News update

VINCI Energies, via its subsidiary Eitech, one of the Swedish leading specialists in electrical works and engineering, has signed a contract with NCC Sverige AB regarding responsibility for all technical installations to the partial project E02 Central Station in Gothenburg.

The VINCI Group has just been informed by its partners of an IT glitch within the banking network that caused an error in calculating the exercisable voting rights for the Shareholders’ General Meeting of 17 April 2018.

Spectacular by virtue of its scope and technical complexity, the New Coastal Highway comprises France’s longest viaduct and 6.7 km of embankments. Between now and 2020, it will give Reunion Island a coastal link that is strategically important for the local economy and for the safety of people on the island.

Taking over the concession to operate the ring road in Lima, the Peruvian capital, raised two major challenges for teams at VINCI Highways, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary: taking immediate responsibility for running day-to-day operations on a very busy urban highway, including integrating the 600-strong workforce, and completing a 9 km section where work had ceased with only half the job completed. A challenge on this scale called on numerous skills from across the Group.

Bourdarios (VINCI Construction France) will begin building a housing development made up of seven buildings in the Cartoucherie integrated development zone in Toulouse.

Eurovia CS, as part of a joint venture, is undertaking reconstruction works on the railway line between Český Těšìn and Dětmarovice, in the east of the country, along the Polish border.

VINCI has announced the appointment of Grégoire Thibault as the Group's Director of Investor Relations, effective 17 July 2018.

In keeping with the diversity and equality policy set out in the Manifesto and implemented within the Group for several years now, VINCI is now working with the Elles Bougent association.

In the second quarter of 2018, traffic across the 36 platforms managed by VINCI Airports was up 7.4%* from the second quarter of 2017, with 42.9 million passengers handled in the network during the period.

Teams from RECo USA, an American subsidiary of Terre Armée (VINCI Construction), are continuing their task, in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains (Northern California), of raising the Stampede Dam by 3.5m.

ETF (Eurovia) has just completed a project to renew 17 switches and crossings within Paris-Montparnasse station.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets and VINCI Construction Terrassement teams are currently building a pumped storage power plant at Abdelmoumen, 70 km from Agadir.

On 2 July 2018, just before the start of the summer holiday period, VINCI Autoroutes launches its new consumer services brand Ulys.

Conducted by Ipsos on a sample of 11,038 drivers in 11 European Union countries, this vast survey provides an overview of how Europeans behave at the wheel and helps better target road safety messages in each country.

Blythe Construction (Eurovia) is widening North Carolina Highway 273 (NC 273) at Belmont to four lanes, on behalf of the state’s transport department.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 25 June 2018.

By joining Sixense in May, Perazio Engineering, a company specialising in metrology and 3D/4D digitalization, has reinforced a digitalization offering hitherto based on Sixense Mapping, enabling Sixense to offer a complete aerial, land, underground and underwater digitalization service using lasergrammetry, photogrammetry and bathymetry technology.

VINCI Energies, via its Australian subsidiary Electrix, has won the streetlight network management contract for the Canberra Region (population 400,000) awarded by the Australian Capital Territory Government.

ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) has successfully issued a €700 million bond due to mature in June 2028 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.375 %.

Mobility ITS (VINCI Energies International & Systems) and Actemium Pays de Gex (VINCI Energies France) have won the contract to modernise and revamp access to the pits of CERN, the European nuclear research organisation located on either side of the Franco-Swiss border, near Geneva.

Canadian energy infrastructure operator TransCanada Corporation has awarded a contract to a joint venture made up of Spiecapag Canada Corp, a VINCI subsidiary and operational leader, and Macro Pipelines Inc. to build two sections of gas pipeline in the province of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Developed at the initiative of the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité¹, Liva is a back-to-work company providing logistics services for building sites.

VINCI Highways, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary and concession holder of Lima’s main expressway until 2049, opened section 2 of the infrastructure on Friday, 15 June 2018.

The new Terminal 1 at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), is continuing to expand.

The teams from the Île-de-France Nord agency from VINCI Construction Terrassement are currently working on Placo Saint-Gobain’s gypsum quarries in the Seine-et-Marne department.

As leader of a joint venture with Metrostav and Swietelsky Stavební, Eurovia has won the contract to build a 14.7 km section of the D35 motorway, the Czech Republic’s east-west corridor, between Èasy and Ostrov. Eurovia is the VINCI subsidiary specialising in transport infrastructure and urban development projects.

Mesea, a subsidiary of VINCI Railways (VINCI Concessions), has gained the approval of the SNCF for its road-rail lorries and modules.

VINCI Immobilier and the joint venture of developers composed of Altarea Cogedim, DReAM (leader) and Eiffage Immobilier, in association with the Paris-Saclay public development authority (EPAPS), the town of Gif-sur-Yvette and the urban community of Paris-Saclay, have laid the foundation stone for the O’RIZON project, the first residential and services neighbourhood in the heart of the Paris-Saclay urban cluster in Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris region).

VINCI is today inaugurating the premises of Leonard:Paris, the new common home of the Group’s innovators, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.

May saw the joint venture composed of Campenon Bernard Régions (VINCI Construction) and VINCI Construction Terrassement successfully slide the Voiron railway bridge into place, on behalf of SNCF Réseau.

Operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) since 2016, the Kansai International Airport (KIX) in Japan won Best Baggage Delivery and Best Low-Cost Airline Terminal at the Skytrax 2018 World Airport Awards.

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) and ETF (Eurovia) are currently working as a consortium on a project to install double-track sections on a railway line between Kamsar and Sangarédi, in the west of the country.

On 30 May, teams from Adim Est (VINCI Construction France) laid the foundation stone for a development within the Reims-Bezannes business park, in the presence of Jean-Pierre Belfie, mayor of Bezannes and vice-president of the urban community of Greater Reims.

On 25 May, Eurovia encouraged its 40,000 employees, in 15 countries, to focus on innovation.

On 26 May 2018, the Forum Gdańsk shopping centre, located in the heart of Gdańsk, was opened to the public.

VINCI employees confirm their commitment to innovation by participating in the Viva Technology event which, each year, brings together major groups and start-ups around themes connected with digital transformation and innovation.

LLa Isabela in Saint-Domingue, Puerto Plata and Barahona airports, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), have been equipped with photovoltaic panels that enable them to produce and consume fully carbon-free energy.

Citeos IDF Grands Projets (VINCI Energies France) and its partner Clarity, a San Francisco-based start-up, are laureates of the City of Paris’ Air Quality programme.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 23 May 2018.

On 21 May at 5:30 am, Bruno Dupety, international director, member of the VINCI Executive Committee and passionate mountaineer, reached the summit of Everest at over 8,000 m above sea level to rise to one of his biggest challenges and achieve his boyhood dream.

For World Bee Day on 20 May, VINCI Concessions reasserted its environmental commitment.

Eurovia Québec Construction, in partnership with Blais&Langlois, has won the first phase of the reconstruction of the James Bay Road, in the north of Quebec.

Between now and 2022, VINCI Energies is to roll out fibre to the home (FTTH) in 26 French administrative departments to provide very high-speed broadband access for 600,000 rural households.

Ocidim (VINCI Construction International Network) has been awarded a contract for 100 student homes, plus communal spaces, in the commune of Tampon on Reunion Island.

Teams from Eurovia Belgium (Brussels sector) have just completed the first phase of comprehensive development works (roadways and networks) around Line 9 of the Brussels tramway which, located in the north of the city, will link the Simonis metro station with the university hospital and, in the medium term, the future national stadium.

Being undertaken on behalf of Adim Paris Île-de-France by Bateg and Sicra Île-de-France (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries), the works launched on the campus involve the construction of buildings with a surface area of 64,600 sq. metres, including the headquarters of INED (the national institute for demographic studies), research and training spaces, a conference centre, a residence for invited researchers, a project incubator, a Crous restaurant, facilities catering for the needs of campus life and 451 student homes.

Work inside the Salvador da Bahia Airport in Brazil, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), is currently being managed by a local consortium made up of Teixeira Duarte Engenharia e Construções s. a, Alves Ribeiro s. a do Brasil and Actemium Transport Solutions (VINCI Energies International & Systems).

On 18 April 2018, VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) inaugurated the commercial zone and the new terraces at Itami Airport, in Japan, part of a vast renovation programme aimed at transforming the airport into a destination in its own right and enhancing the customer experience.

After designing and installing the earthquake-resistant supports and the 18 spherical CBS supports (Cryostat Support Bearings), Nuvia and GTM Sud (VINCI Construction) are continuing their collaboration on the design-build of the support for the cryostat of the Tokamak reactor (designed to exploit fusion energy) at the heart of the international ITER project, in Cadarache (south of France).

Business indicators for the first quarter of 2018, despite adverse weather conditions in Europe, confirm the positive trends seen in 2017 and support the Group’s forecasts of higher revenue and income for the full year.

SNCF Gares & Connexions has awarded a contract to a joint venture composed of VINCI Construction France TP Lyon and Citinéa (VINCI Construction France) for the construction of the north concourse and the Béraudier shopping mall in Lyon Part-Dieu railway station.

VINCI Airports, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary, is acquiring nine new airports (two freehold property, three concession, four management contracts) and three partial management contracts in American airports following acquisition of the airport portfolio held by Airports Worldwide¹.

VINCI Construction France has started construction works on the Origine complex in Nanterre on behalf of customer ICADE. The new project is located at the heart of the Quartier des Terrasses, opposite the future Quartier des Groues.

Aéroports de Montréal (ADM) awarded the contract to rehabilitate the runways at the Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to the Montreal agency of Eurovia Québec for the 2018 season.

VINCI subsidiary Sogea-Satom has been awarded two major road building projects in Cameroon for the Public Works Ministry.

The consortium comprising VINCI Construction subsidiary Sogea-Satom (leader), Egis, Baudin-Chateauneuf and Alcor has won a significant contract to design and build a stadium in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire’s political and administrative capital.

VINCI’s Combined Shareholders’ General Meeting, chaired by Xavier Huillard, the Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, was held on 17 April 2018 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The quorum was 58.99% and the shareholders’ meeting approved all the resolutions submitted.

As part of the “post-Fukushima” programme for nuclear reactors, EDF has entrusted the Connekt joint venture, composed of Nuvia Structure (VINCI Construction), Campenon Bernard Nucléaire (VINCI Construction France) and Eurovia, with the project management and the creation of the networks between the buildings housing the last resort diesel generators and the reactor buildings.

Eurovia, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in transport infrastructure and urban development, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Quebec civil engineering contractor TNT group, a subsidiary of Transelec Common Inc

On 30 March, the teams from Plendi by VINCI Construction delivered the Hôtel Fauchon La Madeleine project, located in Paris’ 8th arrondissement, on which they carried out the decoration works.

In the first quarter of 2018, traffic across platforms operated by VINCI Airports increased 11.6% compared to the first quarter of 2017, with a total of 38.6 million passengers served in the network airports.

In 2017, 88 maintenance vehicles were hit on the VINCI Autoroutes network, a statistic that rises to 185 when taken across the entire motorway network in France. In 2018, VINCI Autoroutes is further developing its actions to improve the safety of its men and women in yellow vests, with the aim of encouraging active prevention, in particular by informing drivers in real time about the presence of patrol personnel.

The Rion-Antirion bridge operated by VINCI Highways, subsidiary of VINCI Concessions, was the setting of a unique artistic performance on 25 March, Greek Independence Day. Dancer Katerina Soldatou put on a show of aerial choreography that perfectly showcased the bridge’s technical features, performing spectacular figures over 50 metres above sea level.

Sogea Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) has completed the works of the basic contract for the Diori Hamani interchange in Niamey, the country’s capital.

VINCI Energies, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in energy, and information and communication technology (ICT) services, has acquired Wah Loon Engineering from its management and Dymon Asia Private Equity Fund. The company is specialised in turn key electrical and mechanical projects including design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance.

Within the framework of a project in Bailly Romainvilliers (Paris region), teams from the EJL Chelles offices (Eurovia and Eurovia Mitry-Mory) are collaborating with the Arforia start-up, which specialises in the development of virtual and augmented reality projects.

Airports Council International (ACI) has just awarded Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA), aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville and Siem Reap airports, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions).

Nicholson and Menard Group USA (both VINCI Construction) have teamed up within the framework of the project to build a biodigester in the wastewater treatment plant in Grand Rapids, in Michigan.

In connection with the development of the island’s infrastructure, builder HB estructuras metálicas SA has appointed Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) to supply and install the 16 hangers required for the Laguna Española Bridge, which will link Queen Beatrix Airport and the town of Pos Chiquito.

VINCI Airports has signed a 25-year concession contract with the Serbian government for Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, in the Republic of Serbia.

Eurovia Contracting South teams are currently working on improving traffic flow in Tottenham Court Road, one of the most congested roads in London.

Ringway (Eurovia UK) has just secured a one-year extension to its service contract with the town of Milton Keynes.

Teams from GTM Bâtiment Aquitaine (VINCI Construction France) are currently enlarging the exhibition centre in Bordeaux (west of France).

Adim Est, Sogea Est and Sotram, subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France, will be in charge of works package M3 North of the TGV integrated development zone (ZAC) in Bezannes.

In the south of France, VINCI Immobilier has started marketing the first homes of the new Nice Le Ray programme, which it has developed in a joint venture with Adim Côte d’Azur (VINCI Construction France).

The shareholders of VINCI are invited to take part in the Company’s Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting, which will be held on Tuesday 17 April 2018 at 10.00 a.m., Salle Pleyel, 252, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré – 75008 Paris.

The joint venture composed of SMTPC, Sogea Mayotte (VINCI Construction International Network subsidiaries) and Runway Safe has just signed a design-build contract, aimed at ensuring runway safety at Dzaoudzi-Pamandzi Airport, with airport operating company Société d’Exploitation de l’Aéroport de Mayotte.

Government-owned rail company Deutsche Bahn awarded work project 1.4 to VINCI Construction Terrassement for the high-speed rail line that will connect Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, to Ulm, in Germany

Porto Airport (Portugal), managed by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), has been named second-best European airport in the “Airport handling over two million passengers” category by Airports Council International (ACI).

A joint venture composed of Eurovia Montesson (leader), Watelet TP Plaisir and EJL Les Mureaux (Eurovia subsidiaries), Bouygues TP and Razel Bec is building a new road between the communes of Montesson and Sartrouville (Yvelines department).

Within the framework of the TransAdriatic Pipeline project (TAP), between mid-November and mid-February 2018, HDI (Entrepose/VINCI Construction) set a world record by laying the longest stretch of pipeline ever created in one “go” by horizontal directional drilling.

Jean Lefebvre Pacifique (VINCI Construction International Networks) has finished refurbishing a 2 km-long section, near the commune of Yaté, of a link road between two roads accessing the south of the island.

At the site in Gavet (south-east France), Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), in a joint venturewith Spie Batignolles TPCI (leader),is deploying its raise boring expertise.

In the 20th edition of the “Pierres d’or” competition, the DUO towers projectin Paris – designed by architect Jean Nouvel and being implemented by Bateg (VINCI Construction France) and several VINCI Energies France business units (Cegelec Tertaire IDF Projet, SDEL Imtec, SAGA Tertaire, Lefort Francheteau and Uxello IDF) – was awarded the “Pierre d’or 2018” for the best development programme at a gala evening heldin the Garnier Opera House in Paris.

Soletanche Polska (VINCI Construction) has won its first contract on behalfof Capital Park, within the frameworkof the rehabilitation and conversionof the Norblin factory in Warsaw.

VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions),in a joint venture with Teixeira Duarte Engenharia and Construções SA, Alves Ribeiro SA of Brazil and OEngenharia LTDA (VINCI Energies), has signed an EPC contract – Engineering, Procurementand Construction Management – with Actemium Transport Solutions (VINCI Energies International & Systems) forthe first phase of the project to expandand modernise Salvador da Bahia Airport.

Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) is pushing forward with the construction of a suspension bridge over the Rio Perené river, on the edge of the Amazon jungle.

The joint venture composed of Eurovia’s Mitry-Mory (leader) and EJL IDF Chelles offices is developing the bus stations of the Marne-la-Vallée/Chessy multimodal network.

VINCI and HOCHTIEF, in a joint venture, have been awarded the design and build contract for Sydhavn Metro Line (Line 4) in Copenhagen. The client Metroselskabet has awarded the contract to an equal-parts joint venture consisting of VINCI Construction Grands Projets and HOCHTIEF Infrastructure.

Actemium O&G offshore (VINCI Energies International & Systems) has secured two contracts with Petrobas (Brazil’s national company for oil research, extraction, refining, transportation and sales) forthe maintenance of seven platforms located off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

Travaux Midi Var (VINCI Construction France), in a joint venture with Léon Grosse and Renaudat, is currently working on a project, on the site of the former Chalucet Hospital in Toulon (south of France), launched at the initiative of the Toulon Provence Méditerranée agglomeration community, the City of Toulon and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Var department.

A joint venture composed of Campenon Bernard Dauphiné Ardèche (VINCI Construction France) in association with AIA Architectes, Atelier 3A, AIA Ingénierie and Dalkia (EDF Group) has been named winner of a competition for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the redevelopment of the Sainte-Marie Hospital in Privas (southern France).

VINCI Immobilier in collaborationwith architects Lalou-Lebec, is to developa mixed-use and innovative urban programme in Lille: WENOV.

The six airports operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) in the Dominican Republic have met all the requirements for obtaining the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) programme’s Level 1 accreditation – a first in the Caribbean region.

The joint venture formed by HEB Construction (VINCI Construction International Network), Downer, Tonkin & Taylor, Aecom, NZTA and the DIA has just completed development works on the quay in Waitangi, in the Chatham Islands.

Designed by VINCI and operated by VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions), the Vasco-de-Gama bridge (12.3 km) that crosses the Tagus estuary in Lisbon, was built on the occasion of the 1998 World Exposition in order to relieve traffic pressure on the 25-April bridge

Soletanche Polska (VINCI Construction) teams are creating the foundations for two buildings in Generation Park, a mixed-use development in the centre of Warsaw.

VINCI Construction, through a joint venture led by Dodin Campenon Bernard and including GTM Ouest and Botte Fondations, both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France, along with Spie Batignolles TPCI, Spie Fondations and Legendre Génie Civil, has successfully completed tunnelling Line b, the second automated metro line in Rennes, for regional authority Rennes Métropole and transport authority Semtcar.

Warbud (VINCI Construction International Network) is moving ahead with its Mennica Legacy Tower project in Warsaw (Poland): 115,300 sq. metres of office space, a 140 m-high, 34-storey tower and a 9-storey building – and aiming for BREEAM Excellent certification.

Sogea Sud Bâtiment, GTM SudOuest TP GC and Arbonis (all VINCI Construction France) will shortly be starting work on the new station (3,000 sq. metres) in Nîmes (south of France).

The Comol5 joint venture, composed of VINCI Construction Grands Projets,TBI Mobilis, Croonwolter&dros andDIMCO (DEME Infra Marine Contractors), is pushing ahead with the constructionof the Rijnland Route, in South Holland

ETF Polska (Eurovia) will complete its works on the Polish rail network in August 2018.

VINCI Energies, through its specialist brand VINCI Facilities, has secured the renewal of its facilities management contract covering Thales sites in France.

Ile-de-France Mobilités¹ has awarded a contract to VINCI subsidiary Eurovia to build the infrastructure for the new Tram 9 tramway line between Porte de Choisy and Orly-Ville.

Eurovia Québec is currently working on the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Île Bigras and Île Verte bridges in the Îles-Laval district, near Montreal.

In early February 2018, five employees of Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) flew off to Rwanda for two weeks, having volunteered to take part in a Bridges to Prosperity project to build a footbridge in the south of the country.

VINCI filed today its 2017 Registration Document with the French financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).

Dumez GTM Calédonie and Jean Lefebvre Pacifique (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom subsidiaries), in a joint venture with SAS Keteveta and Citeos Nouvelle-Calédonie (VINCI Energies France), are currently carrying out site development works for an extension (surface area: 15 hectares) to the PANDA integrated development zone in Nouméa.

Leonard’s acceleration committee, which met in late January 2018, selected eight Intrapreneur projects (being developed by VINCI employees); five of them are preparing to enter the acceleration phase.

VINCI Construction subsidiary HEB Construction, has been chosen as part of an alliance contract⁽¹⁾ to build the Northern Corridor Improvements Project (NCI Project).

The consortium led by VINCI Construction (Dodin Campenon Bernard, lead company; VINCI Construction France; VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Botte Fondations), together with Spie batignolles (Spie batignolles Génie Civil and Spie batignolles Fondations), has been awarded a major contract as part of the Grand Paris Express programme.

In January 2018, Warbud (VINCI Construction International Network) signed a contract with HB Reavis Construction PL for the structure, in reinforced concrete, of the Varso Tower, in the centre of Warsaw (Poland).

Since the end of 2017, the ETF (Eurovia) and TSO joint venture has been building the rail infrastructure for the RATP in order to extend the Line 11 of the Paris metro.

As part of the project to build Line 1 of the metro (Bên Thành - Suôi Tiên) in Ho Chi Minh-City, Bachy Soletanche and the major projects division of Soletanche Bachy (VINCI Construction) are undertaking diaphragm wall works for a station and an underground tunnel.

On the VINCI Autoroutes network, the A9/A61 motorway fork to the south of Narbonne links the A61 motorway (Toulouse - Narbonne, South of France) to the A9 motorway (Perpignan - Orange).

The GBH Group has awarded Sogea Martinique (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) the structural works of a project to create an industrial site for the bottling and storage of rum at the Habitation Clément estate, in the commune of Le François, in Martinique.

VINCI announces the publication of its consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2017 (financial statements and notes) accompanied by the report of the statutory auditors on the consolidated financial statements.

A joint venture led by VINCI Immobilier has been awarded, by EPAMARNE (Marne-la-Vallée public development authority), the “Live differently – the Sycomore Eco-neighbourhood” project, located in Bussy-Saint-Georges, in the Seine-et-Marne department.

VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions) has won a contract for electronic toll collection system and customer relations services for the Central Texas and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authorities, the government agencies in charge of transport in 14 Texan counties.

The French public prosecutor of Nanterre has decided to take no further action regarding the complaint made by the association SHERPA against VINCI concerning the latter’s activities in Qatar.

Since 1 February 2018, the VINCI Autoroutes electronic payment badge can be used to pay the toll on part of the Spanish AP-7 motorway, between the border (Le Perthus) and Barcelona.

In January 2018, teams from GTM Hallé (VINCI Construction France) began work on the Primméa L’EssenCiel operation in the TGV Nancy Grand Cœur integrated development zone (east of France).

Via its Omexom energy transition brand, VINCI Energies has won the Société d’Electricité du Sénégal (SENELEC) contract to install five new extra high voltage transformer stations, nearly 200 km of overhead and underground EHV transmission lines, over 100 distribution substations in various parts of the country and a regional load dispatch centre.

Eurovia Atlantique Le Mans, in a joint venture with GNT, is working on the project to deploy the Syner’gie district heating network in the Le Mans metropolitan area.

To mark this anniversary, on Sunday 28 January 1,200 Saint-Denis children were invited to form a human 20 on the pitch of the stadium.

GTM Hallé (VINCI Construction France) has just handed over the Muse shopping centre in Metz (north-eastern France), created on behalf of Apsys.

Teams from the Eurovia Midi Pyrénées – STPAG office are currently working on the second tranche of the Town Centre project in the commune of Auch (south-west France), which involves reorganising the town centre, expanding the pedestrian areas and redeveloping the square in front of the Cathedral of Sainte-Marie.

In line with its approach favouring innovation and sustainable development, VINCI Immobilier has been collaborating for several months now with a young start-up, HABX, winner of the Reinventing Paris competition in 2016.

January 2018 will see the Copiapó office of Bitumix (Eurovia) completing its development of a new site dedicated to the “Cruz de Mayo” (May cross) festival in the city of Vallenar (Atacama region, in the north of the country).

On 17 January 2018, CBC (VINCI Construction France) launched the redevelopment of the international lycée in Saint-Germain-en- Laye (Paris region).

In the fourth quarter of 2017, the network of airports managed by VINCI Airports served 38.5 million passengers, of which 36.5 million in the airports held on 1 January 2017, an increase of 11.9% compared to Q4 2016 on a like-for-like network basis.

Created by Eurovia CS and Eurovia SK, the new D3 motorway bypass round Žilina (north of the country), which forms part of the European multimodal corridor, is now open to traffic.

On 13 December, VINCI Airports inaugurated the new arrival hall and the extension to the boarding area at Phnom Penh International Airport, in the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia, Bin Chhin.

In Seville, on the construction project for the future largest shopping and leisure complex in Andalusia, Menard Spain (VINCI Construction) has been carrying out soil improvement works since the last quarter of 2017 in preparation for the installation of the foundation slab.

ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) has successfully issued a €1 billion bond due to mature in January 2030 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.375 %.

In Bogota, work has just begun on what will be Latin America’s largest cancer treatment and research centre.

VINCI Construction, as leader of a joint venture with the Andritz Hydro electromechanical company, has won the contract to build the Abdelmoumen pumped storage hydroelectric plant (PSP) located 70 km from Agadir, Morocco.

In late December 2017, after more than five years of works, the 8 km-long “Le Piquet-Rocroi” section of the A304, in the Ardennes, was opened to traffic in line with the completion deadlines laid down by the client, the regional environment, development and housing authority.

The Republic of Serbia and ANT (Airport Nikola Tesla) have selected VINCI Airports, the world’s fourth-largest airport operator, as best bidder for the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport concession.

On a site in the Bay East Garden area that was originally reclaimed from the sea, Bachy Soletanche Singapore (VINCI Construction) teams have just finished creating a diaphragm wall – a project connected with the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL).

In early December 2017, Synerail, a company 30%-owned by VINCI Railways (VINCI Concessions) and VINCI Energies, definitively switched 16,000 km of railway lines in France over to operating using GSM-R.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 2 January 2018.

The City of Cologne has awarded a contract to restructure and expand four schools and manage them for a period of 29 years to VINCI Facilities SKE, the German subsidiary of VINCI Energies. The contract took effect on 1 January 2018.