The Luča cable-stayed bridge in Podgorica (Montenegro), with a single 152 m tall pylon and a prestressed concrete deck.
TERRE ARMÉE (7% of revenue), a specialist in soil-structure interaction and engineered backfills, posted strong growth in Asia. Most notably, it built the world’s tallest reinforced earth structure in a town in West Bengal, India, following a massive landslide caused by an earthquake and heavy rainfall. On other continents it was for instance involved in the Andina open-pit copper mine in Chile, the I-66 highway in Virginia, United States, Montreal’s Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) in Canada and a rail line in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
FREYSSINET (19% of revenue), which specialises in structures, posted its strongest growth in France, Asia and Australia. Its business activity was equally divided between structure construction and repairs. On the construction side, Freyssinet supplied and installed the stay cables for the Saemangeum bridge in South Korea and for the Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway in the Philippines. The company also produced the 70,000 sq. metres of prestressed floors for the Hekla tower, which VINCI Construction is building in La Défense (west of Paris), and the 392 spherical bearings for the extensive Arctic LNG project on Gyda Peninsula, in Russia. The largest structural repair projects included refurbishing the spillways at the Kariba dam in Zambia, refurbishing the summit of a high-rise in Sydney, Australia, and reinforcing the Brotonne bridge’s pylons in Normandy, France. Freyssinet also provided expertise in prestressed concrete construction methods on numerous projects worldwide.
NUVIA (10% of revenue), a specialist in nuclear operations and services, built its business volume back to precrisis levels, principally with projects at the nuclear plants in Cattenom (Moselle), Dampierre-en-Burly (Loiret), Chinon (Indre-et-Loire) and Cruas (Ardèche), and working on the system to monitor radiation at airports in the Czech Republic.
SIXENSE (2% of revenue) continued to expand its structure monitoring, condition survey and modelling business activities, addressing the increasing complexity of building and infrastructure projects and their impact on surrounding communities. It pooled its expertise on projects led by other VINCI Construction entities such as the HS2 rail line in the United Kingdom and the Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine tunnel in Canada, and applied it on its own projects, for example providing monitoring services at Abu Dhabi International Airport (United Arab Emirates), where a new terminal is under construction.