Seymour Whyte is leading the project to upgrade the M1 Pacific Motorway between Palm Beach and Tugun in Australia.
NEW ZEALAND
The main road infrastructure projects undertaken by HEB Construction were Ō Mahurangi-Penlink in north Auckland (7 km of roads and six bridges, including a 535 metre long extradosed bridge), construction of 11.5 km of the new Te Ahu a Turanga-Manawatū Tararua Highway, and multi year road maintenance contracts in two Christchurch districts. The company was also involved in the major Opotiki Harbour development project on North Island, which includes two 450 metre long breakwaters, the longest in the country. In Wellington, it is building a new sewage sludge treatment plant. The project will implement a thermal hydrolysis process, the first of its kind in New Zealand, to produce electricity from the waste processed at the facility.
AFRICA
Business carried out by VINCI Construction’s local subsidiaries in Africa amounted to €0.9 billion (up 7.4%).
In its long standing roadworks business, Sogea-Satom was principally active in Côte d’Ivoire (Dabou road, lot 1), Niger (RN7), Chad (Kelo–Pala and Goudji–Djermaya roads, road upgrade work in N’Djamena) and Equatorial Guinea (Acam–Oboroncuhu road). In Benin, the Route des Pêches project includes the construction of a 42 km road section and 25 hydraulic structures, as well as schools and access roads for the surrounding communities. The project, which will provide jobs for around 1,000 people, will be coupled with a reforestation campaign involving the planting of over 75,000 native trees.
In water works, business was brisk thanks to projects in Côte d’Ivoire (new drinking water plant at Aghien, Abidjan), Burundi (wastewater treatment plant in Bujumbura), Tanzania (drinking water plant in Mwanza) and Uganda, where Sogea-Satom is working with the Major Projects Division on the new drinking water supply system for the Mbarara district (works include constructing a water intake on the Kagera river, building a water treatment plant and laying 60 km of pipes).
Sogea-Satom is also very active in the construction market: it completed the renovation of the cathedral in N’Djamena, and continued working on large projects in Benin (Grand Nokoué agrifood hub in Abomey-Calavi) and Morocco (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University campus and conference centre in Rabat and campus in Ben Guerir, Le Phare du Carrousel residences in Rabat, Borj Attijari tower in Casablanca).