JULY 2010
United Kingdom
Gloucester car park well under way
Following the award to VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions), in December 2009, of the contract for the design, construction and operation of the 1,000-space car park at the hospital in Gloucester (south-west England), construction work started in April. Being supplied by VINCI Construction UK, the works are expected to take a year to complete.
Hospital design, construction and maintenance
In Merseyside, VINCI Construction UK is continuing its implementation of the design-build contract for the extension and rehabilitation of Whiston Hospital. Having completed the construction of a 75,000 sq. metre building, in collaboration with Freyssinet Ltd, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), for the prestressed concrete, the company is now preparing to launch phases 2 and 3 of the project, i.e. the rehabilitation of 12,000 sq. metres of the old hospital complex and the external works. Meanwhile, VINCI Facilities, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction UK, has already embarked on its task of maintaining the hospital premises, undertaken within the framework of a 40-year PFI contract (private finance initiative), a British form of public-private partnership. Value: almost £200m (€234m) for the first contract and more than £220m (€257m) for the second contract.
JUNE 2010
Two contracts for VINCI Facilities
VINCI Facilities (VINCI Construction UK) has won two facilities management contracts. The first, signed for a period of three years (with the possibility of a four-year extension), involves supplying hard services (building maintenance, upkeep of open spaces) and soft services (cleaning, reception, security) at 14 buildings belonging to Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, the sixth-largest water supply company in England and Wales. Contract value: £1m per annum. The second project calls for the provision of soft services for the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG), involving a surface area of 15,000 sq. metres. Worth £2m, this is a three-year contract.
Runway lighting
Highlands & Islands Airports Ltd, the company operating some ten airports on the Scottish mainland and on the islands to the north and west of Scotland, has awarded Ringway Airport Services (Eurovia) a contract for runway lighting at the airports at Wick and on Islay. The company will install the approach lighting, the runway edge lights and the runway threshold-and- end-lights, and back up and install electrical equipment and wiring. Value of the works: €2m.
MAY 2010
Parking in Wandsworth
On 23 March, VINCI Park signed a two-year lease to operate a 521-space (some above-ground, some underground) car park in Wandsworth, a residential suburb in south-west London. Implementation of the contract began the following day.
VINCI Construction UK: new BSF contracts
Within the framework of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, which aims to rebuild or refurbish all schools in Sheffield by 2015, has been awarded two new contracts, each worth close to €30m. The first concerns the design-build of a secondary school on the Myers Grove School site; the second calls for the construction of a new building for the Seven Hills Special Educational Needs School, and the refurbishment/ extension of All Saints School.
Easier access to Trafalgar Gate
Ringway has been charged by Portsmouth City Council with improving access to Trafalgar Gate, the old part of the city. The company will build two roads, linking the area to the A3 (230 m, 2x4 lanes) and the M275 motorway (2 lanes). Following re-routing of traffic, work got under way in April and will take 32 weeks to complete.
APRIL 2010
Accommodation on Treforest campus
As part of the University of Glamorgan’s renovation programme, VINCI Construction UK has been awarded the construction of five buildings on the Treforest campus (Wales). Providing 476 residential units for students, these new facilities will replace two existing halls of residence (Neuadd Philip Evans and Neuadd Philip Squire), which will be demolished. Contract value: £14.3m (€15.7m).
MARCH 2010
DSG International PLC (formally known as Dixons)
VINCI Facilities has been successful in securing a three year contract to continue to provide facilities management services to the electrical retailer, DSGi, in the UK and Ireland.
This is a major success for the division as the contract, being one of the most prized on the retail high street, was won against stiff competition. The new contract involves the provision of a self delivery team of engineers and improved key performance metrics to drive "right first time" repairs.
VINCI Facilities will provide all maintenance services, electrical, fabric, security and cleaning to DSGI’s 650 retail outlets including Currys and PC World, as well as their Retail Support Centre and Customer Service Centres.
Health centre for St Catherine’s
In Birkenhead, in the north-west of England, Integrated Health Projects (IHP), a joint venture between VINCI Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine, has secured a £32m (€36m) contract for a new health centre at St Catherine’s Hospital. With a surface area of 11,100 sq. metres, this new, four-storey facility will replace a complex of workshop and sanatorium buildings dating from the 19th century. It will offer a range of new services (physiotherapy, mental health, chiropody, audiology, etc.), supplementing the services provided by the two GP surgeries already available to the local community.
FEBRUARY 2010
Concession/construction of hospital car parks
On 4 January 2010, VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) began operating, for a period of 32 years, the car parks at the hospitals in Gloucester and Cheltenham. The contract, signed on 27 December last, also calls for the design and construction of a 1,000-space multi-storey car park at the Gloucester site. This project, entrusted to VINCI Construction UK, will increase total capacity for the two sites to 2,360 parking spaces. The works, lasting a year, are due to start in April.
JANUARY 2010
Extending the Tesco network
VINCI Construction UK has been awarded a contract to design-build a Tesco store in the Hanley neighbourhood of Stoke-on-Trent (western central England). Construction of this 7,500 sq. metre building, and its 600 parking spaces on land that was previously mined means that preliminary earthworks and consolidation and decontamination of the soil will be required. The contract also calls for the creation/widening of access roads (a 2x2 lane slip road, and intersections). Worth £15.5m (some €17m), the works start in January 2010 and will take 44 weeks to complete.
Back to school!
In Liverpool (UK), VINCI Construction UK has been charged with extending the King David campus. This operation forms part of the BSSS project (Building Schools, Skills, Success) – itself an emanation of the nationwide BSF programme (Building Schools for the Future) – which aims to rebuild or totally refurbish the city’s schools. It involves designing and building 9,000 sq. metres of additional facilities (classrooms, entrance hall, sports hall), notably for the benefit of the establishment’s nursery, primary and secondary schools.Contract value: £25m (€28m).