CANADA
Business activity, which principally revolves around transport infrastructure and urban development, amounted to €0.9 billion (up 22%), thanks in particular to the acquisition of the Northern Group road construction companies in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Also in Nova Scotia, the companies were awarded the contract to renovate the runways at Halifax Stanfield international airport and to equip 70 km of road and 40 bridges along Highway 104 with traffic barriers.
Eurovia Québec received an innovation award from the Association desConstructeurs de Routes et Grands Travaux du Québec for the first North American test run of Power Road®, VINCI Construction’s positive energy road project.
Business units were also very active in Alberta, working on the West Calgary Ring Road project with the Major Projects Division, as well as in British Columbia, repairing severe damage to the highway network caused by extreme weather in November 2021.
CHILE
Business was brisk throughout the country. Bitumix, which is 51%owned by VINCI Construction, won two major motorway contracts in the Antofagasta region and saw its motorway maintenance contracts in the Greater Santiago area renewed.
Oceania
Business volume in this area generated revenue of €1.1 billion (up 36%).
In Australia, Seymour Whyte completed or continued work on major motorway projects (M1 Pacific Motorway, Bruce Highway, Princes Highway) and won major infrastructure projects in Sydney (landside infrastructure and facilities for the future Western Sydney international airport and 7.5 km of the M12 motorway that will provide access to the airport) and in Melbourne (Healesville–Koo Wee Rup road upgrade, with duplication of lanes over 5 km). The company is also involved in the Causeway pedestrian and cycling bridges in central Perth.
In New Zealand, HEB Construction was selected for the Penlink project in north Auckland (7 km of roads and the country’s first extradosed bridge) and in Wellington, where it was appointed to build 4.5 km of shared paths and an embankment along the harbour. In the Christchurch area, the company’s two road upgrade and maintenance contracts were renewed for five years.
Africa
Business activity in the area declined by 9% to €0.8 billion.
In its long-standing roadworks business, Sogea-Satom was principally active in Cameroon (106 km of the Olama–Bingambo road, including the construction of 81 km of unsealed track and 13 km of urban roads), Benin (phase 2 of the Route des Pêches) and Niger (upgrade of an 83 km section of the Dosso–Bella road). In water works, the company won a contract in Uganda with the Major Projects Division for the construction of drinking water supply infrastructure in the Mbarara district (water intake on the Kagera river, drinking water treatment plant, booster station and 62 km of pipes). In Congo, it laid or replaced nearly 1,000 km of pipes to supply drinking water to people living in the outlying areas of the capital, Brazzaville.
In other markets, there was brisk activity in construction in Morocco (Borj Attijari tower in Casablanca and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University campus in Rabat), and in civil engineering in Benin (second Womey bridge) and Burkina Faso (new Ouagadougou-Donsin airport).
Construction work on the West Calgary Ring Road. This new roadway infrastructure will include four inter changes, seven bridges and a pedestrian underpass.