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
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.
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.
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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Canada
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
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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
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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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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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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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United States of America
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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Canada
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.