News update

LIVA, a social integration undertaking set up in 2018 by the social integration group Ares and VINCI Construction France, with support from Fondation VINCI pour la Cité, has had a positive first year.

The bypass around Regina, capital of the Province of Saskatchewan in Canada, was officially opened today in the presence of Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Xavier Huillard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI, Pierre Anjolras, Chairman of Eurovia and Nicolas Notebaert, Chief Executive Officer of VINCI Concessions.

Eurovia is continuing to roll out Power Road®, the road to positive energy, with two new projects.

Being undertaken by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), in synergy with Actemium Transport Solutions (VINCI Energies International & Systems), the renovation works at the airport have now been 90% completed.

VINCI Construction, via its subsidiary Bessac¹ and in a general partnership with the Canadian Pomerleau company, has won a contract to build new pipelines for the Annacis Island wastewater treatment plant near Vancouver.

VINCI is today launching work to upgrade the runways and runway lighting system at the Toulon Hyres airport. VINCI Airports began operating the airport in 2015 under a 25-year French government concession awarded by the Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile (DGAC - civil aviation authority) and the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (Navy).

To the south of Paris, Eurovia is undertaking urban development works along the 10 km route of the T9 tram line.

During the third quarter of 2019, passenger numbers across all VINCI Airports facilities rose 6.9% relative to the third quarter of 2018, with a total of 72 million passengers served by the 46 airports in the network¹.

Xavier Huillard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI, has appointed Isabelle Spiegel to head the VINCI Environment Department. She will report to Pierre Coppey, Executive Vice-President of VINCI, and her assignment will be to implement VINCI’s new environment goals.

The 26th World Road Congress is taking place in Abu Dhabi from 6 - 10 October 2019 around the theme: Connecting Cultures - Enabling Economies.

With over 3 million passengers a year, Orlando Sanford International Airport, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), is one of the gateways to the numerous theme parks in Orlando, Florida (USA).

VINCI Energies has just acquired two subsidiaries of the Andalusian company Grupo Solar Lighting, SISTEM Melesur Energía and SISTEM Infraestructuras y Operaciones EPC.

In Punta Mita, Tierra Armada México (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction) has developed, on behalf of Grupo Dine, an overpass for the use of vehicles.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 30 September 2019.

VINCI Energies has acquired the German telecommunications infrastructure company OFM. In operation for over 50 years, OFM has built up expertise in telecoms infrastructure, where it provides services in engineering, installation and maintenance of fixed-line networks.

In August, the VINCI Autoroutes Foundation for Responsible Driving launched a public awareness campaign aimed at persuading people to stop discarding litter on the motorway.

The INSA Foundation signs a five-year partnership agreement with VINCI to support the development and dissemination of the INSA model, which is France’s leading network of engineering schools.

Within the framework of the project to ensure the hydraulic transparency of the Arles-Tarascon railway embankment, from 6-8 August 2019, over a period of 55 hours, the joint venture composed of GTM Sud (VINCI Construction France), leader, VINCI Construction Terrassement and ESAF (Entreprise Spécialisée en Activités Ferroviaires) moved three structures simultaneously; 180 people, including supervisory staff, and 75 machines were involved.

VINCI is extending and enriching its “a force for good” advertising campaign this autumn.

In the Czech Republic, the authority responsible for roads and motorways has appointed the joint venture formed by Eurovia CS (leader), Metrostav and Swietelsky to create a new, 16 km section, comprising two motorway interchanges and 20 bridges, on the D11 motorway between Hradec Králové and Smiřice, in Bohemia.

The Balfour Beatty VINCI SYSTRA HS2 joint venture today announces its formal contract award for the management of the construction and delivery of HS2’s new c. £1 billion Old Oak Common station.

In the west of France, the Bordeaux Métropole water authority has appointed Sogea Sud-Ouest Hydraulique (VINCI Construction France), leader, Soletanche Bachy France (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction) and Santerne Aquitaine (VINCI Energies France) to create a 5,500 m3 underground stormwater retention basin.

The port of Valparaiso had suffered major damage following a powerful earthquake in 2015.

Eurovia, as part of a joint venture with Strabag Rail and Elektrizace železnic Praha, has signed the contract to upgrade the 8.7 km section between the Smíchov station in Prague and the city of Èernošice southwest of the capital.

On Monday 9 September, Gérard Collomb, mayor of Lyon, David Kimelfeld, president of the Metropolitan Lyon Council, Xavier Huillard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI, Olivier de la Roussière, chairman of VINCI Immobilier, and Olivier Pelat, chairman of the Europequipements Group, laid the foundation stone for the mixed-use To-Lyon programme, developed by VINCI Immobilier in partnership with Europequipements in the Part-Dieu neighbourhood.

Nuvia (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction), together with EDF teams, has opened the reactor vessel of the Superphénix nuclear power station at Creys Malville (south-eastern France).

Operated by VINCI Airports and its partners under a concession contract since 2016, Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport has won Airports Council International’s “ACI Europe Best Airport 2019 Award” in the 10-25 million passengers category.

In July, Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) handed over, on behalf of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation, the Kinawataka wastewater pre-treatment plant, located on the banks of Lake Victoria by Kampala.

VINCI Autoroutes is installing charging stations on its network to help make medium- and long-distances motorway journeys more convenient.

This Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 August 2019, VINCI and Paris FC held the fourth VINCI Cup, an international football tournament for under-15 (U15) players, in Meudon near Paris, under a partnership that dates back to April 2015.

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) is building the 53-km pipeline that will carry drinking water from the future water treatment plant in Katosi to Kampala, the country’s capital.

In Greece, Charilaos Trikoupis Bridge, designed, financed and built by VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions) under a contract that also provides for 42 years of operation and maintenance, is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year.

VINCI Railways (VINCI Concessions) subsidiary Lisea recently operated the first direct journey between Bordeaux and Brussels on the SEA high-speed railway line.

As part of its environmental policy, VINCI Autoroutes has developed genuine in-house ecological engineering expertise for the motorway sector and works throughout the year with non-profit and scientific organisations to protect ordinary and extraordinary animal and plant species living near the motorway.

On 27 June 2019, the third and last tunnel boring machine to be used on the worksite to extend Line 14 of the Paris metro, has been named Allison after the French Handball World Championship winner Allison Pineau in a ceremony at Orly Airport attended by local elected officials.

Terre Armée in India (Soletanche Freyssinet / VINCI Construction) has designed and supplied MSE (mechanically stabilized earth) retaining walls for the installation of a flyover, to take the place of traffic lights, on the extremely busy Dacca-Chittagong motorway.

On Friday, 2 August 2019, Panamanian President, Laurentino Cortizo, and Panama Canal Administrator, Jorge Quijano, unveiled the Atlantic Bridge in Colón.

VINCI announces the publication today of its 2019 half-year financial report as well as its submission to the French financial markets’ regulator (l’Autorité des marchés financiers).

Eurovia Alpes (Chambéry office) has spent several months carrying out works in the Avenue de la Grande Motte, in Tignes (south-east France), in preparation for the arrival, on 26 July 2019, of the second-last mountain stage of the Tour de France.

In Dinard, Brittany, Eurovia began completely resurfacing the boulevard Féart, a major arterial road, in October 2018 in order to upgrade it to current standards in terms of accessibility, user comfort and service levels.

In Forez-Est (Loire) and Fleury-sur-Orne (Calvados), Eurovia is continuing to roll out its Power Road® technology, which captures thermal energy from the sun’s rays on roadways and either stores it or puts it to immediate use in nearby infrastructure.

The Link Alliance, which includes VINCI Construction subsidiaries VINCI Construction Grands Projets (main contractor) and Soletanche Bachy International, along with their partner Downer and designers Aecom, WSP-Opus, and Tonkin & Taylor, has today signed the Design-Construction Alliance contract for Package 3 of the City Rail Link project in New Zealand.

Benedetti-Guelpa (VINCI Construction Terrassement) has just started developing a ski slope on behalf of the Les Houches – Saint Gervais ski area SIVU (single-purpose intercommunal syndicate), in the Haute-Savoie department (south-eastern France), in preparation for France hosting the Alpine Ski World Cup, in 2020.

The Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ) recently appointed Reinforced Earth Company Ltd (RECo) Canada to design and supply all the mechanically stabilized earth wall segments for the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) project in Montreal (Quebec), on behalf of NouveLR.

A Joint Venture composed of Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction, has been awarded a major contract. Worth CAD $400 million (about €270 million), the contract covers the engineering, procurement and construction of a 225,000 m3 Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tank in Canada.

On the occasion of his official visit to the Republic of Serbia, Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, joined Aleksandar Vučić, President of the Republic of Serbia, to launch the Belgrade airport modernisation project alongside Xavier Huillard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI and Nicolas Notebaert, President of VINCI Airports and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI Concessions.

Eurovia’s Nantes office has been working since early 2019 on developing the public spaces in the Feydeau neighbourhood and, secondly, adapting the roadways and infrastructure in preparation for the arrival of electric buses using reserved lanes.

During the second quarter of 2019, passenger numbers across the VINCI Airports network increased by 7.3% compared to the second quarter of 2018, with a total of 66.2 million passengers handled by 46 airports¹ in the network.

Since September 2018, a joint venture composed of Eurovia Gironde (leader), Moter (Eurovia) and Sud-Ouest Pavage has been totally redeveloping Place Tourny in Bordeaux.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bouygues Travaux Publics, partners in the NOVARKA consortium, symbolically handed over the key to the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement to the Ukrainian authorities at a ceremony that was held on site on Wednesday 10 July, in the presence of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Teams from Bitumix (Eurovia), in collaboration with the airports authority at Chile’s Ministry of Public Works, have carried out upgrading works at Víctor Lafón Airport in San Felipe, in the centre of the country.

Cegelec Angers Infras, Roiret Transport and Actemium Angers (VINCI Energies France) have started work on the new tramway line in Angers (Line B) which, 10 km in length, will cross the Maine River in the city centre.

As part of the Poste Weiss urban renewal programme – a mixed-use development aimed at contributing to the economic expansion of Saint-Étienne –, VINCI Immobilier, co-developer along with the Cardinal Group, has just handed over 2 hotels and 49 homes.

VINCI is launching an advertising campaign on the issue of "doing useful work" to reaffirm its determination to build a more sustainable world and fully embrace its role as a private-sector partner, serving the public interest.

Entrepose Algérie (VINCI Construction) began work in late 2018 on the Collectes project, which involves the construction of 188 km of gathering pipelines and the surface installations for 50 producing wells in Algeria’s principal and oldest oil field, the Hassi-Messaoud field.

VINCI Immobilier and Crédit Mutuel Nord recently laid the foundation stone for WENOV, a 23,000 sq. metre mixed-use programme dedicated to innovation and education being developed in partnership with the European Metropolis of Lille and the City of Lille.

Průmstav (VINCI Construction International Network), in a joint venture with Metrostav and IMOS Brno, has completed the renovation of the historic building of Prague’s National Museum, one of the most important in the country and a listed national cultural monument.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 26 June 2019.

Since February 2019, Eurovia Béton (lead contractor), Bodin (Eurovia) and VINCI Construction Terrassement have been working as a consortium to build a flyover above the Palissy roundabout — the busiest in the Vendée department, located on the RD160 B‑road in La Roche-sur-Yon.

HEB Construction (VINCI Construction International Network) has been participating since late 2018 in the creation of the Ngā Puna Wai sports centre, to the south-west of Christchurch.

The foundation stone for the future Servier Paris-Saclay Research Institute, being built by Bateg (VINCI Construction France) in synergy with VINCI Energies, was recently laid.

VINCI Construction Terrassement took part in the project to install urban cable cars at the Bac d’Asnières worksite, which were inaugurated on Monday 17 June.

Teams from Blythe Construction (Eurovia) recently started the completion works on section No. 1, part of the project to widen the I-85 corridor in South Carolina.x

VINCI Construction, through its subsidiary Freyssinet*, is launching Concreative, a new company focused on 3D printing of high-performance concrete. The company offers a fully integrated service, from design to on-site installation.

TP Goulard (Eurovia) teams are currently undertaking drainage and accessibility works at the Château de Fontainebleau.

Thirty years ago, the teams at VINCI Construction Grands Projets completed the Grand Louvre project, which was designed by architect Ieoh Ming Pei and formed an integral part of the French government’s programme for the construction of major architectural projects to mark the end of the 20th century.

At Somerset East in South Africa, Sogea‑Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) is working on a wind farm project in partnership with Stefanutti Stocks, a local construction company.

In Buenos Aires, Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) was involved until May 2019 in the construction of the future San Martín raised viaduct, manufacturing and supplying 359 box girders in prestressed concrete for the entire length of the structure.

Eurovia Béton, in a joint venture with ETPO, has started assembling the deck slab (the reinforced concrete slab that sits on the girders and supports the roadway) of the Langeais viaduct on the A85, the motorway connecting Tours and Angers of which VINCI Autoroutes is the concessionaire.

At the pumped storage power station worksite at Abdelmoumen, in Morocco, VINCI Construction Terrassement recently completed the first million cu. metres of earthworks out of the 6 million cu. metres planned.

The Czech railway infrastructure administration has selected Eurovia as part of a joint venture with Elektrizace železnic Praha to refurbish the 6 km railway section between Lysá nad Labem and Èelákovice northeast of Prague, which serves 15,000 passengers per day.

In the port of Douarnenez (Brittany), Eurovia’s Quimper office has just finished renovating a quay dedicated to pleasure craft and the maritime festivals which, each year, attract some 800 yachts and tens of thousands of visitors.

Undertaken by Urban Dumez (VINCI Construction France), the structural works of the NoLiStra (le Nouveau Lieu de Strasbourg) project were completed in the course of April 2019.

The VINCI Construction Grands Projets teams responsible for the confinement of the sarcophagus at Chernobyl have just completed a crucial stage, the testing phase, entirely safely.

The "red south" metro line in Doha, designed and built by VINCI Construction Grands Projets via its local subsidiary QDVC, has just opened to the public.

Reinforced Earth Company Ltd (RECo Canada), a VINCI Construction subsidiary, is participating in phase 2 of the project to extend Highway 407 East, in the province of Ontario, i.e. some 22,000 sq. metres of walls distributed across 36 structures.

On 24 April 2019, Europe 1 broadcast a report in which VINCI was accused of having dumped concrete into the Seine from a VINCI Construction-Spie Batignolles plant supplying the sites of the “e-déf, Eole-La Défense” project.

In a survey for VINCI Autoroutes of disparities in mobility in the French regions, based on a sample of 4,000 French people, Ipsos analysed their habits, difficulties and expectations as regards their day-to-day travel arrangements.

The second TBM, called Amandine, started its drive in late April 2019 from the Arcueil-Cachan station and heading for Villejuif Louis Aragon (3.4 km), as part of the works on section T3C of Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express.

In the Ferrand Valley (south-east France), which can only be connected with the wastewater network in the commune of Freney-d’Oisans via a narrow gorge gouged out by a mountain torrent, teams from Perino Bordone (Eurovia) will be engaged until mid-2019 in complex drainage works.

VINCI Energies, via its subsidiary Eitech, a Swedish leading specialist within electrical installation, has signed a contract with the consortium NCC Sverige AB and Wayss & Freytag Ingeniurbau AG regarding the execution for all technical installations in project Station Korsvägen, in Gothenburg.

Citeos Quimper, Citeos Dinan and Citeos Rennes (VINCI Energies France) have won a four-year contract to operate the service for charging electric vehicles (994 charging points) and supply the new infrastructure required in the Brittany region.

Today, VINCI Airports completed the acquisition of a majority shareholding (50.01%) in London Gatwick airport, a freehold property and the UK’s second-largest airport. London Gatwick airport is an asset with substantial growth potential and the transaction fits perfectly into the VINCI Concessions long-term investment strategy.

In response to the evolving lifestyles of the younger generations and communities, VINCI Immobilier has just launched its own co-living brand, Bikube, based on sharing and flexibility.

Eurovia Québec teams will be engaged until July 2019 in roadworks and redevelopment works in Rue Saint-Hubert, one of Montreal’s main shopping streets.

In March 2019, Nuvia (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction) won contracts for the design, qualification and supply of fire dampers and isolation dampers for the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) at Hinkley Point C, in the south of England.

For the next five years, VINCI Facilities Polynésie (VINCI Energies France) will be in charge of the multi-technology maintenance at the hospital in French Polynesia, located in Pirae, on the island of Tahiti.

The city of Ottawa has selected East West Connectors, a joint venture led by Kiewit (60%) and VINCI (40%) through its subsidiaries Eurovia, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Dodin Campenon Bernard, to build the extension to the Confederation Line, one of the two lines in Stage 2 of Ottawa’s O-Train light rail transit (LRT) system.

Carmacks (Eurovia) has won the contract for the Deerfoot Trail motorway in Calgary, in the province of Alberta.

The consortium consisting of VINCI Construction Grands Projets (50% share and lead contractor) and Acciona Agua S.A. (50%) won the contract for the design-build portion of phase 1 for the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe wastewater treatment plant, in Ho Chi Minh City.

On 22 March 2019, Pierre Coppey, chairman of VINCI Autoroutes and Philippe Saurel, mayor of Montpellier (south of France) and chairman of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, signed an agreement to build a new multimodal bridge spanning the A709.

In March 2019, Leonard’s Acceleration Committee named the innovative projects that will be receiving extra support over the next four months.

In early 2019, teams from Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) working on the eastern bypass project in Antananarivo (Madagascar) took part in an eco-responsibility project.

Blythe Construction (Eurovia) is to rehabilitate a 7.7 km-long, 6-lane section, near Charlotte, in North Carolina, of Interstate 77.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the state agency in charge of roads and railways infrastructure in the Republic of Ireland, just signed an 11-year contract with Turas, a joint-venture comprising VINCI Highways, subsidiary of VINCI Concessions, and Abtran, the largest Irish-owned business process management provider, to manage freeflow transactions services and customer relations on the Dublin ring road (M50 motorway).

VINCI’s Combined Shareholders’ General Meeting, chaired by Xavier Huillard, the Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, was held on 17 April 2019 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The quorum was 62,027% and the shareholders’ meeting approved all the resolutions submitted.

VINCI suggests all building companies in France should join forces to rebuild Notre Dame in an industry-wide skills sponsorship drive, possibly led by the Fondation du Patrimoine (French heritage foundation), so as to begin work and restore Paris’ cathedral as rapidly as possible.

The TBM Ellen began its drive, from the Parc Robespierre shaft, in Bagneux, towards Fort d’Issy-Vanves-Clamart (by Paris), in mid-February 2018, as part of the works on section T3C of Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express.

VINCI formally denies the rumours appearing in the press that discussions are taking place with the State on the compensation payments for termination of the airports concession agreement in the Grand Ouest region of France.

HEB Construction (VINCI Construction International Network) is currently modernising the wastewater treatment plant in Pukekohe, in the north of New Zealand, in a joint venture with McConnell Dowell.

After two years of works carried out by Bateg (VINCI Construction France), VINCI Immobilier has handed over the 4* Innside Paris-Charles de Gaulle hotel, located on the platform of Roissy Airport.

In the first quarter of 2019, traffic across platforms operated by VINCI Airports increased 6.4% ⁽¹⁾ compared to the first quarter of 2018, with a total of 47.6 million passengers served in the network airports.

On 28 February 2019, Warbud (VINCI Construction International Network) signed a contract for the construction of the Modern Art Museum in Warsaw (Poland).

The board of directors of Consortium Stade de France, a joint venture between VINCI (67%) and Bouygues (33%), voted unanimously in favour of Pierre Coppey’s proposal to separate the company’s chairmanship and executive management. Pierre Coppey will continue to serve as chairman and Henry de la Monneraye as vice-chairman. Alexandra Boutelier will take over Pierre Coppey’s duties as chief executive officer.

Adim Nouvelle-Aquitaine (VINCI Construction France) is to develop a new property programme in the Euratlantique neighbourhood of Bordeaux; construction work should start in late 2020.

VINCI has successfully issued a US$ 1 billion bond, maturing in April 2029 and carrying an annual coupon of 3.750%.

Ycone, the first residential building to be designed by the architect Jean Nouvel in the metropolitan area of Lyon, was jointly developed by VINCI Immobilier and the Cardinal Group and was inaugurated in March 2019.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 2 April 2019.

Committed to combatting climate change, the VINCI Airports teams drew up an environmental policy in writing in 2016. Called AirPact, the policy sets ambitious targets with respect to energy consumption and CO2 emission reduction.

On the island of Java, late February 2018 saw Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) hand over the Kalikuto Bridge, the first in the country to have been assembled on-site.

Lesens Eréa (VINCI Energies France) has been awarded a call-off framework contract, for a period of four years, for electrical works at about 100 toll plazas and installations and on 600 toll lanes on the Cofiroute and Arcour networks.

The global union federation BWI (Building and Wood Workers’ International) conducted the first on-site audit of the operations of QDVC (a Qatari company owned by Qatari Diar Real Estate Investments Company and VINCI Construction Grands Projets) in Qatar on 8 and 9 January 2019, accompanied by French trade union representatives (CGT, CFDT and CFE/CGC) from VINCI.

GTM Bâtiment Aquitaine (leader) and VINCI Construction Maritime et Fluvial (both VINCI Construction France), in a joint venture with VINCI Construction Terrassement, have started the works in the fishing port of La Cotinière, on the island of Oléron.

HEB Construction (VINCI Construction International Network) is currently building a 100 m-long, 3-span bridge, on behalf of Stevenson Mining Ltd, as part of the Drury South Crossing project, to the south of Auckland – a vast development programme involving, among other things, the creation of affordable housing.

In January 2019, the joint venture formed by VINCI Construction France, its subsidiary Adim Provence (leader) and the Caisse des Dépôts was appointed by the port authority in Marseille to undertake a huge project to rehabilitate Hangar J1 and its surrounding area.

In late 2018, Eurovia Polska’s Bydgoszcz office completed reconstruction works in Turystyczna Street, in Toruń, the birthplace of the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In Casablanca, in late 2018, Terre Armée (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction) completed the redevelopment of the Azbane intersection, begun in 2016 as part of various roadworks aimed at relieving congestion in the south of the city.

VINCI is very sad to announce the death of Serge Michel, the former chairman of our group (formerly SGE) and a member of our Board of Directors.

VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) has just launched, on a large scale, a new robotic valet parking service at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, France’s second regional airport, thus taking forward its strategy of sustainable development aimed at enhancing the passenger experience.

Arnaud Grison began his career in 1992 at the French Ministry of Transportation, in charge of road construction projects in Savoie (France). In 1997 he joined SITA, the waste management subsidiary of the Suez group, where he held operating and senior management positions.

Eurovia subsidiaries EJL Île-de-France, the Chelles and Livry (leader) offices and ETF sector Paris-Nord will be working until June 2019 on the development of an SNCF works base at Porte de la Chapelle in Paris.

In Brazil, Omexom Generation & Distribution (VINCI Energies International & Systems) has won a contract with local energy distributor CELPA for the construction and installation of 1,361 solar modules.

The 2018 Annual Report is now available in English on the Group’s website at www.vinci.com under Investors / Financial information / Annual and half-year reports.

On 18 January 2019, VINCI Immobilier laid the foundation stone for the Oasis Parc residential development, in the presence of representatives of the City and Metropolis of Lyon.

The partnership formed with the “Elles bougent” association in January 2018 aims to encourage more girls to become engineers or technicians in industrial and technological companies. It is thus very much in the spirit of the commitments entered into by VINCI in its Manifesto.

In the context of the upcoming acquisition by its subsidiary VINCI Airports of a 50.01% shareholding in London Gatwick Airport, VINCI has successfully issued a £800 million bond, divided between a £400 million bond maturing in March 2027 and carrying an annual coupon of 2.25%, and a £400 million bond maturing in September 2034 and carrying an annual coupon of 2.75%.

Paris City Council, in collaboration with Eurovia, Colas and Bruitparif, is implementing the Cool & Low Noise Asphalt project, the capital’s first noise-attenuation road surfacing project.

VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions), the concessionaire until 2049 of the expressways in Lima (Peru), has brought into service the Zarumilla viaduct, the final engineering structure on Section 2, handed over in June 2018.

In late 2018, VINCI Immobilier and the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations signed the off-plan sale agreement for BO13, an office building in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

The joint venture composed of ETF (Eurovia), leader, and Colas Rail has won a contract with public enterprise EFE, which operates Chile’s rail network, for the supply of 210 switches and crossings (devices enabling a train to change track).

Ocidim, SMTPC and Sogea Mayotte (all VINCI Construction Dom-Tom subsidiaries) have just been awarded the construction of 240 homes, to be sold off-plan, in Dzaoudzi – the biggest property development ever launched on Mayotte.

Carmacks, a subsidiary of Eurovia, one of the world’s leading players in transport infrastructure construction and urban development, has won the maintenance contract for the Deerfoot Trail in Calgary, Alberta.

Bateg (VINCI Construction France) has just started work on the Stories business campus, overseen by VINCI Immobilier (delegated project manager), on behalf of AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets (AXA IM – Real Assets).

VINCI filed today its 2018 Registration Document with the French financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).

VINCI Immobilier handed over Le Belvédère to AG2R-La Mondiale in late 2018. It is the first building in La Défense to offer the OpenWork concept – a new solution for office space, developed by VINCI Immobilier, which reflects changes in the way workspaces are used.

PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe, the company managing the Polish infrastructure and responsible for the maintenance of the railway tracks, has selected ETF (Eurovia) to renew the tracks on the Jelcz Miłoszyce – Wrocław Sołtysowice stretch of Line 292, the aim being to restore passenger transport in the industrial zone of Wrocław, Poland’s fourth-largest city.

VINCI today announces the launch of “Give Me Five”, an ambitious scheme designed to combat inequality. Through it, in partnership with the French ministry of Education, the Group intends to reinvent the compulsory work experience placement for lower secondary school students in France and pledges to welcome 5,000 pupils a year from priority and high-priority education establishments

Ringway West Unitaries (Eurovia), in charge since 1996 of the maintenance on a design, build, finance and operate (DBFO) basis of 38 km of roads in the south-west of England, has had its maintenance contract for the A417 and A419 motorways extended by RMS to the end of March 2026.

The Governor of the State of Virginia in the United States has announced it has selected the joint venture comprising VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Dodin Campenon Bernard, both VINCI Construction subsidiaries (33%), Dragados USA (42%) and Flatiron (25%), for the contract of extending and upgrading the I-64 between Hampton and Norfolk, worth €2.9 billion ($3.3 billion). The contract is expected to be executed in April 2019 with construction expected to conclude in 2025.

ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) has successfully issued a €1 billion bond due to mature in February 2031 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.375 %.

In a joint venture with Ei.age Travaux Maritimes et Fluviaux, VINCI Construction Terrassement is currently carrying out remedial works on the breakwater in the port of Bormes-les-Mimosas (south of France).

In Plymouth, South West Highways (Eurovia) has secured one of Plymouth City Council’s main programmes for the city’s public space and new motorways, namely the creation of Millbay Boulevard.

Preparatory work for the future Orly West train station are in full swing. Cardem (Eurovia), leader of a joint venture also including Eurovia’s Massy office and Demathieu-Bard, is in charge of the demolition of two viaducts.

Teams from TREV-2 Grupp (Eurovia in Estonia) recently redeveloped Gonsiori Street, one of the main roads connecting the suburbs of Tallinn, the capital, with the city centre.

VINCI announces the publication of its consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2018 (financial statements and notes) accompanied by the report of the statutory auditors on the consolidated financial statements.

In April 2019, Eurovia Gironde will hand over a beautified town centre to Gradignan, in which cars, pedestrians and cyclists will find it easier to get around – notably thanks to the use of Agrevia®, Eurovia’s asphalt mix for decorative and demarcation purposes.

The first one focused on employment and encouraging initiatives that would help create jobs in communities and keep them there. This second call for projects is for non-profits working to strengthen social bonds.

On 3 and 4 February 2019, SMP CZ (VINCI Construction International Network), in collaboration with MCE Slaný, rotated the second steel frame of the railway bridge on the Pňovany-Bezdružice line, in the Czech Republic.

In Bussy-Saint-Georges (Paris region), the joint venture composed of Verdoïa, Arbonis (both VINCI Construction France), the Chelles office of EJL (Eurovia) and Poulingue, will be working through until June 2020 on the construction of homes for Crédit Agricole Immobilier.

In late 2018, the joint venture composed of CEM Projets (VINCI Energies International & Systems), Cimat and Socotec won a fourth major contract with the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Cadarache (south of France), as part of the programme for the new Jules Horowitz reactor (RJH).

In New Caledonia, SCB (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom/VINCI Construction International Network) has completed the construction of the territory’s highest tower.

In Peru, Pex, the electronic toll collection (ECT) subsidiary of VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions), in collaboration with the country’s leading chain of shopping centres, Real Plaza, is offering its clients the possibility of using their electronic toll badge to make payments in the car parks of these centres.

CDP*, the international organisation formerly called the Carbon Disclosure Project, has just awarded VINCI an A- score in recognition of the steps it took to combat climate change.

The metropolis of Greater Nancy has chosen Nancy Grande Scène – the concession-holding project company comprising VINCI Construction France, S-Pass, NAC Partners and the Banque des Territoires – to manage and operate the Zénith in Greater Nancy for 25 years. T

Eurovia Contracting has won a major contract for the redevelopment of airport car parks in England.

In late 2018, the COREBAM joint venture, composed of VINCI Construction Maritime et Fluvial, GTM Hallé and VINCI Construction France TP Lyon (all VINCI Construction France), brought into service six new dams on the Meuse and a new dam on the Aisne within the framework of the BAMEO-VNF partnership contract.

Chantiers Modernes Construction (leader) and VINCI Construction Terrassement are to build a maintenance and storage site for the RATP at Morangis (Paris region).

Marvipol Development has awarded Warbud (VINCI Construction International Network) the construction of a luxury building with underground parking and a sophisticated technical infrastructure.

VINCI has successfully issued a €950 million bond maturing in January 2029 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.625%.

Orano has awarded Nuvia (Soletanche Freyssinet) the maintenance of 600 remote manipulation devices at the La Hague site (Normandy).

VINCI Airports’ network handled close to 48 million passengers in Q4 2018 (7.2% more than in Q4 2017 on a like-for-like network base) and a total of 195.2 million passengers in FY 2018 (6.8% more than in 2017).

Late 2018 saw Eurovia Québec’s Saint-Rémi office successfully complete works to transfer railway lines, undertaken as part of the reconstruction of the multi-level Turcot motorway interchange, which is located above three railway lines to the southwest of the island of Montreal.

The committee selecting the 2019 intake of VINCI intrapreneurs, composed of members of the Group’s teams, entrepreneurs and investors, chose 8 projects in late 2018 from among the 70 entries submitted on the Leonard site.

In late 2018, following works to link the A85 and the A10, two new ramps were opened to traffic to the south of Tours (central France).

ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, concessionnaire of 10 airports in Portugal and 100% subsidiary of VINCI Airports, signed on 8 January 2019 an agreement with the Portuguese governement on the main principles for the extension of the airport capacity in the Lisbon Region.

As of 2021, the Zwickau plant will produce six electric car models for three Volkswagen Group brands. The various assembly halls have to be modified and adapted for this change of platform.

The joint venture composed of Cochery Pierrelaye (Eurovia), leader, Eurovia Saint-Gratien and VINCI Construction Terrassement is working, within the framework of the contract for the earthworks, engineering structures and restoration of communication, on bringing 4 km of the RN1 up to motorway standards so that it can become a section of the A16.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 2 January 2019.

In Saint-Denis, by Paris, a joint venture composed of Arbonis (leader) and Sogea Picardie (both VINCI Construction France) is currently building Woodwork, a wooden office building (9,500 sq. metres; 7 storeys), on behalf of Woodeum.