JANUARY 2012
United Kingdom
VINCI Facilities for New Look
VINCI Facilities (VINCI Construction UK) has been awarded a contract for the maintenance of 270 stores of ready-to-wear clothing chain New Look in the north of England and in Wales. The contract, for a period of 3 years, is worth an annual €1.75m. It covers mechanical and electrical maintenance services, and the upkeep of the buildings.
Two design-build contracts
The Building division of VINCI Construction UK has secured two contracts for the design-build of projects in the UK. The first project, worth an estimated €9.7m, concerns a mixed-use complex of buildings in Weymouth (south of England). The works include the construction of a new head office for New Look, and an industrial building, as well as improving the roadways. The second contract, for an extension to the Chesterfield Hospital in Bristol (south-west England), is worth €13m. The new building will comprise four levels housing specialised medical imaging facilities, three operating theatres, patients’ rooms and the out-patients department. This project will also involve turning a pavilion into administration facilities and conference rooms, as well as landscaping.
Maintenance for London transport operators
VINCI Facilities (VINCI Construction UK) has won two new facility management contracts for the administrative buildings of Transport for London and London Underground. The main services to be provided by VINCI Facilities under these 5-year contracts are: reception, mechanical, electrical and technical maintenance, and security and safety. Total value: €21m.
“Busy Lizzie” in start position
On 16 December 2011, in London, the TBM Busy Lizzie was lowered into position at the bottom of the launch shaft, from where, in February 2012, she will start driving the Lee Tunnel. Using one of the most powerful cranes in Europe, it took just four hours to lower the machine, weighing 800 t, to a depth of 80 m. Undertaken on behalf of Thames Water, the project involves creating a 7 km-long tunnel, which will make it possible to reduce by 16 million cubic metres the volume of wastewater and rainwater discharged annually, untreated, into the Thames. The project is being implemented by the MVB consortium, composed of Morgan Sindall, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), and also calls for the creation of four huge shafts, the diaphragm walls of which have just been completed. Worth €476m, the works began in 2010. They will take 5 years to complete.
DECEMBER 2011
VINCI Facilities: looking after the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
VINCI Facilities (VINCI Construction UK) has been awarded a contract by the Meridian Hospital Company for the overall multi-technology maintenance at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, London. Valued at £70m (€82m) and for a duration of 20 years, it notably covers preventive and remedial maintenance, and the management of energy, waste and fluids (medical gas and vacuum systems).
VINCI Facilities is also to replace equipment, at a cost of £50m (€58m).
Construction of HV lines
The MSVE Transmission joint venture, formed by VINCI Energies United Kingdom, Omexom Nîmes (respectively of the International and VINCI Energies France divisions, Energy business line) and Morgan Sindall, has been selected to implement the national programme for the construction of high-voltage power lines.
This project involves the design, construction and maintenance of energy transmission structures. It represents a volume of business potentially worth £50m (€58m) a year for the next five years. It includes considerable refurbishment work and the construction of new, 400 kV overhead lines and pylons in England and Wales.
NOVEMBER 2011
Instrumentation for a paper machine
Spanish group SAICA, which specialises in the manufacture of cardboard packaging, has appointed German company Actemium PM, in conjunction with Actemium UK (International Division, Energy business line), to supply all the instrumentation for a new machine at its Manchester plant. The works began in July and will take nine months to complete.
Contract value: €2.4m.
New bus station for Stoke-on-Trent
VINCI Construction UK has been awarded the construction of the new bus station in Stoke-on-Trent, in the north-west of England. Designed by architects Grimshaw, it will have 22 bus bays. Handover is scheduled for autumn 2012.
Contract value: £15m (€17.3m).
SEPTEMBER 2011
Homes and businesses
VINCI Construction UK has won the contract for a new, mixeduse development project headed by SpenHill Regeneration, in partnership with the Borough of Lambeth, in the Streatham area of London. The project will notably involve building a new leisure centre (comprising an ice rink, a swimming pool, a sports hall and a fitness centre), a 6,000 sq. metre Tesco hypermarket and a residential complex (250 housing units, a mix of private or shared ownership and affordable-rent homes, with underground parking). Contract value: approximately £80m (€90m).
Refurbishing schools
In June, having successfully organised the financing – £50m (€56m) – of the project, the consortium comprising Galliford Try, VINCI Construction UK and Hochtief PPP Solutions began redeveloping two schools, located in Runcorn and in Widnes, in Cheshire.
The works side of this PPP is being undertaken by Galliford Try and VINCI Construction UK. It involves, at the first school, creating a crèche, a primary school, a junior school and a high school. At the second school, the companies are charged with the construction of a 500-seat auditorium, six sports halls, and classrooms. Only the historic main façade of one of the buildings will be retained in the course of the works. These two operations form part of the BSF (Building Schools for the Future) programme.
JUNE 2011
Handover of Lee Tunnel TBM
On 4 May, at the Herrenknecht plant in Germany, the MVB consortium composed of Morgan Sindall (50%), VINCI Construction Grands Projets (30%) and Bachy Soletanche (20%), a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) took delivery of the pressurised-mud tunnel boring machine that will bore the Lee Tunnel. 120 metres long and with a cutting head 8.85 metres in diameter, this machine will now be dismantled and transported to east London (UK), where it will embark on its task in January 2012.
Undertaken on behalf of Thames Water, the Lee Tunnel project concerns the construction of a 7 km-long tunnel for rainwater and wastewater that, by capturing it at source, will reduce by half the 32 million cu. metres of polluted water discharged yearly into the Thames. The project also includes the creation of four very large shafts, and supplying and installing the equipment and control systems required to manage the effluent and to lift it more than 80 metres.
MAY 2011
New school in Sheffield
VINCI Construction UK has won the contract to build a new school in Worrall, in the suburbs of Sheffield (Yorkshire). The project calls for the construction, on the Bradfield School site, of a building providing a surface area of 8,600 sq. metres, spread across several levels, and the demolition of the present building (dating from 1959), which will remain open during the works.
Worth £22m (€25m), the works began early in April. Handover is scheduled for the start of the 2013-14 school year.
APRIL 2011
A second hospital for Circle
After building their hospital in Bath (opened in March 2010), VINCI Construction UK has secured a further contract
with Circle, a leading European healthcare provider, owned and run by clinicians. It calls for the design and construction of a hospital in Reading (Berkshire). This 9,000 sq. metre establishment will have five operating theatres, 30 rooms with en-suite bathrooms and 18 day-surgery beds.
Contract value: £26m (€30m).
Makeover for Sandwell’s social housing
Sandwell Homes, the body charged with managing the 30,000 social housing units in the municipality of Sandwell (West Midlands), has awarded VINCI Facilities (VINCI Construction UK) a £28m (€33m) contract for the second phase of the Sandwell Homes Decent Homes programme. Having renovated 6,000 homes during the first phase of the project, launched in 2005, the company is now charged with bringing a further 2,000 units up to current standards by March 2013. It will carry out the renovation works (new kitchens, bathrooms, doors and windows) as well as works upgrading the structure of the buildings.
First shaft for the Lee Tunnel
On 10 February, 4 months after the start of the works, the MVB consortium, composed of Morgan Sindall, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), completed the last panel of diaphragm wall of the first of the Lee Tunnel project’s 4 shafts. 90 metres deep and approximately 20 metres in diameter, this shaft will serve as the point of departure for the TBM (diameter: 8.88 m) which, starting early in 2012, will drive the 7 km-long tunnel that will collect the rainwater and wastewater of East London.
Total value of the project: €476m.
FEBRUARY 2011
Managing 29 car parks
Since January, VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has been responsible for managing 29 car parks (on- and off-street) in the London Borough of Richmond, in the south-west of the capital. The contract was signed for a period of 5 years, with the possibility of a 3-year extension.
A double for Spiecapag
Spiecapag UK, a subsidiary of Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), has recently won two new contracts.
The first, from Wales & West Utilities, is valued at €7.4m and concerns the construction of a 39 km-long gas pipeline, 6 inches in diameter, in Wales.
The second project, worth an estimated €3.9m, is located in England (in Kent) and is for the Oil & Pipelines Agency. It involves the engineering, procurement of materials (except tubes), and construction of a 13.4 km-long oil pipeline (diameter: 8 inches).
DECEMBER 2010
Spiecapag: first venture onto a military base
Entrepose Industrial Services (EIS), part of Entrepose Contracting subsidiary Spiecapag (VINCI Construction), has signed a contract with the American armed forces for works to be carried out at the air base at Mildenhall (Suffolk).
Worth £1.5m (€1.7m), the
project involves creating
a 2 km-long pipeline, 6 inches
(152.40 mm) in diameter,
for the transportation of fuel.
EIS will be responsible
for the engineering, supplying
equipment and building the
pipeline (including installing
filtration and metering
systems, a set of valves,
and a leak detection system),
and carrying out the
pre-commissioning tests.
VINCI Facilities (VINCI
Construction UK) and Cegelec
Refueling Systems
(International Division,
Energy business line) will be
participating in the works.
Work began in September
and will continue through
till July 2011.
IHP to expand The Royal Oldham Hospital
For the fourth time, Integrated Health Projects (IHP), the joint venture formed by VINCI Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine, has been awarded a contract by the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. This latest contract is for the third phase of the programme to extend The Royal Oldham Hospital, Manchester.
Worth £32.8m (€38m), the project calls for the creation of a maternity and neonatal unit. It will involve the construction of a new, 11,500 sq. metre building, and refurbishing a further 2,700 sq. metres.
The works began in mid-November and are due for completion in December 2012.
NOVEMBER 2010
Refurbishing T3 at Heathrow Airport
VINCI Construction UK has won the contract to refurbish Terminal 3 at London’s Heathrow Airport. The works will involve installing new ceilings, walls and flooring, completely overhauling the terminal’s electronic systems and modifying the boarding desks. The works began in July and are due for completion in March 2011.
Project value: £8.3m (€9.5m).
Launch of the Lee Tunnel works
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Lee Tunnel project took place on 30 September 2010. This project is being undertaken on behalf of Thames Water by VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary Bachy Soletanche Ltd (VINCI Construction), in a 50/50 joint venture with Morgan Sindall. It concerns the design-build construction, to the east of London, of a 7 km-long main drain (diameter: 7.2 m) to collect rainwater and wastewater.
Located at a depth of between 55 and 75 metres, this structure will enable the quantity of polluted water discharged yearly into the Thames to be halved. The project also calls for the creation of 4 very large shafts, as well as supplying and installing the equipment and automatic controls required to manage the effluent and raise it a distance of more than 80 metres.
Total value of the works: £417m (€481m).
PFM Awards 2010
VINCI Facilities and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have scooped the prestigious award for Partners in Healthcare FM at the 2010 Premises and Facilities Magazine Awards. The awards, in their 17th Year, recognise the individuals and teams from the FM industry, who have made a real and tangible difference to the operation of their end users' buildings. The Partners in Healthcare FM Award, recognises partnerships between FM suppliers and healthcare providers who deliver safe, effective and efficient facility and support services in a patient environment. In winning the award, VINCI and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust demonstrated to the judges that they put patient care at the forefront, from building design and construction of two new hospitals to the operational management. To have received the Award is a testament to the operational team who have worked tirelessly over the six years since appointment to ensure that the hospitals present clean, safe bright and inviting environments to patients and the wider community.
OCTOBER 2010
Waste treatment plant
At Padworth Sidings, west of London, VINCI Construction UK is to build a waste recycling plant for Veolia Environmental Services.
Scheduled for handover in the autumn of 2011, the new facility will be able to process nearly 80,000 t of household waste each year.
Contract value: €36m.
SEPTEMBER 2010
Hospital parking
VINCI Park (VINCI Concessions) has signed a 30-year contract with the NHS East and North Hertfordshire Foundation Trust for the design, construction, financing and operation of the new car park at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), due to come into service as of September 2011. The design and construction of this multi-storey, 667-space structure have been entrusted to VINCI Construction UK. In order to comply with the Foundation’s environmental policy, the new car park will feature a green wall, solar panels and wind turbines.
VINCI Construction UK in Cardiff: action!
Having completed the preparatory works, on 24 June, in Cardiff, VINCI Construction UK began building the new studios for the filming of BBC Wales television series. The construction of this building (surface area: almost 16,000 sq. metres) forms part of the channel’s plan to double its production capacity in Wales by 2016.
Worth €22m, the project is due for completion in the summer of 2011.
JULY 2010
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).