpiquet Airport
Mid-July will see Eurovia’s Caen office start upgrading works at Caen-Carpiquet Airport (Normandy). The project calls for the structural reinforcement of the runway and taxiways and the creation of a rainwater collection network with associated storage and infiltration basins, as well as the application of markings on the runway. Worth almost €5m, the works will be completed by late August.
Teamwork in Auvergne
In Montluçon (central France), four Group companies will together shortly be building a 12,000 cu. metre rainwater storage basin. Dumez Lagorsse and SNEC (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) will supply the earthworks and civil engineering for the basin, the networks and connection chambers and a 15 m-deep, 9 x 8 m shaft. CSM Bessac, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), will supply the TBM and drive a 312 m-long main drain, 2.28 m in diameter, partly beneath the bed of the Cher river. And, finally, Cegelec (Energy business line) will be responsible for all the structure’s electromechanical equipment. Total value of the works: €10.8m.
Lighting up the castle in Pau
Cegelec Sud-Ouest (Energy business line) contributed to work on the illuminations at the castle in Pau (south-west France), where Henri IV was born, in preparation for the festivities marking the 400th anniversary of his death. Worth 400,000 euros, the contract covered replacing all the permanent illuminations (49 floodlights and 3 km of wiring) as well as installing the equipment (17 video projectors, a central control room and a sound system) for a Son et Lumière show first presented to the public in mid-May. The new lighting equipment has resulted in a 36% energy saving.
Renovated… one egg
In Montpellier (south of France), teams from Baillargues and Entreprise de Filippis (both Eurovia subsidiaries) have just finished refurbishing the “egg” supporting the Fountain of the Three Graces in Place de la Comédie, in the heart of the old town. In order to enhance public safety, the teams also replaced 7,400 slabs in the surrounding area (a total of 1,200 sq. metres) – laid in 1984, these had proved slippery in wet weather.
First stage of the ITER project
Within the framework of the ITER project (which aims to prove that nuclear fusion could become a viable source of power by the year 2050), the first contract for the construction of the test building, on the CEA site at Cadarache (south of France), was awarded on 20 May to the consortium formed by GTM Sud, leader, Chantiers Modernes Sud and Campenon Bernard Sud-Est (all subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France) and Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction). Destined to accommodate the “tokamak”, the core element of the installation, this building (length:130 m; width: 90 m; height: 50 m) will be constructed in reinforced concrete and separated from its bottom slab by some 600 anti-seismic supports. The contract comprises a firm tranche, for the earthworks and the structural works for the main bottom slab, and conditional tranches relating to the creation of the lower slab and the foundations of the coil assembly hall. Worth a total of nearly €36.6m, the works began in mid-June.
VINCI Park expands in Cergy-Pontoise
On 25 May, the urban community of Cergy-Pontoise (Paris region) entrusted VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) with a delegation-of-public-services contract to manage 20 car parks (5 multi-storey parks and 15 parking lots), i.e. a total of 5,250 parking spaces. The eight-year contract entered into force on 1st June.
Urban lighting in Évreux
Lesens Normandie and Citéos Exploitation Normandie (Energy business line) have secured the contract to manage the urban lighting in the town of Évreux (Normandy). Signed for a period of eight years, it covers management of the power supply and the upgrading, renewal and maintenance of the installations, as well as the management of claims and the festive illuminations. Contract value: €7m.
Wastewater treatment plant on Reunion Island
On 26 May, CINOR (the intercommunal local authority in the north of Reunion Island) awarded the concession contract for the Grand Prado wastewater treatment plant in Sainte-Marie to the Grand Prado 360° consortium, headed by Veolia Water and notably including SBTPC and Sogea Réunion (two VINCI Construction subsidiaries). The contract covers the financing, design and construction of the plant and its operation for 20 years. With a capacity of 160,000 population equivalent, the new facility will treat wastewater from the communities of Saint-Denis, Sainte-Marie and Sainte-Suzanne. The works start in June, with handover scheduled for early 2013. Contract value for VINCI Construction: approaching €40m.
Fast-track worksite in Bordeaux
Over the long Ascension weekend, teams from the southern regional operations and civil engineering offices of Européenne de Travaux Ferroviaires (Eurovia), in association with Eurovia’s Bordeaux office, were hard at work lifting 1,200 m of track and laying 220 m of new track alongside a new platform in the railway station in Bordeaux, all within the space of just 85 hours. The station was closed throughout this period, but was already reopened to travellers, with a resumption of traffic, as of Sunday 16 May.
Widening the A87
Following a call for tenders, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) has awarded a joint venture formed by Eurovia Atlantique and Eurovia Béton (co-contractor for the engineering structures) the contract for the earthworks, engineering structures and pavements on the project to widen the Haute-Perche – La Monnaie section (5 km) of the A87, near Angers (western France), to 2x3 lanes. Valued at €17.3m, the works are scheduled to take two years to complete.
LCB target for arts and culture centre
Early in May, a consortium comprising Campenon Bernard Franche-Comté and Verazzi (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) and Soletanche Bachy Pieux, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), charged with the foundations, structural works and external works works package, began work on the Cité des Arts et de la Culture in Besançon (east of France). Once handed over, after 30 months of works, this new, 11,000 sq. metre facility will be home to the new music conservatoire and the Frac (regional contemporary art collection). It will be the first cultural building in France on this sort of scale to aim for LCB (Low Consumption Building) certification, (notably thanks to the installation of a heat pump and 1,200 sq. metres of photovoltaic panels). Imhoff Gérardmer and L’Est Énergie (Energy business line business units) will be supplying the ventilation, heating and plumbing works package.
Austria
Finishing touches in the Lilienberg tunnel
In early May, a few weeks after the Lilienberg tunnel was brought into service, Cegelec (Energy business line) teams in Austria made the final adjustments to its electrotechnical equipment. This 1,370 m-long road tunnel near the town of Völkermarkt, in Carinthia (southern Austria), features 700 m of emergency exits and escapeways. The company had been appointed in May 2009 to install the tunnel’s safety, remote traffic management, ventilation and driver information systems. Worth €3m, the works were completed in seven months.
Belgium
A 4th European school in Brussels
CFE Brabant, a CFE subsidiary (VINCI Construction), is participating in the construction of the 4th European school in Brussels, on the site of the former cadet school. The project involves demolishing or renovating old buildings as well as building new facilities, which will accommodate nearly 2,500 pupils as of the start of the 2012-13 school year. Value of the works: €47m, of which 50% for CFE Brabant.
Czech Republic
Three new projects for SMP
SMP (VINCI Construction) is leader of a consortium that has recently embarked on three new projects. The first project calls for cleaning up after a leak at a hazardous waste landfill site near the municipality of Pozd’atky. The 7,524 sq. metres of contaminated land will then be treated so that it can be re-used. SMP has also started renovation work on the Domazlice water treatment plant, and launched the “Strakonice – Clean City” programme, which includes modernising a wastewater treatment plant and building a wastewater collection system in Drazejov. Worth a total of €51m (of which 50% for SMP), the first two projects should be completed in 2012, and the third in 2011.
Germany
Noise barriers
Teco Schallschutz (a Eurovia Beton subsidiary) has just completed a first phase of works, on behalf of national railway operator Deutsche Bahn, in the city of Bremerhaven, in the Land of Bremen, 100 km to the west of Hamburg. It involved installing 4,400 m of noise barriers along the railway line passing through the south of the city. Worth €11.3m, the works were carried out without disrupting traffic. The second phase, currently under way, was launched in October 2009 and calls for the installation of 5,100 m of noise barriers in the north of the city and the creation of 12 engineering structures.
Hong Kong
New works package for Express Rail Link project
Within the framework of the Express Rail Link project to build a 26 km-long railway line between Hong Kong and Guangzhou, in China, the joint venture formed by Bachy Soletanche Group, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), and Laing O’Rourke has just been awarded the contract for a 270 m cut-and-cover tunnel. The works will probably take four years to complete. Project value: €109m.
Kuwait
Preparing the ground for two new towns
In preparation for the construction of two new towns, Menard, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), is carrying out soil improvement works using dynamic compaction and dynamic soil substitution techniques. The project involves a total of 6.2 million square metres – a new record for Menard – composed of 3.7 million square metres for roads in Jaber Al Ahmed and 2.5 million square metres for the future town of North West Sulibikhat. Launched in December 2009 and January 2010, the two worksites are expected to take 22 and 18 months, respectively, to complete.
Portugal
New hospital in Loures
In Loures (to the north of Lisbon), Sotécnica ABT (Energy business line), as leader of a consortium, has been awarded the electrical, HVAC (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning) and BMS (building management systems) works packages for a new, 424-bed hospital. The company will be in charge of the project and direct the high-voltage works and water-waste works packages. Valued at €10.3m, the works will be undertaken on behalf of Motal Engil/Opway. The hospital is due to be handed over in late 2011.
Qatar
Lusail Car Parks… continued
In connection with the design–build Lusail Car Parks project in the new town of Lusail, to the north of Doha, QDVC, the Qatari subsidiary of Qatari Diar (51%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (49%), has just been awarded a contract extension worth some €60 million. This new contract involves the construction of 1.8 km of tunnels (width: 12 m; height: 4.50 m) to house all the new town’s utility networks (electricity, water, telephone, etc.). The works will take until May 2011 to complete.