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Stay cable installation and post-tensioning being performed on Saemangeum bridge. Made of concrete and boasting a 770-metre main span, it is located on the Korean coast of the Yellow Sea.
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At the entrance to the Euralpin Lyon–Turin base tunnel, data is collected from monitoring operations of built structures and road sections, to be incorporated into reports.
FREYSSINET (20% of revenue), a specialist in structures, boasted strong growth, particularly in major projects and in hydraulic infrastructure waterproofing (through its Carpi Tech brand), driven by strong demand for renewable energy. Business activity was evenly split between new builds and repairs to existing structures. Order intake was brisk, particularly in Asia and Latin America. Freyssinet also won its first contracts in Azerbaijan and Uruguay, thereby extending its international network. Some of the principal projects the company was involved in include: the Saemangeum bridge in South Korea, which is fitted with new ultra high strength stay cables; the High Speed 2 project in the United Kingdom (supply and delivery of 3,550 precast prestressed concrete beams); the Site C hydroelectric generating station on the Peace river in British Columbia, Canada (waterproofing works); the Puente Industrial, between San Pedro de la Paz and Hualpén, which will be Chile’s longest bridge (supply and delivery of 800 seismic isolators).
NUVIA (8% of revenue), which carries out special works mainly in the nuclear sector, recorded a slight decrease in total revenue, but saw its business volume pick up in France. The company strengthened its position on the radiation protection market in the United Kingdom, as well as in Sweden where it was selected for a large dismantling contract at the Ringhals nuclear power plant.
SIXENSE (2% of revenue) experienced continued growth in its traditional engineering services (condition survey of existing structures and monitoring of soils and structures), while also expanding into innovative digital technologies. These enable the company to collect, analyse and harness asset related data and make a host of new services available to infrastructure constructors and operators. Thanks to this innovation strategy, Sixense won three major contracts in Australia, France and the United States, with its IoT platform (Beyond Monitoring), site monitoring (Beyond InSite) and asset management (Beyond Asset) solutions, respectively.