The new Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Kiel, Germany, is to be built then operated for 25 years under a PPP contract.
Building solutions
— Revenue in this activity rose to €4.3 billion in 2021 (up 23.2% compared to 2020).
Business picked up again as a number of projects restarted after being postponed or put on hold during the health crisis in 2020, but also as a result of VINCI Energies’ market position. Its business units cover a broad spectrum of expertise in the building sector, combining engineering, works, maintenance, operation and facilities management. The wide variety of projects taken on by the company contributes to the resilience of the business and enables it to deliver integrated solutions; the latter are made necessary as buildings become increasingly complex, leading to the need to factor in, from the earliest design stage, their future uses and environmental footprint throughout their life cycle.
— VINCI Energies’ position as a solutions integrator comes into its own most particularly when it takes on all the technical works packages in a project. The company is also well equipped to develop software tools that link up the construction and operating phases, such as the Building Operating System, which leverages initial building information modelling data to facilitate maintenance operations, for example. With the growing importance of energy transition issues, and the resulting need to reduce the energy consumption and carbon footprint of buildings, this approach has become ever more relevant.
IN WORKS ACTIVITIES, volume in France was very high in the Greater Paris area, where several large new office complexes were handed over, and in the rest of the country, where a large number of medium-sized projects were under way. The bulk of the new projects awarded in 2021 involved renovation work, especially in the Greater Paris area, and public-sector energy performance contracts. Examples include construction of the MAN-Doumergue administrative centre in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique); the Jump real estate complex in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis); the Amperis business park in Pessac (Gironde); in synergy with VINCI Construction, the renovation and extension of the Carlton hotel in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) and the construction of a new building for the Rennes hospital (Ille-et-Vilaine); the ShAKe office building and the extension of the Junia engineering school campus in Lille (Hauts-de-France); a new building for the university hospital in Montpellier (Hérault); the logistics hub developed by Nexity in Moissy-Cramayel (Seine-et-Marne), which is equipped with 600 sq. metres of photovoltaic panels; and the extension of SFR’s data centre in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes).
The urban cable car in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island, will relieve congestion on the main roads and is part of a commitment to save energy, reduce greenhouse gases and minimise land use.
— In Germany, VINCI Energies won a public-private partnership contract to build the new Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein) and operate it for a period of 25 years.
— Other international projects included, in Switzerland, the new research building of the Basel branch of ETH University and the upmarket Macardo distillery in Strohwilen, Canton Thurgau; in Germany, a new energy-efficient deep-freeze warehouse in Verden, near Bremen, and fire protection equipment (12,000 sprinklers) for a food distribution hub in Kronau (Baden-Württemberg); in Portugal, the new Botton-Champalimaud Foundation pancreatic cancer research centre in Lisbon; in Morocco, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Ben Guerir; in Côte d’Ivoire, construction of the F Tower in Abidjan, one of Africa’s tallest buildings; in Singapore, the extension and fitting out of several data centres by local subsidiary Wah Loon, which has recognised expertise in this area.
IN MAINTENANCE AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT, business units in the VINCI Facilities network deliver integrated multi-site solutions and services to customers in the public and private sectors, under multi-year contracts. In France, they secured an extension to the multi-year full facilities management contract covering 65 sites belonging to the Thales group across the country. In addition, VINCI Facilities won the contract to operate and maintain two new school buildings under a partnership agreement with the Île-de-France regional authorities. On Reunion Island, VINCI Facilities’ maintenance contract for the HVAC facilities of the Sud Réunion hospital, which also selected local subsidiary Atexia for its fire safety systems, was renewed.