News update

DECEMBER 2011

France

The art and the manner according to Lainé Delau

Lainé Delau (VINCI Construction France) has been appointed by the City of Paris to create, on a general contracting basis, the new conservatoire in the 17th arrondissement.

With a surface area of 2,850 sq. metres, the building, designed by Basalt Architecture, will provide spaces for the teaching of music, dance and drama, as well as an auditorium seating some 300 people. As of the start of the 2013-14 academic year, it will accommodate 1,200 students.
Worth €13.2m, the works started in mid-October 2011.

Wooden umbrellas at the MIN in Lomme

Fargeot Lamellé Collé, an Arbonis company (VINCI Construction France), is working, on behalf of Explorations Architecture, on manufacturing and installing 37 bonded laminate umbrellas destined to cover the loading and unloading areas at the "market of international interest" (MIN) in Lomme (north of France), i.e. a surface area of 15,000 sq. metres. In order to keep disruption to a minimum, pre-assembly areas have been organised close to the site.

The first umbrellas were installed in September 2011; the operation is due for completion in February 2012.
Contract value: €3.8m.

Facelift for Printemps Haussmann

In Paris, GTIE Tertiaire (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) is working with SRC (VINCI Construction France) on renovating floors 3, 4 and 6 of the Printemps de la Mode store. The structural works are being supplied by SRC, with GTIE Tertiaire handling the technical works packages, in collaboration with Valentin and Protec Feu (business units of the VINCI Energies France Division).

Worth €11m for the Group, the works began in July 2011, with completion scheduled for December 2012. The sixth floor was handed over in mid-November 2011.

Trial run for Brest's tram

Dynamic testing of the first line of a light rail system for the urban community of Brest (Brittany) began on 18 October 2011, on a 700 m-long section, as the works continued on the remaining 13 km: entry into service is scheduled for 2012.

Worth €105m, the project is being implemented by Eurovia Bretagne's offices in association with ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires, which, in a consortium with two local firms, have secured the entire works: roadways, civil engineering, urban development, tracks and infrastructure. The 14.3 km-long line will have 27 stops. It will cross the metropolitan area from east to west, thus linking up the main residential and business areas.

Aéroville: taking off

On 7 October last, the laying of a foundation stone marked the official launch of the construction works for the Aéroville retail/services centre, straddling the communes of Roissy-en-France and Tremblay-en-France, in the Paris region. Designed by PCA Architectes and undertaken on behalf of Unibail-Rodamco, this project aims to achieve BREEAM Excellent certification; it involves the construction of a 110,000 sq. metre building that will accommodate 200 retail outlets, 25 restaurants, a 12-screen multiplex cinema and 4,000 parking spaces.

Begun in July 2011, the works will take 26 months to complete. They are being supplied by a consortium notably comprising Bateg, Sicra and Chantiers Modernes (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) and Eurovia's Aubervilliers office.
Contract value: €114m.

Extending and redeveloping a retail centre

After implementing phase 1 of the Rives d’Arcins retail centre project, in Bègles (west of France), i.e. creating a 17,500 sq. metre commercial building and 347 parking spaces, GTM Sud-Ouest Bâtiment (VINCI Construction France) has now been awarded phase 2 of the project. This will involve demolishing a building, and the construction of an 18,700 sq. metre shopping mall and an 803-space lift-based car park. They are scheduled to open for business in May 2013.
Value of the works: €31.3m.

The world's deepest climate control system

On 11 October 2011, off the Tetiaroa atoll to the north of Tahiti (French Polynesia), Geocean, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), installed, at a depth of 960 m, the main section (1,750 m) of a pipe destined to supply the SWAC (sea water air conditioning) system of a new hotel complex, thus setting a new world depth record for an operation of this type.

With a total length of some 2,600 m, and 450 mm in diameter, this pipe will be able to collect sea water at a temperature of 5°C. It will be linked up with the other sections, enabling it to be connected with the installations located on the atoll, in the course of the next few weeks. In order to be able to position the pipe in the lagoon, Geocean has developed an underwater digger, remote-controlled from the surface and capable of operating at a depth of 50 m.

Turnkey production line

After delivering a wheat distillery at BENP's site in Lillebonne (Normandy) in 2007, Mangin-Egly Sucres et Alcools (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) has now been charged by this subsidiary of Tereos, the leading French sugar refiner and a world player in the agri-food business, with the turnkey installation of a production line for the production of wheat gluten destined for human (bread, pasta, etc.) and animal consumption.

Valued at €15.5m, the project includes all the electrotechnical works packages (design and planning, installation and commissioning of the low-and high-voltage equipment), and the automation, instrumentation, and IT networks.
The works started in mid-November 2011 and are due for completion in mid-April 2012.

Australia

Record contract for Menard Bachy

In Sydney, within the framework of the Barangaroo project, which aims to transform a former container terminal occupying 22 hectares into a new neighbourhood, Menard Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) has been awarded a contract worth 43m Australian dollars (€32m), the biggest the company has ever secured.

It concerns the design and construction of a 13,000 sq. metre diaphragm wall and 650 ground anchorage points, prior to the creation of a property complex's underground car park. The project will be implemented in collaboration with GFWA and Soletanche Bachy, also Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiaries.

Chile

Two road contracts

Bitumix, a subsidiary of Eurovia, is working on two projects in the north of the country, the centre of a rapidly expanding mining industry. 1,400 km from Santiago, the company is charged with creating the pavement on 45 km of the Rutas de Antofagasta motorway network, currently under construction. As part of this project, requiring the deployment of 220,000 t of mix, Probisa, also a Eurovia subsidiary, will be supplying 35,000 t of bitumen, shipped from North America to the company's new port terminal at Mejillones, which has been operational since late July 2011.

The second project involves rehabilitating a 25 km-long stretch of the Pan-American Highway in the Quillagua oasis (Atacama Desert), 300 km to the north of Antofagasta.
Worth a total of almost €29m, the works on these two projects began in June and October 2011, respectively. They will be completed in April and June 2012.

Morocco

First photovoltaic farm

Cegelec Maroc (International Division, Energy business line) is to build the first photovoltaic farm to be connected to the country's national grid. With a capacity of 850 kW, it will be sited at Assa, in the south-east of the country, and is scheduled to come into service in October 2012.
Contract value: €1.2m.

Spain

Upgrading a substation in Barcelona

Omexom Barcelona (International Division, Energy business line) has been appointed by REE, the national power network operator, to upgrade the Vilanova electricity substation, in the centre of Barcelona. The project involves replacing the external 110 kV substation with a 220 kV GIS (gas-insulated) substation. The works include the civil engineering, the electromechanical assembly, and the fire detection and protection installation. They will be carried out in four phases, without disrupting the supplying of power, with handover scheduled for 2012.
Contract value: €4.2m.

Turkmenistan

A government palace

VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed the design-build contract for the Government's palace, in the centre of Ashkhabad, in Turkmenistan, on 4 November 2011.

Worth €185m, the contract calls for the turnkey construction of a 7-storey building, maximum height: 40 metres, complying with earthquake safety standards. The project represents a total surface area of 54,000 sq. metres, of which 15,000 sq. metres will be decorated in accordance with local standards. All external façades will be executed in Carrara marble. The Government's palace will house the offices of the President, the twelve deputy prime ministers and ministers' teams of personal staff, and a 500-seat Council Room. It will enable teams currently split between two buildings to be brought together.
The works, scheduled to take 24 months, have already started. The structural works are being undertaken on a non-stop basis, 24/7.

NOVEMBER 2011

France

Widening the A9

After a break for the summer period, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) has now resumed work on widening the A9 motorway. Launched in 2009, these works involve creating a third traffic lane on a 17 km-long section, between Perpignan Nord and Perpignan Sud, which will be brought into service in June 2013.
Costing €220m, entirely financed by ASF, this project forms part of a broader programme aimed at widening the A9 between Perpignan and the Spanish border.

Property development in Paris

Following its acquisition, on 29 June last, of the complex of buildings at 144 rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, the Commerce pole of VINCI Immobilier, in partnership with Foncière Colbert Finance, has launched the works (refurb and new-build) that will create a multi-purpose block comprising 4,500 sq. metres of retail space, 2,760 sq. metres of offices and 5,000 sq. metres of residential space. The works are being carried out by Lainé Delau (VINCI Construction France), as part of a consortium.
Designed by Frédéric Bourstin (B&B architects), the project will be handed over in the course of 2013.

Coutras diversion

Moter (Eurovia), as leader of a consortium, is creating the Coutras diversion on the RD 674 on behalf of the General Council of the Gironde department (west of France). This new 3 km-long road will provide direct access to the town of Coutras from the A89 motorway. The works include the earthworks, drainage works and small-scale civil engineering, the pavement and the equipment. They will require the deployment of 22,000 t of hot mix (20%-composed of recycled mix) and 30,000 t of rip-rap and the installation of 800 lm of noise barriers.
Contract value: €5.2m (of which €4.2m for Moter). The works will last 16 months.

Extending the stadium in Tours

In order to increase capacity from 12,000 to 17,000 seats at the Tours stadium (following Tours Football Club’s promotion to League 2), the Tours office of Sogea Centre (VINCI Construction France), in association with architect Bertrand Penneron, has been awarded the design-build construction of an additional stand and the redevelopment of the existing facilities. The new arena will be operational as of January 2012.
Contract value: €5m.

Widening the A87

Following a call for tenders, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) has awarded the works to widen a 6 km stretch of the section of the A87 located between the La Monnaie and Haute Perche interchanges, to 2x3 lanes, to the joint venture formed by Eurovia’s office in Angers, leader, and Eurovia Béton. The project also includes bringing the road up to current motorway standards, the installation of noise barriers, and the widening of engineering structures.
Worth €17.3m, it is due for completion in summer 2012.

Within the framework of this project, Eurovia’s Angers office, in a joint venture with Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), will be rehabilitating the viaduct over the Loire (renewal of 13,000 sq. metres of pavement and the waterproofing, repairs to the concrete, etc.).
Contract value: €4.8m.

A fine haul of contracts in French Guiana

The CCCL (association of central/ coastal communes) in French Guiana has awarded four new contracts to Sogea Guyane (VINCI Construction DOM-TOM), two of them to be undertaken as joint ventures with Degrémont for the water processing side. The first concerns the construction of the Leblond wastewater treatment plant in Cayenne (capacity: 60,000 population equivalent).

The other three contracts are aimed at improving the drinking-water supply in the six CCCL communes, using water drawn from the Kourou river. The works will involve, on the one hand, creating the Matiti drinking-water production plant (1,200 cu. metres/h), a pumping station and its supply network (8.5 km), and, on the other, two of the three works packages for the distribution network (Matiti to Cayenne: 20 km).
Total value of the contracts: €53.7m, of which €38m for Sogea Guyane.

Transport in Metz...

In the Moselle department (east of France), the consortium led by EJL Lorraine (Eurovia) and Eurovia’s Florange office has secured one of the five externalworks works packages for the future "high level of service" bus network that will link the north and the south of Greater Metz. The works extend over 5.5 km. They involve creating the bus lane and its networks, adjacent traffic lanes, a Park&Ride and ten stops. Entry into service of this first line is scheduled for late 2013.
Contract value: €13.3m.

... and urban development

EJL Lorraine (Eurovia) has in ad­dition been awarded the works package for external works in connection with the develop­ment of Place Mazelle in Metz. The works, extending over 13 months, will notably involve creating 6,000 sq. metres of granulated concrete (giving an appearance much resembling stone), and laying 7,000 lm of edging stones and 2,000 lm of slabs, laid out to form a pattern.
Contract value: €4.6m.

Starting signal at the Le Vinatier hospital

The consortium led by Lamy and including Pitance (both VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) began the construction and refurbishment works at the Le Vinatier hospital complex in Bron (central France) on 1st September 2011. The project forms part of the 2012 Hospital Plan. It is being implemented on a design-build basis, with the aim of achieving HEQ® (High Environmental Quality) certification and the Effinergie low-energy building label (maximum consumption: 50 kWhep/sq. metre/year).

The contract notably calls for the creation of a new, 333-bed building bringing together the hospital’s three adult psychiatry units, the construction of a 336-space underground car park and the refurbishment of an administration building. The major service-sector projects arm of Cegelec Centre Est (Cegelec France Division, Energy business line) is associated with the operation, handling the high voltage (generator, equipment) and low voltage (fire safety, patient call buttons, …) aspects of the project. " Worth a total of €66m, the works will take 39 months to complete.

Double success beneath streets of Paris

After responding to two calls for tenders, VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has been awarded 8-year leases for the Madeleine car park (1,037 spaces) and the Lobau-Rivoli car park (876 spaces) by the City of Paris. The contracts call for a renovation of the two facilities: re-painting, provision of parking areas dedicated to motorbikes, installation of a dynamic system for guiding customers towards a free space.

HEQ rehabilitation

Valentin (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) has started rehabilitating the sixstorey Le Baccarat office building in Boulogne-Billancourt, by Paris. The company is charged with bringing energy production features into service, and installing the air-processing plants and terminal equipment and the HVAC networks (heat­ing, ventilation, air conditioning).
Worth €2.2m, this project aims to achieve HEQ Renovation® (High Environmental Quality Renovation) 2010 and low-energy building certification.

The RN 154 to change course

Eurovia’s Dreux office, (leader), in a joint venture with VINCI Construction Terrassement, Eurovia Grands Travaux and Eurovia Béton, is set to re-route the RN 154 between Prunay-le-Gillon and Allones (south-west of Paris). The works involve creating an 8.5 km-long, 2x2-lane section of highway, an overpass with a prestressed concrete deck, watertight storage basins and two roundabouts linking up with the existing RN 154.
Worth €15.8m, the works, starting in November 2011, will take 14 months to complete.

Bridge framework advances on Reunion Island

Following the first two launch operations, on 14 September and 10 October 2011, the steel deck of the bridge over the Saint-Étienne River, on Reunion Island, has advanced 111 m. The positioning of this structure (total weight: 4,300 t) will be achieved 2/3 by incremental launches and 1/3 using cranes. The task is being undertaken by Baudin Chateauneuf as part of the consortium awarded the works, which notably comprises Dodin Campenon Bernard, leader, and SBTPC (VINCI Construction subsidiaries), and Botte Fondations (VINCI Construction France).
Costing €82.7m including taxes, this bridge, a 694.50 m-long, 2x2-lane, composite concretesteel structure is scheduled for handover early in 2013.

Belgium

Piping for GSK

Pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals has appointed Ensysta Pharma (International Division, Energy business line) to design-build the piping for Building WN 158, currently under construction at its Wavre site, which will be devoted to the industrialization of vaccine production.
Worth €12.7m, the works began in July 2011 and will take 18 months to complete.

Czech Republic

A shopping earner in Prague

On 2 September 2011, VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) signed the contract for the management of the multi-storey car park at the new Czerny Most retail centre in Prague. It began operating this 1,300-space facility on 5 September, for a period of 16 months renewable.

Indonesia

Electrical equipment for a port terminal

PT Indokomas (International Division, Energy business line) is participating in the modernisation of the coal terminal in the port of Kelanis, which is aimed at increasing the loading capacity for coal from the Kelanis mine, in Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo).

Being undertaken on behalf of PT Adaro (the country’s second biggest coal producer), the project comprises the creation of the power distribution system (design, supply and assembly of the transformers and the electrical equipment, cable trays, etc.) and the automation.
Worth €7.3m, the works began in August 2011; they are due for completion in late 2012.

Jamaica

Two drinking water plants

VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed a $17.5m (€13m) contract on 20 September 2011 for the rehabilitation of two drinking-water production plants, Mona and Hope, which supply neighbourhoods in the east of the capital, Kingston. The works will enable the plants to regain their initial production capacity, namely 68,000 cu. metres/day and 29,500 cu. metres/day respectively.
They start in November 2011 and will take 18 months to complete.

Mali

On the runway at Bamako Airport

On 12 October last, the President of the Republic of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, officially launched the rehabilitation works on the runway of Bamako-Sénou International Airport. Being undertaken by Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) in a joint venture with Razel, they involve extending the runway (from 2,700 m to 3,200 m) and reinforcing the existing aircraft traffic areas (runway, taxiways and parking areas). They include the installation of lighting and air navigation aids.
Worth €32m, this project is being financed by the MCC (Millennium Challenge Account).

Morocco

Turnkey substation

The national electricity authority (ONE ) has awarded Cegelec Maroc (International Division, Energy business line) the turnkey construction of a 225/22 kV electricity substation in Sidi Messaoud, in the suburbs of Casablanca.
The works will take 14 months. Contract value: €4.4m.

Spain

Renewal for six years

After 25 years of collaboration, Spark Iberica (International Division, Energy business line) has renewed its framework contracts with Endesa, the country’s main electricity supplier. They cover the carrying out of works, maintenance of very high voltage stations in Catalonia, Minorca and Ibiza, and the maintenance of transformers and protection and control systems throughout Spain.
The contracts have been signed for six years, renewable in three years time. They are worth about €20m a year.

Solid foundations for Ikea

Rodio Kronsa, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) has started work on the foundations for the new Ikea store in Sabadell, in the north-east of the country. The project notably involes creating 17,000 sq. metres of diaphragm walls, and 13,500 lm of piles. The works should be completed within six months.

Switzerland

Electrical installations in a hospital

As part of the project to modernise the pathology department at the university hospital in Zurich, Etavis (International Division, Energy business line) is supplying all the electrical installations.
The works began in August and should take a year and a half to complete. Value: €2m.

OCTOBER 2011

France

VINCI Facilities: looking after the Montparnasse tower

VINCI Facilities (Energy business line) has been responsible since 1st October 2011 for maintaining the technical equipment of the Ensemble Immobilier Tour Maine-Montparnasse (EITMM). With a total surface area of 300,000 sq. metres, this complex includes, apart from the Tour Montparnasse (155,000 sq. metres), three buildings with a surface area of 145,000 sq. metres.
The contract is for a period of 4 years.

Studio 82: a joint effort

VINCI Immobilier has appointed Dumez Rhône-Alpes (VINCI Construction France) to implement the Studio 82 programme in Villeurbanne (central France): 89 homes (2- and 3-room flats) will be built, with a total surface area of some 5,000 sq. metres, the aim being to achieve low-energy certification.
Worth €6.5m, the works will start in October and take 18 months to complete.

A new station for the Mastrou

On 29 July 2011, the association of Tournon communes signed a public-private partnership contract with Adim Régions (VINCI Construction France) and Auxifip concerning the financing, design and construction, and maintenance for 25 years, of the departure station of the Mastrou (a train for tourists, running through the north of the Ardèche region of southern France), in Saint-Jean-de-Muzols. The works will be carried out by Chabanel, on the construction side, with Sogea Rhône-Alpes responsible for the external works; maintenance will be supplied by ETM (all are VINCI Construction France subsidiaries).
Handover is scheduled for spring in 2013. Value of the property development contract: €3m.

First socle concreted at ITER worksite

On 9 August 2011, on the ITER site in Cadarache (south of France), the first of the 21 socles for the foundation raft of the seismic isolation pit of the building that will house the Tokamak reactor was concreted. The operation required 800 cu. metres of concrete. These works form part of the project awarded in May 2010 to the consortium formed by GTM Sud (leader), Chantiers Modernes Sud and Campenon Bernard Sud-Est (all VINCI Construction France companies) and Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), which includes the earthworks and structural works for the seismic isolation pit (with a surface area identical to that of a football stadium), the foundation raft of the building housing the Tokamak and the raft of the assembly hall adjoining this building.
Contract value: €35.9m.

Launch of the steel framework of the Verdun-sur-Garonne suspension bridge

On 7 September last, the second and final phase of the launching of the framework (463 t) of the new bridge took place at Verdun-sur-Garonne (south-west France). Undertaken within the framework of a public-private partnership headed by VINCI Construction France, this operation benefited from the combined expertise of local firm Sogea Sud-Ouest TP, Dodin Campenon Bernard and Freyssinet France (two VINCI Construction entities), and Eurovia. Project management for the works is being supplied by Egis. The bridge under construction, a suspension bridge with a 154 m span and 11 m in width, will replace an existing bridge which has been in service since the 1920s, and now has insufficient load-bearing capacity.
The new bridge is due to come into service early in 2013.

Flag ceremony in Palaiseau

There were celebrations in Palaiseau (Paris region) on 7 July to mark the completion of the shell construction of the university hall of residence, seven months after the works started. Providing 208 residential units (6,600 sq. metres), this building is being created on a general contracting basis by Lainé Delau, in collaboration with Sogetrav (both are VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) for the structural works, on behalf of Bouygues Immobilier, in accordance with THPE (very high energy performance) standards and with the aim of achieving the "Habitat & Environnement" label.
When handed over, in the course of 2012, it will accommodate students studying at Saclay. Contract value: €7.5m.

A LED-lit tunnel

Cegelec Infrastructures & Mobility (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) has renovated the lighting in the Chamoise tunnel (central France), on the A40 motorway, on behalf of APRR (Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône). This structure, composed of two 3,300 m-long, one-way tubes, is the first French tunnel to be lit by LED lighting. Worth €2.2m, the works took five weeks. They were completed in late July.

Eurovia wins Les Constellations ZAC

In the greater Montpellier area (south of France), Eurovia's Baillargues and Juvignac offices are currently completing their task of providing mains services and roadways in the Les Constellations integrated development zone (ZAC). This new neighbourhood, located in Juvignac, will extend over 35 hectares and provide 1,300 homes and 3,200 sq. metres of retail space. Value of the works: €4.5m.

A VINCI consortium for Roanne's drinking water

The environment agency of Sogea Rhône-Alpes, leader, in a consortium with Lamy (both are VINCI Construction France companies) and Actemium - Dardilly P.E.P. (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line), signed the contract for a new drinkingwater plant in Renaison (central France) on 7 September.
Designed by architects Patriarche & Co, and by Safege Ingénieurs Conseils for the engineering side, this plant, with a production capacity of 2,000 cu. metres/h is being built for Roannaise de l’Eau. The works are worth around €13m, and will take 36 months to complete.

Car assembly line

Actemium - Trappes, together with network partner Actemium - Mulhouse (both business units of the VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line), has been awarded, by PSA Peugeot Citroën, the turnkey construction, at its Sochaux plant (east of France), of the line that will assemble the side panels of Peugeot's future T9 model (soon to replace the 308).
Worth €11.4m and taking a year to complete, the project includes design and planning, supply of materials and equipment, and the installation and commissioning of the equipment. Work began on the project in July 2011.

On the runway at Bordeaux-Mérignac

This summer, in six weeks, Eurovia's Bordeaux office, in a joint venture with Moter (Eurovia), and with the participation of Eurovia GPI, Eurovia's Saint-Geours-de-Maremne, Angoulême and Toulouse offices and the regional laboratory in Bordeaux, renewed the main runway at Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport (west of France). The project involved the deployment of almost 70,000 t of recycled-aggregate-based mix, produced on site by two coating plants, as well as earthworks, and the creation of roadways and dry and drainage networks.
Contract value: €6.6m.

Teamwork for The Peninsula Paris

Petit and CBC (VINCI Construction France companies), working on a general contracting basis, have involved three VINCI Energies France Division business units and a Cegelec France Division business unit (Energy business line) on The Peninsula Paris project in Avenue Kléber (16th arrondissement). This project concerns the transforming of the French Foreign Ministry's former international conference centre into a luxury hotel offering 200 rooms and suites, and notably boasting a swimming pool and a panoramic restaurant. The four business units are charged with the climate control, ventilation and heating (Tunzini Process - Cegelec Paris joint venture), plumbing (Saga Tertiaire) and high- and low-voltage (Phibor Espaces - Cegelec Paris joint venture) works packages.
The works started in July 2010 and will take 30 months to complete. Total value of the contract for the Group: €157m, of which €124m for VINCI Construction France and €33m for the Energy business line.

Ground cleared for Nice Stadium

Launched on 1 August 2011, construction of the Nice Stadium reached a first milestone on 20 September with the completion of the earthworks. The project is being implemented within the framework of a €217m public-private partnership, awarded on 10 February 2011 by the City of Nice (south of France) to the consortium led by VINCI Concessions, in association with the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and SEIEF. The design and construction of this 35,000-seater complex, which will host the Museum of Sport, will be supplied by a consortium made up of local VINCI Construction France companies: Dumez Côte d’Azur, GTM TP Côte d’Azur, Triverio Construction, Campenon Bernard Sud-Est and Fargeot Lamellé Collé (an Arbonis company).
Handover is scheduled for late 2013. Reminder: VINCI Immobilier and VINCI Facilities (Energy business line) are also contributing to the project.

Australia

Third contract in the port of Gladstone

Having won works packages 1, 3, 4 (in May 2001) and 5 (in March 2011), worth a total of €605m, in early August Dredging International (Australia), a subsidiary of DEME (CFE, VINCI Construction), in a temporary association with Van Oord Australia, was awarded works package 7 of the dredging project in the west basin of the port of Gladstone (Queensland). The total volume of material to be dredged, prior to the construction of a berth, is 2.9 million cubic metres.
Contract value: €90m.

Belgium

A speedy upgrade for the E19

Between 5 August and 12 September 2011, Aannemingen Van Wellen, a subsidiary of CFE (VINCI Construction), carried out roadworks on 12 km of the E19 motorway at Kontich (province of Antwerp). Worth €6.8m, the works notably involved completely renewing the pavement of the right-hand lane, in the Brussels direction.

Benin

Container terminal in the port of Cotonou

After having participated in the extending of the port, Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) has now secured the contract for the construction of a new container terminal in Cotonou. Undertaken on behalf of the Bolloré Group, the project includes the civil engineering (development of the platforms, drainage networks), the creation of electrical power networks and the installation of the equipment, as well as the construction of four buildings and an entry-exit complex. The works began in August and will take 14 months to complete.
Contract value: €23.4m.

Germany

Widening the A7

Eurovia Teerbau and Eurovia Verkehrsbau Union, as part of a consortium, are currently widening the A7 motorway to 2x3 lanes on an almost 12 km-long stretch between Bockenem and Salzgitter, in the centre of the country. The works will notably involve the application of mix over a surface area of 360,000 sq. metres, as well as the installation of 22.6 km of crash barriers and 22.5 km of concrete barriers. The works began in June 2011, with completion due in July 2013.
Value of the works for Eurovia: €15m.

Dresden Airport

November 2011 will see teams from Eurovia VBU and Eurovia Beton, in partnership with Cegelec (International Division, Energy business line), completing their refurbishment and reorganisation of aircraft parking apron 1 at Dresden Airport. Begun in June, the operation notably involves demolishing 26,000 sq. metres of concrete, laying 1,900 m of drains and gutters and 780 m of slit gutters, as well as stabilising 26,000 sq. metres of ground.
Contract value: €5.4m.

Hong Kong

... and at the airport

Bachy Soletanche Group Ltd, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has been appointed by the Fujita-SFK consortium to supply the foundations for an extension of Hong Kong's international airport. A total of 222 piles will be installed (diameter: between 1.50 and 3 m; maximum depth: 100 m).
The works will take 10 months.

Bachy Soletanche Group Ltd in the metro...

Within the framework of the construction of the new South Island metro line and the extending of the Admiralty interchange station, the Kier-Laing O’Rourke-Kaiden consortium has entrusted the retaining work works package to Bachy Soletanche Group Ltd, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction). Because of the extremely sensitive urban environment, the works, which will take ten months to complete, will be monitored by teams from SolData (a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet specialising in instrumentation).

Malaysia

Pipeline maintenance

Petronas Carigali, the Malaysian national oil company, has appointed Entrepose Services, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), to undertake the cleaning, maintenance and repair of its 90 offshore pipelines – each between 10 and 20 km in length – located at a shallow depth in the Miri oil fields (island of Borneo). The contract was signed in June 2011 for a period of 3 years, renewable twice for a year.

Poland

Modernising railway track

Eurovia Polska, in a partnership with Eurovia CS, has secured the design-build contract to upgrade a 4 km-long section of railway line No. 63 between Dorohusk and Zawadówka Naftobaza (in the east of the country). The works will mainly involve modernising junctions, replacing rails and renovating three level crossings in order to enable trains to run at 60 km/h.
The works will start in October 2011, with completion scheduled for September 2012.

United Arab Emirates

Soletanche Bachy: very into energy

Soletanche Bachy Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), subcontracting for Siemens and Daewoo, is participating in the construction of the new S3 Shuweihat power station, located some 250 km to the west of Abu Dhabi. The project involves supplying 3,000 drilled piles, 600 and 750 mm in diameter, for the foundations of the main structures of the plant, and the water intake (diaphragm walls).
Once handed over, in the course of 2014, this power station will supply electricity to the nearby Ruwais refinery, where Soletanche Bachy is currently completing two ground improvement projects.

SEPTEMBER 2011

France

Neomed City

In the Euroméditerranée neighbourhood of Marseilles, Dumez Méditerranée and Les Travaux du Midi (both VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) have secured the contract for the Neomed City project, designed by architects Poissonnier Ferran. This project involves the demolition of existing buildings and the creation of three buildings featuring three underground levels and between 10 and 16 storeys (i.e. 47,600 sq. metres). These will accommodate homes, offices, a medical centre, a training school for nurses and a residence for its students, and a crèche.
Contract value: €29m.

Double success for VINCI Facilities

VINCI Facilities (Energy business line) has won two new 3-year multi-technology maintenance contracts. The first concerns 1,000 BNP Paribas bank branches in the Lille, Paris and Marseilles regions; the second involves 170 job centres, in Picardy, western France and Alsace-Lorraine.

A thorough examination of the «Pont de Pierre»

In June, in Bordeaux (west of France), VINCI subsidiary Concrete and CTS (Compagnie de Travaux Subaquatiques), a subsidiary of VINCI Construction France, completed a detailed inspection of the “Pont de Pierre” (stone bridge), on behalf of the urban community. Built spanning the Garonne early in the 19th century, this bridge features a ‘hollowed out‘ deck, the chambers of which can be inspected from within the arches of the bridge. Concrete used special scaffolding in order to inspect these hollow spaces, as well as the abutments and piers. CTS divers inspected the foundations.

Archive «boxes» for Rhône department

Pitance Construction, with the participation of Campenon Bernard Bâtiment Rhône-Alpes (both are VINCI Construction France subsidiaries), is to supply the shell construction, foundations and external works works package for the new building, in Lyons, that will house the archives of the Rhône department. This 22,000 sq. metre cubeshaped structure, extending over eight storeys plus an underground level, has been designed by Gautier & Conquet Associés.
The works began in late June and will take 12 months to complete. Value of the works: €7.35m.

Makeover for the A16

Between mid-May and early July 2011, Eurovia‘s Pas-de-Calais– Étaples Sector office, in a joint venture with EJL Lille Flandres (Eurovia), undertook the second phase (a 32 km section, worth €4m) of the project to resurface A16 motorway.

The works involved the stretch of motorway between Hardelot and Boulogne-sur-Mer as well as the Hardelot, Isques, Boulogne Port, Baincthun and RN 42 slip roads and interchanges.

An urban solar power plant

Cegelec Sud-Ouest (Cegelec France Division, Energy business line) has been charged with the electrical works for the hitherto biggest urban solar power plant (60,000 solar panels installed on canopies covering a surface area of 92,000 sq. metres; 12 MWc), which is currently under construction on the car park at the exhibition centre in Bordeaux (west of France).

It will come into service in 2012. Financed by EDF Énergies Nouvelles, the project was initiated by exhibition centre management company SBEPEC (Société bordelaise des équipements publics d‘expositions et de congrès).
Contract value: €5.6m.

Art and sport in northern France

Sogea Caroni Ouvrages Fonctionnels (VINCI Construction France) has secured the contract for the extended structural works for the Arts & Culture centre in Douchy-les-Mines (north of France), a building designed by Rudy Ricciotti.

The contract is worth €3.9m; the works will take 19 months to complete. In addition, the company has been appointed by the association of communes of Coeur de Pévèle to supply the envelope for a multi-sports hall in Orchies (north of France). It will take 16 months to build this 4,300 sq. metre facility (photo), designed by architects Chabanne. Contract value: €5m.

A tunnel for the LNG terminal in Dunkirk

Within the framework of the methane gas terminal project in Dunkirk (north of France), the consortium composed of CSM Bessac (leader) and Soletanche Bachy, both subsidiaries of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), and Razel has been appointed to build a 5 km-long tunnel.

This structure (internal diameter: 3 m) will enable some of the warm effluent from the Gravelines nuclear power plant to be transported to the terminal‘s pumping station, where it will be used for the regasification of the liquefied natural gas (LNG). The works will take almost 40 months to complete. They will also involve creating a shaft more than 45 metres deep, internal diameter: 16 m.

Reminder: construction of the three LNG storage tanks has been awarded to the consortium led by Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction).

Petit wins site T8

Within the framework of the Paris Rive Gauche integrated development zone project, in the capital‘s 13th arrondissement, Nexity has awarded Petit (VINCI Construction France) the construction project on site T8. Designed by the architect Rudy Ricciotti, the complex will comprise three composite (concrete/steel) buildings: two office buildings and one residential building, providing a total surface area of 40,000 sq. metres. The works began in August and will take 12 months to complete.
Contract value: €20.5m.

Petit-Canal goes photovoltaic

In Guadeloupe, Energy Caraïbes has awarded Getelec Électricité, Eger Guadeloupe and Veios (three companies from the VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) the turnkey construction of a photovoltaic power plant (8.74 MWc). Valued at €29m, it will be installed on a 14-hectare site in the commune of Petit-Canal. Getelec Électricité is responsible for the earthworks, foundations, supplying and installing 798 panel tables, the installation of 111,500 panels, and the supply and installation of 110 km of cables and electrical components (inverters, transformer stations, etc.). The company has entrusted the civil engineering to GTM Guadeloupe (VINCI Construction). Veios will supply the panels and various electrical components. Eger Guadeloupe will operate and maintain the installation for a period of 5 years, renewable four times.

New roadways for the port in La Rochelle

Eurovia‘s office in La Rochelle (west of France) has secured the works package for the external works of the project to extend the town‘s Les Minimes marina. Worth a total of €2m, this project will increase the marina‘s capacity by 1,000 mooring rings in the vicinity of the Le Lazaret and Le Bout Blanc breakwaters.
The works start on 1st September 2011 and will take 36 months to complete.

Australia

The Quipolly dam to grow taller

On 22 June 2011, Hydroplus Australia Pty, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, signed a contract with local government authority Liverpool Plains Shire Council concerning the design, construction and installation of fusegates on the Quipolly dam, located some 300 km to the north of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales.

The project aims to ensure the safety of the structure at times of high water, and to increase the dam‘s storage capacity by more than 2.8 million cubic metres (i.e. by 55%).

The eight fusegates (height: 2.60 m; width: 4.40 m) will be prefabricated in reinforced concrete, transported to the site and installed on the modified spillway. Worth 1.4 million Australian dollars (€1.3m), this project will take a year to complete.

Brazil

Electromechanical maintenance

Cegelec Brésil (International Division, Energy business line) has been selected by Vallourec & Sumitomo Tubos do Brasil (VSB) to supply the electromechanical maintenance at its Jaceaba plant, in the state of Minas Gerais, which produces tubular equipment for oil and gas wells.

This 3-year contract, worth €12.4m, covers remedial and preventive maintenance, from planning through to implementation.

Congo

SGE-C hard at work

A subsidiary of Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) established in Brazzaville, SGE-C has recently been awarded a major contract. It concerns the renovation of a 70 km-long stretch of national highway No. 2, between Gamboma and Ollombo, in the department of Les Plateaux (in the centre of the country).

The works will involve refurbishing and widening this road. The company will, in particular, be supplying the earthworks, drainage, shoulders, pavement, parking areas and road signs and markings.

The contract is worth some €76m; the works are scheduled to take 24 months. In addition, in August SGE-C handed over the runway (length: 2,050 m) it has built at the airport at Ewo, the administrative centre of the landlocked Cuvette-Ouest region, as well as the access road to the platform.
Value of the works: €30m.

Czech Republic

Replacing a high-voltage line

Elektrotrans (International Division, Energy business line) has been appointed by energy group CEZ to dismantle the existing line and build a new 110 kV line between the Hostice and Horni Zivotice transformer stations (16.6 km; 69 pylons) in northern Moravia. The contract entered into effect in June 2011 for a duration of some 9 months.
Value: €4.7m.

Morocco

A first for SolData

The Moroccan railway authority (ONCF) has appointed a consortium comprising SolData and Solsif Maroc, both Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiaries (VINCI Construction), and LPEE, to supply the instrumentation and measurement operations in areas of compressible ground on the route of the Kenitra – Tangier LGV (highspeed line).

The companies will, in particular, analyse sections where embankment works will be required, in order to ascertain the constraints associated with the topography and geology of these sites. Worth €4m, this is the first contract SolData has secured in Morocco.

Romania

Electrical works

In Ploesti, 50 km to the north of Bucharest, TIAB Ploesti Industrie and TIAB HVAC (International Division, Energy business line) are supplying the electrical works and the HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) works package in the course of the renovation of the Prahova Plaza Hotel (Hilton Group). The works began in June and will take 5 months to complete.
Total contract value: €2.3m.

Spain

Renovation of a car park

VINCI Park España (VINCI Concessions) was awarded a 20- year concession contract for the Instituto car park (477 spaces) in Bilbao (in the north of the country) early in 2011; on 6 June, it launched the renovation works specified in the call for tenders. These involve bringing the facility up to the latest standards, repainting and renewing the waterproofing; the works will take 10 months to complete, during which time the car park will continue to operate.

The Netherlands

First delivery at Rotterdam‘s regasification terminal

As part of the trials being carried out prior to its entry into service, scheduled for this September, the Terminal Gate regasification terminal in the port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, received its first delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on 13 June.

Representing an investment of €800m, this terminal has been built by a consortium composed of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), Techint and Sener, in collaboration with CFE, its subsidiaries MBG, Geka and CFE Nederland, and Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (all three are VINCI Construction companies). The works involved building an industrial plant, two piers for the discharging of methane tankers and three LNG storage tanks. Each 50 m in height, 86 m in diameter and with a capacity of 180,000 cu. metres, these three tanks were created on a design-build basis by Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets.

Turkey

for Cegelec Energy

At Balikesir, 200 km to the south of Istanbul, General Electric and Cegelec Energy (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) are to create the country‘s biggest wind farm on behalf of energy producer Enerjisa.

Boasting 52 turbines (each 2.75 MW), it will have an installed capacity of 143 MW. Apart from the turbines, to be supplied by General Electric, Cegelec Energy will undertake all the works, including the civil engineering and linking up to the grid, as well as lifting and assembling the turbines.
Costing €145m, of which €35.5m for Cegelec Energy, this wind farm is due to be brought into service in December 2012.

United States of America

Provision-of-services contracts

In June 2011, LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), signed four new provision-of-services contracts and two leases (for facilities respectively offering 2,980 and 1,800 spaces) for multi-storey car parks serving retail centres, offices and hotels in California and in three States in the north-east of the country: Massachusetts, Maryland and New York.

JULY 2011

France

A VINCI consortium for the Terrasses du Port

On 14 May 2011, after carrying out the preparatory works, the consortium comprising Campenon Bernard Sud-Est, leader, Les Travaux du Midi, Chantiers Modernes Sud and Botte Fondations (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) and Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction) was given the go-ahead by Hammerson to start work on the main contract of the Terrasses du Port project in Marseilles (south of France). The project involves the creation, within the port area, of a 52,000 sq. metre retail/leisure centre, with a 2,800-space car park. Worth €243m (of which €193m for VINCI), the works are due for completion in May 2014.

The power’s on at the Toulon naval base

Cegelec Sud-Est (Cegelec France Division, Energy business line) is to supply the electrical works (high and low voltage), climate engineering, plumbing and sanitary engineering of the future implementation centre of the Ministry of Defence’s joint department for infrastructure networks and information systems (DIRISI), on the naval base in Toulon (south of France).
Contract value: €3.3m.

On the way to a 3rd lane

On 13 May, in the presence of Pierre Coppey, chairman of VINCI Autoroutes, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) formally launched the first phase of the works to widen the A9 motorway between Perpignan and the Spanish border (40 km). This phase concerns a 17 km-long stretch (includ­ing 27 engineering structures), between Perpignan Nord and Perpignan Sud – a stretch used by 35,000 vehicles a day. The project represents an investment of €220m, entirely financed by ASF. This section is due to open to traffic in June 2013.

Pusignan bypass

The consortium notably comprising EJL Sud-Est (Eurovia), leader, and Eurovia Lyon has supplied the works, on behalf of the General Council of the Rhône department (central France), for the Pusignan bypass, to the east of Lyons.

The project involved creating a 3 km-long, two-lane road between the Les Gaulnes ZAC (integrated development zone), in Meyzieu, and the Mariage industrial estate, in Pusignan.
Worth € 2.3m (Eurovia’s share), the works took 6 months to complete.

Wastewater and drinking-water networks

The Avignon office of Sogea Sud-Est TP (VINCI Construction France), as leader of a consortium, has secured the contract to extend the wastewater removal network and rehabilitate the drinking-water supply network in the Les Garrigues neighbourhood of Mazan (south of France). Awarded by the water authority of the Rhône Ventoux region, the project will involve the creation of 25 km of wastewater networks, and 15 km of drinking-water networks.
Worth €9.5m, the works will take 24 months to complete.

Lighting up Haute-Garonne

The Haute-Garonne department (south-west France) has awarded Citéos Haute-Garonne (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) the contract for its urban lighting and traffic lights. 101 communes are covered by this 6-year contract, which includes the management and maintenance of some 78,000 light sources (2,500 of them producing more than 1,000 W) and 97 junctions equipped with traffic lights.
Contract value: €9.1m.

Low-energy offices in Lyons

In Lyons (central France), the joint venture formed by Dumez Rhône-Alpes, leader, and Pitance Construction (both VINCI Construction France companies) has won the structural works contract for the Velum building, in the southern sector of the La Part-Dieu neighbourhood. Designed by architect Franck Hammoutène, this 15,250 sq. metre building will have 6 storeys. It will be aiming to achieve HEQ certification and to meet low-energy standards. The works (duration: 9 months) began in early June.
Contract value: €7.5m.

Preparing the ground for the Fleurs de Lille

In Lille (north of France), the North&West office of Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is participating in the Fleurs de Lille project, involving the construction of 4 apartment blocks, 2 office blocks and 21 houses. The company has, in particular, filled in former chalk pits, in order to consolidate the roadways. The works began on 25 January 2011 and were completed on 15 April.

Northern roadworks

VPN and EJL Lille Flandres (both Eurovia subsidiaries), in a joint venture, are currently completing, on behalf of the Lille Métropole urban community, the refurbishment of the roadway in the Grand-Place in Lille (north of France).

Involving a surface area of 5,000 sq. metres, the works include taking up the cobblestones and demolishing the existing structures, the reconstruction, in concrete, of the road and pavements, and supplying and laying cobblestones.
Contract value: €1.73m. ­

Teamwork for an Industrial platform

VINCI Construction Terrassement and Weiler, its subsidiary in Lorraine, in association with Eurovia Lorraine, are to supply, on behalf of the urban community of Sarreguemines Confluences, the general earthworks for the future Europole 2 industrial platform in Hambach (east of France). The project calls for the development of 100 hectares of land, and will involve 2,000,000 cu. metres of earthworks and the creation of a 500 lm hydraulic structure, a 1,800 m-long track and an intersection providing access.

Once developed, the platform will accommodate, inter alia, a natural gas combined-cycle power plant.
Worth €8.6m, the works are due for completion in late 2011.

Team effort for the D2 tower

In the La Défense neighbourhood (by Paris), the joint venture composed of GTM Bâtiment (leader), Dumez Île-de-France and Bateg (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) launched the D2 project on 1st June. It concerns a 54,000 sq. metre office tower block (height: 150 m; 37 storeys), designed to achieve HEQ certification by architects Anthony Béchu and Tom Sheehan. This tower will be built on the site of the existing Veritas building, where demolition work has just started.

The preparatory works and the foundations have been entrusted to the Paris-Centre-Est office of Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction). In particular, they will involve installing 54 tie rods on the wall of the circular road, in order to allow the demolition of an access ramp and the clearing of the site, as well as drilling 5,700 cu. metres of bars using a Hydrofraise. Worth €172m, the project is being undertaken on a general contracting basis on behalf of the Tour D2 SAS (simplified joint stock corporation).
It is due for handover in the second quarter of 2014.

In tandem in the port of La Rochelle

Eurovia’s La Rochelle office (lead contractor), together with ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires (Eurovia), has just secured two contracts (total value: €3.12m), for the creation of a rail network and road access at Anse Saint-Marc. Awarded by the autonomous port of La Rochelle, these works will be carried out without disrupting rail traffic.

In particular, they will include the creation of a rainwater drainage network (2,300 m), 1,200 m of railway track embedded in concrete, and 700 m of railway track laid over ballast; soil treatment works (39,000 sq. metres); and the application of 9,800 t of mix.

Three storage tanks for Dunkirk gas terminal

Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), as leader of a consortium, has been awarded a turnkey contract by Dunkerque LNG, an EDF subsidiary, for the engineering, supplying the equipment, construction and pre-commissioning testing of the three storage tanks for the methane gas terminal in Dunkirk (north of France). These cryogenic storage tanks will each have a capacity of 190,000 cu. metres.

The works are scheduled to be launched early in 2012, following completion of the preliminary design and planning work, currently under way. The tanks are scheduled to come into service in 2015.

Double click in Fortdissy.com

Several Group companies are participating, in Issy-les- Moulineaux (by Paris), in the creation of Fortdissy.com, a “cyber-eco-neighbourhood” featuring a combination of low-energy standards, geothermal heating, a pneumatic waste collection system and the domotic management of energy consumption.

VINCI Immobilier, working with BNP Paribas, is involved in creating 500 homes. 125 of them will be built by Sicra (VINCI Construction France), between now and February 2013; value: €13.2m.

As part of the same project, CBC Habitat (VINCI Construction France) and Sicra, in a joint venture, will build 281 homes on behalf of Kaufman & Broad.
This project, worth €33m, will take 33 months to complete.

Algeria

First wind farm

Cegelec Energy (with its Toulouse and Saint-Denis business units) and Cegelec Algérie, two entities of the Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line, are to create, on a turnkey basis, the first wind farm at Adrar, in the south of the country. Boasting 12 turbines, each with a generat­ing capacity of 0.85 MW, it will become operational in late 2012.
Worth €18.5m, the contract, with Sonelgaz and its subsidiary CEEG (Compagnie de l’engineering de l’électricité et du gaz), was signed in May.

Belgium

Teamwork for police HQ in Charleroi

CFE (VINCI Construction) has been awarded the contract for the design, construction, financing and maintenance, for 25 years, of the new police headquarters building in Charleroi. Designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and MDW Architecture, the 42,000 sq. metre building (comprising two wings and a 20-storey tower block) will also house a rehearsal room for the Charleroi Danses choreographic centre.

This project represents an investment of €70.5m. It will involve Bageci and CFE Brabant (two CFE entities) for the works, which will start in March 2012, and take 31 months to complete, as well as Nizet Entreprise and Druart (again, CFE companies), which will supply the maintenance, worth an annual €1.3m.

Cameroon

Sogea-Satom confirms in Limbé

After being awarded the preparatory works (earthworks and roadways, carried out between May and June 2011 and worth €9.7m; creation of the platforms, due for completion in July and worth €2.3m), Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) has won the contract for the civil engineering for the new tanks for the production of petroleum products (petrol and diesel) at the Limbé refinery. Awarded by Sonara (national refining company), as part of a modernisation programme which should enable annual production to be increased from 2.1 million to 3.5 million tonnes, this € 9.6m project began in June and will continue through until March 2012.

Canada

The 108-143 road changes course

In connection with the extending of Highway 410, which will provide a bypass round the town of Sherbrooke (Quebec), DJL Estrie, in collaboration with DJL Mauricie (both Eurovia companies), has been charged with diverting a 1.7 km section of the 108-143 road. The works include the creation of a bridge and two roundabouts, and are due for completion this autumn.
Value: some 10 million Canadian dollars (€7m).

Germany

PPP for schools in Brandenburg an der Havel

SKE FMG (VINCI Facilities Division, Energy business line) has signed a PPP (public-private partnership) with the town of Brandenburg an der Havel for the renovation and modernisation of four schools, the construction of a gymnasium, and the maintenance of these facilities for 20 years.
Worth €14m, the works start in July and will be completed in August 2012. Annual operating budget: €1.3m.

Papua New Guinea

First stretch of pipelines

On 25 May 2011, as part of the LNG PNG project in Papua New Guinea, teams from Spiecapag, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), laid the first 400 metres of land-based pipelines, of the 450 km they are charged with installing. Awarded in December 2009 by Esso Highlands Ltd, an Exxon Mobil Corporation subsidiary, the contract covers the engineering, supply of equipment, and construction and installation of the infrastructure.

Reminder: in addition to installing land-based and undersea pipelines, the project calls for the construction of liquefaction plants with a production capacity of 6.6 million tonnes per year.
Representing a major source of supply, notably for countries in the Asia-Pacific region, this project aims to meet a strongly growing world demand for natural gas.

Poland

Makeover for the Capitol Theatre in Wroclaw

Warbud (VINCI Construction), in collaboration with Petit (VINCI Construction France), signed the contract for the rehabilitation of the Capitol Musical Theatre in Wroclaw on 19 April 2011. The project concerns the refurbishment and extension of this building dating from 1929.

It will result in a tripling of its surface area, with the construction of a rehearsal room, cloakrooms, a restaurant, a club for actors and an hotel for artistes on tour. The auditorium, too, will be renovated: its capacity will be increased to 1,000 seats, and the stage will be enlarged.
Worth €26m, the works started in May, and will take 18 months to complete.

Portugal

Renovating a retail centre

Mudicenter has appointed Sotécnica ABT and Sotubar (International Division, Energy business line) to renovate the Amoreiras shopping centre in Lisbon.

Sotécnica ABT is charged with installing the electrical equipment (notably including 15,000 m of cable trays, 160,000 m of cabling and 70 control boxes). Sotubar will look after the heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) side.
Worth a total of €7.6m, the works began in May 2011 and are due for completion in February 2012.

United States of America

Six new contracts for LAZ Parking

LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), signed six new contracts in May covering the operation of a total of 3,392 parking spaces. Four are commercial leases; two are provision-of-services contracts for two underground car parks (1,780 and 900 spaces respectively), located in Mas­sachusetts and Maryland, and serving administration build­ings as well as offices.

JUNE 2011

France

New car park in Nantes

A consortium comprising GTM Ouest and Sogea Atlantique (both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France) is undertaking the structural works for the new automated car park at the Atlantis shopping centre in Nantes (west of France). The structure will have four levels (floor area: 50,000 sq. metres).
Worth €8.4m, the works began in April and will take 6 months to complete.

Alsatian shopping experience from Urban

In February, Urban (VINCI Construction France) was awarded the final tranche of the Roppenheim The Style Outlets project, a shopping centre bringing together about a hundred shops (total retail space: 23,000 sq. metres); designed as an Alsatian village, it is located 40 km to the north of Strasbourg. Three new retail buildings will be created with the participation of Fargeot Lamellé Collé, an Arbonis company (VINCI Construction France), which will be responsible for the carpentry work in all the village’s retail areas.
Value of the works: €34m, of which €17m for VINCI Construction France.

Renewing the pavement on the A9

Eurovia’s Perpignan office will complete its refurbishment of 28 km of pavement on the A9 motorway in June. Undertaken on behalf of ASF (VINCI Autoroutes), the works include localized repairs on the right and middle lanes, as well as the deployment of 60,000 t of draining mix over 880,000 sq. metres. Signature (a Eurovia subsidiary) is, for its part, responsible for the road markings.
Value of the works: €7m.

VINCI joint venture for Les Halles tunnel

The redevelopment and bringing up to standard of the Les Halles road tunnel, in Paris, have been entrusted to a joint venture bringing together the three VINCI business lines undertaking works. VINCI Construction France, i.e. GTM TP IDF (leader), Sogea TPI and Chantiers Modernes BTP, will supply the civil engineering; the Energy business line, with Sdel Transport (VINCI Energies France Division) and Cegelec Paris (Cegelec France Division), is responsible for the electricity works package (high voltage, low voltage, ventilation, fire detection); Eurovia will supply the roadworks.

The project will involve reducing by half the current 4 km of roadways and eliminating several of the tunnel’s entry and exit roads, with the aim of improving conditions for pedestrians at ground level and reducing car traffic in the centre of the capital. The works start on 6 June 2011.
Worth €57m to VINCI, they will continue through until 2015, much of the time with the tunnel remaining open to traffic.

Education and culture for Sogea Nord-Ouest

• In Le Havre (Normandy), the urban community has appointed Sogea Nord-Ouest (VINCI Construction France), as leader of a consortium, to implement the Sciences Po-INSA (national institute of applied sciences) project. Designed by architects Hauvette et Associés, the future building (8,000 sq. metres) – a construction in wood, glass and steel, extending over five levels, of which one basement level (photo) – will accommodate the Le Havre institute of political studies, the SPI (Sciences for the Engineer) research pole of the University of Le Havre and the Civil Engineering and Sustainable Construction section of Rouen-based INSA. Worth €12.1m, the works, starting on 9 June, will take 16 months to complete.

• In addition, on 10 May the company launched its Alençon exhibition centre project (Normandy), involving a multifunction 5,100 sq. metre auditorium (3,000 seats). Worth €10.7m, the works will take 18 months to complete.

The Energy business line to work in three tunnels on the A89

Following a call for tenders, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) has entrusted the Energy business line, via its Cegelec GSS and VINCI Energies France Divisions, with the contract to equip the Violay, La Bussière and Chalosset tunnels, three twin-tube structures with two-lane unidirectional traffic located on the section of the A89 motorway currently under construction between Balbigny and La Tour-de-Salvagny, in central France. Teams from Cegelec Infrastructures & Mobility and GTIE Transport will supply the high- and low-voltage electrical installations, the lighting, fire protection, road signs and markings and ventilation, and the video surveillance and radiocommunications equipment. They will also be supplying the operational support and traffic management system, as well as the automatic controls for the three structures, which will be linked to the new Tarare Supervision PC.
Design and planning work is already under way; the works will start in November 2011, taking 18 months to complete. Total value: €42.7m.

Housing the elderly

In Vincennes (by Paris), in July, GTM Bâtiment (VINCI Construction France) is to start building an EHPA (old people’s home) providing 87 rooms, 23 family apartments, a shop, a multi-purpose room and two levels of underground parking.
Worth €9.7m, this operation will be undertaken on behalf of SA HLM Coopérer pour habiter (Cooperating for Homes, a social housing body).

Extending the prison in Ducos

On 31 March, SIMP (VINCI Construction) secured the design-build contract to extend the prison in Ducos (Martinique). Undertaken on behalf of the APIJ (the body responsible for Ministry of Justice real estate), the project will involve creating 160 additional places, refurbishing the kitchens, and the reconstruction of the administrative buildings.
Worth €28m, the works will be carried out on an occupied site. They are due for completion in 2013.

Consolidating a lock on the Rhine

EDF has appointed the Paris-Centre-Est office of Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), to consolidate the foundations of the Fessenheim lock, on the Rhine. The works involve 556 drilling operations under a head of water of more than 20 m, followed by a treatment injection of the sands and gravel beneath the structure’s foundations. Launched in late April, the operation is being tackled in two stages: the small lock will be dealt with in 2011, the large one in 2012.

SolData, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary, is supplying the surveillance at the structure, using an automatic topographical monitoring system.

Algeria

Structural reinforcement of silos

At Meftah, some 30 km to the south-east of Algiers, in May, Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), began reinforcing the structure of the silos at the Mitidja cement works, i.e. five 30 m-high structures, 26 m in diameter. The company is undertaking the design work and supplying the materials and technical assistance for the repair, using external prestressed concrete, of the structures.
The project is scheduled for completion in February 2012.

Brazil

Maintenance at chemical sites

Cegelec Brésil (International Division, Energy business line) is to supply the preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance, for three years, at two industrial sites belonging to the chemicals firm Lanxess in the towns of Triunfo (state of Rio Grande do Sul) and Duque de Caxias (state of Rio de Janeiro).
Worth some €11m, this contract will involve about a hundred people, working in teams specialising in mechanical and electrical engineering, instrumentation, automation, boilermaking and welding.

Canada

New contracts for VINCI Park

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) began operating four new car parks, representing a total of almost 1,900 spaces, on 1st April/1st May. Three of them are in Toronto, the fourth in Montreal.

Djibouti

Upgrading Djibouti’s drinking water supply

ONEAD (Djibouti’s national water and sewerage authority) has appointed VINCI Construction Grands Projets to refurbish and extend the drinking water supply network in the city of Djibouti.

To be completed in 18 months, the project aims to improve access to water both in the working-class neighbourhoods and in recently-created outlying districts of this expanding city. It covers the rehabilitation of 34 wells, sectorisation works (dividing up the water supply network by neighbourhood), and repairing leaks in defective existing infrastructure, as well as laying 150 km of pipes and providing 6,000 connections.
Valued at €15.5m, the project is being financed by the AFESD (Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development).

Italy

Photovoltaic installation

In May, at Olgiate Olona, near Milan (in the north of the country), on behalf of – and on the roof of an old factory belonging to – cloth manu­facturer Gallus SPA, Elphi (International Division, Energy business line) finished laying out a photovoltaic installation of some 15,000 sq. metres, with a capacity of 1 MWc (expected annual output: some 1,100,000 kWh).

In addition to installing the sensors, the Elphi team was also responsible for the grid connection works, equipping the technical control room and the monitoring system.
Worth €2.7m, the project was completed in five months.

Mexico

New berth

Cimesa, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), will complete its construction of a new berth in the trading port of Lázaro Cárdenas Michoacán, on the country’s Pacific coast, late this summer. The 200 m-long structure is composed of two retaining diaphragm walls linked by stiffening girders. Built on behalf of Terminales Portuarias del Pacífico, the new berth will accommodate ships carrying bulk minerals.

Norway

A plant that captures CO2

Alstom has appointed Emil Lundgren Norway Project (International Division, Energy business line) to supply the electrical installations and instrumentation for the European CO2 Technology Centre’s test plant at Mongstad. The contract covers the engineering, supply and installation of a system for tracing electrical heat, supply and installation of electrical power and lighting networks, and the instrumentation and installation of telecommunications and fire and gas detection systems. Design work and the ordering of equipment have already been completed. The works will be carried out between June 2011 and March 2012. The Mongstad plant will treat the fumes discharged by a gas-fired power station and an oil processing plant located nearby, and will capture up to 100,000 metric tonnes of CO2 each year (equivalent to the annual emissions of 33,000 vehicles).
Contract value: approximately 20 million Norwegian Crowns (€2.6m).

Sri Lanka

Launch of the works at Kantale

The works to rehabilitate and extend the water purification plant at Kantale were formally launched on 22 April 2011. Undertaken by VINCI Construction Grands Projets, the operation involves the design and construction of two additional water-tanks (1,500 and 1,670 cu. metres), the design and installation of electromechanical equipment for the plant’s two water intakes, and a total refurbishment of the pumping station.

These works will increase the plant’s processing capacity from 36,400 cu. metres to 54,600 cu. metres a day, and thus improve the supply of drinking water to the town of Trincomalee, in the northeast of the country.
Duration of the works: 18 months. Value: €10m.

United States of America

A new avenue in Daytona

In Daytona (Florida), May saw teams from Hubbard (Eurovia) completing the extension to Dunn Avenue, between Williamson Boulevard and Tomoka Farms Road. The project, which included the creation of two lanes and the construction of a bridge (involving a total distance of 1,200 m), will improve traffic flows in the vicinity of the airport and the Daytona International Speedway. Worth $6.6m (€4.6m), the works were financed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) as part of America’s economic re­covery programme.
They were launched early in 2010.

MAY 2011

France

Facility management for the army

The Secretariat General for the French Armed Forces (part of the Ministry of Defence) has appointed VINCI Facilities (Energy business line) to manage facilities at its Arcueil campus, by Paris – a site comprising 63 buildings, surface area: 72,000 sq. metres. The contract covers technical maintenance, organisation of office space, materials handling and waste management, as well as clean­ing and the upkeep of open spaces, which are the only two activities that will not be undertaken by the company’s own workforce. It enters into force on 1st June 2011 and will see a team of 14 people working on-site for five years.

A covering slababove railway tracks

A consortium notably compris­ing Sogea TPI and Botte Fondations (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) and Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is to participate in covering over the SNCF railway tracks alongside the Clichy-Batignolles integrated development zone (ZAC) in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The slab, offering a total surface area of 36,000 sq. metres, of which 14,000 sq. metres to be created by the consortium, will ultimately ‘host’ office blocks and a road.
Worth €41m, the works, begun in mid-March, will take 29 months to complete.

Rejuvenating the Jean Pommier baths

A consortium composed of Enbatra, leader, and Chabanel (both VINCI Construction France subsidiaries), in association with architect Jean-Louis Berthomieu and the Ethis and Taravella consultancies, has won the design-build con-tract for the rehabilitation and extension of the Jean Pommier swimming baths in Valence (southern France). The project will involve refur­bishing the two existing pools as well as creating an 8-lane lap pool and new changing rooms, i.e. a total surface area of some 3,200 sq. metres. During the works, due to start in December 2011 and with handover scheduled for June 2013, the baths will remain open to the public.
Contract value: €9.9m.

Two new wind farms in the Aube department

Cegelec Energy (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) has won two new contracts, worth a little over €10m, for the construction of wind farms in nine communes in the Aube department (eastern France). A total of 27 turbines (total capacity: 61.65 MW) will be erected in 2011 and early 2012, on two farms, on behalf of Eolfi, a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement.

Providing services

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has been awarded a new pro­vision-of-services contract for the management, for a renewed period of three years, of pay­and-display on-street parking in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz (south-west France). This contract concerns 1,490 parking spaces in summer and 1,204 spaces in winter, man­aged with 54 ticket machines.

In tandem for the rural electrification of the Ain department

Sdel Réseaux Extérieurs and Salendre Réseaux (business units of the VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) have secured 10 of the 33 works packages of the call-off contract awarded by the SIeA (intercommunal association for energy and e-communication of the Ain department, central France) for the rural electrification of the department. The project will involve the planning and the works (overhead and underground) for the low-and high-voltage net­works. It includes the provision of 250-1000 kWA transformer stations and the installation of infrastructure for the gas supply, fibre optic networks and urban lighting.
Worth some €17m, the works start in May and will take four years to complete.

The Biganos ZAC

Moter (Eurovia) began work in April on the creation of the ZAC (integrated development zone) in Biganos-Cassadote (western France). Undertaken on behalf of the municipality, the project, on a surface area of 20,000 sq. metres, involves 15,000 cu. metres of earthworks and backfilling, 15,000 sq. metres of roadways, 5,000 sq. metres of walkways, and two 1.8 km-long drainage networks, one for wastewater, the other for rainwater.
Worth €2.4m (of which €2.1m for Moter), the works are due for completion in September 2011.

Electrical installations for biggest French photovoltaic power plant

Cegelec Sud-Est (Cegelec France Division, Energy business line) is due, late this summer, to hand over the basic electrical installations of the solar power plant at Les Mées (south-east France), the biggest photovoltaic power plant as yet installed in France (110,000 panels). With a capacity of 31 MWc, it will extend over 66 ha. For this €3m contract from Siemens T&D, Cegelec will be burying 90 km of ducts and laying over 250 km of cables. A 10 km-long trench will be created to link the plant to the grid.

A “sugar cane” pier on Reunion Island

The first pier of the bridge over the Saint-Étienne river, on Reunion Island, was completed on 2 March. It is covered with an original facing, featuring a “sugar cane” motif, as will be the other eight piers supporting the structure’s 694.50 m-long, 2x2-lane, composite concrete-steel deck. The project, designed to replace a former bridge – one of its two viaducts was destroyed by a cyclone in 2007 – is being implemented by a consortium notably comprising Dodin Campenon Bernard, leader, and SBTPC (both VINCI Construction subsidiaries) and Botte Fondations (VINCI Construction France). The new bridge is scheduled for handover early in 2013.
Value of the works: €82.7m including taxes.

Entrevert eco-neighbourhood

in the Var department A consortium notably com­prising Verdino Construction and Dumez Var (two VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) has secured the contract for the Entrevert project, an eco-neigh­bourhood providing 312 homes to be built in La Valette (south of France). Rainwater recovery, the installation of photovoltaic panels and the creation of liv­ing walls are just some of the features planned in order to meet this project’s low-energy­building specification.
Worth €40.5m, the works began on 2 May.

The biggest photovoltaic roof in Alpes-Maritimes

Park Azur, a subsidiary of VINCI Concessions and holder of the contract covering the financing, construction and operation of the future business centre for car rental operators at Nice Côte d’Azur Airport (south of France), is to install 10,277 sq. metres of photovoltaic canopies (6,121 modules) on the build­ing’s roof: the electricity pro­duced will be re-injected into the network. Representing an investment of €5m, financed by VINCI Concessions and Dexia Crédit Local, this equipment will be deployed by VINCI Construction France and Jean Graniou SIT (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line). It will be one of the biggest photovoltaic projects ever undertaken on an airport site. Reminder: construction of the future business centre (surface area: 60,000 sq. metres; capacity: almost 25,000 park­ing spaces) was entrusted to a consortium comprising Dumez Côte d’Azur, Campenon Bernard Côte d’Azur and GTM TP Côte d’Azur, regional subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France.
The building will be inaugurat­ed on 23 June, and operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions).

Cameroon

Hydraulic engineering in Yaoundé

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) has won the contract for the reconstruction of the water purification plant in Yaoundé, aimed at increasing the pro­duction of drinking water to 200,000 cu. metres/day by 2013. The foundation stone for the project was laid on 21 March. Worth €30m, this project is be­ing financed by the AFD (French Development Agency).

Centrafricane Republic

Sogea-Satom: on along the road

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction), has been upgrading and asphalting the first section (40 km) of the Bouar-Fambélé road, in the west of the coun­try, since June 2010; it was awarded the second phase of the project on 14 February 2011.

The company will work on the remaining 33 km within the framework of a €37.4m contract financed by the World Bank. The first section is due for han­dover in late 2011, the second a year later.

Czech Republic

Facelift for the Charles Bridge

In late 2010, after three years of works, SMP CZ (VINCI Construction) completed the third phase of the renovation of the Charles Bridge, built in 1357 and one of the iconic historic structures of Prague. The operation saw the SMP CZ specialists successively remov­ing the parapets and the layers of the roadway, making the structure watertight, laying gas pipes for the gas lamps, apply­ing the layers of the new road surface and replacing damaged stones. Throughout these works, supervised by the National Institute for Historic Heritage and the Ministry of Culture, the bridge remained accessible to the public.

Stabilising slopes

Soletanche Czech Republic, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is currently stabilising sloping ground at an open-cast coalmining site in Bilina (North Bohemia). The technique being deployed involves the installa­tion of concrete blocks, and tie rods, together with the insertion of piles and micro-piles.
The works are due for completion in May.

Germany

A Eurovia trio on the Berlin “Ring”

Eurovia has won the contract to redevelop the Schwanebeck interchange, the meeting point, to the north of the city, of the A10 motorway, the Berlin “Ring” (orbital motorway) and the A11 motorway. The project concerns the widening of this structure (from 2x2 to 2x3 lanes) in order to improve traffic flows. In particular, it will involve eliminating the nearby Weißensee interchange, the creation of nine engineering structures, the refurbishment of a 3 km section on both the A10 and the A11, 1.15 million cu. metres of earthworks and the laying out of 25,000 m of rainwater drainage channels. The works will be carried out by a consortium comprising Eurovia Verkehrsbau Union, Eurovia Beton and Eurovia Industrie.
They start in early May, with handover sche­duled for 2013. Contract value: €32m.

Thermal insulation for BASF

G+H Industrie Service and Wrede & Niedecken Maxdorf (International Division, Energy business line) are undertaking thermal insulation works at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen, in south-west Germany. The works are being carried out between late April and late May 2011 during the shut­down for maintenance of the steam cracking plant producing raw materials for the petro­chemical industry (ethylene, propylene, etc.).
Almost 220 fit­ters are working on the project, worth €3.8m.

Saudi Arabia

Security for power stations

Cegelec Saudi, in collabora­tion with Cegelec Secure (both business units of Cegelec’s GSS Division, Energy business line), is to supply, on a turnkey basis, on behalf of the GCC Inter­connection Authority (which manages the power transmission network in several Gulf states), the security infrastruc­ture at eight 400 kV electricity dispatching stations located in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The new, integrated security system iPerflex (access control, visitors, intrusion, video, supervision), developed by Cegelec Secure, will be being exported for the first time when deployed within the framework of this project.
The project is scheduled to take 18 months to complete. Contract value: some €7m.

Spain

Installations for a refinery

Actemium – Zaragoza (Interna­tional Division, Energy business line), on behalf of Taim Weser (a supplier of handling and lifting equipment), is to undertake the electrical assembly and create the automatic control systems of two machines at the Repsol refinery site in Cartagena.
The works began in March and will take 6 months to complete. Value: €2.3m.

The Netherlands

Journey’s end for the Coentunnel caissons

On 3 May, the last element of the four caissons of the second Coentunnel was floated into and landed in Amsterdam. These elements will form the basic structure of a 750 m-long, 8-lane, submerged road tunnel that will double the capacity of the present tunnel. It will have taken the teams of the con­struction consortium – notably comprising CFE and Dredging International (both VINCI Construction subsidiaries) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets – two years to prefab­ricate them in the dry dock at Barendrecht, near Rotterdam. Reminder: the €500m contract signed, as part of a consortium, by VINCI Concessions, covers the design, construction, financ­ing and maintenance of the equipment for 30 years. It also calls for the widening of a 10 km-long stretch of each ac­cess road (A8 and A10 motor­ways). On handover, in 3 years’ time, this infrastructure will provide a link between the Amsterdam “Ring” (ring road) and the north of the country.

United States of America

Four new contracts for LAZ Parking

LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), has secured three provision-of­services contracts for the opera­tion of 1,618 parking spaces in Detroit (Michigan) and Chicago (Illinois), as well as a contract to manage a 1,000-space multi­storey car park in Boston (Mas­sachusetts).

APRIL 2011

France

A breath of “Oxygen” for Montrouge

IDFIMM, the project financing arm of Petit (VINCI Construction France), signed a contract on 3 March with the Société de la Tour Eiffel for the sale, from plan, of a 5,000 sq. metre office block (8 levels, of which 3 underground levels) worth €23.5m, to be built in Montrouge, by Paris. The building will be constructed by Petit to low-energy standards, within the framework of the Oxygen eco-commitment approach. An exclusive offer from VINCI Construction France, Oxygen provides clients with a contractual guarantee of optimum performance for their project in terms of sustainable development during the design stage (eco-design), during construction (responsible worksite approach) and once in use (ongoing support for the users).
Handover of the building is scheduled for the first half of 2013.

Extending the hospital in Troyes

The consortium formed by Sogea Est and C3B (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries), in association with architects AIA and Franck Plays and the AIA Ingénierie and Etamine consultancies, has been awarded the design-build contract for the extension at the hospital in Troyes (eastern France).

The project will involve the creation of a low-energy building extending over five levels (some 17,000 sq. metres), accommodating 430 beds, and the demolition of existing buildings.
Worth €50m, the works will start in late 2011, with handover scheduled for 2014.

Final straight for the Térénez bridge

In the run-up to its entry into service, scheduled for 17 April, load tests were carried out on the Térénez Bridge, in Brittany, on 28 March. These tested the new infrastructure’s strength by loading it with 8 32-tonne lorries. The outcome was in line with design office predictions: while theoretical deformation under such a load would be 15 cm at the centre of the deck, measurements indicated a “drop” of 14 cm. Reminder: this bridge has been created by Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), leader, and Sogea Bretagne, GTM Bretagne and Botte Fondations (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) – working in collaboration with several VINCI Construction structural design offices (the design offices of VINCI Construction France in Marseilles, Campenon Bernard Dodin Ingénierie, and the Engineering and Technical Resources arm of VINCI Construction Grands Projets) –, Freyssinet (co-contractor) and Terre Armee, subsidiaries of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), Eurovia’s Quimper office, and Citéos Quimper and Actemium Brest (of the VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line).

Concrete watches over the Comtesse Hospice

Concrete, a VINCI subsidiary specialising in the technical maintenance of our built heritage, has been awarded a contract by the city of Lille (northern France) for the monitoring and assessment of the Comtesse Hospice museum, a gem of traditional Lille architecture built between the 15th and 18th centuries and now classified as a listed building. Concrete’s task involves carrying out inspections, installing instrumentation in the building and taking measurements (including 3-D modelling), in order to identify the causes of problems and be able to advise the client on possible protective or remedial solutions. These monitoring operations began in late 2010 and will continue over a period of 8 years.
Value: €0.4m.

Serving the aeronautics industry

Spiecapag Régions Sud, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), has been awarded a contract by Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse, a European Airbus consortium supplier of ventilation, cabin air pressure and aircraft climate control equipment. The project involves creating piping for a compressed air circuit, for the industrialist’s ISA (International Standard Atmosphere) test centre, currently being extended.
Contract value: €2.3m.

Breakthrough for Toulon tunnel

After 44 months of drilling from the west and 27 months from the east, on 3 March 2011 the working faces of the two drives creating the second tube of the Toulon tunnel (south of France) met up at a depth of 35 m.

This 2.8 km-long structure (1.8 km of it tunnelled) running parallel to the first tube, brought into service in 2002 marks the completion of the project to provide an underground crossing beneath Toulon linking up the A50, A57 and A570 motorways.The civil engineering works are being supplied by a consortium comprising Soletanche Bachy and Soletanche Bachy Tunnels, in collaboration with SolData, all subsidiaries of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction).

Australia

Dredging in the port of Gladstone

Dredging International (Australia), a subsidiary of DEME (CFE, VINCI Construction), and Van Oord Australia have secured the main contract for dredging works in the west basin (works package 5) of the port of Gladstone (Queensland). The project involves dredging, to a depth of 7.50 m, a 3 kmlong access channel and its ramifications. In total, almost 6 million cubic metres of materials will have to be dredged to make way for the transportation of the heavy equipment required for the construction, on Curtis Island, of the country’s biggest gas liquefaction plant.
Valued at 260 million Australian dollars (€190m), the works start in June, and will take 40 weeks to complete.

Belgium

NATO HQ in Brussels

Building Projects Cegelec Belgique (International Division, Energy business line), in a joint venture, has been awarded the HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning), electrical systems and data (data networks) works packages for the new, 250,000 sq. metre NATO headquarters building in Brussels. For this non-standard project, Building Projects Cegelec Belgique will create 14 highvoltage boxes, install 76 km of cable trays as well as equipment for the production of solar energy and cogeneration energy (combined production of power and heat), and equip 99,000 sq. metres of flooring with a slab cooling (water-cooled) system.
Total project value: €140m (of which some €70m for Cegelec); handover is scheduled for 2015.

Czech Republic

Modernising railway track

SŽDC, the body charged with managing the Czech railway infrastructure, recently appointed Eurovia CS to renew some 3 kilometres of the line between Ceske Budejovice and Nemanice, in southern Bohemia. The works involve modernising the catenaries and the information/safety system, as well as refurbishing part of the train station in Ceske Budejovice.

Part of a programme to upgrade the railway corridor between Prague and Ceske Budejovice, this project aims to increase the operating speed of trains (up to 160 km/h).

The contract is valued at 692 million Czech crowns (€28m), some of it to be financed by the European Union’s structural fund for transport.
The works are scheduled for completion in July 2013.

Indonesia

Electrical engineering projects for Indokomas

Indokomas, a Cegelec company (International Division, Energy business line), as leader of a consortium, is to supply, over the next 22 months, the design, complete installation, on-site testing and official acceptance of a coal-fired power station at Berau, in the north-east of Kalimantan (Borneo). Comprising two 7 MW turbines, this power plant will be handed over on a turnkey basis to the national electricity generation company, PT PLN. Contract value: €20m (of which €6m for Indokomas).

The company will also create, on behalf of the same client, five mediumvoltage (150 kV) transformer stations – of which four in a joint venture: value €11m (not including supplying the power transformers).

Lithuania

Eurovia Lietuva: landing in Vilnius

Eurovia Lietuva, in a joint venture, is participating in the renovation of the aircraft parking areas (a surface area of 82,000 sq. metres) at Vilnius International Airport. The contract covers the reprofiling of the platforms, repairing the structure of the parking areas and the rehabilitation of the drainage network.
Worth €4m to Eurovia, the works will be carried out without disrupting traffic. They are due for completion in November 2011.

Poland

Road access to the port in Szczecin

On 2 February, Eurovia Polska signed a contract with the city of Szczecin, in the far north-west of the country, for the upgrading of the 2.5 km road accessing the port. The project notably includes creating a roundabout, two viaducts and an interchange, and renewing the various networks.
Worth €26m, the works will take 30 months to complete.

Wroclaw bypass

In connection with the extending of the Wroclaw bypass, Eurovia Polska has been awarded a €14m contract by the Lower Silesian roads agency and the city’s railway authorities. Signed on 15 February, it notably concerns the creation of five engineering structures, a roundabout and 1.5 km of roads.
The works are due for completion in January 2013.

Saudi Arabia

Equipment for a combined cycle power plant

General Electric has appointed G+H Schallschutz SK 1 (International Division, Energy business line) to design, manufacture and supply two exhaust gas by-pass systems and two air filtration systems for the Qurayyah combined cycle power plant, on the shores of the Gulf.
Valued at €3.7m, the works started in January and will take 9 months to complete.

Trinidad & Tobago

Next chapter at the CRH-UBH interchange

Having built, and brought into service on 1st May 2009, the main bridge of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway – Uriah Butler Highway (CRH-UBH) interchange, the teams from VINCI Construction Grands Projets have now been awarded a new contract, for the further development of this infrastructure and to continue improving traffic flows between the capital, Port of Spain, and the island’s main population centres.

Valued at $30.8m (€22.8m), it covers optimising the interchange (link-ups with existing structures, planning work in preparation for the possible addition of supplementary features) and the design and construction of two composite engineering structures, 61 metres in length, spanning the Churchill Roosevelt Highway. The foundation stone for this project was laid on 18 February.
The works started in late March, and will take some 17 months to complete.

United Arab Emirates

Centralised control for a refinery

In Abu Dhabi, the national refining company, Takreer, has charged Cegelec Oil & Gas (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) with centralising all control systems for the installation’s various units within its refinery’s new control room. The project notably involves modernising the existing digital control system.
To take 18 months to complete (including 7 months of design work) and worth €22m, the works began in late January.

United States of America

Services in six new car parks

LAZ Parking, a VINCI Park subsidiary (VINCI Concessions), has signed six new provisionof- services contracts for car parks located mainly in the east and south of the country: a total of 4,616 spaces. The biggest contract is for a 3,480-space car park in the business neighbourhood of the town of Irving, in Texas.

In tandem at berth No. 7

Built in 2010, the 280 m-long berth No. 7 in the port of Freeport (Texas), has never been used because of excessive movement observed in the structure as of the dredging phases. Nicholson, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has been charged with consolidation works, involving the installation of additional tie rods. SolData, the Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary specialising in instrumentation, will, in addition, be monitoring the structure during the works, and over the following six months.
The works, to take 6 months, began in January 2011.

MARCH 2011

France

Faceo signs up for its first PPP

Faceo (VINCI Facilities Division, Energy business line) has just signed its first PPP agreement, for the redevelopment of the Le Chesnois vocational secondary school in Bains-les-Bains (east of France). This lycée has 400 students, both boarders and day pupils. In a joint venture with Rabot Dutilleul, a firm with which it had worked prior to its joining the Group, Faceo will supply building maintenance and general maintenance and replacement for a period of 20 years. Total contract value: €8.5m.

VINCI Park moves into Valenciennes

In Valenciennes (north of France), the Société des Acacias and the Société de la Polyclinique Vauban have just signed a 10-year contract with VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) for the management of two car parks, offering a total of 290 spaces. These new facilities are due to become operational in the course of May 2011.

HEQ project for Eurovia

A consortium including Sassi BTP and EJL Sud-Est (both Eurovia subsidiaries) is participating in the rehabilitation and extension of the departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS) in Saint-Priest (Rhône department, central France). Awarded by the national property company (SNI), the project involves the earthworks, renewal of the buried networks, the creation of four basins and the application of the mix. The works began on 7 February and will take 16 months to complete. They are being carried out on an HEQ (high environmental quality) basis, notably involving the measurement of noise using sensors, monitoring of fuel consumption, and the traceability of all materials employed.
Contract value: €7.1m (of which €5.7m for Eurovia).

New hotel in Dunkirk

Sogea Caroni (VINCI Construction France), in a joint venture, is to build the Kursall Hotel in Dunkirk (north of France). This 8-storey, 107-room, three-star establishment will have a brasserie/restaurant area. It will take 13 months to build.
Total value of the works: €7.5m (of which €4.3m for Sogea Caroni).

Work starts on widening the A50 motorway

On the Escota network (VINCI Autoroutes), in the south of France, work began in mid-January on widening the 21 km stretch between La Ciotat and Bandol to 2x3 lanes. The works, which will take some 18 months to complete, include installing new equipment along the entire stretch with a view to enhancing clients’ safety and better integrating the A50 into the environment. Worth a total of €70m, this project has been awarded to a consortium comprising Eurovia Béton, Eurovia’s Marseilles office and TP Spada (Eurovia), and Campenon Bernard Côte d’Azur and Sogea Sud-Est TP’s Toulon office (both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France).

Maintenance work on the Dumont d’Urville

Cegelec Espace & Défense (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) will be responsible for major planned maintenance work on the light transport ship (“batral”) the Dumont d’Urville, scheduled for March 2011 in Fort de France (Martinique). Worth €5m, this will involve placing the ship in a dry dock for the various preventive and remedial works, as well as refurbishing its hull and structures.

Solar power plantin southern France

Omexom Énergies Renouvelables (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) concluded a turnkey contract in late 2010 with the company Watt Montéléger, for the design, construction, maintenance and operation of a ground-based photovoltaic power plant (installed capacity: 8.2 MWc) to be created at Montéléger (southern France).
Contract value: €23m.

Conservinga historic building

In Lyons (central France), Pitance Construction (VINCI Construction France) has been appointed by Aupera to restore, on a general contracting basis, homes located within the Saint-Paul train station, a building dating from 1873. Undertaken within the framework of a re-habilitation programme in the conservation area of Old Lyons, the project aims to bring the 28 flats up to current plumbing, thermal, acoustic and accessibility standards.
Valued at €3.7m, the works will start in March.

Public transport in Nîmes

In August 2010, Greater Nîmes launched works on Line 1 of the TCSP (own-site public transport system), a northsouth, 6 km-long line passing through the town centre. In a joint venture with Maïa Son-nier and Sols Méditerranée, Entreprise De Filippis (Eurovia) secured two works packages involving laying 15,800 sq. metres of cobblestones and 28,500 sq. metres of slabs in Croatian limestone, as well as 1.5 km of tactile paving in basalt. The company will also supply the 25 km of kerbstones in Croatian limestone for the infrastructure works package. The works will take 18 months. Value: €12m (of which €5.5m for Entreprise De Filippis). Within the framework of this same project, Santerne Nîmes (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line), meanwhile, was awarded two urban lighting works packages, worth a total of €1.3m.

Taute transformer station

Garczynski Traploir Énergie and Omexom Le Mans (business units of the VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) have been charged with the turnkey construction of the Taute transformer station, in Saint-Sébastien-de-Raids (Normandy). With a capacity of 400/90 kV, this station will form part of the future 2 x 400 kV high-voltage line, fed by the EPR tranche of EDF’s Flamanville power station, which will supply the Maine and Brittany regions. Eurovia’s Périers office and MCCF, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), will participate in the project, responsible, respectively, for the earthworks, drainage and development works, and the creation of the foundations for the 6-hectare platform.

New interchangeon the A11

On 3 February, Pierre Coppey, Chairman of VINCI Autoroutes, and Albéric de Mongolfier, President of the General Council of the Eure-et-Loir department, in the presence of French Secretary of State for Transport Thierry Mariani, signed a financing agreement for an inter-change to be created on the A11 near Illiers-Combray, between the Thivars and Brou exits.
The works, worth €14m (of which €7m for Cofiroute), should start in 2014, with entry into service scheduled for early 2015.

Australia

Container terminal

At the Port Botany container terminal site in Sydney, Menard Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has just completed deep compacting works prior to installing five new berths. Undertaken on behalf of Baulderstone, these works involved both providing a space for prefabricating and storing buttresses for supporting the future quay, and creating a temporary quay for transhipping them onto the barges charged with transporting them. In total, more than 500,000 sq. metres were treated.

Belgium

BPC to work on UP-site project

BPC, a subsidiary of CFE (VINCI Construction), is to participate, as leader of a consortium, in the implementation of the UP-site project, in the new Canal neighbourhood of Brussels. Awarded by property developer Atenor, this project involves the construction of a 42-storey residential tower block, the highest in Belgium (140 m), four office buildings (30,000 sq. metres) and four apartment blocks featuring three parking levels (36,000 sq. metres).
The works start in April, with completion scheduled for May 2014. Value: €110m (of which 65% for BPC).

Cameroon

Sogea-Satommoving into action

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) signed a contract in December 2010 with Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Works for the creation of the road between Ndop and Kumbo (60 km). This is the first tranche of the project to redevelop the Ring Road – a circular route originating in Bamenda, to the northwest of Yaoundé. The works, which will take 22 months, start in April.
Value of the works: €34m (including taxes).

Germany

Gas storage

Last December, gas and electricity supplier Essent appointed Actemium Projektmanagement Chemie (International Division, Energy business line) to enlarge its gas storage facility at Epe. The works involve the electrical engineering, instrumentation and automation of the installation. Responsible for the overall management of the project and the worksite, the company will assist the operator with commissioning.
Contract value: €3.1m.

Bridge over the Elbe in Dresden

In Dresden (Saxony), Eurovia Beton, as leader of a consortium notably comprising the Dresden office of Eurovia VBU, is continuing its construction of the Waldschlösschenbrücke, a 636 m-long bridge spanning the Elbe. Designed by Eurovia Beton’s Engineering department, the crossing was partially installed in December. The works continue: earthworks, and preparation of the ground for the installation of the bridge’s definitive structure. Handover is scheduled for early 2012.
Contract value: €51m, of which €17m for Eurovia.

Hungary

Automated monitoring of a reservoir for red sludge

SolData, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) specialising in instrumentation and surveillance has been awarded a contract by the National Directorate General for Disaster Management (NDGDM) to install and main-tain an automated monitoring system at the reservoir for toxic sludge at Devecser, in the west of the country. This equipment will make it possible to detect any significant change on the damaged part of the dam.

Morocco

Poste de transformation à Chemaïa

Dans le cadre de son programme de renforcement du réseau de transport d’énergie électrique, l’Office national de l’électricité (ONE) marocain a retenu Cegelec Maroc (division International du pôle Energies) pour la construction du poste 400/225 kV de Chemaïa, l’extension du poste 400/225 kV de Mediouna, l’extension du poste 225/60 kV de Tensift II et pour la mise en service de ces nouvelles installations. Ce projet clés en main, d’un montant de 30 M€ (dont 9 M€ pour Cegelec Maroc), sera réalisé en partenariat avec Alstom Grid et Arco-Béton.

Poland

A fruitful collaboration in Warsaw

A joint venture formed by Eurovia Polska and Warbud (VINCI Construction) is to build the Salomea-Wolica section of the S8 expressway in Warsaw. This 2.5 km section will include an access road leading to national highway 7 and form the first stretch of the motorway between Warsaw and Krakow. The works include the earthworks, roadways and networks on the new route and links to existing roads, as well as the construction of six viaducts, a subway and a footbridge. The works, launched in January, are scheduled to complete in August 2012.
Value: €38.5m.

Romania

Modernisinga steam boiler

TIAB Petrol & Gase (International Division, Energy business line) has signed a further contract with Lukoil Energy and Gas in connection with the modernising of a boiler producing electrical and thermal energy for the Petrotel Lukoil refinery. In addition to work already done, TIAB will now be responsible for the instrumentation and detailed design of the new installation.
This new contract will increase the value of the works to €1.7m.

Lighting in the Bucharest metro

As part of the project to modernise the Bucharest metro, Metrorex has appointed TIAB Infra (International Division, Energy business line) to install the low-voltage electrical equipment (public lighting, power supply, signage and entrance gates). The works began in January and will take 6 months to complete.
Contract value: €1m.

Saudi Arabia

Analyzers for a refinery

Cegelec Oil & Gas (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) has secured two orders from Samsung Engineering and Technip Italy for the design, procurement and installation of a range of equipment (analyzers, shelters) for the future Satorp refinery (Saudi Aramco and Total) at Jubail.
Contract value: €3m.

South Korea

The “golden lines” bridge

At the worksite for the second Geo Geum bridge, Major Project teams from Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), in a joint venture with Freyssinet Korea, have, since June 2010, been installing 1,140 t of cables supplied by the company – a task due to continue through till April 2011. On its entry into service, scheduled for the end of this year, this new structure, more than 2 km in length, will link the island of Geo Geum with the island of Sorok, itself already linked to the mainland.

Spain

VINCI Park at Alicante Airport

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) signed its fourth contract with AENA (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea) on 18 January. It covers the management, as of 1st March 2011, of the car parks at Alicante Airport. This 3-year contract, renewable for 2 years, concerns 5,757 parking spaces.

The Netherlands

Thermal insulation for a power station

G+H Isolierung (International Division, Energy business line) is to supply, on behalf of EON Maasvlakte, the thermal insulation of 45,000 sq. metres of piping in a boiler in the new power station in Maasvlakte, near Rotterdam. The works will be carried out between July 2011 and December 2012.
Contract value: €5.8m.

FEBRUARY 2011

France

Citéos to light up Aix-les-Bains and Sassenage

Citéos Exploitation Rhône-Alpes – Auvergne, in association with Citéos Pays de Savoie (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line), has just signed a 15-year PPP for the urban lighting in the town of Aix-les-Bains (south- eastern France). The contract, worth €14.2m, entered into force on 15 January. It covers management of energy consumption, renovation and maintenance of the urban lighting system, traffic management, festive-period lighting and the illumination of the town’s heritage sites.

A second PPP was signed in January, with Citéos Grenoble, for the urban lighting in the town of Sassenage.

Diversion road for Vif

As part of the creation of a new, 1.5 km-long route that will link the RD1075 to the north-east of Vif (south-east France) and the A51 motorway, teams from

Perino Bordone (Eurovia), together with Eurovia Alpes, are building a bridge over the Gresse, a 42 m-long, two-beam structure. The two companies are also involved in other works packages: building a 520 lm, concrete outfall for rainwater (diameter: 1,600), as well as discharge structures, earthworks and kerbs.

Low-energy homes in Lyons...

In Lyons (central France), in the Bon Lait integrated development zone, January saw SCB (VINCI Construction France) start on the construction, on a general contracting basis, of a low-energy building that will provide 92 homes and shops, on behalf of VINCI Immobilier. Extending over 10 levels (including two underground levels), this building, named D-Sign, will have a total surface area of 15,000 sq. metres. It will have external insulation and be equipped with solar panels for the production of domestic hot water.

Worth €8.4m, the works will take 21 months to complete.

... and in Massy

Sicra (VINCI Construction France) has begun work on a project in the Ampère integrated development zone in Massy (Paris region). Undertaken on behalf of Cogedim, the overall project will involve the creation of 221 low-energy homes, a crèche and 272 parking spaces, divided among 5 buildings.

The first tranche, launched on 31 December 2010, will take 23 months to complete. The second, due to start in April, should take 22 months.

Total value of the works: €24.4m.

Design and construction of a data center

Cegelec Sud-Ouest (Cegelec France Division, Energy business line),as leader of a consortium, has been appointed to design and build the future IT and data processing center of Agirc-Arrco, the body responsible for supplementary pensions for employees, in Gradignan (south-west of France).

The 3,500 sq. metre building will have 800 sq. metres of IT rooms. Contract value: €7.7m (of which €3.1m for Cegelec).

Stormwater basin in Ronchin

The North&West office of Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is to build, on a general contracting basis, a stormwater basin in Ronchin (north of France).

This structure (diameter: 45 m; depth: about 10 m) will have a storage capacity of 8,000 cu. metres. The works will start in February and take a year to complete. In particular, they will involve creating 1,700 sq. metres of diaphragm walls, 1,700 lm of micropiles, 170 lm of concrete piping (diameter: 1,400 mm) and 260 lm of delivery pipe.

Parking in Caen

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has signed a 10-year lease with developer Apsys to operate the car park (650 spaces) at the future Rives de l’Orne retail centre in Caen (Normandy). This project involves 24,000 sq. metres of retail space and 12 cinemas, as well as offices and homes. Before its opening, scheduled for late 2012, VINCI Park will fit out the car park.

Deep onshore drilling

Lundin International, a French subsidiary of Swedish oil group Lundin Petroleum, has just awarded Cofor, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), a deep drilling contract valued at €7.7m. It will involve, in eastern France, drilling a 2,500 m-deep exploration shaft, and eight wells producing oil from the Grandville field.

The works start in April and will take 10 months to complete.

Trendy new retail outlets

As leader of 15 business units in the VINCI Energies France Division of the Energy business line, Masselin Surfaces Commerciales has just been awarded a contract by the Carrefour Group for the installation of the electrical equipment in 150 stores based on a new concept, called Carrefour Planet.

This contract represents 70% of a framework contract worth a total of more than €80m. The works start in April and will take 30 months to complete.

A new floor for Eurocopter

Teams from the Vitrolles and Gennevilliers offices of Sept Résine (Eurovia) have used a two-week production shutdown at the Eurocopter plant in Marignane (south of France) to install new flooring, in self-smoothing epoxy resin, in the workshop. Involving a surface area of 3,000 sq. metres, this operation was part of a programme to refurbish the site, built in the 1980s.

Baggage tunnel at Roissy

Aéroports de Paris (ADP) has entrusted the North&West office of Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), with the creation, on a general contracting basis, of an underground tunnel. This tunnel, 70 lm in length, will house the equipment needed to transport baggage in transit between Terminal 2E and the future Satellite S4. The works will be divided into two tranches over the years 2011-2012, and will not disrupt traffic.

A hat trick for Faceo

Faceo (VINCI Facilities Division, Energy business line) has signed a 3-year contract with Sarel, a subsidiary of Schneider Electric, for facility management (supplying services relating to the technical maintenance of the buildings, management of the mail, security and safety, cleaning, reception, etc.) at its factory and distribution centre in Sarre-Union (east of France) – there are nearly 550 employees working at these two sites each day.

This contract comes in addition to two three-year contracts of the same type, which were recently renewed, relating to Schneider Electric’s facilities in Évreux (Normandy) and Mâcon (central France).

Total value of the contracts: €5m.

A second-chance centre in Meyzieu

Sogea Nord-Ouest (VINCI Construction France) has signed a framework-agreement with 2IDE (Immobilier Insertion Défense Emploi) covering the design and construction, on a general contracting basis, in collaboration with Lamy (VINCI Construction France), of a second-chance centre (for the social and professional integration of young people who have dropped out of mainstream schooling) in Meyzieu (central France). The centre will feature seven low-energy buildings (two accommodation blocks, an administration building, a pedagogical village, a teaching centre, a gymnasium and a restaurant), occupying a total built surface area of 11,250 sq. metres.

Worth €10.5m, the works will take 12 months to complete.

Cold air from the ocean depths...

Geocean, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), is to participate in the creation of a sea- water air conditioning system at a new hotel development in French Polynesia.

The project will involve drawing cold water (3.5°C) from a depth of 1,000 m and feeding it into the air conditioning network.

This solution will help to optimise the complex’s energy performance, and be more user-friendly, given that it will generate neither noise nor vibration.

The works will take 14 months to complete.

... and hot water from the depths of the Earth

Cofor, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), began work in January, at Lognes (Paris region), on a pair of geothermal wells intended to provide communal heating for the Marne-la-Vallée - Val Maubuée area (Paris region). The installation comprises two wells drilled to a depth of 2,100 m, one for the extraction of geothermal water (at a temperature of 75°C), the other for re-injecting it after use.

The works will take 4 months to complete.

Belgium

VINCI Park: the future’s blue!

VINCI Park Services Belgium (VINCI Concessions) has just secured two provision-of-services contracts to manage “blue zone” (regulated parking area) spaces in the communes of Heist-op- den-Berg, near Malines, and Dixmude (West Flanders).

The first contract, signed for a period of 3 years, relates to 1,250 parking spaces; the second, for a minimum duration of 4 years, concerns 260 spaces.

Canada

The world’s biggest cable-stayed retractable roof

This March, in Vancouver, Freyssinet Canada Limitée and Freyssinet International, subsidiaries of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), will finish installing the stays and suspension cables of the retractable roof of the BC Place stadium, having already been responsible for designing it, the development of the construction methods used, and procurement. Since June 2010, a total of 35 km of cables (diameter: 125 mm) has been installed, attached to 36 50 m-high masts each weighing 75 t.

India

Watertight wall for a dam

Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), signed a contract on 9 December 2010 to build a sealing wall for the Subansiri dam, a 116 m-high, concrete gravity dam currently under construction in the state of Assam, in the north of the country.

The wall will be created using hydrofraise equipment, working from three tunnels, 7 metres high, located within the dam. It will be 800 mm thick and 50 metres deep.

Worth €11m, the works will start in May and take 12 months to complete.

Morocco

Installations for a wash plant

Cegelec Maroc (International Division, Energy business line) has won the contract to provide the power supply infrastructure and install the equipment and automation of a new hopper for the Mrah el Arach (MEA) wash plant at Khouribga, a major site for the production of phosphates, 120 km south-east of Casablanca.

Worth almost €19m, the works will be carried out on behalf of the OCP (national phosphates office). They will notably involve the installation of eight transformer stations (two for 60 kV/5.5 kV and six medium/ low voltage stations) and will take 8 months to complete.

Cegelec Maroc is also currently completing, for the same client, its installation of the entire electrical infrastructure, automation and instrumentation for a new wash plant, also located at Khouribga. This €36m contract was secured in 2009.

Poland

Eurovia on the right track

A joint venture formed by Eurovia Polska and Eurovia CS has won a contract to modernise the 5.5 km-long railway line between Kraków Biežanow and Wieliczka Rynek. The project will be undertaken on a design-build basis and includes renovating Kraków Lagiewniki train station. The works start in April and will take a year to complete.

Value: €16m.

Portugal

Sotécnica AEP: supplying schools

As part of the programme to modernise schools launched by the Portuguese government, Sotécnica AEP (International Division, Energy business line) has secured two new contracts for the electrical equipment of two schools in Viana Do Castelo and Guimarães, in the north of the country.

The works will notably include medium- and low-voltage electrical installations, fire detection, gas detection, access controls and the public address system. Total value of the contracts: €2.76m.

South Korea

A bridge across the sea

December saw Freyssinet and Freyssinet Korea, both Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) companies, completing their construction of a cable-stayed bridge with two towers on the 8.2 km- long road between Busan, a coastal town in the south of the country, and the island of Geoje, a major tourist destination on the Pacific coast. The teams supplied, installed and adjusted 160 stays for this 975 m-long bridge, which has a 475 m-long main span.

Freyssinet Korea also participated in the construction of the towers, and the deployment of the prestressing of the deck.

United States of America

Nicholson Construction admitted to Columbia University

Nicholson Construction, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), in a consortium, has been awarded the contract, by Bovis Lend Lease, for the foundations and basements of the first phase of the Columbia University Manhattanville Development project, located on the site of a former industrial zone in the West Harlem neighbourhood of New York.

The contract covers the preparatory works, earthworks, civil engineering (including 14,300 sq. metres of diaphragm walls and 96 tie bars), water tightness and drainage. The works began in early January.

Hubbard Construction to extend I-95 express lanes

The Florida Department of Transportation has appointed Hubbard Construction (Eurovia) to design and build a 13-mile extension (some 21 km) to the toll express lanes on the I-95 in Miami.

One to two lanes will be created on the central reservation for each traffic direction, between the Golden Glades interchange and Broward Boulevard (Broward County). They will be equipped with a system that automatically adjusts toll rates as a function of traffic density; it is expected they will be used by 53,000 vehicles a day. The project also includes the renovation of the Ives Dairy Road interchange.

Worth $84m (€64m), the contract was signed in January. The works, starting in the course of 2011, are scheduled for completion in late 2013.

JANUARY 2011

France

Homes and shops in Nanterre

Sicra (VINCI Construction France) is to build, on behalf of Crédit Agricole Immobilier Promotion and Promaffine, a complex of 166 homes plus retail space in Nanterre, by Paris.
Contract value: €22.7m.

Hydroelectric plant at Rochemaure

The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) has entrusted a consortium comprising CBR TP (leader), Campenon Bernard Régions, Tournaud and Botte Fondations (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) with the construction of a small hydroelectric power plant at Rochemaure (southern France).

The works will include the creation of a water feeder channel (sheet piling secured by tie rods and diaphragm walls), the production unit and civil engineering for the transformer feeding power to the network, a water outlet channel and a fish ladder.

The plant will have a production capacity of 6.5 MW, equivalent to the annual consumption of 22,000 inhabitants.
Contract value: €11.7m.

Tunnel breakthrough on Line 4 in Paris

On 25 November, the task of driving the tunnel extending Line 4 of the Paris metro was completed, in the presence of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, when the headwall at the future Mairie de Montrouge metro station was broken through.

Launched in March 2009 by a consortium notably including Soletanche Bachy Tunnels, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), the driving of this 817 m-long tunnel – linking the Porte d’Orléans neighbourhood (vicinity Square du Serment de Koufra) to the heart of Montrouge – had taken 20 months.
The extension is scheduled to come into service in mid-2012.

Extending the port in Fréjus

In Fréjus (south of France), where the town authorities have launched a project to develop the Port-Fréjus Nord neighbourhood, TP Spada (Eurovia) is extending the existing port inland by creating a 500 m-long navigable channel.The works involve the vibratory insertion of 1,000 metres of sheet piling, creating piers on the banks, diverting utilities and building two steel-frame footbridges over the channel.
The works will take six months. Value: €3.8m.

M1D project completed

VINCI Immobilier has just handed over a development programme providing 13,500 sq. metres of office, retail and business space, as well as workshops, in the heart of the Rive Gauche integrated development zone in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

The complex comprises three buildings: Modul’19 (8 storeys and a surface area of 8,200 sq. metres), Modul’17 (6 levels and 1,070 sq. metres), and a building offering 4,000 sq. metres over 8 levels.

The works were supplied by Sicra (VINCI Construction France) and Lefort Francheteau and Phibor (both business units of the VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line), and took 23 months to complete.
Value of the works: €31m.

Developing Port Marianne

In connection with the southwards expansion of the town of Montpellier (south of France), and the development of the new Port Marianne neighbourhood, teams from Entreprise de Filippis (Eurovia) and Eurovia’s Baillargues office are supplying all works (pavements, traffic lanes, the ballast between tram lines) relating to the 12,000 sq. metres of Avenue Raymond Dugrand, one of the main arteries in the area.
The works, worth €3.6m, are expected to take until late 2012 to complete.

A TBM in Montluçon

On 25 November, in Montluçon (central France), CSM Bessac, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), installed the tunnel boring machine due to drive a main drain linking various networks associated with the town’s storm water basin. The drain, 2.20 m in diameter, will enable water from the Cher to be channelled into the main storage basin (capacity: 12,000 cu. metres). This basin, and the 15 m-deep shafts for lowering and raising the TBM, were supplied by SNEC and Dumez Lagorsse (subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France). Completion of the works is scheduled for October 2011.
Contract value: €10.3m.

Teamwork in Valenciennes

The hospital in Valenciennes (northern France) has awarded Sogea Caroni (VINCI Construction France) the contract for the design, construction and maintenance of a 90-bed rehabilitation facility. With a surface area of 13,000 sq. metres, this high-energy-efficiency building will accommodate a range of physiotherapy and occupational therapy services, and a balneotherapy centre.

The technical works packages will be supplied by Santerne Tertiaire et Santé and Santerne Fluides (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line), respectively responsible for the electrical (high voltage, low voltage) works package and the climate control/ventilation/heating and plumbing works packages.
Worth a total of €18m, the works started early in January and will take 18 months to complete.

Rives de Seine project

CBC (VINCI Construction France) is to build 333 new homes, on a general contracting basis, on behalf of VINCI Immobilier, Icade and Nexity, on the site of the former Renault plant in Boulogne-Billancourt, by Paris. The contract was signed on 23 December; handover is scheduled for the third quarter of 2012.
Value of the works: €40.4m.

First tunnel in French Polynesia

18 November saw the breakthrough, near the Arahoho Blowhole, in the Tiarei area of Tahiti, of the first tunnel in French Polynesia. This road infrastructure (length: 140 m; diameter: 11 m) is being created by JL Polynésie in a joint venture with its subsidiary AGP (Eurovia companies).

Worth €9.1m, the works began in November 2009. The tunnel is scheduled to open to traffic in April 2011.

Start of a tram-train line project

Several Group companies will be participating in the building of the first phase of the North ring line (Tangentielle Nord), a 28 km-long tram-train line that will link Sartrouville (Paris region) and Noisy-le-Sec (by Paris). VINCI Construction Terrassement (VINCI Construction), leader, Chantiers Modernes (VINCI Construction France) and Eurovia’s Aubervilliers office, in collaboration with ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires, have been awarded the construction of a 3 km-long section crossing the communes of Montmagny (Paris region), and Villetaneuse and Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (by Paris).

Worth €35m, the works were launched on 13 December and will take 28 months to complete. They include the earthworks, drainage, and construction of engineering structures, retaining walls and noise barriers, the creation of 170 m of platforms and the reinstatement of roads.

Fire safety at Orly Sud

Cegelec Paris (Cegelec France Division, Energy business line) has been appointed by Aéroports de Paris to totally overhaul the fire safety system in the South Terminal at Paris-Orly Airport.

To be carried out in a joint venture with Siemens, the project calls for the supply and installation of a new system and the total dismantling of the old one, which features some 4,000 measuring points and 1,500 control points.
Contract value: €4.1m.

38,000 sq. metres of cobblestones

As part of a contract to upgrade the town-centre in Poitiers (western France), Eurovia’s Poitiers office, in a joint venture, is laying paving and cobblestones in natural stone over an area of 38,000 sq. metres. It will also be responsible for part of the drainage works package and the technical trenches for the urban lighting works package, which is being supplied, as are the various infrastructure elements (ducts, manholes, …), by Ancelin (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line). Project handover is scheduled for the end of the first half of 2012.

Value of the works: €8m, of which €4m for Eurovia.

Makeover for Le Louxor Cinema

In Paris, Lainé Delau (VINCI Construction France) is participating in the refurbishment of the Le Louxor Cinema, built in 1921 in the 10th arrondissement and now a listed building. The project involves renovating the main screen and the construction of two new screens in the basement. Lainé Delau is supplying the structural works, in collaboration with architect Philippe Pumain.

The works are due for completion this summer, with the cinema reopening for business early in 2012. Value of the works: €6.3m.

Bahrain

Steam turbines

The national oil company, BAPCO, has awarded Cegelec Bahrain (International Division, Energy business line) a contract to install two steam turbo-generators, each with a capacity of 10 MW. This project is one component of the creation of a new sub-station, aimed at achieving a more reliable and higher-efficiency generation of energy.
Launched in October, the works will take 26 months to complete.
Contract value: €2.7m.

Congo

Electrical works on offshore platforms

Cegelec Oil&Gas (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) is to replace the electrical control panels on some ten Total E&P Congo offshore platforms located in the Sendji and Yanga fields. The works will be carried out over the next ten months, within the framework of the five-yearly maintenance operations. The contract calls for the replacement of 178 30 kV, 5.5 kV and 400 V cells and switch cabinets.
Contract value: €5.2m.

Germany

Stingl GmbH to appear at Deutsches Theater

Stingl GmbH (SKE Group, VINCI Facilities Division, Energy business line) has won a contract to install new plumbing facilities in the Deutsches Theater in Munich (Bavaria). The project covers the production of drinking water, treatment of wastewater, and the provision of a boiler system with a hot water tank.
The works, valued at €1.6m, start in March. The theatre is due to reopen in spring 2012.

Jamaica

Official launch of the works at Kitson Town

On 29 October, Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding turned the ceremonial first sod at the worksite at Kitson Town, 40 km from Kingston.

To be carried out by VINCI Construction Grands Projets together with its subsidiary WMI, the works will involve laying 19 km of pipes, rehabilitating two drinking-water treatment plants and optimising the management of the network. They represent the first phase of a contract to improve the distribution and treatment of the capital’s drinking water. The works are scheduled to take 24 months.
Total project value: €51m.

Russian Federation

Filtration systems for a power plant

G+H Schallschutz, a German- based business unit of the International Division, Energy business line, has been appointed by Siemens Power Plant to supply and install two filtration systems in a new combined- cycle power plant located at Cherepovets, in the north of the country. This equipment will be capable of withstanding temperatures that can descend as low as –52°C.
The works, valued at €3m, started in September and will take until July 2011 to complete.

Serbia

Freyssinet completes project

On 9 October last, Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), completed its first project in Serbia: the rehabilitation, in the east of the country, of the Gamzigrad Bridge, over the Crni Timok river.

The contract, undertaken on a design-build basis, called for the 283 m-long structure to be strengthened, to enable it to withstand increased traffic and to extend its life expectancy by at least 30 years. Three techniques were used: external prestressing, passive reinforcement with the aid of composites, and surface treatments.

Spain

VINCI Park now present in Canaries

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has been awarded its third contract with AENA (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea), for the management of the car park at La Palma Airport (Canary Islands).

This 2,478-space surface parking lot is being operated for a period of one year as of 16 December 2010, renewable for two years.

Trinidad & Tobago

Aranguez Bridge handed over in record time

The Aranguez Bridge, on the island of Trinidad, was handed over on 19 November, almost 3 months ahead of schedule.

A composite structure (length: 52.6 m; width: 17.4 m), created on a design-construction basis by VINCI Construction Grands Projets, it spans the Churchill Roosevelt Highway near the community of Aranguez.

It will help improve traffic flow between the capital, Port of Spain, and the towns of San Fernando and Arima and, in the longer term, reduce traffic congestion on the island.
Contract value: $27.3m (€19m).

Tunisia

LPG storage site

On 6 December, Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction) signed a contract with SNDP (the national oil distribution company) for the construction of an LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) storage facility at Gabès, some 150 km south of Sfax, on the coast. This contract covers the construction of storage tanks, notably six 4,000 cu. metre spherical gasholders, as well as the engineering works, the supply of equipment, and the commissioning of the installations.
The works are scheduled to take a total of 32 months to complete.
Contract value: €83m.

United States of America

A trio over the Mullica River

Freyssinet Inc., Menard and Reinforced Earth Co. (RECo), three Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) companies, are currently completing a project in Port Republic, New Jersey, to widen the bridge over the Mullica from 2x2 to 2x3 lanes.

Freyssinet Inc. was responsible for supplying, installing and tensioning 150 t of prestressing.

Menard and RECo, meanwhile, suggested an alternative design approach, leading to the creation of 3,700 sq. metres of Reinforced Earth® retaining walls, supplied by RECo, installed over 1,800 controlled modulus columns deployed by Menard.
The bridge is scheduled to open to traffic in the course of 2012.

DECEMBER 2010

France

Starting signal for the LGV Est Européenne – phase 2

The works on the second phase of the Est Européenne high-speed rail line (between Baudrecourt and Vendenheim, in the east of France) were formally launched on 18 November.
The project has been entrusted to a consortium notably comprising Dodin Campenon Bernard, leader, Campenon Bernard Dodin Ingénierie and VINCI Construction Terrassement (all VINCI Construction subsidiaries), GTM Alsace and GTM Lorraine (VINCI Construction France), and Cegelec Infrastructures & Mobility and Cegelec Nord & Est, respectively of the Cegelec GSS and Cegelec France Divisions of the Energy business line.

Undertaken on behalf of RFF, it involves designing and building 7.5 km of new line. It includes the earthworks, and construction of the Saverne tunnel (two 4 km-long tubes) and the Haspelbaechel viaduct (270 m) as well as standard engineering structures.
Contract value: €184.2m.

Photovoltaic farm in Guadeloupe

Getelec Électricité (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) has been appointed by Energy Caraïbes to create a photovoltaic solar energy farm at Saint-François. The turnkey project covers the earthworks, foundations, steel structures, supply and installation of the alternating current and direct current equipment, security and the linking up of the installation, but not supplying the panels. Covering a surface area of 3.1 hectares, this power plant will have a production capacity of 2.4 MWc, equivalent to the annual consumption of 1,200 inhabitants. The works are scheduled to take five months.
Contract value: €5.8m.

Freyssinet installs the suspenders of the Reims bowstring bridge

As part of the creation of the motorway bypass round the south of the city of Reims (north-east France), Freyssinet Agence Câbles et Manutentions (SCCM), a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), supplied and installed the 26 suspenders of a bowstringtype bridge, created on behalf of SANEF (the company operating motorways in northern and eastern France).

The bringing into service of the bridge, on 23 November, marked the completion of 32 months of works. Eurovia’s Reims office also participated in this bypass project, setting up the temporary alternative routes, reinstating various roadways and reinforcing the lower and road carpet layers of the A4-A26 link-up, within the framework of three contracts worth €8.5m.

A five-year project in Achères

On 15 September, the SIAAP (the Paris region wastewater authority) awarded Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), Sobea Environnement and GTM TP IDF (VINCI Construction France), in a consortium with Razel, Degrémont (a Suez Environnement subsidiary) and the Merlin consultancy, Berim and Safege, the contract for the reconstruction of the pre-treatment stage of the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant, in Achères (Paris region).
This major project – the works will take five years to complete – will provide the treatment of wastewater generated by 6 million inhabitants in the Paris region.
Total contract value: €230m.

Refurbishment of two squares

in Armentières Voiries Pavages du Nord, a Eurovia subsidiary, has refurbished Place Charles-de- Gaulle and Place Saint-Vaast, in Armentières, on behalf of the urban community of Greater Lille (LMCU). The works involved supplying and laying kerbstones and steps in natural stone, slabs with a grooved surface in blue stone and cobblestones in grey granite over a total surface area of 18,000 sq. metres.
Value of the works: €4.6m.

Making the La Côtière viaduct watertight

In the Rhône département (central France), in early November teams from the Aubervilliers and Eurovia Étanchéité offices of Eurovia completed works to make the La Côtière viaduct watertight (30,700 sq. metres). These works were carried out on behalf of the designconstruction joint venture formed by Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), leader, and GTM TP Lyon (VINCI Construction France). The La Côtière viaduct is one of the structures on the A432 motorway, part of the eastern bypass round Lyons.

Logistics platform

As part of the creation of a multimodal road/rail logistics platform, on an 80 ha site near the municipality of Arcs-sur- Argens (south of France), Eurovia’s Fréjus office was appointed to supply all the development’s roadways, i.e. 50,000 sq. metres, as well as the platforms of two buildings (25,000 and 2,300 sq.metres). In total, 22,600 t of mix, including 7,000 t of hot mix, were deployed and 14,000 lm of kerbstones were installed between May and September 2010.
Value of the works: €2.7m.

Photovoltaic power plant at Miradoux

Cegelec Energy (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) has concluded a turnkey contract with Miradoux Solaire SAS for the design, construction and maintenance of a photovoltaic solar energy farm with a capacity of almost 8 MWc. Located at Miradoux (south-west France), it will have a total of 34,320 solar panels, and be one of the biggest in France. Handover is scheduled for early summer 2011.
Contract value: €25m.

Makeover for the Tour Europe

Lainé Delau (VINCI Construction France) has been awarded the 2nd phase of the refurbishment of the Europe tower building at La Défense, by Paris, on behalf of Kanam. Lefort Francheteau, Phibor Espaces and Saga Plomberie of the VINCI Energies France Division (Energy business line) will supply the technical works packages: climate control, high-voltage, in-house plumbing and the fire protection system.
Total value of the project: €41.2m.

Port redevelopment in Dunkirk

The consortium composed of Sogea Caroni, leader, EMCC and Tournaud (all VINCI Construction France companies), SDI, a subsidiary of CFE company DEME (VINCI Construction) and Egis Eau has secured the contract to redevelop one of the terminals of the port in Dunkirk (north of France). The works will notably involve demolishing part of the existing landing stage, construction of a 200 m-long main quay and the creation of a 117 m-long quay for barges. The new terminal will be handed over in the course of 2012.
Contract value: €11.3m.

École Militaire project

The French Ministry of Defence has awarded GTM Bâtiment (VINCI Construction France) the contract for rehabilitation works, on a general contracting basis, at the École Militaire; the buildings of the military academy (Paris, 7th arrondissement) are listed.
The works will involve demolishing one old building, and refurbishing two others (one with a surface area of 5,500 sq. metres) as well as the academy’s main entrance. Launched in September, the works will take 18 months to complete.
Contract value: €8.4m.

A new neighbourhood in Rosny-sous-Bois

Within the framework of a development project headed by Socogim Île-de-France, its property engineering department, VINCI Construction France subsidiary Bateg, has been awarded the works contracts for the last two sites at the Portes de Rosny integrated development zone (ZAC) in Rosny-sous-Bois, by Paris. The company will build a student hall of residence and a residence for business travellers, i.e. a combined surface area of 13,000 sq. metres; total value: €13.6m.
Development of the ZAC, which extends over 2.3 hectares, began in September 2008; it involves the construction of 46,600 sq. metres of homes, retail units, offices, public facilities and accommodation facilities.
A first building, providing 109 residential units, created by Bateg on behalf of VINCI Immobilier, was handed over on 1st October. The works are scheduled for completion in 2012.

Canada

Two new contracts in Vancouver

Freyssinet Canada Limitée, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has won the contract to design and supply the cables for the new Port Mann Bridge in Vancouver (British Columbia). This 2.2 km-long, 50 m-wide bridge will carry 10 traffic lanes.
With a 470 m-long main span, it will be the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America.

In addition, RECo, an American subsidiary of Terre Armee Internationale, has signed a design/supply contract for 33,000 sq. metres of walls, which will feature several products from its range (Terre Armée®, TerraClass, TerraTrel...). This is RECo’s biggest project and biggest contract ever.

Germany

PPP for Eurovia

On 30 September, Eurovia Infra GmbH, as leader of a consortium, signed a PPP (public-private partnership) contract with the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia concerning the maintenance of some 100 km of secondary roads and six bridges on the road network in South Westphalia, in western Germany. The 16-year contract started on 1st October.

It calls for the renovation of 600,000 sq. metres of pavement and the deployment of some 150,000 t of bituminous mix. Eurovia Teerbau GmbH and Eurovia Beton GmbH will also be involved in carrying out these works, on behalf of project company Via-Bau-Südwestfalen.

Luxembourg

Sliding a 20,000 tonne structure

On 31 October, Freyssinet France Agence Câbles et Manutentions, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), set a new record when it moved a 20,000-tonne motorway structure a distance of 60 metres beneath the tracks, at Belval, of Luxembourg railway operator CFL. This sliding operation, taking 14 hours to complete at a rate of 4 m/h, involved the use of the Autoripage® Freyssinet technique which, in particular, enables an extremely large engineering structure to be slid along while keeping traffic disruption to a minimum.

Spain

VINCI Park weaves its web

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has appointed Rodio Kronsa, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), as part of a consortium, to build the Clinico underground car park (392 spaces on five levels), in Zaragoza. Total project value: €4.8m (of which 50% for Rodio Kronsa). Completion of the works is scheduled for late 2011. Still in the city of Zaragoza, the Seminaro car park (232 spaces), the operation of which was delegated to VINCI Park in 2009 for a period of 25 years, was opened to the general public in late September.

Switzerland

High energy efficiency office block

In Zurich, ETAVIS AG (International Division, Energy business line), in a consortium with Elektro Compagnoni AG and AZ Elektro AG, is to supply the high- and low-voltage works packages (electrical power supply and IT networks) in a new, 18-storey office building, as well as in an adjoining building, on behalf of the developer Allreal. These two highenergy- efficiency buildings (total surface area: 40,000 sq. metres) will accommodate the future offices of the insurer Allianz Suisse.
Worth a total of some €10m (of which €2.2m for ETAVIS AG), the works began in October and are due for completion in the summer of 2013.

United States of America

Repairing bridges in Virginia

In the State of Virginia, Freyssinet Inc, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has been appointed to undertake repair works on 11 bridges in the city of Richmond. The company will completely replace the decks and refurbish the piers and abutments – in particular, by treating areas of concrete in poor condition.

NOVEMBER 2010

France

Safer roads

The General Council of the Manche département (Normandy) has appointed Rol Normandie (Eurovia) to supply safety improvements and create multipurpose overtaking lanes on a 22 km stretch of the RD 924, which passes through eight municipalities between Granville and Villedieu-les-Poêles. The contract will notably involve laying 18.2 km of ducting (to carry fibre optic cables), widening the roadway, creating a “left turn” at a dangerous crossroads, bringing the drainage up to standard and the application of mix.
Value of the works: €3m.

Refurbishing the A16

The Eurovia office in Calais, Étaples sector – in a joint venture with EJL Lille Flandres (Eurovia) and Eurovia’s Amiens office – has finished refurbishing 52 km of the A16 motorway. The project involved renewing the road surface of the motorway between Berck and Hardelot as well as on the slip roads and the entire intersections at Berck and Le Touquet (north of France). Value of the works: €5m.
The works will resume next year, with the refurbishment (value: €4.1m) of a 30 km section between Hardelot and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

New hospital in Chambéry

The design-build contract for the new hospital in Chambéry (south-east France) has been awarded to a consortium composed of GTM Bâtiment et Génie Civil Lyon (leader), Dumez Rhône-Alpes, the Major Projects department of the regional division Rhône-Alpes Nord (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries), Cardem (Eurovia) and GCC. The new, 72,000 sq. metre facility, with six operating theatres and 671 beds, will extend over eight levels (including a 260-space parking level). The works will proceed on a extremely restricted urban site, right next to the existing hospital, which will continue to operate as usual. Demolition of the “Pavillon Jacques Dorstter”, the main building of the existing hospital complex, is the subject of a conditional contract, valued at €4.35m, and is scheduled to take place once the new building has been built.

Planning and the construction work will take a total of 49 months. Preliminary demolition works should begin in June 2011, with the earthworks relating to the shell construction starting in November 2011.
The contract is worth €150.6m, of which €139m for the construction work.

Faceo to provide services for Barclays Bank

Faceo (VINCI Facilities Division, Energy business line) has just been appointed by Barclays Bank to supply facility management services, for three years as of 1st January 2011, at its head office in Avenue George V, in Paris, and throughout its network in France (142 branches). The contract covers the entire range of multi-technology and multi-service maintenance tasks.

Safety upgrade for the La Défense tunnel

SDEL Transport Grands Projets – together with SDEL Transport, SDEL Transport Services and Actemium Paris (all business units of VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) – has secured the design-build contract to improve safety in the underground road complex (A14 and A86) beneath the La Défense district a total of more than 15 km of underground roadways. The project involves a complete overhaul of the high- and low-voltage networks, the infrastructure management systems, and the installation of a system controlling the 10,000 light sources. It also includes installing 300,000 sq. metres of fire protection panels on the tunnel walls, and supplying their overall maintenance over a period of 3 years.
Total contract value: €30m.

VINCI Energies selected by Renault

Renault has awarded Actemium Trappes (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) the design-build contract for the body-side line for the X10 electric car at its Flins plant (Paris region). The sides of the car bodies will be assembled on this line, prior to final assembly and then painting of the complete vehicles. The contract covers the design, planning, manufacture, installation and commissioning of the tooling.
Worth €6.6m, it must be completed by late 2011, so that production can start in 2012.

Works at the Ajaccio wastewater treatment plant

The Toulon Civil Engineering/Maritime Works office of Campenon Bernard Sud-Est (VINCI Construction France) began work early in September on submerging the sea outfall pipe of the wastewater treatment plant in Ajaccio. These works form part of the project for a new wastewater treatment plant, with a capacity of 40,000 population equivalent (ultimately expandable to 60,000 p.e.), which has been entrusted to Campenon Bernard Sud-Est TP for the civil engineering and to Campenon Bernard Sud-Est TP and GTM TP Côte d’Azur (VINCI Construction France) and Corse Travaux (Eurovia).
Total contract value: €17m

The grass goes down at the MMArena stadium

Symbolizing the completion of the works, the grass for the pitch at the MMArena stadium, in the shape of 800 rolls of grass, each 12 m in length and 2 cm thick, arrived in Le Mans (north-western France) on 27 September, on board 23 articulated lorries. The MMArena stadium has been created within the framework of a concession contract, signed in 2008 by VINCI Concessions and the town of Le Mans, covering its design, financing and construction, and then operation and maintenance for a period of 35 years. It was built by Heulin, GTM Bretagne and Adim Ouest (VINCI Construction France) and Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), with the participation of HRC (Eurovia) and GT Iris, GT Praxis, GT Réseaux Sarthe and Axians Le Mans (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line).
It will be brought into service on 28 January 2011, for the start of the return matches of the French League 2 season.

Electrical installations at the CEA’s Valduc site

Actemium Dijon (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) is to participate, as part of a consortium, in the construction of a new test facility at the CEA (French atomic energy authority) site in Valduc (central France).

The company will be responsible for supplying the building’s video surveillance (installation of 150 cameras), fire detection and anti-intrusion equipment, and the building automation systems (BAS). The design process has just started; the works, starting in 2011, will take four years to complete.
Contract value: €22m (of which €6m for Actemium Dijon).

LGV Est européenne: phase 2 Works package 47 awarded to a VINCI consortium

Works package 47 of phase 2 of the construction of the Est Européenne high-speed rail line, between Baudrecourt and Vendenheim, in the east of France, has been awarded to a VINCI consortium notably comprising Dodin Campenon Bernard, leader, Campenon Bernard Dodin Ingénierie and VINCI Construction Terrassement (VINCI Construction), GTM Alsace and GTM Lorraine (VINCI Construction France), and Cegelec Infrastructures & Mobility and Cegelec Nord & Est, respectively of the Cegelec GSS and Cegelec France Divisions, Energy business line.

Undertaken on behalf of RFF, the project calls for the design and creation of 7.5 km of new line. It includes the earthworks, and the construction of the Saverne tunnel (2 tubes; length: 4 km), the Haspelbaechel viaduct (270 m) and various standard engineering structures.
Contract value: €184.2m.

A tramway in Le Havre

The Community of Greater Le Havre (CODAH) has entrusted the creation of the first tram line in Le Havre (Normandy) to a number of VINCI companies.

The “platform/overhead contact line” contract has been awarded to the consortium formed by ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires, leader, Eurovia’s Le Havre office and Cegelec (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line), in collaboration with Giffard Génie Civil (Eurovia).

In addition, Citéos Rouen and Forlumen Réseaux (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) have been awarded the urban lighting and traffic lights works packages.
Worth €70.5m to the Group, the works are due to start in December. The 13.5 km-long line is scheduled to come into service in December 2012.

Tunnelling work starts on Line B of the Lyons metro

On 27 September, the TBM Agathe began driving the 1.4 km-long single-tube tunnel that will extend Line B of the metro system in Lyons (central France) from the Gerland Stadium to Oullins, passing beneath the River Rhône.

Drilling work is due to be completed next summer, with the new section scheduled to enter into service in September 2013. The civil engineering works are being supplied by a consortium composed of Chantiers Modernes Rhône-Alpes, leader, Botte Fondations, EMCC and Tournaud (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) and Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction). Cegelec Infrastructures & Mobility (Cegelec GSS Division, Energy business line) will be responsible for the design and installation of the structure’s ventilation and safety equipment: lighting, infrastructure management systems.
Total value of the works: €108.5m.

Indonesia

Installation works for gas platforms

Actemium Indonesia and Actemium Oil & Gas Engineering (VINCI Energies France Division, Energy business line) have together secured a contract for the design, supply of inputs, testing and supervision of installation operations, and then bringing into service, of three platforms for gas production wells in the Total Indonesia field in South Mahakam, in Borneo.

The contract also includes installing the operational controls and safety system and the telecommunications and power supply networks for all the platforms. The works started in September and are due for completion in March 2012. They are being undertaken on behalf of Nippon Steel Indonesia.
Contract value: €8.2m.

Morocco

High voltage between Agadir and Guelmim

Cegelec Maroc (International Division, Energy business line) has been awarded the contract for the construction of a 400 kV high voltage line between Agadir and Guelmim (200 km). These works form part of a programme to upgrade the power supply in the south of the country. They will be completed in 20 months.
Value: €21m.

Casablanca tramway

Cegelec Infrastructures & Mobility and Cegelec Maroc (respectively of the Cegelec GSS and International Divisions, Energy business line), are to create the overhead contact line for the Casablanca tramway. 30 km in length (49 stops), the line should be operational by late 2012. The contract, with Casa Transports, comes after a contract won in 2009 for the electrification of the first tram line in Rabat.
Contract value: €12m.

Romania

Renovating the metro in Bucharest

TIAB Infra Bucarest (International Division, Energy business line) is deploying the electrical installations and ventilation equipment on a 2.2 km section between the Pajura and Bazilescu metro stations. Undertaken on behalf of Metrorex, these works are due to take six months, starting in October 2010.
Project value: €5m.

Saudi Arabia

Cultural centre in Dhahran

The post-tensioning works of the cultural centre project in Dhahran are to be undertaken by Freyssinet Menard Saudi Arabia Ltd, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) on behalf of Saudi Oger.

The works will involve installing 45,000 sq. metres of prestressed slabs, 8,000 cu. metres of prestressed beams and 50 tonnes of prestressing bars.
Work should get under way in the course of the first quarter of 2011.

Slovakia

Rebuilding a chemical plant

ProCS (International Division, Energy business line) is participating in the reconstruction, in Sala (80 km from Bratislava), of chemical firm Duslo’s ammonia production unit, part of which had been damaged in a fire. ProCS is working on the monitoring and control systems, within the framework of its maintenance contract. The works are due for completion by the end of the year.
Contract value: €4.5m.

Spain

New contract in Saragossa

On 16 September, VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), in a joint venture, was awarded the contract to manage on-street parking in Saragossa. It covers the management of 6,700 parking spaces on a provision-of-services basis for a period of ten years, extendable by five years. VINCI Park will, in particular, be responsible for supplying and maintaining the ticket machines, as well as collecting the takings and issuing penalty notices.

OCTOBER 2010

France

Okigo extends its network

Okigo, the car-share subsidiary created by VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) and Avis, has opened eight new stations in Paris. Okigo now operates a total of 32 stations in the French capital.

Renovation project in Old Toulon

The Eurovia office in Toulon (south of France), as part of a consortium, is to undertake refurbishment works in Cours Lafayette, one of the best-known thoroughfares in the town’s historic centre, as well as in neighbouring streets.

Taking two years to complete, the project will involve laying 10,000 sq. metres of limestone cobblestones and slabs.
Project value: €2.7m.

La Côtière viaduct: taking shape

On 8 August, the joint venture formed by Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), leader, and GTM TP Lyon (VINCI Construction France) finished laying the 648 slabs making up the deck of the La Côtière viaduct. The technique used (installation of prefabricated slabs with the aid of two gantries) made it possible to create the 2,400 lm-long deck in just four months.

This structure forms part of the bypass round the north-east of Greater Lyons which, in 2011, will link the A40 motorway with the A6 motorway to the north of Lyons (central France). Project handover is scheduled for late 2010.
Value of the works: €75m.

Homes in Amiens

VINCI Immobilier Nord-Champagne-Picardie has just begun work on the Green Square apartment block in Amiens (northern France). Located in the new eco-neighbourhood of Les Vergers Paul Claudel, and built to “Habitat and Environment” quality standards, it will provide 23 new homes.

The works have been entrusted to the Amiens office of Sogea Picardie (VINCI Construction France). Handover is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2011.
Value of the works: €1.7m.

PPP for Verdun-sur-Garonne suspension bridge

VINCI Construction France and Dexia have just signed a PPP (public-private partnership) with the General Council of the Tarn-et-Garonne département, for the financing, design, construction, upkeep and maintenance for 25 years of a new bridge over the Garonne.

Headed by VINCI Construction France, this consortium composed of Sogea Sud-Ouest TP (VINCI Construction France), Dodin Campenon Bernard and Freyssinet France SCCM (a Soletanche Freyssinet company), both VINCI Construction subsidiaries, and with the participation of Eurovia, will create an 11 m-wide suspension bridge with a span of 154 m. Project management for the works will be provided by Egis. The new bridge, valued at €16.4m, will replace a structure which, in use since the 1920s, has an extremely limited load-bearing capacity and cannot be used by public transport services.
It is scheduled to open early in 2013.

Team effort for the Les Rocs viaduct

The consortium comprising GTM Bretagne, leader, and EBL Centre (both VINCI -Construction France subsidiaries), and -Freyssinet, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), in association with the design office of VINCI Construction France and architect RFR, has been awarded the design-build contract for the Les Rocs viaduct in Poitiers (western France).

This 330 m-long structure, 15 m in width, will be formed of a steel framework topped by a reinforced concrete slab. It will replace the existing Les Rocs footbridge and link western neighbourhoods of Poitiers with the town centre.

When handed over, in September 2013, use of the viaduct will be reserved for buses, cyclists and pedestrians.
Contract value: €21.5m.

TBM Anne arrives at VL9 worksite

At the worksite for the second section of the VL9 main wastewater drain (between shaft P1 at Maisons-Alfort and shaft P3 in Créteil, by Paris), the TBM Anne, designed and built by Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary CSM Bessac (VINCI Construction), was lowered to the bottom of the shaft in the night of 31 August/1st September (photo), and baptised on 8 September.

Entrusted to a consortium headed by Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), with the participation of Soletanche Bachy (Soletanche Freyssinet) and CSM Bessac, the project calls for the creation of a 3,185 m-long tunnel (internal diameter: 3 m) at a depth of 23 m.

It involves the construction of two deep shafts (one of them featuring Hydrofraise-formed diaphragm walls), as well as the civil engineering and shaft equipment works.
Contract value: €46m.

Facelift for the Calais belfry

From May to August, the Nord office of Freyssinet France, a subsidiary of Soletanche -Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), was involved, as part of a consortium, in the restoration of the belfry a Unesco World Heritage site in the town of Calais (northern France).

The company was charged with the anticorrosion treatment of the 75 metre-high spire’s internal concrete – a surface area of some 700 sq. metres.

Electrics for Rangueil Hospital

As part of the project to modernise and extend the Rangueil teaching hospital in Toulouse (south-west France), Cegelec Sud-Ouest (Cegelec France division of the Energy business line) is to renew the hospital’s entire power supply network. Lasting 17 months, the works will notably involve installing a new power station (including four emergency generators) and eight high and low voltage substations, the implementation of building management systems and supplying the external works.
Contract value: €11m.

Maintenance for Dassault Systèmes

Since 1st September, Energilec (VINCI Facilities division of the Energy business line), has been responsible for maintenance at the Dassault Systèmes Campus, the company’s head office, in Vélizy-Villacoublay (Paris region). Certified HEQ Building Management, it is comprised of four buildings providing a total surface area of 60,000 sq. metres. Energilec is responsible for the multi-technology maintenance and carrying out development works.
The contract is worth an annual €1.3m.

A tramway for Dijon

The consortium notably comprising Eurovia Bourgogne, leader, ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires and CBR TP Lyon (VINCI Construction France) will be participating in the creation of the first two lines of a tramway system for the Dijon area (central France).

It is charged with supplying the infrastructure (including laying the tracks in the maintenance centre), platforms and development works for the section between Chenôve and Place Darcy, i.e. 11 stops and 7 km (of what will be a 20 km-long line). The works start this October, with entry into service scheduled for late 2012.
Contract value: €41m, of which €30m for the Group.

Teamwork for local hospital in Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine

A consortium comprising Enbatra (VINCI Construction France), leader, and Cegelec Centre Est (Cegelec France division) and Actemium Grenoble (VINCI Energies France division), both Energy business line business units, has been appointed to redevelop, on a general contracting basis, the local hospital in Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine (south-east France).

Designed by the firm of architects Pascal Mollard, the project is being implemented on an occupied site on behalf of the Voiron hospital complex. It concerns a surface area of 10,600 sq. metres: 6,200 sq. metres to be rebuilt, and 4,400 sq. metres refurbished. On completion – scheduled for late 2012 – the hospital will have 181 beds.
Value of the works: €9.4m.

Join-up at Térénez

A key stage of the Térenez Bridge project was -completed on 2 September with the joining up of the deck’s central span. Teams from Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), leader, Sogea Bretagne, GTM Bretagne and Botte Fondations (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) – with the -collaboration of VINCI Construction France’s structure design office –, and from -Soletanche -Freyssinet subsidiaries -Freyssinet (co-contractor) and Terre Armee (VINCI -Construction), Eurovia’s Quimper office and the Engineering & Technical Resources division of VINCI Construction Grands Projets are due to hand over the new bridge early next spring. Linking the Crozon peninsula with northern Finistère (Brittany), it will replace the existing bridge, the structure of which is now in a very poor state.

Angola

Dredging in the port of Soyo

Dredging International, part of CFE subsidiary DEME (VINCI Construction), has been awarded, as part of a consortium, a dredging contract to deepen and widen the Soyo LNG port.

11 million cu. metres of sand and clay will be dredged along 4.5 km of the access channel and in the port basin. Valued at €155m (of which 50% for DEME), the works, starting in 2010, are scheduled for completion in mid-2011.

Australia

Renovation of Willoughby incinerator

In Willoughby (near Sydney), Freyssinet Australia, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), is currently completing its renovation of the incinerator, a facility dating from 1934 and damaged by a fire in 1996. The project involves repairing the traditional concrete, anti-corrosion treatment, demolition and reconstruction of the chimney, and creating a lift shaft and a tunnel.

Austria

Electrical infrastructure for waste incineration project

Cegelec Austria (VINCI Energies division - Cegelec - -International, Energy business line), as leader of a consortium, is to supply the entire electrical infrastructure and the control and instrumentation systems for a new waste incineration plant in Linz, in the north of the country.
Contract value: €7m.

Canada

Airport parking

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has been charged with operating a 300-space car park at Bagotville Airport, on the outskirts of the city of Quebec.
The 7-year contract entered into force on 5 July.

Germany

Maintenance for US armed forces

SKE Technical Services (VINCI Facilities division of the Energy business line) has been appointed by the US Air Force to maintain 2,000 homes at the military base in Kaiserslautern (the largest American military base outside the US). The contract also covers the operation of three DIY stores located on the base.
Worth €19.5m, the contract was signed on 5 August last, entering into force on 1st October 2010.

Opening of A-Modell A4 motorway

The concession section of the A-Modell A4 motorway in Thuringia (Germany) was brought into service on 7 September, a year ahead of schedule. This is Germany’s first public-private partnership motorway concession; the concession will last for 30 years. It covers one of the biggest motorway corridors crossing Germany from west to east.

This contract is one of four pilot concession projects, known as “A-Modell” projects, launched by the German government in 2005. It was awarded in October 2007 to the Via Solutions Thüringen consortium, in which VINCI Concessions has a 50% interest. It involves operating a 45 km section of motorway between the Gotha interchange and the border between the Länder of Thuringia and Hesse, and includes widening a 24.5 km stretch from four to six lanes.

This project combines VINCI Concessions’ expertise in designing, financing and managing transport infrastructure with Eurovia’s expertise in road building.

Mexico

LNG terminal for Manzanillo

Dredging International Mexico, part of CFE subsidiary DEME (VINCI Construction), signed a contract in July for 12.5 million cu. metres of dredging works in connection with the development of the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Manzanillo (State of Colima), on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

The project calls for the dredging of an access channel and the creation of a turning basin and a docking area. Undertaken by a consortium, the works will take a year to complete.

Morocco

New HV line

As part of a programme to upgrade the power supply in the south of the country, Cegelec Maroc (VINCI Energies division - Cegelec - International, Energy business line) has been awarded the contract for the construction of the 400 kV high voltage line between Agadir and Guelmim (200 km).
Worth €21m, the works will be completed in 20 months.

Extending the port in Dakhla

Dumez Maroc (VINCI Construction) is to extend the island port of Dakhla. Valued at €24.5m, the works will be completed in 24 months.

Russian Federation

Backfilling works for the Olympics

DEME, a subsidiary of CFE (VINCI Construction) is participating in the preparatory works for the construction of the Olympic village in Sochi, where the 2014 Winter Olympics are to be held.

The company is charged with banking up, to a height of 2.5 m, the marshy Imeretinskaya zone (412 hectares). This operation will involve extracting 8 million cu. metres of sand from the Black Sea, transporting it (through pipes) over a distance of 120 km and banking it up on site.
Valued at €27m, the works started in July and will last 14 months.

Tanzania

Road refurbishment

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) is renovating 67 km of the road from Songea to Namtumbo (in the south-west of the country).
Worth €38m, the works will take 27 months to complete.

United States of America

22 new contracts

In the course of July and August, LAZ Parking, a VINCI Park subsidiary (VINCI Concessions), secured 22 new provision-of-services contracts in 17 towns and cities, i.e. a total of almost 6,000 parking spaces.

Widening the I-95

Hubbard (Eurovia) has been awarded the design-build contract for a 24 km section of Interstate I-95, in Brevard County, Florida. The works are due to start early in 2011. They will involve widening a bridge and replacing a second structure, levelling 380,000 cu. metres of backfill and the -deployment of 230,000 t of asphalt and 24 km of crash barriers. -Contract value: $60m (€47m).

SEPTEMBER 2010

France

A truly exceptional load

After 18 months of work, CMP Dunkerque, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), has completed its fabrication, on behalf of SBM, of a 72 m-long riser destined to equip an offshore gas pumping platform due to be installed off the coast of Canada. On 23 June, this exceptionally long (and heavy: 470 t) item was transported as an “abnormal load”, via the A16 motorway, from the factory to the port of Dunkerque, from where it was to be shipped to an assembly plant in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).

Musée des Confluences

Between early June and late July, in Lyons, on an embankment won from the river at the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, Menard, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), carried out ground reinforcement works in preparation for the construction of the Musée des Confluences. The company installed almost 5,000 CMCs (controlled modulus columns), to an average depth of 10 m. The operation was undertaken on behalf of the consortium, notably comprising GTM Bâtiment and Génie Civil Lyon (VINCI Construction France), Smac and Permasteelisa France, charged with supplying the structural works, envelope, and area surrounding the future museum.

The Paris Philharmonia

Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is participating in the construction, in the Parc de la Villette (19th arrondissement of Paris), of the Paris Philharmonia building, an auditorium, including a 2,400-seat concert hall, for the performance of symphonic music. The company is charged with supplying 700 foundation piles sunk to a depth of up to 28 m, and a retaining wall of some 500 sq. metres.
The works began in July and will take five months to complete.

Face-lift for Amphitria

The Freyssinet Sud-Est office of Freyssinet France, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is currently repairing the concrete structures at the Amphitria wastewater treatment plant, built in the 1990s at Cap Sicié (south of France). Begun in October 2009, the works concern a total surface area of 4,500 sq. metres and have been divided into two 7-month phases, with a break over the summer to enable the plant, which treats wastewater from Toulon and six other municipalities, to operate at full capacity during this busy period.

Incremental launch of the Lescar bridge

On the A64 between Artix and Pau (south-west France), the deck of the bridge providing access to the future Lescar interchange a prestressed concrete structure, 44 m in length and 10 m wide was installed in the two nights between 29 June and 1st July. This incremental launch operation was a high point in the construction of the interchange, entrusted by ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) to a consortium notably comprising Sogea Sud-Ouest (a VINCI Construction France subsidiary), Eurovia’s Aquitaine-Béarn office and Cognac TP (Eurovia). The works began in February 2010 with the construction of the roundabout that will link the interchange with the Pau bypass. The earthworks for the future access roads and the platform for the toll plaza are near completion. Work on the pavements and the creation of the toll plaza building and canopy will continue through until the entry into service of the interchange, scheduled for the spring of 2011.
Total value of the operation: €16.5m, of which €6.5m funded by ASF.

Montpellier tramway: Line 3

Several Group companies are involved in the construction of the 22.4 km-long Line 3 of the tram system serving the Montpellier area (south of France). The infrastructure works on 3,751 metres of sector C are being supplied by a joint venture formed by Eurovia’s Juvignac office and Sogea Sud (VINCI Construction France). ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires, for its part, has been awarded the contract to supply and install the track and track equipment on the 3,350 metres of sector D.
The Energy business line, too, is participating in the project. Roiret Transport has secured the works packages for the technical management systems, transmission, telecommunications, audio & video systems, passenger information displays and management of car parking facilities for the entire line. Cegelec Centre-Est (as part of the major projects business of Cegelec Global Systems & Services) and the Montpellier office of Cegelec Sud-Est are supplying the sub-stations providing the continuous current for traction and the medium- and low-voltage power supply. The Montpellier office is also, as part of a consortium, in charge of the urban lighting.
Total value for the Group: €43m.

Double success for Spiecapag Régions Sud

Spiecapag Régions Sud, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), has secured two new contracts in recent weeks, for the construction of two pipes one for gas, on behalf of GRT Gaz, the other for LPG, on behalf of Esso in the pipe corridors of the Grand Port Maritime of Marseilles (south of France). The first pipe (length: 19 km; diameter: 24 inches/609 mm) will be installed between La Fossette and Caronte Nord; the second (length: 22 km; diameter: 8 inches/203 mm) will connect Fos-sur-Mer with the Geogaz underground storage facility at Lavéra.
The works on the two projects began in mid-June, and will be completed, respectively, in May and July 2011. Total value of these contracts: €14m.

Photovoltaic farm in Martinique

At Ducos, to the east of Fort de France, in Martinique, Eger Martinique and Getelec Collectivités (two Energy business line business units) are to install a ground-level photovoltaic farm on behalf of Poweo. Extending over an area of 8 hectares, the farm will have a production capacity of 4 MWc.
Worth €7.3m, of which €6m for the Group, the works are due for completion by late 2010.

Final phase of works on line F

The ITE Nord-Est office of ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires is participating in the creation of line F (3 km), part of the tram network serving Greater Strasbourg. Having supplied and installed the track and track equipment on section 1 of the line (1,700 m), and completed section 2 (1,280 m), the company then proceeded, between 1st July and 31 August, to link them up with the existing lines B and C. During these works, Cardem (a Eurovia subsidiary) undertook the demolition, without disrupting traffic, of parts of the existing track.
Line F is due to be inaugurated on 26 November 2010. Contract value: €5m.

The J4 project: above ground…

In Marseilles (south of France), a joint venture formed by Dumez Méditerranée (VINCI Construction France) and Freyssinet France, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is participating in the construction of the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem). EMOC (a public body, the contracting authority for cultural works) has awarded the joint venture the foundations, structural works, steel framework and waterproofing works package for this 15,000 sq. metre building being erected on the port’s Pier J4, close by Fort Saint-Jean.
Designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti, the Mucem will be the first structure of this size to be built, in part, in ultra-high performance fibre concrete (UHPFC), a new material deployed without reinforcement that offers better strength, ductility and longevity properties.
The works, valued at €36m, were launched in July, with handover scheduled for the last quarter of 2012.

… and below ground
Near the future museum, work on the 640-space J4 Esplanade underground car park began on 14 June. This facility will be created by a consortium comprising Campenon Bernard Sud-Est, leader, and GTM Sud (both VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) on behalf of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), which has been awarded a 40-year outsourcing-of-public-services contract.
The works are due for completion in September 2012.

Group teamwork for the Les Jacobins cultural centre

On 29 June, the town of Le Mans (western France) awarded the contract for the construction, on a general contracting basis, of the Les Jacobins cultural centre to a consortium headed by Heulin (VINCI Construction France), leader, and comprising HRC (Eurovia), Soletanche Bachy, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), and GT Iris (Energy business line).
The building (31,000 sq. metres) will feature a 827-seat theatre, 11 cinemas offering a total of 2,118 seats, rooms for cultural activities and a literary café. It will be built around a 1,800 sq. metre central courtyard, and provide underground parking, on three levels, for 601 cars and 108 two-wheeled vehicles.
Valued at almost €71m, the works, launched in early August, will take 33 months to complete.

Belgium

Construction of the «European Egg»

On 11 June, the Régie des Bâtiments, the body managing the federal Belgian state’s property assets, appointed the joint venture formed by Interbuild and Cegelec Belgique (Energy business line) to build the new headquarters building for the Council of the European Union and the European Council, in Brussels.
Designed by architects Philippe Samyn & Partners, this is a construction/refurbishment project, involving a surface area of more than 60,000 sq. metres (45,000 sq. metres of office space, and 15,000 sq. metres below ground, including a train and a metro station): Cegelec Belgique will be responsible for all the electrical infrastructure and climate engineering.
Worth a total of €180m, of which €47m for Cegelec, the works are scheduled for completion in late 2013.

Germany

Construction of a warehouse

On 10 May, in Soltau (Lower Saxony), the Münster office of G+H Kühllager- und Industriebau GmbH, a VINCI Facilities company (Energy business line), began building a 2,100 sq. metre shelved refrigerated warehouse for bakery firm Harry-Brot. The project involves the structural works and insulation, as well as the installation of a frost-protection system, at ground level, and a 27 m-high spiral staircase.
Valued at €1m, the works are due for completion in late September.

Portugal

Technical installations for a retail centre

Sotécnica ABT (Energy business line) has been awarded a contract by property developer MDC to supply the technical works packages (electrical engineering, security, telecommunications, building management systems) for Forum Sintra, a 119,000 sq. metre retail and leisure complex currently under construction in Sintra (25 km north-west of Lisbon).
Worth €6.3m, the works began in July and will take nine months to complete.

Trinidad & Tobago

Steel framework for the Aranguez Bridge

Five weeks ahead of schedule, on Saturday 19 June 2010, above the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, teams from VINCI Construction Grands Projets installed the steel framework for the Aranguez Bridge – a structure that will enable the last traffic lights to be removed, and traffic flow improved, between the capital, Port of Spain, and San Fernando. The operation involved settling this imposing, 240 t steel structure, 54 m in length, on four anti-seismic supports; it took less than four hours to complete. It will be recalled that the construction of the Aranguez Bridge is being undertaken on a design-build basis by VINCI Construction Grands Projets. RECo Canada and Soletanche Bachy Cimas, both Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiaries (VINCI Construction), are also participating in the project, responsible respectively for supplying and installing 912 sq. metres of Reinforced Earth® walls, and the creation of 10,752 lm of hollow auger bored piling.

United Arab Emirates

Control systems at an LNG plant

The Emirates company Gasco (Abu Dhabi Gas Industries) has appointed Cegelec Oil & Gas (Cegelec Global Systems & Services Division, Energy business line) to replace the turbine control systems in two production units at its Bu Hasa LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant in Abu Dhabi.
The contract calls for a total bringing-up-to-standard of six control systems. The works will be carried out during scheduled shutdowns, in the course of 2010 at the first unit, and in late 2011 at the second.
Project value: €5m.

United States of America

LAZ Parking expands its network

LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), has signed five new provision-of-services contracts. These concern: three car parks at Windsor Locks Airport (Connecticut), a total of 4,171 spaces; a 250-space car park at the Atrium Mall shopping centre in Boston (Massachusetts); a 2,200-space car park in Miami (Florida); a 313-space car park in Atlanta (Georgia); and an underground car park in the Westchester business neighbourhood of White Plains (state of New York).

Blythe extending Charlotte beltway

In North Carolina, Blythe Construction (a Eurovia subsidiary) has been awarded the design-build contract for an 8 km extension to the Charlotte ring road. The works began in July, with completion scheduled for December 2014. They involve levelling 2.6 million cu. metres of backfill and the construction of 17 bridges and 5 culverts, as well as the deployment of 375,000 cu. metres of concrete surfacing and 225,000 t of mix. Contract value: $140m (€113m).

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.

JUNE 2010

France

New interchange for the A64

Following a call for tenders, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) has awarded the creation of the new Lescar interchange (south-west France), on the A64, to a consortium notably comprising Sogea Sud-Ouest (VINCI Construction France), Eurovia’s Aquitaine-Béarn office and Cognac TP (Eurovia). Worth €7m, the contract covers the earthworks, the creation of roadways and an engineering structure, and the civil engineering for a toll plaza.

Renovated runway at Deauville Saint-Gatien

On 26 March, teams from Eurovia’s Caen office and the Viafrance Normandie office (Eurovia), in a joint venture, completed the works to reinforce the runway at Deauville Saint-Gatien Airport (Normandy) and bring it up to the latest environmental standards. Undertaken on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Pays d’Auge area of Normandy, the project involved the application of 23,000 t of mix on the runway and manoeuvring areas, as well as creating the infrastructure for collecting and treating surface water. The task of waterproofing the storage basins was entrusted to teams from ECE Saint-Gratien, with the runway markings being supplied by Signature (two Eurovia companies). Contract value: €4.4m.

Intercommunal school

The municipalities of Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers have awarded the works, on a general contracting basis, for the Cristino Garcia intercommunal school in Saint-Denis, by Paris, to the consortium composed of Bateg (leader) and two Arbonis companies, Arbonis Construction and Caillaud Lamellé-Collé (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries). This 19-class school will open at the start of the 2011-12 school year. Total value of the works: €14m.

Dismantling a wind farm: a first

On 28 April, the Cegelec Energy unit of Cegelec Global Systems & Services (Energy business line) took down the last of the ten turbines at the Sallèles-Limousis site, near Carcassonne (south of France). This operation was one of the key stages in the first dismantling of a wind farm in France. It will be followed by the removal of all the technical equipment, the levelling off of the foundations and the replanting of the site.

Hospital construction/ rehabilitation

In central France, Lamy (VINCI Construction France), as leader of a consortium, has secured the design-build contract for the construction and rehabilitation of three adult-psychiatry units at the Le Vinatier Hospital in Bron. The project, part of the Hospital 2012 Programme, will involve the construction of a new, 333-bed building, designed to achieve HEQ certification and meet LCB Label standards (maximum consumption: 50 kWhpe/sq. metre/year). Valued at €60m (of which €35m for VINCI Construction France), the works will take 39 months to complete.

Renovation of the hospital in Creil

As part of the project to rehabilitate and extend the hospital complex in Creil (north of Paris), total surface area: 44,000 sq. metres, the Major Projects office of Cegelec Nord & Est (Energy business line) is to supply the high- and low-voltage and generator equipment. The works have begun; they will last 52 months. Contract value: €15m.

Facelift for the Gare de Lyon

Chantiers Modernes BTP (VINCI Construction France) has been awarded the contract to enlarge and redevelop the “yellow platform” at the Gare de Lyon as part of a programme, launched by the SNCF, to modernise train stations in Paris. The project involves creating a new passenger concourse of more than 4,400 sq. metres, sheltered by two glass roofs, as well as refurbishing an existing glass roof dating from the 1930s. The works start in June 2010 and will take 19 months to complete. Contract value: €27m.

Rewiring nine toll plazas

Cofiroute (VINCI Autoroutes) has awarded Lesens Erea and I2R, two VINCI Energies business units (Energy business line), the high- and low-voltage rewiring works at nine toll plazas, on the A10 and A71 motorways near the towns of Tours, Poitiers and Vierzon. Worth €2.6m, the operation will be undertaken between May 2010 and the end of 2011, without disrupting traffic.

Creating roads for a maxi-ZAC

In Dumbéa-sur-Mer, on the outskirts of Nouméa (New Caledonia), Eurovia subsidiary Jean Lefebvre Pacifique (JLP) is participating in the development of two integrated development zones (ZACs): covering a surface area of 450 hectares, they will accommodate 440 business units, more than 6,000 homes and 40,000 sq. metres of retail space, as well as various public facilities (schools, a hospital complex, etc.). As part of a consortium, the company will create some 8,000 m of roadways, and a 1,800 m-long access road (flanked by a dedicated public transport corridor) from the Koutio interchange. Total value for JLP: €29m.

Electrical works in nuclear power plants

EDF has awarded Omexom Grands Projets Nucléaires, in association with Omexom Lyon and Omexom Tours, three VINCI Energies business units (Energy business line), in a joint venture with Ineo, a 7-year contract for the electrical renovation of 16 tranches of France’s nuclear generation capacity. Within this framework, Omexom will supply all the electrical works, in particular those carried out at ten-yearly intervals with the aim of extending the life of the installations, at the following plants: Civaux (two 1,450 MW reactors), Cattenom (four 1,300 MW reactors), Belleville-sur-Loire (two 1,300 MW reactors and Golfech (two 1,300 MW reactors). Value of the works: €150m (of which 50% for VINCI Energies).

Algeria

Repairing silos

Some thirty kilometres to the south-east of Algiers, Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), began work in April on repairing the five Meftah cement silos, 30 m high structures, some 26 m in diameter, whose external prestressed concrete, dating from 1972, was in a poor state. Freyssinet has undertaken the planning work and will supply the materials and technical assistance for their deployment. The works are expected to take a year to complete.

Continuation of the Skikda project

At Skikda, on the Mediterranean coast some 300 km to the east of Algiers, where the country’s biggest complex of cryogenic storage tanks is being built, teams from the EVO consortium, which brings together Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (subsidiaries of VINCI Construction) and Orascom, have launched the simultaneous construction of three tanks: one for liquefied natural gas (150,000 cu. metres), and the two others (each 66,200 cu. metres) for butane and propane. Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is deploying the prestressed concrete (1,000 t of steel) for the three structures. The project, which also calls for the construction of a 3,600 cu. metre sphere, was launched in July 2008. It is due for completion in December 2011.

Belgium

Hospital parking

The Clinique Sainte-Anne in Anderlecht, in the Brussels region, has awarded VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) a provision-of-services contract to operate its 260-space car park for a period of three years. This is VINCI Park’s first hospital car park contract in Belgium.

Cameroon

Modernisation of the Limbé refinery

Sonara (the national refining company) has awarded Cegelec (Energy business line) the contract for the modernisation of the operating system and the re-instrumentation of the country’s only refinery, where much of the equipment dates from the late 1970s. Worth €25m, this turnkey project will be completed in 18 months. It involves replacing the pneumatic technology equipping most of the refinery’s 22 units. These will be directed from an entirely new blast-proof operations centre, the construction of which will be supervised by Cegelec, which had already undertaken a comprehensive analysis (architectural and ergonomic) of the situation in 2008.

Morocco

130 km of HV power line

In the centre of the country, Cegelec Maroc (Energy business line) is to create 130 km of high voltage power line (400 kV) between Ghanem and Mediouna. Undertaken on behalf of the Moroccan National Electricity Office, the project will contribute to meeting an increasing demand for electricity by adjusting the way power supply is structured. The contract covers the design, procurement of equipment and installation of the line. Total value: a little over €15m.

Spain

Optimising the use of energy in Bilbao

The city of Bilbao, in the Basque Country, has awarded Tecuni, a VINCI Energies business unit (Energy business line), several contracts aimed at optimising the energy consumption of its equipment. The company, as part of a consortium, will install the medium- and low-voltage aspects of a centralised building management system (BMS) in the town hall’s new premises (total contract value: €3.1m). It will, in addition, carry out the maintenance of the voice and telephony equipment and the lifts in more than 100 municipal buildings (€1.6m), and replace the lighting and install movement detectors, capacitor batteries, and a BMS for power consumption in 11 establishments (€1m). The company has also been charged with improving the city’s urban lighting (€2.7m). The various works involved will be carried out in 2010 and 2011.

Switzerland

Two new Ceva project works packages

Already a participant on the Ceva project (the future Cornavin – Eaux-Vives – Annemasse rail link), the consortium composed of Soletanche Bachy (leader) and its subsidiary Sif Groutbor, both Soletanche Freyssinet companies (VINCI Construction), and Chantiers Modernes Rhône Alpes (VINCI Construction France) has been awarded two additional works packages. These involve the creation of two cut-and-cover tunnels, i.e. 90,000 sq. metres of diaphragm walls. Total value of the works: €130m

United States of America

Enhanced safety on the US29/NC49 interchange

In Charlotte (North Carolina), Blythe Construction (Eurovia) is to upgrade the US29/NC49 interchange, thus improving safety in a zone carrying extremely heavy traffic. The company will carry out drainage works and renovate two intersections. Worth €11m, the works start in June and will take about two years to complete.

Creation of the Pres. Barack Obama Parkway

On 26 April, Hubbard Construction (Eurovia) was awarded the contract for the construction of the first phase of the Pres Barack Obama Parkway, in the city of Orlando (Florida). The project involves the creation of 2,100 m of 2x2-lane urban roadway. Worth €6.6m, the works start on 15 June, and will take 15 months to complete.

Viet Nam

Vietcombank tower in Ho Chi-minh City

Having supplied the foundations for the Vietcombank tower in Hanoi in 1998, Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is now to supply, on a general contracting basis, the testing of the piles and all the infrastructure works for the bank’s branch in Ho Chi-minh City, a 35-storey building with 4 underground levels. Valued at 14.4 million American dollars (€11m), the project will be completed in 17 months.

MAY 2010

France

Renovation of the Descartes Tower

Icade, a Caisse des Dépôts subsidiary and owner of the Descartes tower block in La Défense, by Paris, has awarded a consortium composed of Bateg (leader), Arene and CMS (all subsidiaries) the first tranche of the project to renovate this building erected in 1988 by… VINCI Construction France. The consortium will clean and remove asbestos from the building, which provides 89,000 sq. metres of office space over 41 levels. Worth nearly €20m, the works will take 18 months to complete.

Teamwork for the Débitex project

SFR Collectivité, a subsidiary of the operator SFR and which has been awarded the public service outsourcing contract for the Débitex high-speed broadband project, in the north-east of the Paris region, has awarded Graniou Multimedia, in association with Sogea Networks for the civil engineering, a contract for the design and installation of a fibre optic network and five fibre optic nodes. This 120 km long network will link seven municipalities in the Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-d’Oise départements. It will provide FTTH (fiber to the home) access to the network for 100 public buildings, 20 business parks and 30,000 homes. Graniou Infracom and Graniou Projectel will participate in the project. The former will be responsible for seeking out and renting sites as well as the installation of the nodes; the latter for negotiating with property managers and the vertical installation works. Valued at €10m, the project will take two and a half years to complete.

Regenerating Place des Véens: a dual effort

Socogim, the project development arm of the Rhône-Alpes Sud division of , has agreed the sale, off-plan, for €6.4m, to the Office Auxerrois de l’Habitat, of 42 homes in Place des Véens, in Auxerre (central France). Designed by the Cabinet Kroll (architects), the programme involves the creation of two residential blocks – the first providing 15 social housing units, the second 27 affordable rental housing units – and 42 parking spaces, and aims to revitalize the historic town centre. The works have been entrusted, on a general contracting basis, to C3B Auxerre . They start this autumn, following completion of archaeological excavations. The first tenants are scheduled to move in early in 2012.

Ready to go at Marignane

The teams at Port-de-Bouc office have just secured the contract for maintenance works on the runways, taxiways and apron at Marseille-Marignane Airport (south of France). The contract is worth €2.5m, with the works due for completion in late 2013.

PPP for the Collège Henri Becquerel

On 29 March, the consortium formed by Sogea Centre, Adim Normandie Centre and Auxifip signed a PPP (public-private partnership) contract with the Loiret General Council concerning the financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance for 20 years of the Henri Becquerel secondary school in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (central France). This 5,280 sq. metre, largely timber structure will be built within the framework of an HEQ - LCB certification process (High Environmental Quality – Low Consumption Building). Able to accommodate 600 pupils, it will be handed over in time for the start of the 2011-12 school year. Contract value: €17m (of which €15m for Sogea Centre).

Upgrading the outer Paris-region ring road (Francilienne)

On 22 March, the consortium comprising EJL IdF Grigny, Eurovia’s Massy office and STRF (all subsidiaries) was appointed to upgrade almost 2 km of the RN 104 between Corbeil-Essonnes, Étiolles, Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil and Tigery (to the south of Paris). The project involves creating third lanes in the central reservation, the lateral widening and reinforcing of hard shoulders to create weave lanes, rehabilitation and reinforcement of the existing pavement, overhauling the road drainage system and modification of the entry slip roads. The works start in May, with completion scheduled for late 2011. Contract value: €10m.

Demolition

On 2 April, the Lyons office of Cardem , as leader of a consortium, demolished (by implosion) 17 buildings in the Pré de l’Herpe neighbourhood of Vaulx-en-Velin (central France). The teams had previously cleared asbestos from the buildings, as well as all bulky materials and fittings. The demolition material will be crushed, for later re-use on the site.

Croix-Rousse: they’re off!

In the centre of Lyons (central France), early March saw the launch of the preparatory works for the renovation and bringing up to current safety standards of the Croix-Rousse road tunnel (brought into service in 1952). This operation will notably involve the creation of a second tunnel, 1.7 km in length, reserved for buses, pedestrians, cyclists, etc. It will be equipped with soft lighting and multimedia facilities. The excavation works, using traditional techniques, are due to start in September. Work will begin on the rehabilitation of the road tunnel as of April 2013, requiring a total closure of this link for six and a half months. Handover of the structure is scheduled for February 2014. This design-build project, worth €172m, was secured in February 2009 by a VINCI consortium notably featuring Dodin Campenon Bernard , Chantiers Modernes Rhône-Alpes and GTIE Transport , in association with the planning teams at VINCI , CMS, Delair CFD, Sogea Canalisations and EBM (subsidiaries of ) and Cardem Lyon .

Free flow toll collection in the Rhone valley

Following the successful trial staged early this year at the Saint-Martin-de-Crau toll plaza, on the A54, since 2 April ASF has been offering its customers four 30 km/h toll collection lanes when exiting from the A7 motorway at the Vienne toll plaza, to the south of Lyons. With the aim of providing a continuous ‘no-stop’ service from Marseilles, ASF will also, from May, be offering this facility to vehicles entering the system at Lançon (south of France). ASF will gradually extend 30 km/h toll collection to all its mainline toll barriers. This service will also be rolled out on the Cofiroute and Escota networks as part of the motorway green package.

Redeveloping a crossroads

EPAD (the public authority responsible for developing La Défense) has awarded Sogea TPI , leader, and Montesson office the contract to redevelop the Avenue de la Division-Leclerc/ Rue Serpentine intersection, located between the Paris suburbs of Courbevoie and Puteaux, on one of the main access routes into the La Défense business district. Worth €3m, the project notably involves the rerouting of a sewer (190 lm), the creation of 330 lm of multitubular networks, the deployment of 1,000 t of mix and the installation of the urban lighting and road markings and road signs.

Goal: energy savings

The contract for the management of urban lighting (6,500 light sources) in the town of Chartres (south-west of Paris), held by Citéos since 2004, was renewed on 1st January for a further 6 years. Within the framework of this contract, the company will continue modernising the installations, aiming to renew 83% of obsolete lights by 2016. The energy savings already realised between 2004 and 2009, of the order of 23%, could thus be enhanced by a further 7% between 2010 and 2015. Citéos is also charged with managing the lighting for the festive period, and the illumination of historic buildings. Contract value: €7.9m.

Australia

Ground improvement at Port Botany

In Sydney, Menard Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet , has been charged with the ground improvement works on the project to extend the Port Botany terminal for container ships by creating a 60 hectare platform won from the sea. Having completed the maritime side of the works (vibro-compaction of 800,000 cu. metres of sand), the company is now improving 5 million cubic metres of backfill that will form the future quay, again using vibro-compaction but also dynamic compaction techniques. The works are due to be completed in November.

Congo

Facelift for the streets of Brazzaville

In preparation for the festivities marking the fiftieth anniversary of the country’s independence, on 15 August, the Congolese government has awarded SGE Congo, a subsidiary of Sogea-Satom a contract to rehabilitate the streets of the capital, Brazzaville. The company will be undertaking roadway renewal works, and upgrading pavements. Contract value: €20.2m.

Poland

Fibre optics to the fore

Atem-Polska has been selected by operator Telekomunikacja Polska SA (France Télécom Group) to develop (design through to planning permission) and build a fibre optic/copper network linking seven of its sites in the Poznan, Opole and Katowice regions. The project is valued at €8m. It is due for completion in June 2011, following handover, by the end of 2010, of an intermediate tranche equivalent to 60% of the project.

Romania

Insulation works in a power station

Stizo Industrial Services ( is undertaking insulation works, on behalf of AE&E (Austrian Energy & Environment), on three gas desulphurization installations at the Turceni power station (in the south-west of the country). Worth €4.8m, the project must be completed within 18 months.

Sri Lanka

Drinking water treatment plant

VINCI Construction Grands Projets is to refurbish and extend the Kantale drinking water treatment plant, in the north-east of the country. Worth €10m, the contract covers refurbishing the plant, the design and construction of an additional, 1,100 cu. metre tank, the design and installation of electromechanical equipment for the plant’s two water supply points and the total refurbishment of the pumping station for onwards distribution of the treated water. The works will take 18 months to complete, and will enable the plant’s treatment capacity to be increased from 40,000 to 60,000 cu. metres of drinking water per day, thus improving the supply to the town of Trincomalee. This programme is being funded by the RPE (Emerging Country Facility) – a loan granted by the French government for a project promoting development in the beneficiary country.

Sweden

Electrical installations for a psychiatric hospital

Emil Lundgren Göteborg is supplying the high- and low-voltage installations, the lighting, access control and fire detection system at a new psychiatric hospital near Göteborg. The contract is being implemented on behalf of Västfastigheter. Worth €6.9m, the works are scheduled for completion in January 2012.

Switzerland

Synergies for the CEVA project

Four VINCI companies Soletanche Bachy and Sif Groutbor, both subsidiaries of Soletanche Freyssinet , and Chantiers Modernes Rhône-Alpes ( – are to participate, as part of a consortium, in the CEVA project (Cornavin – Eaux-Vives – Annemasse), building the future link between the rail networks in the canton of Geneva (Switzerland) and the Haute-Savoie (France). In particular, they will construct the 350 m long, cut-and-cover Val d’Arve tunnel, between the Pinchat rail tunnel and the bridge over the Arve valley. Its construction will require the creation of 12,000 sq. metres of diaphragm walls. Soletanche Bachy, Sif Groutbor and Chantiers Modernes Rhône-Alpes will also build the underground Geneva Eaux-Vives railway station (photo). Total value of the works: €83m.

United States of America

LAZ Parking expands in Boston

LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park , recently signed a five-year contract with property company Simon Properties concerning the management, as of 1st April, on a provision-of-services basis, of two car parks. Located in the Copley Place business centre, in the city centre of Boston (Massachusetts), these two car parks, Central Garage and Dartmouth Garage, provide 840 and 685 spaces respectively. The contract also calls for the setting up of a valet car-parking service at the Atrium shopping centre in Chestnut Hill, in the city’s western suburbs.

APRIL 2010

France

Foundations in the port in Marseilles

The Rhône-Saône-Méditerranée office of EMCC (VINCI Construction France) is continuing work on the contract awarded by the Grand Port Maritime of Marseilles (south of France) for the creation of six roll-on roll-off stations (platforms enabling vehicles to embark on ships). Having supplied the preparatory works in the port’s eastern basins, the company has just begun creating the block foundations for ro-ro stations 6, 7, 11 and 12. Contract value: €6m.

High energy efficiency for the Banque de France

On 15 February last, having sold the Le Bayard building from plan to the Banque de France, VINCI Immobilier appointed Pitance Construction (VINCI Construction France) to supply the works. The 6,367 sq. metre building, extending over eight levels (including one underground level), has been designed by Soho Architecture et Urbanisme; it will be built on the Lyon Confluence site. With Minergie energy efficiency certification, the Le Bayard building will notably feature a wind turbine, photovoltaic panels and, beneath the foundations, a ground-coupled heat exchanger (an installation enabling part of the fresh renewal air to be passed through pipes buried in the ground before it enters the building), serving to cool the replacement air in summer. Valued at €9.8m, the works start in June, with handover scheduled for December 2011.

Student accommodation

RIVP (the property arm of the city of Paris) has awarded GTM Bâtiment (VINCI Construction France) the construction of a hall of residence in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The 9-storey, 9,000 sq. metre building will provide 184 social housing units and a caretaker’s %at. Worth €16m, the works will be completed in 21 months.

Port development

The management company of the port in Saint-Jean-Cap- Ferrat (south of France) has appointed the teams from TP Spada (Eurovia) to redevelop and bring up to standard its marina’s refuelling station. Worth €2m, the works involve the renewal and widening of the quay and the protective breakwater, provided by a buffer quay; replacing the fuel tank with two 30 cu. metre tanks; and installing three distributors, a hydrocarbon separator and a pump for collecting wastewater from boats.

Passenger terminal in Papeete

As part of the modernisation of the Autonomous Port in Papeete (French Polynesia), Satob Construction Bois, an Arbonis company (VINCI Construction France) is participating in the creation of the passenger terminal. Satob Construction Bois is charged with the fabrication of the large-span triangulated timber frame (surface area: 5,603 sq. metres). S3T, the company’s local partner, will supply the assembly, lifting and logistical works. The first containers arrived in Papeete on 30 March; subsequent deliveries will come in all through the year. Contract value exworks for Satob Construction Bois: 817,000 euros.

New life for the Sainte-Anne Clinic

VINCI Immobilier has appointed Pitance Construction (VINCI Construction France) to transform the Sainte-Anne Lumière Clinic in Lyons (central France) into an apartment block and visitor accommodation: 26 rooms will be built, 104 refurbished, and various facilities created (kitchens, restaurants, sitting areas, jacuzzis, etc.). The apartment block (9 levels, including 2 underground levels), meanwhile, will provide 50 new flats. Worth €11.4m, the project is due to be launched in April.

CEF Nord: sweet smells!

As part of the project to extend the perfume production unit at the Chanel site in Compiègne (northern France), CEF Nord Industrie Picardie (VINCI Energies) has been awarded the heating, climate control and ice water production works packages. Worth €1.15m, the works will take 1 year to complete.

Rebuilding the Grau-du-Roi health centre

On 24 February, Dumez Sud (VINCI Construction France), as leader of a consortium, was awarded the contract to rebuild, on a general contracting basis, the Grau-du-Roi Hospital (south of France), which provides follow-up care and rehabilitation (physiotherapy). The new, 14,000 sq. metre, HEQ (high environmental quality) facility will be built on the site of the existing health centre. Providing 200 beds, it will notably focus on nutritional medicine and diabetology, addictology and locomotive and neurological physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Worth €26.6m, the project is being undertaken on behalf of the Nîmes CHU (teaching hospital) as part of the Hospital 2012 programme.

Optimizing energy use

Imhoff (VINCI Energies), in association with the consor- tium led by Cofely, is to build 6 biomass boiler plants, modify an urban heating network, and optimize the heating and venti- lation systems in 14 secondary schools in Alsace. This project is being undertaken within the framework of the energy performance contract signed by the Regional Council of Alsace and GDF Suez. The works, worth €6m for Imhoff, must be completed by September 2011

Residents’ car park in Paris

Early in March, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), began work on the construction of the Cardinet residents’ car park, on behalf of SAEMES (semi-public car parking company of the city of Paris). This underground structure (length: 170 m; width: 15 m) will provide 609 parking spaces over six levels. Its construction will require the creation of 15,000 sq. metres of diaphragm walls at a depth of 39 m, 54,000 cu. metres of earthworks and 15,000 sq. metres of reinforced concrete slabs. The company will supply the special foundations, earthworks (in a joint venture with Cosson) and civil engineering works package, and direct the technical and finishing work teams. The new car park is due to come into service in October 2011. The framework of the energy performance contract signed by the Regional Council of Alsace and GDF Suez. The works, worth €6m for Imhoff, must be completed by September 2011.

Eco-construction in Bayonne

Investment company Midi 2i, a subsidiary of Caisse d’Épargne Midi-Pyrénées, has awarded Adim Sud-Ouest (VINCI Construction France) the property development contract for the Astria building in the Technocité business park in Bayonne (south-west France). The aim is that this complex, providing 4,166 sq. metres of service sector space, meet VHEP (very high energy performance) standards. The project, certified by the CreaHd (sustainable construction, resources, environment, development and habitat) division, should be able to provide real feedback and contribute to the design of Adim Sud-Ouest’s future operations. Project management is being provided by the joint venture formed by the existing health centre. Providing 200 beds, it will notably focus on nutritional medicine and diabetology, addictology and locomotive and neurological physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Worth €26.6m, the project is being undertaken on behalf of the Nîmes CHU (teaching hospital) as part of the Hospital 2012 programme.

Storing natural gas

Actemium Dardilly and Actemium IdF Environnement (VINCI Energies business units) are participating in the creation of the new GDF Suez natural gas storage site in Hauterives (southern France). To be completed in two years, the project concerns the electricity, instrumentation, automation, heritage protection and cathodic protection works packages. Contract value: €8.5m

Urban development and renovation

The Nancy offices of GTM Lorraine, Halle and Sogea Est (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) are to take charge, on behalf of Adim Est (VINCI Construction France), of the redevelopment programme at the former Sainte Valdrée industrial site in Laneuveville-devant-Nancy (east of France). Designed by Reichen et Robert & Associés, this project concerns the development of a 7 hectare site and the implementation of a 61,000 sq. metre property development programme that will provide 650 homes, an old people’s home and retail space. Total value of the programme: €106m.

Germany

Maintenance for the US Army

The US Army Corps of Engineers has renewed its maintenance contract with SKE (VINCI Construction Filiales Inernationales) for its sites (schools, airfields and hangars, homes, etc.) in Ansbach, in Bavaria. In the form of a Job Order Contract, it provides for exclusive consultation of SKE over the next three years (one year definite and two optional), with a maximum value of €24m.

Jamaica

Treating drinking water

VINCI Construction Grands Projets is to supply the first phase of a project to improve the distribution and treatment of drinking water in the capital, Kingston. Undertaken on behalf of NWC (National Water Commission), it concerns the laying of 19 km of pipes and the upgrading of two drinking water treatment plants. WMI, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, will be responsible for fine-tuning the management of the network. Worth €51m, the works were launched early in April, and will take 24 months to complete.

Slovenia

Steel for the Stozice centre

In Ljubljana, the country’s capital, Freyssinet Adria, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is participating in the creation of the StoÏice complex comprising a sports centre (12,500 seats) and a retail centre (225,000 sq. metres). The company is charged with supplying and deploying the prestressing of the slabs of the two structures, i.e. a total of almost 800 t of steel strands. The works started in January and are due for completion in May.

Spain

Spark Infrastructuras makes its mark in the metro

In connection with the extension of line 9 of the Barcelona metro, Spark Infrastructuras (VINCI Energies) has been entrusted with supplying the medium- and low-voltage electrical installations, the ventilation and the fire detection systems at four new stations. Worth €4.8m, this contract means the company is now contributing to 6 out of the 53 stations involved in the extension.

Sweden

Team work at a retail centre

In connection with the extending of the Väla Centre shopping centre in Helsingborg (in the south of the country), Elektro City i Lund and EC Helsingborg/ Kävlinge (both VINCI Energies business units) have been charged with installing the power networks and information systems. Undertaken on behalf of Diligentia, the project is worth €6.1m.

The Netherlands

Insulation for an LNG terminal

G+H Isolierung (VINCI Energies) is participating in the creation, on behalf of Gate Terminal BV, of a regasification terminal in Rotterdam. The company has been awarded the installation of low-temperature insulation equipment for the piping. Worth €1.9m, the works must be completed in 7 months. It will be recalled that this project is being implemented by a consortium comprising VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Entrepose Contracting, with the participation of Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (all VINCI Construction subsidiaries). It concerns the construction of a regasification unit, a jetty for unloading LNG tankers and three tanks. The terminal is due to come into service in September 2011.

United Arab Emirates

Prestressing for an aluminium complex

Freyssinet Middle East, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), will complete the first phase of the construction of the Al Taweelah aluminium complex in Abu Dhabi in April, with its three alumina silos (height: 50 m; diameter: 45 m) and two coke (coal) silos (height: 50 m; diameter: 28 m). The company is working on behalf of EMAL (Emirates Aluminum Company Limited); it is charged with the installation of 930 t of cables and anchorage points for the prestressing by posttensioning of the five structures.

United States of America

Diaphragm walls for light rail system

In Seattle (Washington), Nicholson, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is to supply the diaphragm walls for the new University of Washington station. This project forms part of the construction of a 5 km long light-rail line between the city centre and the university.

Enhancing dam safety

On 8 January, Hydroplus (VINCI Construction Grands Projets) signed a contract with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to enhance the safety of the Foss dam, 35 km to the west of Boston. It covers the design, engineering and technical assistance with a view to heightening the structure. Involving limited construction works, the installation of fusegates will enable the dam to be brought into compliance with the rules relating to extremely high water levels, while retaining the structure of the existing spillway. Hydroplus is in addition creating for the Canton dam (Ohio), 9.60m fusegates, the highest ever built in the world. They will be installed on a new high-water spillway, increasing the total evacuation capacity from9,900 cu.metres/sec. to 18,000 cu. metre/sec. This project will be completed in 2012.

Hospital car parks

Hospitals in the suburbs of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) have renewed their contract with LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), for the management – including a valet-parking service – of eight car parks located near the Paoli, Riddle and Lankena hospitals. This renewal, for a further 5 years, is accompanied by an almost doubling of the scope of the contract: it now covers 6,769 parking spaces.

MARCH 2010

France

Wood for offices

Arbonis Construction (VINCI Construction France) has just finished manufacturing wooden façades, sunbreakers and metal foot-bridges in preparation for the construction of a complex of buildings featuring five levels of office space in Saint-Étienne (central France). This work was worth €1.8m. The assembly of these elements will start in September 2010, taking two years to complete. The works will be undertaken by a consortium composed of Robat, leader, Lantermoz and Lamy (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) within
the framework of a structural works/earthworks/ reinforcement contract. Contract value: €8.2m.

Strengthening a tunnel

Freyssinet France, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), began work on strengthening the Ave Maria rail freight tunnel in late June 2009. This 1,900 m long structure serving the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer (north of France) is being reinforced by teams from Freyssinet France, who are lining it with a 15 cm-thick shotcrete shell. The works were completed in late February.

Social housing

As part of the French government’s economic recovery programme, Bateg (VINCI Construction France) has recently completed four projects, worth a total of €42m. In Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône (Paris region), for Emmaüs Habitat, the company has built two apartment blocks, providing 90 flats, and refurbished 394 tenanted social housing units (11 buildings). In Aulnay-sous-Bois (by Paris), it has built 6 apartment blocks (providing a total of 100 homes), and undertaken the refurbishment and residentialisation of 288 social housing units, on behalf of Logement Francilien (a subsidiary of Logement Français).

Rural electrification

Gasquet Entreprise (VINCI Energies) has secured the renewal, for a further four years, of its rural electrification contract with Sydesl – authority responsible for energy in the département of Saône-et-Loire (central France). The contract is worth an annual €3.5m.

Hospital redevelopment

In Clermont-Ferrand (central France), Dumez Lagorsse (leader) and Sobea Auvergne (subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France) are working on the first phase of the redevelopment of the Sainte-Marie Hospital.
Designed by Sextant Architecture, assisted by the Betmi (structure) and Betalm (fluids) consultancies, this project concerns the construction, on the northern part of the hospital site, of three buildings housing care units and a reception building (seven levels, including one underground level). The works, valued at €21m, began in mid-December and will take 29 months to complete.

Diverting the RD98

A consortium including Watelet TP Plaisir (Eurovia) and Eurovia’s Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines office is creating a road bypassing the communes of Villepreux, Les Clayes-sous-Bois and Plaisir (Paris region). The project involves creating 3.5 km of 11 m-wide roadway (two 3.50 m-wide lanes, and two cycle lanes), two roundabouts, two ponds (3,000 and 7,000 cu. metres), 4 km of farm ways and 5 km of ditches. The works, valued at €5.7m, are due for completion in February 2011.

VINCI to build Confluences museum

On 15 January 2010, the General Council of the Rhône département awarded the shell construction, envelope and precincts works package for the future Confluences museum in Lyons (central France) to the consortium composed of VINCI Construction France, its subsidiary GTM Bâtiment et Génie Civil Lyon, Smac and Permasteelisa France. Designed by Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au, the project is worth €107m to the consortium. The museum is scheduled to open in the summer of 2014.

Avignon bypass

Since mid-November 2009, teams from Eurovia’s Aix-en-Provence office and its Avignon and Perpignan sectors have been participating in the creation of the East-West link (LEO), an expressway some thirty kilometres in length that bypasses Avignon (south-east France) and will ultimately link the A7 and the A9 to the south of the city.
The teams are working on a 6 km stretch in the central section of its route. They are charged with adjusting the base layer, the creation of drainage in extruded concrete (9 km of slotted gutters), the application of the mix and the construction of 6 km of crash barriers in extruded concrete. Worth €6.7m, the works are due for completion in April 2010.

Extending the Marseilles metro

The consortium led by Eurovia Méditerranée–Marseille has just completed the works package for the surface works at three of the four stations involved in the 2.3 km extension of line 1 of the Marseilles metro system, between La Timone and La Fourragère. Work at the La Blancarde, Louis Armand and Saint-Barnabé stations notably involved the planning, the earthworks, networks, retaining walls, roadways, pavements, traffic dividers and car parks, road signs and markings and landscaping. Worth €7.44m, of which €5.4m for the Group, the works were completed in 12 months. The surface works (retaining walls) at the fourth station, La Fourragère, were supplied by the consortium comprising Campenon Bernard Méditerranée (lead contractor) and Chantiers Modernes Sud (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) and Eurovia Méditerranée-Marseille, in conjunction with the construction of the La Fourragère car park, next to the station.

Methanisation plant

The joint venture formed by VINCI Environnement, leader, and Sogea Atlantique (both VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) has been appointed by the Angers Loire Métropole urban community to create the Biopole in Angers (western France). Using the Kompogas methanisation process, the new facility will be able to produce biogas and recycle organic household waste into compost. Santerne Bourgogne, in partnership with Actemium Nantes (both VINCI Energies business units), will supply the electricity and monitoring and control works package. Value of the works: €50m (of which €1.9m for VINCI Energies).

A new hospital in Villeneuve-d’Ascq

Sogea Caroni (VINCI Construction France) has won the contract to build a new private-sector hospital in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (northern France). The project involves the construction of the main, 233-bed facility, and the creation of an “energy centre” building. Undertaken on behalf of property investment company (SCI) De La Marque Investissement, the project, worth €13.5m, is to be completed in 26 months (of which 11 months devoted to the structural works).

Storm water tank in south of Basque Country

A consortium notably comprising Sogea Sud-Ouest Hydraulique, leader, and René Laporte (two VINCI Construction France entities) and Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) is participating, on the periphery of Saint-Jean-de-Luz (south-west France), in the construction, on behalf of the South Basque Country association of communes, of a water treatment plant, a storm water tank, a pumping station and a transfer network between the tank and the treatment plant. Having completed the pumping station in Urrugne in September 2009, the companies are now concentrating on the civil engineering of the “École de Pêche” (Fishing Academy) storm water tank in Ciboure, an underground structure with a capacity of 4,900 cu. metres. Begun in March 2009, the works are due for completion in March 2010, thus ensuring better quality bathing water as of this summer. Total contract value: €12m.

UA non-standard water pipe

Teams from the Eurovia office £in Laval (north-west France), on behalf of the town council, are installing a pipe that will link the town’s new source of untreated water, located near the lake in Changé, with the municipal waterworks. This link, scheduled to come into service in the spring, will be in the form of a PEHD pipe (length: 2.8 km; diameter: 710 mm), the installation of which will have caused no disruption to the routine operation of the network.

In tandem at Tricastin

Tunzini Nucléaire and Omexom GPN (Major Nuclear Projects), two VINCI Energies entities, are to participate in the construction, at the Tricastin site (south-east France), of the future Georges Besse II centrifuge uranium enrichment plant. The two business units have been appointed by Areva to install the ventilation system in the REC II (deliveries, dispatching, checking) repackaging workshop, where the various uranium transfer, checking and sampling operations will take place. Tunzini Nucléaire will be responsible for the ventilation, air conditioning and physical containment; Omexom GPN for the electricity and associated monitoring and control system. Valued at €7.5m, the works will be completed in 26 months.

Centrafricane Republic

A 40 km-long road project

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales) is to supply the upgrading and asphalting works on 40 km of road between Bouar and Fambelé, in the west of the country. Starting in June and to be completed in 20 months, the project includes rebuilding the Yole and Nana bridges. Valued at €37.4m, it is being financed by the EDF (European Development Fund).

Gabon

Drinking water supply

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales), in a joint venture with Gabonese company Entraco, is to undertake the works to boost the supply of drinking water in Libreville on behalf of the country’s Ministry for Energy and Hydraulic Resources and its Ministry for Economic Affairs. The works, taking 20 months to complete, will involve installing 12 km of iron piping (diameter: 800 and 1,000 mm). Worth a total of €21.6m (of which €15.4m for Sogea-Satom), this project is being financed by the French Development Agency (AFD).

Hong Kong

Foundations for Kowloon Station

As part of the Express Rail Link project, a 26 km-long line between Hong Kong and Guangzhou (People’s Republic of China), Bachy Soletanche Group, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), will be participating, on a general contracting basis, in the construction of the foundations for the future terminus station in Kowloon, the link’s starting-point in Hong Kong. The works include the creation of 180 large-diameter piles and 45,000 sq. metres of 1.50 m-thick diaphragm wall, as well as major utility and road diversion works. They will take 14 months to complete.

Luxembourg

Overhead crossing

In connection with the construction of a crossing over the tracks near Luxembourg Station, Bageci, a subsidiary of CFE (VINCI Construction), has been awarded the civil engineering and steel framework works by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois. Contract value: €8m.

Poland

Jaroslaw bypass

On 8 February 2010, the consortium notably composed of Eurovia Polska, leader, and Warbud (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales) signed the contract for the bypass round the town of Jaroslaw, in the south-east of the country.
These works, concerning the construction of 11 km of expressway, will involve more than a million cubic metres of earthworks, the creation of 8 engineering structures and the deployment of more than 130,000 tonnes of mix.
Worth €75m, they will be completed in 24 months.

Portugal

Two research contracts

Sotécnica ABT (VINCI Energies) will be deploying its expertise in the fields of high and low voltage works, climate engineering and plumbing on two projects for the Mota Engil/HCI consortium, in Lisbon. The first concerns the cancer research centre, the second the new headquarters of the Champalimaud Foundation, dedicated to bio-medical research. These projects are together worth €7m. The works, begun in December, will take a year to complete.

United States of America

Diaphragm walls for the subway

In New York, Nicholson, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is to participate in the construction of the Second Avenue subway line, linking 125th Street and the Manhattan financial district. The company will supply the preparatory works for the 96th Street station, notably involving the creation of 19,000 sq. metres of diaphragm walls, micro-piles in neighbouring buildings and a watertight wall.

FEBRUARY 2010

France

Heightening the Var dam

With a view to protecting the left bank of the Var from exceptionally high water levels, TP Spada (Eurovia), on behalf of ESCOTA (VINCI Autoroutes), is strengthening the Var dam alongside the A8 motorway between St Augustin and St Isidore in Nice. Using some 12,000 t of rip-rap from the SEC quarry (Eurovia), two sections (totalling some 1.3 km) will be heightened by between 50 cm and 1 m. Valued at €1.7m, the works are to be completed in 2.5 months.

Urban lighting

Citéos Exploitation Ouest and Citéos Eure-et-Loire (VINCI Energies) have secured the contract for the overall management and renewal of urban lighting installations and diverse equipment in the town of Chartres. Signed for a 6-year period, the contract is worth €7.9m.

PPP for a car park

On 2 December 2009, within the framework of a PPP (public-private partnership) with the town of Saint-Brieuc (Brittany), the company Auxifip has awarded Adim Ouest (VINCI Construction France) a €7.5m property development contract for the creation of a 306-space underground car park. This facility, extending over two levels, will be built on a general contracting basis by CMA (VINCI Construction France), which will also maintain it for 30 years. The works are scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Works on the RD65

Teams from Eurovia’s Baillargues office, in the south of France, have begun work on creating 2x2 lanes on one kilometre of the second section of the RD65 as it runs through the Montpellier urban area. Undertaken on behalf of the General Council, this project in particular involves building a subway for pedestrians and cyclists, and a hydraulic structure, and the application of 16,500 t of mix. The works, valued at €9.5m, are being carried out in collaboration with GTM Sud-Est and Sud Travaux (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries).

Sub-marine pipe

On 7 January, in the presence of Maoulida Soula, chairman of the body responsible for Mayotte’s water supply, the Prefect of Mayotte, Hubert Derache, inaugurated the first kilometre of the undersea pipe that will carry drinking water between Grande-Terre and Petite-Terre. This 2.5 km long structure, being built and installed by Sogea Mayotte (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales), will have a throughput of 8,000 cu. metres per second. It will be composed of 15 sections, the first of which was launched on 12 December last. This operation required the construction of a ramp, more than 200 m in length, which made it possible to prefabricate the section and then place it in position on the bottom of the lagoon, where it is held down by more than 200 permanent anchors, specially designed to encourage the development of the marine biotope. Contract value: €5m.

Demolition in Forbach

Using explosives, Cardem Metz, supported by Cardem Lyon, Cardem Lille, Cardem Paris and Cardem Strasbourg (all Eurovia subsidiaries), has demolished “Simon 5”, a 58 m high structure composed of 5,000 cu. metres of reinforced concrete overhanging the last mine shaft in Forbach (east of France).

Rehabilitating a quay

The Grand Port Maritime de Rouen (Normandy) has appointed the consortium including Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), to refurbish Seine quay No. 1 in Honfleur, which has not been used since 2007. The company will carry out soil improvement works on the rear part of the structure and provide the quay with a 120 m long anchorage wall, using the Géomix® process (making use of the on-site soil as a construction material), a winner in the VINCI 2009 Innovation Awards Competition. In addition, 120 micro-piles will be installed to consolidate the existing quay. Work began on the project in late January and will take three months to complete; the quay is due to be brought into service in October 2010.

Energy saving at the b’ Twin Village

In Lille (north of France), Santerne Fluides (VINCI Energies) is participating, on behalf of the Decathlon Group, in the renovation of a 184,000 sq. metre industrial site to accommodate “b’Twin Village”, a concept store dedicated to bikes that will, in particular, include an R&D centre, a show-room, an in-house training school and bike testing areas. The business unit will install climate engineering and plumbing equipment aimed at reducing energy consumption: reversible heat pumps, solar cells for the production of hot water, equipment to collect rainwater. Worth €1.6m, the works are due for completion in June. The store is scheduled to open to the public in September 2010.

Social housing

GTM Bâtiment (VINCI Construction France), as lead contractor in a consortium, has just been awarded a design-build contract by the social housing (HLM) body in Aulnay-sous-Bois, by Paris, for two residential complexes providing a total of 80 homes. Each complex will be comprised of two seven-level buildings (including one underground parking level) and have Habitat and Environment certification. Contract value: €10m.

New residential block on “Bateau” site

As part of the regeneration of the Vieux-Pont neighbourhood in Nanterre, by Paris, Sicra (VINCI Construction France) is to build a residential complex on the site of the “Bateau”, an old apartment block that will be demolished. The company will create 98 social housing units there, together with parking spaces, and supply the external works and landscaping. Contract value: €14.7m.

Pay parking

On 18 December, the town of Mantes-la-Jolie (Paris region) appointed VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) to operate its pay parking (on- and off-street) within the framework of a ten-year outsourcing-of-public services contract. This contract includes upgrading the payment apparatus for the on-street pay-and-display parking (3,250 spaces, 170 ticket machines) and in five car parks providing a total of 1,654 spaces. It enters into force on 4 February.

Urban development

Following a call for tenders for the redevelopment of its Place du Général-de-Gaulle, the commune of Languidic (Brittany) has entrusted Eurovia’s Lorient office with the earthworks and roadworks. Thanks to its proposal for a customised signage scheme, Signature (Eurovia) has secured the signage works package.

School

The town of Clichy-sous-Bois, by Paris, has awarded CBC (VINCI Construction France) the contract for the Dhuys school. Comprising a 6-class nursery school, a 9-class primary school and a 30-space car park, this complex will be built in 16 months. Contract value: €6.8m.

Australia

2 projects for Menard Bachy

• In the State of Queensland, Menard Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) was involved, between November 2008 and December 2009, in the work on the Airport Link, the rail link which, as of 2011, will link the city of Brisbane with its airport. On this project, notably involving the construction of two tunnels, the company was responsible for jet grouting (photo) and the creation of a 6,600 sq. metre diaphragm wall, one metre thick and up to 26 m in depth. Contract value: 9 million Australian dollars (€5.7m).

• 30 km from Canberra, in connection with the restoration of the Tharwa Bridge, the country’s oldest structure and classified as part of the Aboriginal, natural and historic heritage, Menard Bachy has created 185 jet grouting columns (diameter: 1.20 m) and 40 micro-piles (diameter: 0.185 m). Begun in September 2009, the works were completed in January 2010.

Canada

Triple success for VINCI Park

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has signed two leases, for one and five years respectively, for the management, as of 1st January 2010, of two car parks in Ottawa providing 249 and 70 spaces.
And in Toronto, a hotel chain has granted the company a three-year lease, again starting on 1st January, for the management of its 3-level underground car park.

Germany

Fire protection

Bettenwelt, a manufacturer and distributor of bedding, has selected Calanbau (VINCI Energies) to install the sprinkler-based fire protection system in its logistics centre at Zarrentin (60 km to the east of Hamburg). Contract value: €1.7m.

Ivory Coast

Upgrading Abidjan’s power supply

In Abidjan, Omexom Major Projects (VINCI Energies), as part of a consortium, has been awarded a turnkey project by the Ivorian Electricity Company to improve the quality of the city’s power supply. In particular, this project calls for the extension of four 90 kV substations. The business unit will manage the project on behalf of the Ivorian government, and supply the planning, assembly, civil engineering and bringing into service of the newly created sections. The works began in the course of January and will take two years to complete. They are valued at €11m. (of which €5.5m for Omexom Major Projects).

Jordanie

Extending a quay

On 9 December, Soletanche Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), signed the contract for the extension of the container quay in Aqaba (the country’s only port, in the very south). The contract calls for the construction of a 460 m long Danish quay (on piles). The works, taking 15 months to complete, will involve the creation of marine embankments by vibratory compaction (190,000 m3), the installation of piles (468 units, 15,500 m), the creation of a concrete slab (15,000 sq. metres), the laying of rails (1,500 m) and the laying out of the container storage area (80,000 sq. metres). Soletanche Bachy subsidiaries Balineau and SolData will be participating in the project, for the installation of the piles and the instrumentation of the test piles respectively.

Morocco

Terre Armée® on the Mediterranean Highway

As part of the construction of the section of the Mediterranean Highway that will link the towns of Oued Laou and El Jebha, Terre Armee France, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), was awarded the contract to design, supply and provide technical assistance in the installation of 36,000 sq. metres of Terre Armée® wall. The works began in October 2009 and will take 24 months to complete.

Poland

Soil improvement

In connection with the construction of the ring road round the south of Gdansk, Menard, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is improving 700,000 sq. metres of soil. On half of this surface area, it will be installing some 5 million linear metres of vertical drains; on the other half, it is due to install almost 700,000 linear metres of controlled modulus columns. 11 metres of backfill will then be applied. The project is due for completion in January 2011.

Slovakia

Equipping a power plant

In connection with the upgrading of the power plant at the Slovnaft refinery (near Bratislava), ProCS (VINCI Energies), on behalf of SES Tlmače, will be supplying all the electrical works (monitoring and control, instrumentation, wiring, HV systems) for the boilers, and installing a new turbine. The project is valued at €9.9m; it will be completed in 3 years.

Spain

Boosting an HV substation

Endesa ERZ has appointed Thales Alta Tensión (VINCI Energies) to enlarge an existing 220/132/45 kV substation in order to back up the power supply in the south of Aragon. Worth €1.2m, the project will be completed in 6 months.

JANUARY 2010

France

Residential and retail in Lyons

GTM Bâtiment et Génie Civil Lyon (lead contractor) and Dumez Rhône-Alpes (VINCI Construction France) have been selected by the SNI (Société Nationale Immobilière), a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts, to build 86 homes and shops. Undertaken on a general contracting basis within the Bon Lait development zone in Lyons (central France), this project is valued at €7.9m.

Railway fly-over at Moirans

On 6 September, Chantiers Modernes Rhône-Alpes (VINCI Construction France) completed the construction of the overbridge (a railway structure formed by a covered cutting, allowing one railway line to cross above another) at Moirans (south-east France). The creation of this crossing point for the Valence-Grenoble and Lyon-Grenoble lines marks the end of the first phase of the programme to modernise the alpine rail corridor. A second stage, involving the electrification of the Grenoble-Valence line and linking the Valence TGV train station with the LGV Méditerranée high-speed line was, a few weeks ago, declared as being in the public interest

Extending the tram line T2

Several VINCI companies are involved in the works to extend tram line T2 which, as of 2012, will link La Défense with Bezons. Teams from Watelet TP Gennevilliers, Eurovia’s Montesson office and SRBG (all Eurovia subsidiaries) are undertaking the urban development works (on behalf of the General Council of the Hauts-de-Seine département) and, in collaboration with Sogea TPI (VINCI Construction France), the platform infrastructure works (for the RATP). Eurovia Béton is installing and managing the signalling. These works are valued at some €24m. Citéos IdF Ouest (VINCI Energies) is responsible for installing the urban lighting and traffic lights. GTM TP IdF (VINCI Construction France) is also participating in the project, in connection with the construction/civil engineering of the Charlebourg foot bridge.

Refurbishing a bridge

Sysa (Eurovia) is to undertake repair works, on behalf of the General Council of the Drôme département (southern France), on the Robinet Bridge, in the municipality of Donzère. This 333 metre long structure has been listed since 1985 in the supplementary inventory of the French historic monuments organisation. The works will be carried out in 2010; they involve the supply and installation of aluminium side extensions, dismantling and replacing the entire bridge flooring (framework floor), renewing the surface of the roadway and repointing the stonework.

Urban regeneration

As part of the Grands TravO2 Nîmes 2012 urban regeneration programme, Entreprise De Filippis (Eurovia) is currently tackling the first tranche of surfacing works in the pedestrian areas of the Avenue Jean-Jaurès. These involve the supply and installation of natural stone from Croatia (almost 20 km of kerbstones and structural elements and 1,200 sq. metres of cobblestones and paving stones), as well as 5,000 sq. metres of prefabricated concrete slabs for the central reservation.

Storing natural gas

Actemium Dardilly and Actemium IdF Environnement (VINCI Energies business units) are supplying, on behalf of GDF, the electrical, instrumentation, automation, heritage preservation and cathodic protection works packages for the new natural gas storage plant in Hauterives (southern France). Valued at €8.5m, the works are to be completed in 2 years.

First tram line for Angers

Four VINCI Energies business units joined forces to secure the low voltage works package for the first tram line in Angers (12.3 km, 25 stops). Roiret Transport (lead contractor) is responsible for the system networks and centralised technical management, CIEC Génie Électrique for power distribution and installing equipment along the route, STE Infra-Spé for installing the fibre optics and Axians Le Mans for the installation of the automatic switches. In addition, Citéos Atlantique and CIEC Réseaux (also VINCI Energies business units) have been awarded the contracts for the temporary and definitive lighting. Eurovia’s Angers office is also taking part in the project, participating in the creation of the platform and the urban development works and involved, on a 3.5 km section, in the creation of 6 tram stops.

Laying cables in Martinique

As part of the effort to repair damage caused on the island by the cyclone Dean in 2007, and to upgrade infrastructure, EDF has appointed Getelec Collectivités (VINCI Energies) to install 6 km of high voltage cables between the municipalities of Marin and Rivière Pilote. Project value: €1.5m.

A new underground car park in Paris

Having renewed its concessions in the course of the year for the Bac-Montalembert car park for 12 years and the Passy car park for 15 years, on 14 December VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) strengthened its position in the French capital by securing a new 20-year concession. This concerns, on the one hand, the renewal of the concession for the Concorde car park (830 spaces), where major redevelopment works will be carried out, and, on the other, the construction of the Frémicourt residential car park (210 spaces), in the 15th arrondissement. After a decade during which no new concession parking facility has been built in Paris, VINCI Park is the first private sector concessionaire to once again build an underground car park in the city.

Team work in Corsica

The urban community of Greater Ajaccio (CAPA) has appointed VINCI Construction France to design and build its new wastewater treatment plant. This new facility (final capacity: 60,000 p.e.) will be equipped with VINCI Construction France’s R3F® (radial flow fluidized filter) technology, a compact system that can be installed on a quite limited area of ground; it will treat wastewater from the eastern neighbourhoods of Ajaccio and neighbouring municipalities. The works include the creation of a pipe for discharging treated water into the sea. They will be undertaken by a consortium, headed by the Water Treatment division of VINCI Construction France and including Corse Travaux (Eurovia) and Campenon Bernard Sud Est TP and GTM TP Côte d’Azur (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries), in association with the architect Emmanuelle Buresi. Worth €27m, the project will be completed in 23 months.

Algeria

Soil consolidation

At El Merk, in the east of the country, Menard, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has consolidated a 345,000 sq. metre platform, by dynamic compaction, on behalf of EPC Petrofac Contractor. In preparation for the construction of a central processing facility, this project was completed, in just two months, early in December, thanks to the deployment of five work stations.

Belgium

Photovoltaic farm

On 16 November last, two firms belonging to the CFE Group (VINCI Construction), Nizet Entreprise (Multi-technology division) and MBG (Construction division), installed the first panel at the country’s biggest solar photovoltaic farm. Located on the municipal rubbish dump in Lier, near Antwerp, this farm with its 13,000 panels is being created on behalf of the Ivarem inter-commune authority. MBG, the lead company in the joint venture, undertook the site preparation works and installed the concrete supports. Nizet was responsible for the planning, supplying and installing the photovoltaic equipment and the medium-voltage stations, and the link-up to the network of energy supply operator Eandis.

Underground synergie

sEarly in December, within the framework of a 50-year concession agreement, the 50/50 joint venture formed by VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) and the Concessions division of CFE (VINCI Construction) brought into service a 420-space underground car park in Turnhout, in the province of Antwerp. The construction works were supplied by MBG (Construction division), a branch of CFE.

Brazil

Terre Armée® for an expressway

Terra Armada Ltda, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) is participating in the construction of an expressway between the port of Salvador de Bahia and the BR-324 motorway, the aim being to reduce heavy vehicular traffic in built-up areas. The company is charged with the design, supply and technical assistance in the installation of 12,000 sq. metres of Terre Armée® retaining walls for viaduct slip roads. Begun in November, the works are due for completion in October 2010.

Morocco

Completion of Lafarge cement works project

At the Lafarge Ciments site in Tetouan, in the north of the country, Mangin Egly Ciments et Matériaux (VINCI Energies) has completed the entire electrical and monitoring and control works package for the second production unit. The completion of this further tranche increases production capacity from 1 to 2 million tonnes of cement a year. For Mangin Egly, the project involved the planning, and the supply, installation and bringing into service of the high and low voltage power supply, the monitoring and control system, the instrumentation and the equipment of the electrical control units. Sogea Maroc (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales) had supplied the civil engineering for this production line in 2007 and 2008 and, in particular, four storage silos.

Poland

Extending Lodz Airport

On 24 November, the consortium formed by Warbud (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales), Hochtief and its Polish subsidiary signed the contract for the construction of Terminal 3 at Lodz Airport. The works began on 7 December and will be completed in 18 months, with no disruption of air traffic. They involve the creation of the terminal building (25,000 sq. metres; 4 levels, including one underground level) and the control tower (height: 22.5 m), and are being undertaken on behalf of site manager Lodz Airport Wladyslaw Reymont. In addition to the structural works, the consortium will be carrying out the construction work on a general contracting basis as well as supplying equipment, notably the information systems, CCTV (more than 1,000 cameras), access control, fire detection, smoke extraction and carbon monoxide detection. Contract value: €25m (incl. taxes).

Portugal

Electrical upgrade for schools

In the Porto region, Sotécnica AEP (VINCI Energies), on behalf of Mota Engil, is working on the electrical power installations, security system, fire detection, access and monitoring arrangements and the PA system in two secondary schools. Valued at €2.4m, the works will be carried out in three stages, in March, August and December 2010.

Spain

A new underground car park in Paris

Lighting the wayIn the course of 2009, VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) installed a light-based guiding system in six of its car parks (providing a total of almost 4,000 parking spaces) in the Iberian peninsula. This system makes it easier for customers to find an empty space, and optimises the use of car park capacity.Extending the port in BarcelonaRodio Kronsa, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has just begun work on the deep foundations for the ASC road in the southern zone of the port in Barcelona. Undertaken on a general contracting basis, this project notably includes the provision of 94,000 lm of prefabricated piles. The aim is to increase the surface area of the port by 30 hectares.

Extending the port in Barcelona

Rodio Kronsa, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has just begun work on the deep foundations for the ASC road in the southern zone of the port in Barcelona. Undertaken on a general contracting basis, this project notably includes the provision of 94,000 lm of prefabricated piles. The aim is to increase the surface area of the port by 30 hectares.

Switzerland

Refurbishing schools

Two VINCI Energies business units are participating in school refurbishment projects. Etavis Grands Projets is installing high and low voltage circuits in a school in Winterthur, currently being redeveloped; and Etavis Kriegel is involved, on behalf of the town of Reinach, in refurbishing and extending the electrical equipment at the Bachmatten school. Contract value: 2.7m Swiss Francs (€1.8m) and 1.7m Swiss Francs (€1.1m) respectively.

Viet Nam

Foundations for a Méridien hotel

Bachy Soletanche Vietnam, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), began work on the new Méridien Saigon Hotel in Ho Chi-minh City (23 storeys, 3 underground levels) on 3 November. Worth $4m (€2.7m), the project notably includes supplying the test piles and the diaphragm wall. The works are due for completion in February 2010.

DECEMBER 2009

France

Transformation for 100 bank branches

The Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe has awarded Sogea Caroni (VINCI Construction France) a design-implementation contract for the renovation, extension and bringing up to standard of 100 of its branches located in 5 départements (Aisne, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais and Somme). Contract value: about €35m.

Upgrading the Vauban Docks area

Eurovia’s Le Havre office has been upgrading the area surrounding the Vauban Docks on behalf of the city of Le Havre (Normandy). The works involved the creation of roadways and paving in deactivated concrete and the installation of cast-iron urban furniture. Contract value: €16m.

National contract for Omexom

National contract for Omexom Within the framework of the programme launched by RTE (manager of the power transmission network) for the renovation of overhead power lines and high voltage transformer stations, the commercial grouping (GIE) Omexom Grands Postes (VINCI Energies), formed by five Omexom business units (Amiens, Le Mans, Toulouse, Metz and Montélimar) is to undertake the planning work and renovation or construction of 12 high and very high voltage transformer stations located across France. Of note: with this programme, RTE is for the first time outsourcing part of the project management – to Omexom. Valued at €32m, the works will be completed in 36 months.

Light-coloured surfaces for Nice tunnels

In the Saint-Pierre de Féric tunnel (A8 motorway), in the Aix-en-Provence – Italian border direction, Eurovia’s Nice office has applied 200 t of light-coloured mix pending future works by ESCOTA (VINCI Autoroutes) to bring the tunnels bypassing Nice (south of France) up to standard. Scheduled for 2010, these works will involve the deployment of 7,000 t of light-coloured mix, the aim being to improve visibility in the tunnels and thus enhance motorway safety.

Aim: energy savings

The town of Avion (north of France) has awarded two VINCI Energies business units, Citéos Exploitation Nord and Citéos Arras, the contract for its urban lighting (3,000 light sources) for a period of 12 years. The two companies are charged with the renewal, operation and maintenance of the equipment, and have been requested to achieve energy savings. Contract value: €5.1m.

Completing the A89 Lyons-Bordeaux

Following a call for tenders, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) has awarded the consortium made up of VINCI Construction Terrassement, lead contractor, Dodin Campenon Bernard and GTM TP Lyon (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries), Eurovia GPI and Eurovia Lyon (Eurovia subsidiaries) the contract for the earthworks, engineering structures, and restoration of communications and roadways for a 24 km section of the A89 crossing the hilly Monts du Lyonnais region, thus completing the Lyons-Bordeaux motorway link. The project calls for 8.8 million cubic metres of earthworks and the creation of 51 engineering structures. The works will be completed in 36 months, and are worth €123m.

Illuminating the Futuroscope

The Futuroscope in Poitiers (western France) has entrusted Ancelin Poitiers (VINCI Energies) with the installation of its festive lighting. The teams will have a chance to demonstrate their talent for high-level work, particularly when it comes to mounting an illuminated ceiling (16 x 30 m) above the main cash desks, and installing two metal structures, covered in LED lights, in the form of Christmas trees, one 10 metres, the other 15 metres high. The installation works must be completed by 19 December. Signed for a period of 5 years, the contract is worth €350,000.

Two new contracts for Challenger

Challenger Special Oil Services, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), has been awarded two new contracts. The first, awarded by Trans Ethylène, a Total Petrochemicals subsidiary, is for cleaning a pipeline, 31 km long and 4 inches in diameter, between its Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon and Gonfreville-l’Orcher plants in Normandy. The second project will be undertaken in Malaysia by Challenger Special Oil Services Sdn Bhd for Petronas. It will involve descaling (removing built-up solid deposits) an offshore crude oil production pipeline, 21 km long and 12 inches in diameter.

Widening the A71

In central France, the project to widen the 6 km of the A71 motorway between Orléans-Centre and Olivet moved forward a stage on 28 October with the opening to traffic of the 3rd south-bound lane. Launched by Cofiroute (VINCI Autoroutes) in mid-2008, the aim of the operation is to improve traffic flow and safety on a stretch of motorway used by more than 35,000 vehicles a day. The works are being carried out by VINCI Construction Terrassement (VINCI Construction France) as regards widening the standard section and upgrading the standard engineering structures. The civil engineering consortium, meanwhile, headed by Dodin Campenon Bernard (another VINCI Construction France subsidiary), is charged with the construction of a new bridge over the Loire prior to the bringing into service, scheduled for late 2010, of the 3rd lane in the opposite (Paris-bound) direction. The corbelled, prestressed segments of the bridge are being poured in situ using mobile equipment.

100 km of new pavement on the ASF network

In September and October, ASF (VINCI Autoroutes) renewed more than 100 km of pavement on the A7, A9, A61, A83 and A89 motorways – an investment of €17m. Teams from the Vaucluse sector of Eurovia’s Nîmes office participated in the project, renewing the surface of the A9-A7 intersection and at the Orange-Sud, Orange-Centre, Remoulins and Avignon-Nord toll plazas. At times up to seven finishers were operating simultaneously.

“Green” drains

On behalf of the urban community of Moulins (central France), LMTP (Eurovia) is renovating one kilometre of the drainage system. Eurovia’s Recycan® process is being used: excavated materials can be recycled on the spot and used for backfilling the trenches, thus reducing by 70% both lorry traffic and the amount of new materials required. Cast-iron pipes will be installed, their carbon footprint being better than that of PVC pipes.

La Joliette car park

On 2 October last, the urban community of Marseilles Provence Métropole awarded VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) a 40-year contract, on an outsourced management of public services basis, for the Esplanade du J4 underground car park on the quays of La Joliette, in Marseilles (south of France). This structure, providing 700 parking spaces on four levels, as well as a link to the tunnel for the main coastal highway will be built by VINCI Construction France’s subsidiaries Campenon Bernard Sud-Est and GTM Sud. The works, scheduled for completion in September 2012, form part of a project for the construction of buildings dedicated to cultural and leisure activities.

Electrical equipment for Besançon bypass

As part of the construction of the Voie des Mercureaux, a 2x2-lane road that will bypass the southwest of Besançon (east of France) as of 2011, GTIE Transport and Coteb Codiel Besançon (two VINCI Energies business units), in a joint venture, have been vischarged with supplying the electrical equipment for the standard section (7 km) and the two tunnels (600 and 300 m), installing a traffic management aid system (SAGT). The works are valued at €6m (€5m for GTIE Transport and €1m for Coteb Codiel Besançon), and are due for completion early in 2011.

Wastewater treatment plant on Reunion Island

On Reunion Island, the town of Étang-Salé has awarded the contract to extend and modernise its wastewater treatment plant to VINCI Construction France, Sogea Réunion (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales) and SETB (VINCI Energies). The aim is to increase this facility’s treatment capacity from 6,000 p. e. to 19,000 p. e. The plant will, at the same time, become the first in France to be equipped with membrane technology, a process for which VINCI Construction France has an exclusive licence and which will make it possible to reuse some of the treated wastewater for irrigation. Worth €9.8m, the works will be completed in 26 months.

A standard-compliant tunnel at the Parc des Princes

The city authorities in Paris have appointed a consortium including Sogea TPI (VINCI Construction France) and Sdel Transport (VINCI Energies) to upgrade the ring road tunnel (580 m) running beneath the Parc des Princes stadium. The project will be implemented without disrupting traffic on the ring road. It calls for the creation of new emergency exits and the bringing up to standard of the high/low voltage equipment and the fire protection arrangements. In particular, a central management system is to be installed, by Sdel Transport working in conjunction with Actemium Paris (VINCI Energies), as well as an automatic incident detection system. Worth €25.5m and starting in January 2010, the works will take 15 months to complete.

Cancer teaching clinic

In Toulouse (south-western France), the health-care cooperation group “Cancer Teaching Clinic” has awarded VINCI Construction France the envelope works package (shell construction, water-proofing, joinery) for the establishment of the same name. Built on the site of the future Cancéropôle, this hospital will be comprised of 7 buildings on a total surface area of 100,000 sq. metres. It will accommodate 312 patients and 1,200 health care professionals. The works, financed by the French government, began in October 2009 and will take 36 months to complete. The envelope works package is worth approximately €75m.

Belgium

Diabolo project: second tunnel

Beneath the runways of Brussels-National Airport at Zaventem, in October, two weeks ahead of schedule, teams from CFE (VINCI Construction), as part of the Dialink consortium, completed the driving of the second tunnel (1,070 m) of the Diabolo project. Improving access to the airport, and providing a direct link to Antwerp are therefore well on track. The new infrastructure is due to come into service in 2012.

Germany

Triple success for G+H Schallschutz

G+H Schallschutz (VINCI Energies) has won three new contracts to install exhaust systems: for a power station operated by electricity producer RWE AG (€22.4m) and for two gas turbines, one at an Alstom site (€2.6m), the other at a Siemens PG site (€4.3m).

India

Cable-stayed bridge for Lakadiya

Following the collapse of the piers of the Lakadiya bridge, which provided a crossing over an arm of the sea separating the town from its main industrial zone, and the failure of an attempt to rebuild the structure in its original form, the authorities in Gujarat have given the go-ahead to the proposal from Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), to build a cable-stayed bridge. With a span of 100 m, the new bridge will have four lanes, one of them for pedestrians. Freyssinet will provide the design as well as supplying and, over the first half of 2010, installing its 48 stays.

Poland

Expressway for the Euro 2012

On 30 October, the consortium formed by Eurovia Polska (lead contractor), Eurovia CS (both Eurovia subsidiaries), Warbud (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales) and Hochtief Polska signed the contract for the construction of a 20 km section of the S5 expressway between Poznan and Gniezno, in western central Poland. Undertaken on behalf of the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure, the project is part of the programme, in connection with the Euro 2012 Football Championship, to build 1,100 km of motorway and 2,101 km of expressways. Taking 31 months to complete, the works will notably involve more than 2 million cubic metres of earthworks, the creation of 24 engineering structures and the deployment of 500,000 t of gravel and 420,000 t of mix. Total contract value: €100m.

Portugal

Electrical equipment

On the project to extend the Parque das Nações complex, in Lisbon, Sotecnica ABT (VINCI Energies) is installing the low voltage electrical equipment for the building management systems, fire detection, access control and communication networks in two new office blocks. Undertaken on behalf of Bouygues Imobiliária, the works are valued at €1.6m. Begun last August, they are due for handover in February 2010.

Singapore

180,000 sq. metres of prestressed floors

Since February 2009, PSC Freyssinet (S) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has been involved in the construction of an industrial site comprising 6 blocks of 8-storey buildings. The company is charged with the installation of 180,000 sq. metres of prestressed floors, requiring almost 900 t of steel strands.

Spain

SolData watches over the Sagrada Familia

In connection with the construction of a tunnel that will enable the TAG (Spanish high-speed railway line) to cross Barcelona, the Sacyr Group has awarded a monitoring contract (noise and vibrations) to SolData Iberia, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction). The company is responsible for the surveillance of buildings located near the project: eight of them are classified as historic monuments, including Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia.

United States of America

Hubbard Construction wins US 19 project

In Clearwater (Florida), Hubbard Construction (Eurovia) has been awarded the build-finance contract for the US 19. The project calls for converting a 4.1 km section of six-lane urban road into a 2x3-lane flyover. The works include building five bridges as well as northbound and southbound two-lane access roads. Valued at $109.5m (€74m), this contract is both the biggest contract ever won by Hubbard Construction and the first of this type.

Terre Armée ® on Keystone Avenue

In Carmel, a town located to the north of Indianapolis (Hamilton County), Reinforced Earth Company (RECo), a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is participating in the redevelopment of Keystone Avenue, a major multi-lane artery crossing the town. The company is designing and supplying the retaining wall systems of interchanges in the vicinity of 106th, 116th, 126th and 136th Streets. In total, RECo has designed and supplied 21,367 sq. metres of architectural panels and 5,486 m of prefabricated cornice sections.

NOVEMBER 2009

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Maintaining almost 3 million sq. metres of road

Construction DJL, a subsidiary of Eurovia, has completed two road maintenance contracts involving a total of almost 3 million sq. metres of roadway in the province of New Brunswick. They involved refurbishing several stretches of Highway 2, using cold mix in order to extend the life of the pavement from five to seven years. The first contract concerned a 49 km section near Fredericton. The project was awarded by the MRDC Operations Corporation consortium, of which VINCI Concessions Canada Inc. (a subsidiary of VINCI Concessions) is a member. The works, worth €2.9m, were completed this summer. The second contract concerned two quite separate sections at St-Basile (14 km) and Perth-Andover (7 km). The works were worth approximately €1.8m. The 3 million litres of emulsion required for the works were produced at the Carignan plant (Quebec).

Czech Republic

Gain in height for the Roudne bridge

On 11 August, the Roudne bridge, a curved structure spanning the river Malse near České Budějovice, in southern Bohemia, was reopened to traffic after more than a year of works. Undertaken by a consortium composed of Eurovia CS and SMP CZ, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales, these involved raising the bridge’s 48.2 m-long deck in height, from 4 to 6 metres, to protect it from flooding. Contract value: €3.65m (of which €3m for Eurovia CS and €0.65m for SMP CZ).

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Poland

Further works on the Warsaw ring road

Having already created a 1.1 km-long slope in 2008 for the first part of the Warsaw ring road, Soletanche Polska, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has now been appointed to design and build a further 0.5 km long slope, between the Pulawska interchange and the Lotnisko interchange, to the south of Fryderyk Chopin Airport. The contract calls for the creation of 60,000 sq. metres of diaphragm walls, 350,000 cu. metres of earthworks and the deployment of 45,000 cu. metres of reinforced concrete. Valued at €40m, much of the work will be carried out in 2010.

United States of America

A second shell for the McCook reservoir

Having completed phase 1 of the McCook project, Nicholson Construction, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has now secured the contract for phase 2. This will involve creating a watertight wall surrounding the McCook basin for the collection of wastewater and storm water, which serves the Chicago conurbation. On behalf of the US Army Corps of Engineers (the project’s client), the company will create a double watertight shell, 2,130 metres in length, by computerised injection.

OCTOBER 2009

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Upgrading the railway line between Zbiroh and Rokycany

Eurovia CS, in a consortium with Skanska and Subterra, launched the second stage of the project to upgrade the Prague-Plzen rail link in July, having started on the first tranche of works in March, between Beroun and Zbiroh. Modernising this 21 km section, due for completion in October 2012, will involve creating platforms at the stations in Holoubkov and Mýto, loading zones and walkways for passengers. Contract value for Eurovia CS: €22m.

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Trinidad & Tobago

A second bridge for VINCI Construction Grands Projets

On 28 July, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed a $27.3m (€19m) contract with Nidco (National Infrastructure Development Company) for the design and construction of a composite bridge spanning the Churchill Roosevelt Highway at the level of the community of Aranguez, on the island of Trinidad. The works are scheduled to last 16 months; once completed, this structure will allow the elimination of the highway’s last traffic lights (at El Socorro and Aranguez), and fulfil the authorities’ wish to improve traffic flow between the capital, Port of Spain, and San Fernando. It will be recalled that VINCI Construction Grands Projets already supplied, on behalf of Nidco, the second works package of the CRH/UBH (Churchill Roosevelt Highway/Uriah Butter Highway) motorway interchange, brought into service on 1st May last.

AUGUST 2009

Canada

New contracts for VINCI Park

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has secured four new contracts (average duration: two years) for the provision of services. They concern three car parks, two in Montreal and one in Ottawa, providing a total of 995 parking spaces.

Czech Republic

Rehabilitating a power line

CEZ has awarded Elektrotrans (VINCI Energies) an order worth almost €3m for the rehabilitation of a 110 kV power line between Valasske Mezerici (North Moravia) and Vsetin (on the Slovak border). The works will be carried out in the course of the second half of 2009.

Works on the R35

Eurovia CS, as lead contractor in a consortium, has just begun work on the R35 motorway project, a 7.6 km section in the Bily Kostel – Hradek nad Nisou sector, on the border with Germany and Poland. The works on this 2x2-lane project, forming part of the Prague–Liberec–Zittau (Germany) link, will include the construction of three interchanges, eleven engineering structures and three protective walls, and will be carried out between now and October 2011. The R35 will eventually link up the motorway networks of the three countries. Contract value: €56m, of which €37m for Eurovia CS.

Poland

Bytom bypass

Eurovia Polska, as leader of a consortium, has won the contract to build the final section of the Bytom bypass, in southern Poland. Focusing on a 2.2 km stretch of roadway, the works will involve rebuilding an existing road, and are due for completion in November 2011. Contract value: €17.8m (€11.2m for Eurovia Polska).

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JULY 2009

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Double success for Eurovia CS

On 19 May, Eurovia CS began redeveloping Strelnicna Street in Prague. Its teams will be laying 3,600 m of tram track, and creating 2,300 sq. metres of pavements and 6,400 sq. metres of roadway. The works are due for completion late this summer. Contract value: €9.5m.
In late May, the company began work on the bypass round the town of Vamberk, in the east of Bohemia. Undertaken as part of a consortium, the project involves building 1,700 m of roadway, requiring the deployment of 19,550 sq. metres of mix and the creation of a 527 m-long engineering structure. Contract value: €17.8m, of which €8.9m for Eurovia CS.

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Double success for Eurovia CS

On 19 May, Eurovia CS began redeveloping Strelnicna Street in Prague. Its teams will be laying 3,600 m of tram track, and creating 2,300 sq. metres of pavements and 6,400 sq. metres of roadway. The works are due for completion late this summer. Contract value: €9.5m.
In late May, the company began work on the bypass round the town of Vamberk, in the east of Bohemia. Undertaken as part of a consortium, the project involves building 1,700 m of roadway, requiring the deployment of 19,550 sq. metres of mix and the creation of a 527 m-long engineering structure. Contract value: €17.8m, of which €8.9m for Eurovia CS.

Fire protection

TPI Polska (VINCI Energies) has just won an order worth about €1m from TKT, for the fire protection of the Ikea store’s shopping mall in Lodz (120 km to the south-west of Warsaw). The works will be carried out in the second half of 2009.

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JUNE 2009

Czech Republic

Rail corridor

Eurovia CS, lead contractor in a joint venture with Subterra and Viamont, has secured the contract for part of the rail corridor between Prague and Ceske Budejovice, in the Votice–Benešov sector (in the centre of the country). The works involve renovating and upgrading the tracks on an 18.3 km section, thus enabling trains to run at between 120 and 150 km/h. They include the basic construction work (earthworks and layers of ballast), laying the rails and creating 6 engineering structures. Launched this May, these works are due for completion in the summer of 2013. Contract value: €230m, of which €57.5m for Eurovia CS.

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United States of America

Widening the I-10 from 4 to 6 lanes

In Jacksonville (Florida), Hubbard (Eurovia) is currently engaged in refurbishing an 8 mile (some 13 km) stretch of the I-10, and widening it from four to six lanes. The contract includes widening and refurbishing three engineering structures. Worth $58m (€42m), the project is due for completion in February 2012.

MAY 2009

Belgium

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Czech Republic

Double success for Eurovia CS

Eurovia CS, formerly SSZ, in partnership with Skanska and Firesta, has won the contract to build a 9.8 km stretch of national highway I/11, from Mokre Lazce to the border of the districts of Opava and Ostrava (in the east of the country). The company will create 19 engineering structures and three retaining walls, and apply 219,375 sq. metres of mix. Work began in January and will take 45 months to complete. Contract value for Eurovia: €48m.
In Prague, Eurovia CS, as part of a consortium, is to build the 1,000 m long Strahov tunnel (a covered cutting), linking the north and south of the city on the left bank of the river. In connection with this project, 35,000 sq. metres of pavement will be built or renovated, tram lines will be replaced and a public park refurbished. The project will get under way in May, with completion scheduled for December 2012. Contract value: €97m (80% for Eurovia CS).

Poland

7 km of motorway to be built

Eurovia Polska, as part of a partnership, has secured a contract for the construction of a new 7 km stretch of the A1 motorway in the built-up area of Katowice (some 70 km to the north-west of Cracow). Requiring 24 months to complete, the project includes two viaducts, eight bridges and some 2 million cu. metres of earthworks. Eurovia Polska will be producing more than 145,000 t of mix for deployment over this section. Contract value for Eurovia: €15m.

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United States of America

New contracts for LAZ Parking

LAZ Parking, the American subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), has won two new contracts. Representing 169 parking spaces, they involve managing a car park in Chicago and a hotel parking facility in Washington. These 3-year contracts include provision of a valet-parking service.

APRIL 2009

Belgium

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Canada

Hospital car park

The Anne Laberge Foundation has appointed VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) to manage the car park at its hospital at Châteauguay, near Montreal. The 5-year contract calls for the management of the 1,000-space car park and other outdoor infrastructure.

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United States of America

New contracts for LAZ Parking

LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), has signed three new contracts with the public works department of the municipality of Syracuse (State of New York). They concern the management of the Fayette Garage, Onondaga Towers and Center Armory Garage car parks: a total of 1,053 spaces. The contracts, which entered into force in March, represent a monthly revenue of more than $30,000 (€23,000).

MARCH 2009

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Poland

Maintenance

Operator TPSA has just renewed its “fixed telephony” maintenance contracts with ATEM (VINCI Energies) in the Opole and Katowice Zachod regions (southern Poland). Signed for a period of three years, they represent services worth an annual €5m.

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Management of 34 car parks in New York

New York’s Metropolitan Transport Authority has just awarded a contract to LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), for the management, for a period of seven years, of 34 car parks located very close to four of the city’s underground lines. Covering a total of 13,275 parking spaces, this contract enters into force on 1st April. It calls for an investment of over a million dollars, as well as the creation of a website enabling motorists to both apply for and pay for their monthly season ticket online.

FEBRUARY 2009

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Canada

Stretch of motorway

In early December, in the Outaouais region to the west of Quebec, the teams from Construction DJL (Eurovia) began work, between Montée Saint-François and Route 321, on a 5 km stretch of Motorway 50, which will link Gatineau with Montreal as of 2012. This major project will notably involve 1,100,000 cu. metres of rubble, including 900,000 cu. metres of dynamited rock, and the deployment of 50,000 cu. metres of light fill (wood shavings) for a section crossing a marshy area, which will be dried out by 300,000 lm of vertical drains. 350,000 t of granular materials will be crushed on the spot from the dynamited rock to create the structure of the roadway and provide the extra layers for the drained area. Valued at more than 29 million Canadian dollars (some €18m), this is the biggest contract ever won by Construction DJL.

Intermodality in Montreal

VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has been selected by the Canadian railway authority to manage the 1,500 parking spaces at Montreal’s main railway station. This 2-year contract comes into force on 1st March.

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JANUARY 2009

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Car park

In Vancouver, where it already manages Stanley Park, VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has secured the contract to manage the car park at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center for a period of 10 years, renewable. Located in the heart of the business district, this new facility has a capacity of 750 parking spaces.

Czech Republic

New stretch of motorway

The teams from SSZ (Eurovia), as part of a consortium, began work in October on a new, 25 km section of the D3 motorway, between Tabor and Veseli nad Luznici, in South Bohemia. Linking up with the ring road round Tabor, this motorway will improve traffic flow between Prague, Ceske Budejovice and the Austrian border. The works, valued at €425m (20% for SSZ), are due for completion in 2011.

Rehabilitation and electrification of a section of railway line

On 20 November, in the Czech Republic, SSZ (Eurovia) handed over the project to rehabilitate and electrify the 22 km section of railway line between Letohrad and Lichkov, near the Polish border. Since work started, in August 2007, the line here has been completely renovated: replacement of the track infrastructure and superstructure, drainage arrangements, widening of stretches passing through rocky terrain, modernization and/or installation of 52 bridges and culverts and 23 level crossings, installation of noise barriers. Several stations along this section have also been refurbished. Contract value: €25m.

Poland

Fire protection

In Opole, in the south of the country, TPI Poland (VINCI Energies) has just finished installing a fire protection system in the Karolinka shopping centre; value: €2.2m. In addition, in Warsaw, Pepsico has appointed the company to install a sprinkler-based fire protection system in its production plant there. Contract value: €1.3m.

Maintenance for Orange

Telecom operator Orange has come back to Atem Polska (VINCI Energies), for the maintenance of 1,000 of its sites in Poland. Contract value: €1.8m.

United States of America

LAZ Parking in Chicago and Washington

The consortium of investors led by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure to which the city authorities of Chicago (Illinois) have awarded the concession for 36,000 on-street pay-anddisplay parking spaces – the first concession on such a scale in the United States – has entrusted LAZ Parking, a subsidiary of VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), with the exclusive management of this contract for a period of 7 years. LAZ Parking’s task will involve technical maintenance of the parking meters, onground signage, collecting the money and assisting in the recording of offences. In addition, LAZ Parking has also recently seen one of its biggest contracts renewed, by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (which manages public transport in the Washington area). This concerns the management of 60,000 parking spaces spread across 59 car parks located near stations. With these two contracts, LAZ Parking is now managing more than 800 car parks and 300,000 parking spaces in 95 towns and cities in 18 states across the United States.