Revamping the waterfront sightseeing walk in La Grande-Motte (southern France), which attracts some 120,000 people each year.
operations, which mainly included modernisation of Line 4 of the Paris metro, construction of a swing bridge in Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine), construction of Siemens Gamesa’s plant to manufacture offshore wind turbines in Le Havre, civil engineering for the Lyon Part-Dieu multimodal transport hub, ongoing work on the Schloesing tunnel in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), construction of the La Leuge viaduct and ancillary works in Haute-Loire, and reconstruction of the Ivry-Paris 13 waste-to-energy facility. Local subsidiaries were also awarded several contracts on the Grand Paris Express programme, namely development of Noisy-Champs station and construction of the ancillary facilities for Line 15 South and Line 16.
ROADWORKS AND MATERIALS, URBAN DEVELOPMENT (45% of revenue). Recovery was brisk in 2021 following the slowdown due to the pandemic and the post-election slump in 2020, and was aided by good weather. Through tight control over worksite operations and as a result of the fast response on the part of management and teams, the increase in production costs was absorbed and did not affect profitability. Local business units took full advantage of their strong local roots and extensive range of know-how, working on 25,000 projects principally revolving around their core business.
The most significant operations follow:
- ◗ in motorways, the western Strasbourg bypass and upgrade of the A61, for VINCI Autoroutes; widening of the A4 at Metz (Moselle) and of the A480 at Grenoble (Isère); conversion of a 4 km section of the RN164 into a two-lane dual carriageway in Brittany;
- ◗ in the airport sector, roadworks and utilities at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (Grand Est Nord parking areas), Paris-Vatry (Marne) and Évreux-Fauville (a French Air Force base in Eure);
- ◗ in logistics, creation of hubs in Rungis (Val-de-Marne) for Sysco, in Quimper (Finistère) for Armor-Lux and in Bassens (Gironde) for AGC, using paving made from fully recycled aggregate (Ecoperf);
- ◗ in urban development, conversion of an industrial brownfield into a new district around the river port in Creil (Oise), revamp of a multimodal transport hub at the Soissons train station (Aisne), waterfront development in La Grande-Motte (Hérault) and refurbishing of the outdoor areas by the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection building in Paris;
- ◗ in urban transport infrastructure and active mobility, works on tramway lines T3 and T10 in Paris, and T9 between Paris and Orly-Ville, in Val-de-Marne (roadworks and façade-to-façade redevelopment along a 11.5 km stretch of the line), and extension of the tramway line in Bordeaux; in several cities, upgrade of temporary bicycle paths set up during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020 to permanent ones; creation of greenways in Ille-et-Vilaine, alongside the RD10 departmental highway, and in the Bas-Rhin department.
In materials production, VINCI Construction continued to deploy Granulat+, its brand that applies circular economy principles to construction materials. A leader in its market in France, VINCI Construction produces 8,000,000 tonnes of aggregate from recycled materials a year and is aiming to double its output by 2030. The 130 bases that have been awarded Granulat+ certification across France make up the largest network of facilities recovering and recycling mineral waste from the construction and manufacturing industries in the country.
HYDRAULIC NETWORKS (7% of revenue). Business activity relating to the water cycle is spread across a wide variety of projects, namely maintenance and renovation of drinking water distribution networks (Greater Lille and Rouen) and sewerage networks (Greater Bordeaux and Grand Briançonnais); utility diversions in connection with urban development projects (administrative department of Hauts-de-Seine, Montpellier, in Hérault, and La Rochelle, in Charente-Maritime); and drinking water production or wastewater treatment plants (a dozen projects under way or handed over around France).
In addition, work was carried out on heating networks (in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and in Sarrebourg, Moselle) and fibre-optic networks. VINCI Construction, working with VINCI Energies, finished rolling out the ultrafast broadband network in Moselle (500 km of trenches, 6,000 km of ducts and 1,000 km of fibre, to connect 160,000 sockets).
RAIL WORKS (6%). Specialist subsidiary ETF had a very active year in the Greater Paris area, where it renovated Transilien and RER lines (upgrading 90 km of track in 2021) and started working on its first Grand Paris Express project (building 14.4 km of track in tunnels for Line 14 South, in a joint venture). Elsewhere in France, it renovated 32 km of track in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and 53 gantries in Rhône.