1.1.3 VINCI Energies – Other highlights
Main contract wins in 2021
- Construction of 1,500 km of power transmission lines and distribution networks, along with 11 substations in Benin.
- Renewal of the maintenance contract for La Poste’s parcel and mail sorting equipment in France (five-year extension).
- Design and installation of digital infrastructure architecture for the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands, followed by management services for seven years.
- Design and development of IT infrastructure for Italy’s largest vaccination centre, located in Milan.
- Technical work packages for the construction of Africa’s tallest building (404 metres) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
- Supply and maintenance of mobility solutions at the concessions operated on behalf of the bus service providers Rodoviária de Lisboa and Viação Alvorada. The works include the delivery of systems for on-board ticketing, operations control and video surveillance, passenger counting and connectivity equipment, and central management systems.
- Signature of a PPP in relation to a new building for Kiel University’s Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences in Germany.
- Construction, for EDF Renewables, of France’s largest floating solar farm in the Hautes-Alpes administrative department.
- Extension of the contract with Northvolt regarding electrical equipment for the new block of the Skellefteå battery plant in Sweden.
- Electrical upgrade works (high-voltage packages) for the medical analysis department of Montpellier university hospital.
1.1.4 VINCI Construction – Other highlights
Organisation of the new VINCI Construction business line
In early 2021, VINCI Construction and Eurovia were placed under the authority of Pierre Anjolras. This new organisation enables VINCI to optimise these two companies’ operating methods and to develop synergies between them by integrating them within a single management unit. The new unit is now known as VINCI Construction.
Main contract wins in 2021
- Construction of the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, the world’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel, between Denmark and Germany.
- Construction and maintenance of the D4 motorway in the Czech Republic as part of the PPP contract won by VINCI Concessions.
- Construction of a liquefied natural gas tank on the Isle of Grain in the United Kingdom.
- Renovation of a road link in Melbourne, Australia.
- Twinning of Highway 40 south of Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada.
- Works package 2, comprising 46 km of tunnel in Savoie as part of the Lyon–Turin rail link.
- Design-build contract for the extension of Ang Mo Kio metro station in Singapore.
- Upgrade work on infrastructure at the Port of Melbourne, Australia’s largest container and general cargo port.
- Construction of the new B247 federal road in Germany as part of the PPP contract won by VINCI Concessions.
- Construction of a storm sewer in Toronto, Canada.
- Construction of a student residence in Bristol, United Kingdom.
- Construction of the operations and maintenance centre for Grand Paris Express Line 18 in France.
- Road maintenance contract in Surrey, United Kingdom.
- Construction of Lidl France’s logistics platform and regional head office in Pas-de-Calais (as part of a consortium with VINCI Energies).
- Development work on Noisy-Champs station and structures related to the future Grand Paris Express Line 15 South and Line 16.
Other highlights
On 21 June 2021, VINCI Construction France handed over the renovated buildings for La Samaritaine to the LVMH group following a highly complex refurbishment project covering 70,000 sq. metres of floor space in central Paris. The works, which began in 2015, involved up to 700 people, including experts in listed heritage renovation.
VINCI Construction has signed an agreement to acquire the construction companies of the family-owned Northern Group of Companies, subject to approval by the Canadian authorities. These companies specialise in roadworks and the production of asphalt mixes and aggregates in the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and in 2020 generated consolidated revenue of C$93 million (€65 million).
