Since April 2021, Sethy’s teams have been working to restore and upgrade Rasey dam in eastern France. These ecological engineering experts are also planning on the demolition of the current fishway to replace it with an eight-tank fishway.
Equo Vivo’s teams have created a 100-metre long river bypass on the left bank of the Jaille-Yvon dam. They carried out earthworks, installed loose and grouted rip rap and concrete slope structures, and stabilised the banks by combining rip rap and biodegradable geotextile. Equo Vivo has also introduced offsets for APRR at 11 offset sites, as part of the project to widen the A75 motorway. The works included the creation of wetlands, the restoration of wooded areas, the revitalisation of open areas and the treatment of invasive non-native species.
VINCI Construction France has created a communal garden at the Testimonio II worksite in Monaco. In collaboration with Terre de Monaco, a local urban agriculture company that plants vegetable gardens, the teams set up a communal garden on the roof terrace of the worksite facilities. All of the materials used to build the structure had been repurposed: plank pallets, shutter planks, formwork rods and cable reels.
In September 2021, at Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris, as part of the project for the new Paris public hospitals headquarters, VINCI Construction France teams helped introduce a unique new concept for a “biodiversity wall”. This independent facade system designed to support plant and wildlife includes a continuous vertical layer of living substrate inside the wall, from which plant roots can draw water and nutrients, as with soil. This makes it distinctive from a traditional green wall. A joint patent was filed by VINCI Construction France and Chartier-Dalix architects to protect the concept.
In Morangis in the Greater Paris area, a 30,000-hectare plot of building land owned by VINCI Construction Terrassement will be transformed into an urban agriculture demonstrator. Adim Paris Île-de-France will develop a property complex comprising about 80 social housing and rent-protected units on the site. The project involves Urbalia and Equo Vivo, VINCI’s structure and solution specialised in urban biodiversity and ecology. They have drawn up strict specifications to protect the flora and fauna.
This section of the Universal Registration Document aims to satisfy the requirements of Law 2017-399 on the duty of vigilance of parent companies and subcontracting companies to identify risks and prevent severe impacts on human rights and fundamental freedoms, on people’s health and safety and on the environment, resulting from the activities of the company, those of its subsidiaries or those of the subcontractors or suppliers with whom they have an established business relationship.
VINCI’s duty of vigilance plan encompasses all entities controlled by VINCI as defined in Article L.233-3 of the French Commercial Code. It builds on the commitments in the VINCI Manifesto, the Code of Ethics and Conduct and, more broadly, Group policies that help prevent risks to people and the environment by promoting vigilance measures in the three areas covered by the duty of vigilance law.
The Ethics and Vigilance Committee regularly monitors execution of the duty of vigilance plan. This seven-member committee includes five Executive Committee members and is responsible for implementing and updating compliance systems covered by the Code of Ethics and Conduct, notably concerning the fight against corruption and the prevention of severe impacts on human rights and fundamental freedoms, on people’s health and safety and on the environment, resulting from the Group’s business activities. The committee meets at least once every quarter. In 2021, it met seven times, including three extraordinary meetings. It reports annually on its work to the Board of Directors’ Strategy and CSR Committee.
Due to the very nature and diversity of its businesses and activities, VINCI is first and foremost a multi-local Group. Regardless of whether its companies develop construction projects or infrastructure concessions, they are locally based operations and produce locally with mainly local management, partners and staff, for local use in local conditions. VINCI is made up of a network of companies, often small or medium-sized, that have long-established roots in their operating regions and that strive to contribute positively to their development.
