1Renovation work on the suspension bridge over the East river, on Reunion Island, which rises above a 45-metre-wide gully.
2VINCI Construction teams took part in the preparations for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral by organising traffic management operations, which included installing temporary traffic lights and signposts, and pedestrian segregation barriers.
In roadworks, Eurovia UK won large contracts involving the motorway networks in the Midlands and East Anglia in England. Maintenance and services subsidiary Ringway, which manages over 50,000 km of roads, secured a 10-year contract to maintain and improve 560 km of roads and 290 km of pavements in Surrey, southwest of London.
GERMANY
Revenue increased by 13% to €1.1 billion. The year started off with local companies partnering with the Major Projects Division on the new B247 federal road. This project, which is overseen by VINCI Highways, will provide work for the next four years. Other large projects included replacement of the Tegeler bridge in Berlin, runway expansion and roadworks at Düsseldorf airport, construction of an overpass over the A7 motorway and installation of noise barriers on a 73 km section of the 46/2 motorway.
Regarding innovation technologies for sustainable mobility, Eurovia GmbH in partnership with ElectReon developed a second inductive charging road project on a motorway in Bavaria. In road materials, the company tested low-temperature asphalt mixes (30°C cooler than traditional mixes) on a 2.4 km section of the L1141 road. It also tested the new Lumivia® luminescent asphalt mix, in which some of the aggregate is replaced by recycled mirror fragments that produce a luminescent effect, thus making it possible to reduce roadside lighting at night.
CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA
Business remained robust (€1.1 billion, up 11%), thanks in particular to the D4 motorway project in the Czech Republic, carried out on behalf of VINCI Highways by most of VINCI Construction’s regional subsidiaries, which have joined forces within the DIVia Stavební consortium. These subsidiaries also handed over a new section of the D35 motorway in the Czech Republic – a project which included launching a bridge over a railway line – and continued construction work on 14.3 km of the R2 expressway between Šaca and Košice Oľšany, in Slovakia. Civil engineering subsidiary SMP completed the solar dryer at the Mariánské Lázně wastewater treatment plant, the first system of its kind commissioned in the Czech Republic. Construction subsidiary Průmstav delivered the Rodbo mixed-use project in Prague.
POLAND
Revenue stood at €0.5 billion (down 9%). In building activities, Warbud handed over several projects in the cities of Wrocław (Olawa Gate, rated “BREEAM Excellent”) and Opole (tax centre, public transit hub), and won a number of contracts in the healthcare sector (military hospital in Lublin, toxicology centre in Łódź, St. John Paul II hospital in Wadowice) and in the aeronautics industry (renovation of a factory for the Polskie Zakłady Lotnicze group).
Eurovia Polska completed the fourth and final Polish section (245 km) of the Velo Baltica, a cycle route linking five major European cities on the Baltic Sea coast over a total length of 8,500 km.
Americas
UNITED STATES
In the business line’s third-largest market, behind France and the United Kingdom, VINCI Construction’s local subsidiaries, which focus on roadworks, generated revenue of €1.3 billion (up 23%). They carried out infrastructure construction projects in the 10 states on the East Coast and in the American South where they have bases, using supplies from about 50 asphalt plants and a network of quarries producing over 1 million tonnes of aggregate a year.
In particular, Virginia Paving completed the widening of Interstate 66 outside Washington, while Hubbard undertook widening operations on State Road 417 and refurbishment of four bridges in Orlando, Florida. In Maine, Northeast Paving began a pavement rehabilitation and pipe replacement project in Acadia National Park. In North Carolina, Blythe won a contract to upgrade 14.5 km of roads, bridges and pipework in Davidson County. It will apply ultrathin asphalt and Viaflex HA (high-performance flexible asphalt) on this project. The company’s asphalt plants have received awards from the National Asphalt Pavement Association for their responsible operating practices and excellence in stakeholder engagement.