VINCI Construction has also developed a variety of solutions to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings. Arbonis, which specialises in glue-laminated timber, has incorporated its own solutions into several projects, including a school complex in Bussy-Saint-Georges (Seine-et-Marne), the buildings of the Hope project in Villeneuve-d’Ascq and Lezennes (Hauts-de-France), and several buildings on the Universeine project in Saint-Denis.
CIVIL ENGINEERING FRANCE (11% of revenue). The division’s subsidiaries maintained high business volumes. Partnering with the Major Projects Division, they were involved in the Lyon–Turin rail link and several Grand Paris Express projects. As part of the latter, they were also responsible for coordinating the construction and fit-out of the Noisy-Champs station, fit-out of the Châtillon-Montrouge underground station, building of ancillary structures for lines 15 South and 16, and constructing the operations and rolling-stock maintenance centre for the future Line 18 in Palaiseau.
Other large-scale projects included covering over the railway tracks in the Masséna-Chevaleret district of Paris; L’Ariane, an energy-from-waste plant in Nice; the Lyon Part-Dieu multimodal transport hub; the Rhône canal overpass in Charmes-sur-Rhône; refurbishment of the Rondeau traffic interchange in the Grenoble area (Isère); transformation of the Anne-de-Bretagne bridge in Nantes into a vast promenade connecting the historic city centre and the Island of Nantes; renovation of the Saint-Jean railway station in Bordeaux; expansion of the GE Renewable Energy plant in Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique) and construction of the Siemens Gamesa plant in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), both to manufacture offshore wind turbines;the Lidl logistics hubs in Saint-Augustin (Pas-de-Calais) and Honguemare-Guenouville (Eure).
ROAD FRANCE (42% of revenue). The roadworks and urban development business units took full advantage of their strong local roots and took on projects principally revolving around their core business. The largest ones spanned a wide range of markets: roads and motorways (widening of the A61 motorway, safety upgrades on the Route Centre Europe–Atlantique, eastern Roissy bypass); airports (Paris-Orly, Limoges in central France, the Cazaux air base southwest of Bordeaux); sites developed for the sports events in 2024 (athletes’ villages in Seine-Saint-Denis and Villeneuve-d’Ascq, international equestrian sports centre, BMX training track); urban regeneration projects (Mazenod neighbourhood in Marseille, Montargis city centre in north-central France, La-Teste-de-Buch water sports centre south of Bordeaux); logistics and industrial platforms (Armor Lux in Brittany and Equinix data centre in the Gironde region).
As part of their own contribution to the development of low-carbon urban mobility, local subsidiaries took part in the construction or extension of tramway lines in the cities of Bordeaux, Angers (Maine-et-Loire) and Grenoble, and in the Greater Paris area (T3 ring line, T10 between Antony and Clamart, west of Paris, T12 between Massy and Évry, in the outer suburbs south of Paris), and in the construction of bicycle paths in the Greater Toulouse area as well as along the Seine à Vélo cycle route and the long-distance cycle route 52 between Moncetz-Longevas and Vitry-le-François, in northeast France. They also worked on a growing number of climate change adaptation projects (combating urban heat islands, developing parks and gardens, soil unsealing, Oasis-type school playgrounds) and deployed Power Road®, a pavement technology that produces thermal energy, in the towns of Saint-Pol-de-Léon (Finistère), Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) and Saint-Lô (Manche).
VINCI Construction continued to apply circular economy principles to the production of construction materials that it later uses on projects. A leader in its market, it produces 89 million tonnes of aggregate a year and is aiming to double its output of aggregates from recycled materials – which in 2022 accounted for 18% of total production – by 2030. The 144 Granulat+ bases across France make up the largest network of facilities recovering and recycling mineral waste from the construction and manufacturing industries in the country.
