Lastly, VINCI Facilities performs extensive operations in building renovation and maintenance, and facilities management. In particular, its specialist teams work with the Ministry of Defence (maintaining some 60 sites in South East England) and industrial companies such as Shell and Mercedes-Benz. They have secured new contracts with University College London (UCL), Transport for Wales and the British Red Cross.
Revenue increased by 9.8% to €1.1 billion. In road infrastructure, its main area of activity, VINCI Construction completed the renovation of a section of the A4 motorway between Nossen and Wilsdruff (Saxony), and continued work in synergy with the Major Projects Division on the new B247 federal road, for VINCI Highways. Other large projects included building of the new Tegeler bridge in Berlin, extending an electrical substation in Güstrow (Mecklenburg Western Pomerania), modernising the central Altmarkt square in Dresden (Saxony) and renovating the access roads to the Borussia Dortmund soccer team’s home stadium (North Rhine Westphalia). Rail works operations, which are growing, were spread across various projects to renovate tracks, install noise barriers and renew switches, such as at the Dresden Neustadt station.
VINCI Construction commissioned a new asphalt mix plant at Schönerlinde, near Berlin, which will significantly increase the recycling rate of materials, and in Baden Württemberg it has been testing a new asphalt mix formulation that can be poured at a temperature 40 degrees cooler than traditional alternatives. In addition, the inductive charging road project carried out in partnership with Electreon was trialled on a road section and at two school bus stops in the town of Balingen (Baden Württemberg).
In the Czech Republic, the main road infrastructure projects were on the D4 motorway (where most of VINCI Construction’s regional subsidiaries were involved), for VINCI Highways, and on motorway bypasses at Louny (D7) in North Bohemia and at Třinec (new link between the D48 motorway and the Slovak border). In Slovakia, teams worked on the Prešov bypass (R4 expressway), including a 2 km long tunnel. Civil engineering subsidiary SMP Vodohospodářské Stavby completed construction of a reservoir in the Hostivař district of Prague – which has improved the Czech capital’s protection against the risk of flooding and won the contract to build a new hydroelectric power station near Prague (Klecany). Construction subsidiary Průmstav is building several residential developments in the Czech capital (Zenklova street, Císařská vinice project).
In building activities, Warbud was mainly involved in projects relating to the health sector (hospital buildings in Lublin, Szczecin, Poznań and Otwock), military structures (ammunition warehouses in Jastrzębie and Duninów, barracks in Głębokie, NATO compound in Szczecin, UAV airbase in Mirosławiec) and public facilities (main district courthouses in Legionowo and Gdynia, water parks in Polkowice and Płock).Eurovia Polska has completed the redevelopment of the Gliwice city centre and of a historic street in Bytom, and has deployed Power Road®, a pavement technology that produces thermal energy, on an access road to its new offices in Rzeszów.
Of all the Group’s business lines, VINCI Construction boasts the strongest presence in the United States, with revenue in 2023 totalling €1.4 billion, up 3.7%. Its local subsidiaries, which focus on roadworks, carried out infrastructure construction and renovation projects in the 10 states on the East Coast and in the American South where they have bases. To supply its worksites, VINCI Construction relies on 43 asphalt plants and manages a network of quarries producing 1.2 million tonnes of aggregates a year.
In North Carolina, its subsidiary Blythe continued work on the widening of the I-485 over 29 km and, in collaboration with The Reinforced Earth Company (Specialty Networks), completed the extension of NC-540 (13 km, 14 bridges) on the outskirts of Raleigh, the state capital, to relieve traffic congestion. In Florida, Hubbard Construction won the contract to renovate the runways (phase 1) at Orlando International Airport, including lighting and signage. Eurovia Atlantic Coast completed several road projects in the states of Vermont (Brattleboro–Newfane), Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Turnpike) and Texas (Clay County road system), and continued renovation work on four bridges carrying the I-95 in the town of Pittsfield, Maine.
