Civil Engineering
Partnering with Major Projects, the division’s entities are active on the largest projects on the Euralpin Lyon–Turin rail link and the Grand Paris Express programme. As part of the latter, they are coordinating the construction of several train stations, service structures and a maintenance centre in Palaiseau (near Paris). The two divisions are also working together on the new waste-to-energy plant at Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche (south-west France).
In urban development and transport, Civil Engineering France teams constructed the Dromel-Montfuron maintenance and stabling facility in Marseille, enabling the local transport network to operate up to 30 additional trams. The 180-metre-long and 120-metre-wide building is topped by a three-storey park-and-ride facility and stands on stilts to protect it against flooding from the Huveaune river. In Sotteville-lès-Rouen (north-west France), VINCI Construction won a new commission from SNCF Voyageurs to build a triple rail pit facility, following the successful completion of the train maintenance centre for the Normandy lines in summer 2024. Other urban development projects in 2025 included the construction, over a total surface area of more than 10,000 sq. metres, of the new market building and underground park in Nogent-sur-Marne (east of Paris). On this project, 32 Eurocode-compliant reinforced hollow-core concrete beams were precast and installed on site using environmentally innovative technology, resulting in 20% and 15% reductions in concrete use and greenhouse gas emissions respectively.
In the rail sector, VINCI Construction took part in the preliminary civil engineering work on the future Bordeaux–Toulouse high-speed rail line in south-west France, one of the major European rail projects currently under way, as well as the upgrade of the Blaisy-Bas tunnel on the Dijon–Paris line.
In the defence, nuclear and other strategic industries, Civil Engineering France completed, won or led several projects, such as the extension and renovation of buildings for Airbus, several ongoing projects on the Toulon naval base, nuclear civil engineering work at the Orano site in Pierrelatte and completion of the ITER long-term civil contract (LTCC) project in Cadarache (all in south-east France), as well as nuclear civil engineering work at the Orano site at La Hague (Normandy).
In Nantes, work is also under way on the Anne-de-Bretagne bridge. Once widened, it will accommodate two tram lines, three cycle lanes, two vehicle lanes and planted promenades overlooking the Loire river.
Other projects include civil engineering work to modernise Austerlitz train station in Paris, in connection with the nearby real estate development project, completion of the first phase of the direct junction between the Pierre Mathis urban expressway and the A8 motorway in Nice, and redevelopment of the Rondeau intersection in the greater Grenoble area. This project used 10,000 cu. metres of Exegy® low-carbon concrete especially formulated for infrastructure exposed to repeated freeze and thaw cycles. The new interchange routes about 100,000 vehicles underground per day, improving traffic safety.
Energy-related projects include construction, in partnership with VINCI Energies, of two electrical energy converter stations as part of the Inelfe interconnection project between France and Spain, and two stations to convert the current produced by a new wind farm in south-west France into high-voltage direct current.
VINCI Construction is delivering seven of the 13 buildings for the new hospital at the university hospital campus in Nantes, where almost all the concrete used is low- or very-low-carbon.
Marseille’s new tramway maintenance centre comprises workshops for up to 30 trams, an office building and a three storey park-and-ride facility. Some 4,400 cu. metres of ultra-high performance fibre reinforced concrete were applied to the facade.