Updated 8 april 2008
APRIL 2008
France
Lorry parking at rest areas
The Eurovia office in Valence (southern France) has been awarded two contracts by ASF, worth a total of €1.6m, for the redevelopment of four rest areas on the A7 motorway, in particular to provide parking spaces for heavy goods vehicles. Meanwhile, again for ASF, Eurovia subsidiaries Cognac TP (lead contractor) and Marcouly, together with Citéos (VINCI Energies), have just handed over 100 parking spaces for lorries at the Jardins des Causses-du-Lot service area (A20).
Works for a Memorial
On 23 February, in Compiègne (northern France), Christian Poncelet, President of the French Senate, inaugurated the Royallieu Internment and Deportation Memorial, housed in three buildings of the former camp of the same name where more than 50,000 people were interned during the Occupation. Eurovia, VINCI Energies and Sogea Caroni (VINCI Construction France) contributed in 2007 to the development of this site.
Bridge over the A71
As part of the redevelopment of the Vierzon-Centre interchange (central France), initiated by Cofiroute in response to increased traffic on the A71 (Orléans – Clermont-Ferrand), a new bridge was ‘launched’ over the motorway on 20 February. This steel structure, 148 m long and weighing 1,000 t, was installed without disrupting traffic. Work on the redevelopment of the interchange is due for completion in December 2008.
Works at the Zénith
Tunzini Réunion (VINCI Energies) is installing the climate control and smoke evacuation equipment at the Zénith in Saint-Denis de la Réunion. The works, valued at €1.4m, are due for completion by October 2009.
Construction contracts worth €85m in the Paris region
The construction subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France in the Paris region have recently signed a number of contracts, together worth more than €85m: Bateg will be building 128 homes (€14m) in the Pointe-du-Lac development zone in Créteil; GTM Bâtiment is to build offices in Montrouge (€28.8m) and a complex featuring residential units, a crèche, a school and miscellaneous premises (€23.5m) in the 16th arrondissement in Paris; CBC Santé will build the specialised brain and spinal cord unit (€20m) at the La Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris 13th).
Triple success in west of France
VINCI Construction France subsidiaries Sogea Atlantique, Sogea Bretagne and VINCI Environnement have just signed contracts for three waste treatment plants in western France, which should come into service in 2010: a mechanical-biological pre-processing unit in Vannes (€25m), an eco-centre for processing household waste (composting and recycling) in Pornic (€21m), and the waste processing plant for Angers and its suburbs (€50m, depicted below).
Upgrading a bridge
Following work to strengthen the Saint-Leu-d’Esserent bridge (northern France), built in 1948 (deck: 77 m long, 9 m wide), Freyssinet has embarked on replacing its 36 suspension posts. Carried out without disrupting traffic (12,000 vehicles a day), the works will be completed in April with the replacement of all the guard rails.
Tri-modal logistics platform
Pitance (VINCI Construction France) has begun work on the first phase of the creation of a tri-modal (road, rail, waterway) logistics platform, to be known as Val Rhône Logistique, at Bollène (south of France). Organised by Adim Lyon (VINCI Construction France), the project involves the development, between now and 2013, of a complex of seven buildings (surface area: 208,000 sq. metres). Handover of the first building: September 2008.
Big screen for Limoges
In Limoges (central France), two VINCI Construction France subsidiaries, Croizet-Pourty (lead contractor), awarded the civil engineering works package, and Caillaud Lamellé-Collé, in charge of the timber frame, made a start in March 2008 on the structural works for the Grand Écran Ester multiplex cinema (10 screens).
Wind farm in Brittany
On behalf of the operator Enel Erelis, Eurovia and Actemium Brest (VINCI Energies) are constructing, and linking to the grid, a wind farm at Collorec (Brittany). Comprising four units with a total output of 8 MW, this farm near Carhaix will be handed over in November 2008. The works are valued at €1m. This is the second project undertaken on behalf of Enel Erelis, following the Pleyber Christ operation which came into service last March.
Reinforced Earth for a bypass
In southern Corsica, at the Bocognano bypass worksite, Terre Armée (Freyssinet) is participating in the creation of a retaining structure on the RN196 (Bastia-Ajaccio), for which the company has in particular designed a 20 m high TerraTrel element (welded wire mesh).
Upgrading a tunnel
As part of the bringing up to the new safety standards of the tunnels on the Escota network, GTM Génie Civil et Services (VINCI Construction France)
has secured the contract for the construction of the temporary EDF facility at La Turbie, on the A8 motorway.
Three years of lighting and illumination
Citéos Bordeaux (VINCI Energies) has secured a three-year contract for the maintenance and operation of the urban lighting (12,000 light sources) and illumination
(3,000 light sources) in the north of the city of Bordeaux (south-western France).
Six new wharves at Port 2000
Having handed over wharves 1 to 4 (1.6 km of quays) at Port 2000 in Le Havre (Normandy) in 2005, Solétanche Bachy is now creating wharves 5 to 10 (2.1 km of quays), involving 130,000 cu. metres of moulded walls, 200,000 sq. metres of watertight shielding, and 50,000 cu. metres of structural concrete for the civil engineering structures, as well as 10,000 000 cu. metres of dredging and earthworks. Handover is scheduled for July 2010.
Accent on wood at IUFM in Cayenne
CBCI (VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales) is currently contributing to the construction, on behalf of the education authority in Guyana, of the new university teacher-training institute (IUFM) at Cayenne. The works concern the timber structure, the frame, joinery and wooden façades works packages. This project, for which Fargeot Lamellé-Collé (VINCI Construction France) is supplying bonded laminate timber elements, is being undertaken together with two other VINCI Construction
Filiales Internationales subsidiaries: Nofrayane for the shell construction, and Cogit for the watertightness. Completion is scheduled for September 2008; the works are worth €2.9m.
Networking for glass
The glassmaking group Saverglass has entrusted Actemium Senlis (VINCI Energies) with the construction of a new furnace at its Arques plant (northern France). For the purposes of this project, Actemium Senlis is working in association with other VINCI Energies business units: with Instrumentation Service in Le Havre on the electrical engineering and automation, with Actemium Saint-Quentin and Actemium Lyon on the programming and the commissioning of the monitoring and control system, and with SDEL Applimatic and Actemium Valenciennes on the electricity and instrumentation. Contract value: €2m.
Cross-border toll collection between France and Spain
The first operational cross-border electronic toll collection system in Europe has notched up more than 700,000 transactions in ten months. Launched in 2007 by ASF and the Spanish Basque concessionaire Bidegi at Biriatou (south-west France), this system has been used by more than 55,000 customers. It allows Spanish VIA T subscribers and ASF Liber-t Océan subscribers to cross the border using their usual badge and at no additional cost. The Spanish badges are accepted on the A63 (Basque coast) and A64 (Bayonne-Lestelle) motorways, and Libert-t Océan subscribers can use the electronic toll lanes on the A8, which links Zarautz, in Spain, with the border.
Electrical works for Bayer
In Lille (northern France), Delporte (VINCI Energies) has begun installing the electrics at Bayer’s new head office (17,000 sq. metres). Valued at €1.6m, this operation is due for completion by the end of January 2009.
Vibration-free works
LMTP (Eurovia) recently spent five months replacing piping in Rue Beaubrun in Saint-Étienne (central France), installing it at a considerable depth. For the first time, the teams used two hydraulic reinforcing machines. This approach, coupled with the Recycan® process, meant vibrations could be avoided.
Maintaining 20,000 telecom systems
Axians CSM (VINCI Energies) has been appointed by Neuf Cegetel to maintain 20,000 telecom systems of the Cisco, Huawei or OneAccess type, installed by the operator on the premises of its business clients as part of its direct voice and data services. Contract value: €2m over 2 years.
Double demolition
On 14 February, as part of a consortium, the teams from Cardem Démolition (Eurovia) demolished two 16-storey tower blocks in Rillieux-la-Pape (central France), using implosion and semi-implosion techniques.
Electrical equipment for Gaz de France
Actemium IdF Environnement and Actemium Val d’Europe (VINCI Energies) have been subcontracted by Entrepose Contracting to supply the electricity, monitoring and control and instrumentation works package for Gaz de France’s new Trois-Fontaines gas storage site near Saint-Dizier. Contract value: €5.4m.
South Africa
Scanprint checks the Koeberg nuclear power plant
Advitam, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in the monitoring of structures, is contributing to the structural inspections of the cooling circuits at the Koeberg nuclear power station, to the north of Capetown. The chosen tool is the Scanprint software suite which, amongst other things, can precisely map defects in structures, and work out the appropriate maintenance response.
USA
A first in California
In the Los Angeles suburb of Fountain Valley, Soletanche Inc. and CMS Bessac (Solétanche Bachy) have just completed a 1,700 metre long tunnel, 2,800 mm in diameter, created using an earth pressure balance TBM. A main sewer, this is Solétanche Bachy’s first tunnel in the United States.
Algeria
Equipping a gas-fired power station
Actemium ICS, a VINCI Energies subsidiary in the UK, is to equip two control rooms housing the monitoring and control systems for four gas turbines, as part of the construction of a gas-fired power station in Algeria. Worth €1m, this project on behalf of Siemens is to be completed by the end of 2008.
Germany
Fire protection
On behalf of the Stada pharmaceutical group, Calanbau (VINCI Energies) is installing an active, sprinkler-based fire protection system in the logistics warehouse at the Florstadt site, to the north of Frankfurt. This €1m project is due for completion by July 2008.
Qatar
Equipping industry
The German VINCI Energies subsidiary G+H Schallschutz has won an order from GE Energy to supply four intake units for a gas turbine at Qatalum in Qatar. Valued at €4.1m, the project is due for handover by October 2008.
Sweden
Electricity and telecoms
Emil Lundgren Göteborg (VINCI Energies) is installing all the electrical and telecommunications equipment in a new, 27,000 sq. metre building in Lindholmen Science Park, in Göteborg, on behalf of NCC Construction AB. Valued at €1.3m, the contract is to be completed by the summer of 2010.