At Group level, many solutions are being rolled out to promote responsible sourcing and develop sustainable materials. VINCI Construction is continuing its work on life cycle analysis for environmental products and solutions (high-percentage recycled roads, Power Road® technology). This work provides tangible evidence of the environmental benefits it is able to offer. VINCI Construction companies continuously experiment with innovative processes and conduct many research projects. As part of VINCI Construction’s Networks France Division, Sodilor is France’s leading manufacturer of road safety equipment and sustainable urban furniture. A wide range of eco-designed road and urban comfort products made from recycled plastic is available.
Through its Arbonis subsidiary (Building France Division), VINCI Construction is industrialising timber construction, utilising the advantages of this renewable, recyclable material offering a reduced carbon footprint. In the beginning of March 2022 in Épinal, Arbonis delivered the first supermarket for Lidl France made entirely from wood. The building is the first to earn the Bois de France label. Located in the city centre, its structure, walls and frame were built using 460 cu. metres of fir and spruce sourced from forests in the Vosges and the Jura regions. Since May 2022, Arbonis has been working on the wooden structure for two of the three buildings in the Hope programme. The Équinoxe wooden car park was completed in Cergy-Pontoise (covering 5,960 sq. metres of composite flooring and 220 cu. metres of glued laminated wood).
VINCI Construction has also developed its expertise in bio-sourced and geo-sourced materials: raw earth bricks, a geo-sourced material, used in the social and cultural centre in Venerque, a town in south-west France, by Bourdarios (Building France Division of VINCI Construction); the use of bio-sourced bricks for the Maison des Ingénieurs AgroParisTech in Palaiseau, south of Paris (Building France Division of VINCI Construction); use of wood wool on Arbonis projects, including the Hope programme in the north of France and the complex being built to house the archives for the European Metropolis of Lille (Building France Division of VINCI Construction).
Group subsidiaries are taking action to reduce waste generated and implement waste recovery more widely in both the Construction and Energy businesses, which deal mainly with large amounts of worksite waste, and in the Concessions business, which involves the disposal of users’ waste at airports, motorways, etc. The Group’s subsidiaries put waste management plans in place at their worksites in accordance with local waste management procedures and systems. In addition to monitoring their waste management every year in terms of its volume and the extent of recovery, VINCI companies have developed their own waste reduction and recycling strategies.
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| Hazardous waste | Non-hazardous waste | Inert materials and waste | |||||||
| (in tonnes) | 2022 | 2021 (*) | Variation 2022/2021 | 2022 | 2021 (*) | Variation 2022/2021 | 2022 | 2021 (*) | Variation 2022/2021 |
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| VINCI Autoroutes | 557 | 675 | −17% |
18,554 |
16,195 | +15% | 3,135 | 3,072 | +2% |
| VINCI Concessions | 882 | 867 | +2% |
30,797 |
17,829 | +73% | 3,686 | 3,846 | −4% |
| VINCI Energies | 5,802 | 7,238 | −20% |
39,045 |
33,033 | +18% | 774,724 | 669,211 | +16% |
| VINCI Construction | 312,775 | 294,255 | +6% |
984,403 |
2,243,235 | −56% | 20,129,420 | 9,623,462 | +109% |
| VINCI Immobilier | 1 | - | - |
1,814 |
1,553 | +17% | – | – | – |
| Total | 320,017 | 303,035 | +6% |
1,074,613 |
2,311,845 | −54% | 20,910,965 | 10,299,591 | +103% |
(*) As 2021 was the first year for the implementation of the fast close process, data for 2021 that were partially estimated for publication have been replaced with actual data at 31 December 2021 on a like-for-like basis relative to 2022.
The reporting scope for waste generated covers the entire Group, except for the Europe Africa Division of VINCI Construction (see “Note on the methods used in workforce-related, social and environmental reporting”, page 282). Movement in these indicators, particularly relating to non-hazardous waste, is tied to improvements in monitoring as well as the phasing of projects during the year and the nature of work carried out. In the Group’s construction activities, worksites can generate large quantities of inert materials at the start of a project. In 2022, VINCI Construction took note of the traceability requirements introduced by France’s new anti-waste law for a circular economy, known as the Agec law, to include excavated soil, which had not previously been taken into account in environmental reporting data and explains the sharp rise in inert materials. This indicator will be reviewed and may be adjusted again in 2023. For VINCI Autoroutes’ road maintenance projects, the quantities of inert materials and waste generated vary from one year to the next.
VINCI Autoroutes aims to recover all waste from operations and from its directly managed service and rest areas by 2025 (with 60% material recovery from operations waste) and to reduce the volume of operations waste by at least 10% by 2030. As for waste generated by motorway users, all of the service and rest areas on the network are equipped with sorting bins for packaging and household refuse. VINCI Autoroutes’ operations waste is sorted and then shipped to external recovery and treatment facilities; 84% of waste from operations as well as service and rest areas directly managed by VINCI Autoroutes was recovered in 2022. Further strengthening its commitment, VINCI Autoroutes is working together with the operators of commercial facilities at service areas across its network toward the shared goal of zero waste. In particular, these VINCI Autoroutes partners have pledged to implement actions and test solutions that promote the circular economy and reduce waste, classified into three levels of engagement (engaged, expert or outstanding), such as setting up dry bulk dispensers, and composters or bio-digesters to recover organic waste. So far, 57 service areas have joined the programme: 40 are at the engaged level, 7 at the expert level and 10 at the outstanding level. In 2019 and 2020, VINCI Autoroutes became involved in two projects led by its subsidiary Escota, which gave rise to the Zero-Waste Service Area initiative, a winner at the Environment Awards: the call for projects launched by Région Sud – Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in 2019 to achieve zero plastic pollution in the Mediterranean basin and the Zero-Waste Service Area project in partnership with E.Leclerc stores and Lab Zero operated by the region’s prefecture in 2020. In September 2022, Escota was selected in the call for expression of interest in non-household waste initiated by Citeo. Citeo offers its expertise and financing for equipment to help customers sort their waste better, such as nudges and signage. In exchange, VINCI Autoroutes sends them data to measure the impact of the equipment.
