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2017

December 2017

New contracts

Rehabilitation of the wharf in Kpémé

28/12/2017 - News update - Togo
A joint venture composed of Sogea-Satom, LSE (VINCI Construction International Network) and Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) has won the contract for the rehabilitation of the wharf in Kpémé, to the east of Lomé.
Projects update and handover

Historic building in Toulouse for Primark

26/12/2017 - News update - France
Teams from Bourdarios (VINCI Construction France) are currently rehabilitating, on a general contracting basis, a department store in the centre of Toulouse – Au Capitole – on behalf of Primark, the retail brand specialising in low-cost clothing.
Events

Reopening of SH1 in New Zealand

22/12/2017 - News update - New-Zealand
After one year of closing following the earthquake that hit New-Zealand in November 2016, the new coastal State Highway 1, north and south of Kaikoura, opened on December 15, 2017.
Events

VINCI Immobilier hands over its first smart home development

21/12/2017 - News update - France
On 12 December, VINCI Immobilier announced the handover of the 20 connected houses of the Cérès residential development in Blagnac (south-west France), a project undertaken in partnership with La Poste, Legrand and Netatmo.
Events

Entry into service of metro line 6 in Santiago de Chile

21/12/2017 - News update - Chile
Following its inauguration by the president of the Republic of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, the Santiago metro system’s new Line 6, created by ETF (Eurovia), is now in service.
New contracts

An aquatic leisure complex for Reims

21/12/2017 - News update - France
Developed by Adim Est (VINCI Construction France), the new aquatic complex in Reims (north-east France) will be built by GTM Hallé (leader), Sogea Picardie and Sotram, three VINCI Construction France subsidiaries.
Projects update and handover

Natitingou-Boukoumbé road

20/12/2017 - News update - Benin
Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) is currently rehabilitating national highway 3 between Natitingou and Boukoumbé, in the north-west of the country.
New contracts

Rehabilitation of a bridge at Orly

19/12/2017 - News update - France
The joint venture composed of Chantiers Modernes Construction (VINCI Construction France), leader, Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), Eurovia and Soleffi TS, with the support of Artelia Ville et Transports, is to design and implement works to rehabilitate and reinforce bridge No. 2 at Orly Airport. These will enable large aircraft to use the bridge.
New contracts

Rehabilitation of homes on Reunion Island

18/12/2017 - News update - France
As part of an urban regeneration project under way in Saint-Pierre, social landlord Semader has awarded S2R (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) the Caserne operation, involving the rehabilitation of 73 occupied homes.
Projects update and handover

Water protection works on the A10

15/12/2017 - News update - France
Until the end of December 2017, a Eurovia joint venture composed of Cognac TP (leader), Eurovia Niort and SEC TP will be working on a section of the A10 motorway (VINCI Autoroutes, ASF network) by the Niort Sud exit (western France) – an area where the water resources have been identified as being extremely vulnerable.
Projects update and handover

Trinity: work on the high-rise gets under way

14/12/2017 - News update - France
In the La Défense business district near Paris, Sogea TPI (VINCI Construction France) has completed the engineering structure and concrete slab on which the Trinity high rise will be built and Bateg, also a VINCI Construction France subsidiary, has started construction of the building itself.
New contracts

First urban cable-car system for Reunion Island

13/12/2017 - News update - France
A joint venture comprising Sogea Réunion (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom), Poma, Sodiparc, Egis, Atelier Architectes, Richez-Associés and ISR has been awarded a contract by the CINOR (intercommunal structure in the north of Reunion Island) for the design, construction, upkeep and maintenance of an urban cable-car system in Saint-Denis.
New contracts

Creation of the northern interchange in Ouagadougou

11/12/2017 - News update - Burkina Faso
To relieve congestion at one of the busiest intersections in the Burkina Faso capital, the Ministry of Infrastructure has appointed Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) to build Ouagadougou’s northern interchange, located in the centre of the city.
Events

VINCI 2017 Innovation Awards: final prize list

08/12/2017 - News update - France
VINCI, which has for many years given priority to collaborative innovation, organises the VINCI Innovation Awards every two years. The competition is designed to showcase and speed up application of initiatives implemented by its employees on the ground. This year, 150 projects were rewarded in the regional competitions and 15 final prize-winners were designated during the final ceremony, illustrating VINCI’s capacity for initiative which is at the heart of the Group's entrepreneurial culture.
Sustainability

Launch of Urbalia, a new start-up dedicated to urban biodiversity

08/12/2017 - News update - France
On 6 December 2017, AgroParisTech and VINCI Construction announced the creation of Urbalia, a start-up dedicated to the integration of biodiversity and urban agriculture within urban development projects.
Events

10 years of Sogea-Satom Initiatives for Africa (ISSA)

06/12/2017 - News update - Benin
There have been numerous ceremonies in the countries where Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) operates to celebrate the tenth birthday of the ISSA programme, the expression of the company’s commitment to solidarity.
Projects update and handover

Grand Paris Express: the biggest infrastructure project in Europe

04/12/2017 - News update - France
With 200 km of new metro lines – the equivalent of the existing network – forming a ring around the capital, the Grand Paris Express will bring Paris into the 21st century by transforming residents’ mobility and reshaping the different areas. For VINCI, and for all the players in the sector, it offers considerable opportunities: in the near term with the underground and civil engineering works and in the longer term with the urban renewal projects around the new stations.
Projects update and handover

New solution for the operational management of airports

01/12/2017 - News update - France
Since November 2017, Nantes Atlantique Airport has been the first airport in the VINCI Airports network to use SITA’s AMS6 (Airport Management System) solution, an operational management tool that centralises, in real time, all information relating to flights and an airport’s resources.

November 2017

Events

Inauguration of the biggest solar power plant in the Sahel

29/11/2017 - News update - Burkina Faso
Created on a turnkey basis by Omexom (VINCI Energies), the Zagtouli solar power plant, located in the suburbs of Ouagadougou, in central Burkina Faso, is being formally opened today in the presence, notably, of French President Emmanuel Macron.
New contracts

Construction of a quay at the port of Noumea

27/11/2017 - News update - New Caledonia
The autonomous port of New Caledonia has just awarded Dumez GTM Calédonie (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) the resumption of construction work on quay No. 8, extending the Grand Quai of Noumea over a distance of 250 m.
Projects update and handover

Refurbishment of the I/77 by Charlotte

24/11/2017 - News update - United States of America
Blythe Construction (Eurovia) completed refurbishment works on a section of Interstate 77 in Charlotte, in North Carolina, in early November 2017. The I/77, some 1,000 km in length, links the states of Ohio and South Carolina.
Projects update and handover

Dam reinforcement for Tricastin power plant

23/11/2017 - News update - France
VINCI Construction Terrassement teams were hard at work in October 2017, reinforcing part of a dam located north of the Tricastin nuclear power plant, on the border between the Drôme and Vaucluse departments.
Events

Leonard, Imagining tomorrow’s VINCI

22/11/2017 - News update - France
A foresight and technology watch hub; an incubator and accelerator for new products and services invented by VINCI intrapreneurs and startups; a central Paris venue for innovation that is open to all VINCI staff – Leonard is all these things. Both the approach and the new building are firmly focused on a world in transformation, determined to imagine today VINCI’s activities tomorrow. Every innovative entrepreneur is welcome at Leonard.
New contracts

New operating agreement for the Moscow – St. Petersburg motorway

21/11/2017 - News update - Russian Federation
VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions), via its UTS subsidiary, has just secured a 10-year contract for the operation of further sections – 359 km in total – of the motorway linking Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Projects update and handover

Renewing a drinking-water supply network for a new tram line

20/11/2017 - News update - France
After undertaking several operations in connection with the construction of the Paris region tram lines T3 and T6, Valentin (Eurovia) is currently engaged in re-routing networks in the towns of Ivry-sur-Seine, Vitry-sur-Seine, Thiais, Choisy and Orly, by Paris, in preparation for the creation of Line T9.
Projects update and handover

Coastal development in Caldera

17/11/2017 - News update - Chile
Bitumix (Eurovia) will complete coastal development works in the port town of Caldera, in the Atacama region of northern Chile, in late 2017.
Projects update and handover

A quieter Hydrofraise® for the Thames Tideway Tunnel

16/11/2017 - News update - United Kingdom
It’s a first! Within the framework of the East works package on the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, currently being implemented by a joint venture composed of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Bachy Soletanche (VINCI Construction) and Costain, since late summer 2017 an electric Hydrofraise® has been at work creating the walls of the shafts at the Chambers Wharf, Deptford Church Street and King Edward Memorial Park sites.
Projects update and handover

New multimodal transport hub in Morlaix

15/11/2017 - News update - France
A joint venture led by Eurovia Morlaix is currently completing the development of the public spaces of the new multimodal transport hub in Morlaix (Brittany).
Events

VINCI Construction France recognised in the 7th annual Geste d’Or competition

14/11/2017 - News update - France
On the occasion of the 2017 International Cultural Heritage Show, VINCI Construction France received six prizes at the 7th annual Geste d’Or awards ceremony held on 4 November. The awards recognise exemplary projects focused on the heritage of the past, the present and the future.
Events

First connected parking spaces

13/11/2017 - News update - Canada
in Montreal Eurovia Quebec is collaborating with Communauto, the self-service car operator in Quebec, for the launch of the first connected parking spaces in Montreal.
Projects update and handover

Clearing a river bed

10/11/2017 - News update - France
In Normandy, teams from VINCI Construction Terrassement – as leader of the VINCI joint venture –, VINCI Construction Maritime et Fluvial and TPC (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) and ALZEO Environnement are clearing the bed of a 13 km stretch of the Sélune (a coastal river flowing into the bay of Mont Saint-Michel) in the reservoir area upstream from the Vezins hydroelectric dam, built in 1931.
Projects update and handover

Development project for the port of Brest

09/11/2017 - News update - France
In Brest (Brittany), the joint venture notably comprising VINCI Construction Maritime et Fluvial (leader), VINCI Construction Terrassement, Menard and GTM Ouest (all VINCI Construction subsidiaries) is currently constructing a polder, in part won from the sea, that will be used for renewable marine energies.
Projects update and handover

New exhibition centre in Toulouse

08/11/2017 - News update - France
Within the framework of the project to build the new exhibition centre in Toulouse (south-west France), the Eurovia Toulouse office is undertaking the earthworks on the site of the future building as well as the access infrastructure works.
New contracts

Electrical wiring for ships

07/11/2017 - News update - France
SDEL Navis (VINCI Energies International & Systems) has secured a contract with STX France for the wiring of the next seven ships to be built at the STX yard in Saint-Nazaire: four EDGE class ships for shipowner RCCL and three Méraviglia class ships for shipowner MSC.
Projects update and handover

VINCI Highways successfully hands over phase 1 of the Regina Bypass

06/11/2017 - News update - Canada
On 30 October 2017, VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions) brought into service the first phase of the Regina Bypass project in Canada in a ceremony attended by David Marit, Minister of Highways and Infrastructure, regional elected representatives and the project teams.
New contracts

Hydraulic engineering: three new contracts in Cambodia and Vietnam

03/11/2017 - News update - Cambodia
Following its delivery of the extension to the Niroth plant in Phnom Penh in early 2017, this summer VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed a further contract for the Cambodian capital with PPWSA, the Phnom Penh water authority.
New contracts

Hospital in the Drôme department

02/11/2017 - News update - France
Management at the new Le Valmont Hospital in Montéléger (southern France) has awarded Campenon Bernard Dauphiné Ardèche (VINCI Construction France) the contract for the design, construction, development, upkeep and maintenance (CCAEM) of the establishment.

October 2017

Events

Road safety campaign via illuminated display panels

31/10/2017 - News update - France
To call on the imagination, experience and sense of responsibility of all in order to inspire road safety messages likely to encourage more responsible driving – such was the aim of a competition launched on a dedicated website and on social media by the VINCI Autoroutes Foundation and open to both the general public and company employees.
Projects update and handover

Land-sea link-up

30/10/2017 - News update - Cameroon
In the vicinity of Limbé, in the south-west of the country, Geocean (Entrepose/VINCI Construction) has just successfully finished installing a pipeline and a PLEM (pipeline end manifold) to link a conventional mooring buoy with the Sonara refinery, on land.
Projects update and handover

Water treatment plant at an altitude of 2,410 m

28/10/2017 - News update - France
As part of the total renovation of the Temple-Écrins refuge hut, located, at an altitude of 2,410 m, in the commune of Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans (south-eastern France), Perino Bordone (Eurovia) is undertaking works in connection with the hut’s drinking-water supply and wastewater treatment on behalf of the French federation of alpine and climbing clubs.
Projects update and handover

Launch of the project to widen the A63

27/10/2017 - News update - France
On 27 October 2017, Frédéric Perissat, prefect of the Landes department (south-west France), and Pierre Coppey, chairman of VINCI Autoroutes, formally launched the project to widen the A63 between Ondres and Saint- Geours-de-Maremne, a major 27 km-long development being undertaken within the framework of the French Motorway Plan.
Projects update and handover

Raising a roof for the Volgograd stadium

27/10/2017 - News update - Russian Federation
The Pobeda Arena (pobeda means victory in Russian) is a major sports facility, currently under construction in Volgograd, that will host numerous matches during the 2018 Football World Cup. Over the summer of 2017, teams from Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) assembled the cable roof and lifted it into place.
Events

Sporting event in Lima

26/10/2017 - News update - Peru
Initiated by Lamsac, the company holding the concession for the Lima ring road, operated since 2016 by VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions), Rugby para todos (Rugby for all) is a socialisation-through-sport programme aimed at transmitting the positive values and beneficial effects of the discipline to young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the Peruvian capital.
Events

Inauguration of the U Arena in Nanterre

23/10/2017 - News update - France
VINCI Construction France has just handed over the U Arena in Nanterre, by Paris, the biggest covered adaptable facility in Europe which, for its first inaugural concert, on 19 October, welcomed the Rolling Stones.
Events

National Safety of Road and Motorway Operatives Days

20/10/2017 - News update - France
On 20 and 21 October 2017, members of ASFA (French motorway operators’ association), together with interdepartmental road authorities (DIRs), are working to make the general public more aware of the need to ensure the safety of road and motorway workers throughout France. VINCI Autoroutes and its Foundation for Responsible Driving are very much involved in this national event.
Projects update and handover

Creation of the new Paris region campus of AgroParisTech and Inra

16/10/2017 - News update - France
Campus Agro, a project company created by AgroParisTech, Inra and the Caisse des Dépôts, signed a contract on 2 October 2017 with the joint venture led by VINCI Construction France and Engie Cofely for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the future Paris region campus of AgroParisTech and Inra.
Sustainability

Eurovia invents Power Road®, the positive energy road

16/10/2017 - News update - France
On 16 October, Eurovia announced the launch of the Power Road® process, which adds a new function to roads: the production of thermal energy.
Projects update and handover

Renewal of the A8’s wearing course

13/10/2017 - News update - France
Between 25 September and 13 October 2017, Eurovia’s Nice office undertook a resurfacing campaign on the A8 motorway (VINCI Autoroutes, Escota network), in both traffic directions, between the Saint-Isidore toll barrier and the Canta-Galet tunnel.
Events

New stretch of the D3 opened to traffic

12/10/2017 - News update - Czech Republic
The 5 km-long section of the D3 motorway located between Veselí nad Lužnicí and Bošilec (in the south of the country), built by Eurovia CS, was inaugurated on 12 October 2017.
New contracts

Construction of an eco-college

10/10/2017 - News update - France
Verdoïa (VINCI Construction France) has been selected to supply the extended structural works (shell, envelope plus the external works) for the new secondary school in Montevrain (Paris region).
Acquisitions

SmartHab for the homes of tomorrow

09/10/2017 - News update - France
On 9 October 2017, VINCI Immobilier announced it had taken a stake in the capital of SmartHab, a specialist in smart and connected housing solutions.
Projects update and handover

Welding of the first rail on first stretch of Bordeaux tramway’s Line D

06/10/2017 - News update - France
The Eurovia joint venture in charge since May 2017 of the construction of the first stretch of Line D of the tramway in Bordeaux (west of France) welded the first rail of the route on 4 October.
Projects update and handover

New waste-to-energy plant

02/10/2017 - News update - United Kingdom
This summer, with the arrival of the first waste on treatment line No. 2, the VINCI Environnement (Entrepose/VINCI Construction) teams passed a key milestone on the project to build and commission the new waste-to-energy power plant in North Yorkshire.

September 2017

Events

Mixed-use complex near the Groupama Stadium

29/09/2017 - News update - France
On 29 September 2017, the co-development joint venture composed of VINCI Immobilier and em2c Group celebrated the laying of the foundation stone for the Les Loges office building and the completion of the structural works for a three-star hotel, both located near the Olympique Lyonnais football club’s Groupama Stadium in Décines (central France).
New contracts

Skyliner, a new tower in the skies above Warsaw

26/09/2017 - News update - Poland
Warbud (VINCI Construction International Network) has just been appointed by Karimpol Polska to build the Skyliner office building in the centre of Warsaw.
Events

2017 BIM d'Or awards: Triple win for VINCI Construction

21/09/2017 - News update - France
Two VINCI Construction France subsidiaries, and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, have won 2017 BIM d’Or awards.
Projects update and handover

Foundation stone laid for new international terminal at Santiago Airport

20/09/2017 - News update - Chile
The foundation stone for the new international terminal at Santiago Airport was laid on 12 September 2017 – marking the official start of the works – in the presence of Alberto Undurraga, the Chilean Minister of Public Works.
New contracts

Modification of interchanges near Winston-Salem, in the USA

19/09/2017 - News update - United States of America
Blythe (Eurovia in North Carolina) is about to start, on a design-build basis, the projects R-2247CD and R-2247EC that involve modifying two major interchanges on the northern ring road round Winston-Salem, the fourth-largest city of the State.
Projects update and handover

LED lighting for Hertfordshire

18/09/2017 - News update - United Kingdom
Over the next three years, Hertfordshire will be converting all its not-yet-converted public lighting devices to LED technology, in order to reduce its carbon footprint and its electricity consumption.
Projects update and handover

Renovation of the runway at Vilnius Airport

18/09/2017 - News update - Lithuania
Eurovia Lietuva participated in the major works carried out over the summer of 2017 at Vilnius International Airport, the country’s leading airport, which is experiencing one of the highest growth rates in Europe – annual passenger traffic (3.8 million in 2016) has more than doubled in 10 years.
Projects update and handover

New asphalt for mountain roads

15/09/2017 - News update - France
This summer, on behalf of the Haute-Savoie department, Eurovia’s Annecy office created test slabs in Altivia®, a product currently under technical development.
Projects update and handover

Village Saint-Paul rehabilitation in Paris

11/09/2017 - News update - France
GTM Bâtiment (VINCI Construction France) is to carry out the rehabilitation works in the Village Saint-Paul area, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, for the housing agency of the City of Paris (RIVP).
New contracts

Supplying Kampala with drinking water

07/09/2017 - News update - Ouganda
The National Water & Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has awarded Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) a contract for pipes to carry drinking water treated in the town of Katosi to the country’s capital, Kampala.
Projects update and handover

New reserved-lane network on Reunion Island

05/09/2017 - News update - France
On Reunion Island, August 2017 saw SBTPC (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) launch the development and asphalting works for the future reserved-lane public transport network in the commune of Bras-Panon, in the east of the island.
Projects update and handover

Redevelopment of the Le Richelieu office building in Paris

04/09/2017 - News update - France
Alterea Cogedim is redeveloping the former Allianz head office, built in 1980 and located at 87 Rue de Richelieu, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.

August 2017

Events

2nd annual VINCI Cup, an international football tournament for under-15s

28/08/2017 - News update - France
Partners since April 2015, VINCI and Paris FC were organising the second VINCI Cup on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 August at the Complexe Marcel Bec in Meudon, a southwestern suburb of Paris.
Projects update and handover

7,000 tonne slab successfully slid into place

17/08/2017 - News update - France
At the worksite for the future Fort d’Issy-Vanves-Clamart station of the Grand Paris Express line, the Horizon consortium – Bouygues Travaux Publics and Soletanche Bachy (VINCI Construction) – successfully slid the structure’s covering slab into its final position during the weekend of 15 August 2017.
New contracts

Contract for the construction of a gas pipeline

03/08/2017 - News update - Australia
Jemena, an Australian company specialising in the transportation of energy and water, has appointed Spiecapag Australia (Entrepose/VINCI Construction) to build the section of the Northern Gas Pipeline (NGP) that will cross Queensland.
Projects update and handover

Successful first drive for Valentin’s microtunneler

01/08/2017 - News update - France
Rachel, the microtunneling machine operated by Valentin (Eurovia), has carried out its first drive (632 lm) on the storm water segregation project at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport.
New contracts

Ground preparation for GED foundations

01/08/2017 - News update - France
The Paris region planning and construction agency has appointed Soletanche Bachy France (VINCI Construction) to supply drilling works and filling injections into anteludian gypsum dissolution cavities, prior to the construction of the GED (Grand Equipement Documentaire) documentation centre located in the heart of the future Condorcet campus in Aubervilliers, by Paris. These works will involve 280 drilling operations – a total length of 11,500 m.

July 2017

New contracts

Sale of two hotels in Saint-Étienne

28/07/2017 - News update - France
VINCI Immobilier signed an agreement on 26 July 2017 with Bpifrance Financement and Natiocrédibail, on behalf of Saint-Étienne Investissements, for the off-plan sale of two hotels.
Events

The Grand Paris programme focuses on culture and the arts

27/07/2017 - News update - France
VINCI Construction joins the group of Grand Paris Express endowment fund sponsors and undertakes to support the fund’s arts and cultural activities along the entire 200-km length of the new metro lines that will connect the region’s municipalities.
Events

The first 11 projects join the Leonard programme for Intrapreneurs

27/07/2017 - News update - France
A month after the launch of the first call for My VINCI Startup projects, the Leonard selection committee has selected the proposals of 11 VINCI employees out of the 83 entries submitted. They will join the Intrapreneurship programme and benefit from made-to-measure support for 4 months as they implement their innovative new business project.
New contracts

Refurbishing roads in several arrondissements of Montreal

20/07/2017 - News update - Canada
The City of Montreal has awarded the local Eurovia office a PCPR-type contract – a supplementary road-levelling and resurfacing programme – in the Saint-Léonard, Anjou and Montreal North arrondissements.
Events

Inauguration of new terminal at Faro Airport, in Portugal

17/07/2017 - News update - Portugal
On 17 July 2017, VINCI Airports inaugurated the new terminal at Faro Airport, in the presence of Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa and Pedro Marques, Minister of Planning and Infrastructure.
Sustainability

An autonomous vehicle passes a toll barrier for the 1st time

12/07/2017 - News update - France
On 12 July 2017, a PSA Group autonomous vehicle passed through the Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines toll plaza (VINCI Autoroutes network), the biggest in Europe, without any driver intervention, thanks to a specific communication established between the vehicle and the infrastructure.
Projects update and handover

The SEA HSL – an example of VINCI’s integrated construction/concession holder model

03/07/2017 - News update - France
Designed, financed, built and operated by VINCI under a concession agreement that runs until 2061, the South Europe Atlantic high-speed line has enabled people to travel from Paris to Bordeaux in just two hours since it was commissioned in July 2017. It is the largest project the Group has ever worked on.
Events

The SEA HSL has opened to traffic

02/07/2017 - News update - France
The South Europe Atlantic Tours–Bordeaux high-speed line, which VINCI built and is now operating, officially opened to traffic on Sunday 2 July 2017, marking the completion of the construction phase and the beginning of commercial operation.
New contracts

VINCI Highways signs new interoperability agreement

01/07/2017 - News update - Russian Federation
During the International Economic Forum in St Petersburg (SPIEF 2017), Avtodor, the public company in charge of the management of Russia’s motorways, expanded its interoperability agreement with VINCI Highways, a subsidiary of VINCI Concessions.
New contracts

Providing access roads on Reunion Island

01/07/2017 - News update - France
For its creation of a new guava-growing area, the commune of La Plaine des Palmistes has appointed SBTPC (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) to build Line 3500, i.e. concrete access roads to the agricultural parcels.
Projects update and handover

Further milestone passed for the Aqualagon

01/07/2017 - News update - France
In the Seine-et-Marne department (Paris region), teams from Arbonis (VINCI Construction France) deployed on the worksite for the Aqualagon, the future biggest water park in Europe, have finished installing the ultra-high performance fibre-reinforced concrete steps and the nets in polypropylene and stainless steel of the Air Tower.
New contracts

Two new contracts for Entrepose

01/07/2017 - News update - Algeria
The exploration and production branch of oil company Sonatrach has selected Entrepose Algeria (VINCI Construction) to equip the production centre of the Mesdar oil field (in the east of the country) with a new fire protection system.
New contracts

Plumbing works packages for hospital extension

01/07/2017 - News update - Belgium
Cegelec HVAC Public South (VINCI Energies Europe) has won a contract to supply the plumbing installations of the extension to the teaching hospital in Liège (23,000 sq. metres).
New contracts

Urban planning contract in Calama

01/07/2017 - News update - Chile
Bitumix (Eurovia) has secured its biggest-ever urban planning contract, for the improvement of the interconnection of one of the major thoroughfares in Calama, a mining city in the Atacama Desert, in the north of the country.
New contracts

Extending a quay in Port Chalmers

01/07/2017 - News update - New-Zealand
Port Otago Limited has awarded HEB Construction (VINCI Construction International Network) the design-build contract for the extension of the multi-purpose quay in Port Chalmers, on the east coast of the South Island.
Projects update and handover

Successful lifting operation in Yamal

01/07/2017 - News update - Russian Federation
In late June 2017, teams from Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction) lifted and installed the main stairway of storage tank Number 3 in Yamal.

June 2017

Projects update and handover

Ecological restoration of bed of Isère river

29/06/2017 - News update - France
Teams from the Mancuso earthworks centre of VINCI Construction Terrassement and Benedetti-Guelpa, a company that has recently become part of the Group, are working on behalf of the joint Isère/Arc en Combe de Savoie association within the framework of the Restoration of the Bed of the Isère operation.
Sustainability

Aéroports de Lyon certified ‘carbon neutral’

19/06/2017 - News update - France
Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport is now certified ACA 3+ ‘carbon neutral’, i.e. the most advanced level of the programme for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions set up by the ACI (Airports Council International).
Projects update and handover

Opening of the multimodal transport hub at Bordeaux railway station

19/06/2017 - News update - France
Created by a joint venture composed of VINCI companies, the extension to Bordeaux Saint-Jean station (west of France) has been opened to users two months ahead of the arrival of the Sud Europe Atlantique high- speed line (HSL).
Projects update and handover

Modernisation of Roland Garros: second set under way

09/06/2017 - News update - France
The Roland Garros tennis stadium complex in Paris is being extended and modernised under a programme managed by VINCI Construction France. The project’s phasing is highly unusual, with a pause each year for the French Open tennis tournament to be played. Work recently started on the second phase and redevelopment work will end in 2020 with the inauguration of the new Philippe Chatrier court, complete with retractable roof.
New contracts

Construction of the Normandy School of Management and the Digital City in Le Havre

09/06/2017 - News update - France
In Le Havre (Normandy), Sogea Nord-Ouest (VINCI Construction France), as co-contracting authority with the Seine Estuary CCI on behalf of the urban community, is preparing to erect the building that will house the Normandy School of Management (SM) and the Digital City.
Events

Opening of the new A9 motorway in Montpellier

01/06/2017 - News update - France
Following five years of works under VINCI Autoroutes programme management, the new section of the A9 motorway at Montpellier has just been opened more than six months ahead of the original schedule. The opening capped France’s largest motorway project in recent years. VINCI Autoroutes financed the €800 million investment and more than 300 companies and 1,500 people were involved in the project during the peak construction period.
New contracts

New power plant for Kiel

01/06/2017 - News update - Germany
Actemium Controlmatic Berlin (VINCI Energies Europe) has been awarded, by Elpro GmbH, the electrical assembly and instrumentation works for a new combined cycle power plant in the Bay of Kiel which is destined to supply the city.
New contracts

Building a new HQ for news channel Mayotte 1ère

01/06/2017 - News update - France
In Mayotte, France Télévisions has just awarded SMTPC (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) the construction, on a general contracting basis, of the new headquarters of news channel Mayotte 1ère.
New contracts

Foundation works for the Alto tower

01/06/2017 - News update - France
Having contributed to the design and implementation planning for the foundations and infrastructure of the future Alto tower in La Défense, by Paris, the teams at the France Nord office of Soletanche Bachy France (VINCI Construction) have been appointed to supply the foundation works, with the tower to be erected by Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France.
Projects update and handover

Magenta aquatic centre in Nouméa

01/06/2017 - News update - France
In a joint venture with Cegelec New Caledonia (VINCI Energies France), Epureau and Madea Concept, SCB (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) is building the Magenta aquatic centre for the city of Nouméa, in New Caledonia. Extending over some 6,000 sq. metres, the complex will notably feature five pools, including a 25 m swimming pool, an artificial wave and an area with a slide.
Projects update and handover

Preparatory works for future station at Orly Airport

01/06/2017 - News update - France
A joint venture composed of Cardem Paris (Eurovia), leader, Eurovia Massy and Demathieu Bard is implementing the preparatory works, on behalf of Aéroports de Paris, for the construction of the future Orly Airport station, which by 2024 will serve as the terminus of Lines 14 and 18 of the Grand Paris Express network.
New contracts

Repairing bridges in Leicestershire

01/06/2017 - News update - United Kingdom
Eurovia Contracting North was selected to start ECI negotiations (Early Contractor Involvement, a form of contract involving the company in the design and planning phase of a project, at the end of which the cost of the works is agreed jointly) with Leicestershire County Council with a view to undertaking a programme of structural repairs for road bridges.
Projects update and handover

Foundations for a retail centre

01/06/2017 - News update - Poland
In Warsaw, Soletanche Polska (VINCI Construction) is involved in the project to upgrade a site of almost 5 hectares on which the Młociny retail and leisure centre is to be built.

May 2017

Events

Ground-breaking ceremony for the Duo buildings in Paris

23/05/2017 - News update - France
The Duo buildings will soon tower 180 and 122 metres high in Masséna, a neighbourhood straddling southern Paris and neighbouring Ivry, and were created by Ateliers Jean Nouvel. The ground-breaking ceremony took place on 18 May and VINCI Construction France will be leading the construction work.
Projects update and handover

LUMA Arles: a large-scale project set to become a landmark of the city of Arles.

17/05/2017 - News update - France
LUMA Arles, the 10-hectare cultural campus created by the LUMA Foundation, will open to the public in 2018. It comprises a park, six industrial buildings and a sculpture-like tower.
Events

Launch of Horizon Energy, the energy-producing glazed façade

16/05/2017 - News update - France
On 11 May 2017, VINCI Construction and Sunpartner Technologies announced the launch of Horizon Energy, a photovoltaic curtain wall forming part of the façades of buildings to produce energy.
Events

VINCI Energies hackathon: the Internet of things and Big Data

15/05/2017 - News update - France
From 12-14 May 2017, VINCI Energies organised its first hackathon at La Factory, its new space dedicated to innovation in La Défense, by Paris.
Projects update and handover

Handover of Casablanca’s new fishing port

12/05/2017 - News update - Morocco
March 2017 saw Dumez Maroc (VINCI Construction International Network) hand over the new fishing port in Casablanca, a project forming part of a total redevelopment of the port area.
Events

Touring Plaine Commune

05/05/2017 - News update - France
Plaine Commune, a district just outside Paris, is changing fast. And four VINCI Group projects there show you how.

VINCI is at the centre of the challenges facing the city of the future, and involved in the conversation about urban transformation, inter alia through La Fabrique de la Cité, its in-house think-tank. And it is tackling those challenges and making the transformation happen in Plaine Commune, a nine-town community and part of the Grand Paris programme. The Group is leading Rêve de scènes urbaines (“dreams of urban scenes”, an industrial demonstrator for sustainable cities) as part of a joint venture between public- and private-sector players to test trailblazing solutions, promote urban innovation and showcase French savoir-faire.

Projects update and handover

Creation of a wetland

01/05/2017 - News update - France
On the outskirts of Reims, teams from VINCI Construction Terrassement’s Champagne-Ardenne centre, in association with Edivert, are creating a 10-hectare artificial wetland as part of the Azhurev project (development of a wetland in Reims for purification and living beings).
Projects update and handover

Construction of two new buildings at Le Mans hospital

01/05/2017 - News update - France
Sogea Atlantique BTP/VINCI Construction France has won the major works package (structural works, envelope and finishing works) for the construction of the two buildings that will form the new hospital in Le Mans (north-western France).
Projects update and handover

Freezing operation for underground metro stations

01/05/2017 - News update - France
To the north of Paris, on the project to extend the metro’s Line 12, teams from Chantiers Modernes Construction, Botte Fondations, Sogea TPI (all VINCI Construction France) and Dodin Campenon Bernard are building two new underground stations: Aimé Césaire and Mairie d’Aubervilliers.
Projects update and handover

Contactless payment at toll sites

01/05/2017 - News update - France
Trialled for six months at Avignon North, on the A7 motorway, contactless payment is now possible at ten toll sites on the VINCI Autoroutes network, and is due to be gradually rolled out to the rest of the network between now and the end of 2017.
New contracts

New operating contract on the M3

01/05/2017 - News update - Russian Federation
UTS, a VINCI Highways subsidiary, has won the contract to operate and maintain a new segment – a 70 km-long section just to the west of Moscow – of the M3 motorway, which runs between Moscow and the Ukrainian border.
New contracts

West Africa - Electricity interconnection project

01/05/2017 - News update
VINCI Energies Transport et Transformation d’Energie and VINCI Energies Maroc (VINCI Energies International & Systems) have won the contracts for four works packages concerning 225-kV overhead power lines extending 1,000 km across Senegal, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau and the Gambia.
New contracts

New projects for Soletanche Bachy

01/05/2017 - News update - Malaysia
Having created the Bukit Bintang and Kuala Lumpur Sentral stations on Kuala Lumpur’s first metro line, the teams from Bachy Soletanche Construction Malaysia (VINCI Construction) have secured two new contracts, for the diaphragm walls of two new underground stations on Line 2, currently under construction.
Projects update and handover

Operation Mascarin on Reunion Island

01/05/2017 - News update - France
Ocidim and SBTPC (both VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) are currently working on the Mascarin residential project in La Possession, on Reunion Island.
Events

A9 Motorway - Fun weekend for the public

01/05/2017 - News update - France
Prior to its upcoming opening to traffic, the new A9 motorway by Montpellier (south of France) was opened to the general public for a rather different purpose on 8 and 9 April 2017.
Events

Handover - Wastewater treatment plant in Bandrélé

01/05/2017 - News update - France
The joint venture composed of VINCI Construction Grands Projets (leader), Sogea Mayotte and SMTPC (both VINCI Construction Dom-Tom subsidiaries) handed over the wastewater treatment plant in Bandrélé, in the south of Mayotte, in April 2017.

April 2017

Projects update and handover

Construction of new Saint-Gobain HQ

19/04/2017 - News update - France
The foundation stone for the Saint-Gobain Tower in the La Défense business district, by Paris, was laid on 19 April by Pierre-André de Chalendar, Chairman & CEO of Saint-Gobain, Gabriele Galateri di Genola, Chairman of Assicurazioni Generali and Xavier Huillard, Chairman & CEO of VINCI.
Events

The VINCI Autoroutes Foundation publishes results of its 4th European Responsible Driving Barometer survey

07/04/2017 - News update - France
Conducted by Ipsos on a sample of 12,429 drivers in 11 European Union countries, this vast survey provides a snapshot of European behaviour at the wheel.
Events

Smiling Day 2017: connecting passengers on the VINCI Airports network

03/04/2017 - News update
The 5th edition of Smiling Day, during which passengers meet airport staff, took place on 31 March 2017 in all airports of the VINCI Airports network.
New contracts

Eurovia modernises a further stretch of the D1 motorway

01/04/2017 - News update - Czech Republic
As leader of a joint venture including Eurovia Béton and Colas, Eurovia CS has secured the contract to upgrade the Hořice-Koberovice section of the D1 motorway, in the centre of the country.
Projects update and handover

A further 1,300 km now equipped with GSM-R

01/04/2017 - News update - France
Since late March 2017, the Synerail consortium, in which VINCI Concessions and VINCI Energies have a 30% stake, has been operating the GSM-R system on 11,600 km of the French railway network.
Projects update and handover

Track renewal in Lyon Perrache Station

01/04/2017 - News update - France
La Champenoise (ETF/Eurovia) has begun its 2017 programme of work for Vigirail (SNCF Réseau’s programme for the maintenance and upgrading of railway installations) with a major project: the renewal of 34 switches and crossings and almost 1,200 lm of track in Lyon Perrache railway station.
New contracts

Technical equipment for Nice tramway extension

01/04/2017 - News update - France
In connection with the extension of its tram network, the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis has awarded Roiret Transport, in a joint venture with Axians Services Infras Côte d’Azur (both VINCI Energies France companies), the contract to install various systems – network management, low-voltage and radio.
Projects update and handover

Soil improvement for Mexico’s new international airport

01/04/2017 - News update - Mexico
Having won a contract in late 2016, teams from Menard Mexico (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction) are currently working on the project for a new international airport for Mexico City, to be built to the north of the city.
Projects update and handover

Construction of ‘Uranium House’

01/04/2017 - News update - Niger
Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) is currently building the head office, in the capital, Niamey, of the Immeuble Uranium company: a complex of two 2-storey buildings providing a total surface area of 3,900 sq. metres.
New contracts

Security for a thermal power plant

01/04/2017 - News update - Ivory Coast
Secure (VINCI Energies International & Systems), in a joint venture with VINCI Energies Côte d’Ivoire, has been awarded a project, by the Ivorian power producer CIPREL, to provide the security arrangements at the site of the Vridi thermal power plant, to the south of Abidjan.
New contracts

Motorway equipment for Regina

01/04/2017 - News update - Canada
Within the framework of the Regina Bypass project, headed by VINCI Highways and concerning modernisation, construction and operation-maintenance operations on the motorway bypassing Regina, Mobility Way Inc. (VINCI Energies International & Systems) has won the motorway equipment works package.
New contracts

Creating a wind farm

01/04/2017 - News update - Indonesia
Omexom Indonesia (VINCI Energies International and Systems) has secured a contract with UPC Renewables for the creation of the country’s first wind farm: Sidrap, located on the island of Sulawesi.

March 2017

Projects update and handover

Creation of a wharf on the island of Ouvéa

27/03/2017 - News update - New Caledonia
Off the coast of New Caledonia, Jean Lefebvre Pacifique (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) is currently implementing two projects on behalf of the Loyalty Islands Province, as part of the creation of the new wharf in Hwadrilla, in the centre of the island.
Projects update and handover

Seven new automated dams brought into service on the Aisne and the Meuse

21/03/2017 - News update - France
BAMEO, the project company composed of VINCI Concessions, SHEMA (EDF Group) and Méridiam, announced, on 15 March 2017, the bringing into service – with the approval of waterways authority Voies Navigables de France (VNF) – of seven new automated dams on the Aisne and the Meuse.
Projects update and handover

Launch of TO-LYON, one of the biggest building projects in Lyon

16/03/2017 - News update - France
Yesterday, during the MIPIM, the international trade fair for property professionals, Gérard Collomb, senator and mayor of Lyon and president of the Metropolis of Lyon, Olivier de la Roussière, chairman of VINCI Immobilier and Dominique Perrault, architect, will be presenting TO- LYON, a major project that will transform the Lyon-Part-Dieu neighbourhood.
Events

Eurovia, the leading road construction company in Chile

09/03/2017 - News update - Chile
Eurovia, one of the world’s top-tier players in transport infrastructure construction and urban amenities, has grown into the number-one road construction company in Chile in less than two decades. Its development strategy now involves exporting Eurovia’s model from Chile to other promising South American countries such as Peru and Colombia.
New contracts

Urban cable cars for Orléans

01/03/2017 - News update - France
A joint venture notably comprising GTM Normandie Centre (leader) and Sogea Centre, both VINCI Construction France subsidiaries, is to build the new urban cable-car system in Orléans (central France) which, by 2018, will be able to transport up to 60 passengers between the railway station and the future Interives neighbourhood, crossing above the railway tracks of Fleury-les-Aubrais station as it does so.
Sustainability

Ecological continuity on the A89

01/03/2017 - News update - France
On the A89, in the Corrèze department, January 2017 saw VINCI Autoroutes teams start building the La Pologne wildlife crossing.
Projects update and handover

Vert en vue operation in Strasbourg

01/03/2017 - News update - France
Urban Dumez (VINCI Construction France) has just launched the works of the Vert en vue (Green Outlook) operation in Strasbourg (east of France).
New contracts

Office building in Cambridge

01/03/2017 - News update - United Kingdom
VINCI Construction UK has been awarded the design-build of a five-storey office building of some 6,000 sq. metres for the University of Cambridge’s St John’s College.
Projects update and handover

Works beside Windsor Castle

01/03/2017 - News update - United Kingdom
Eurovia Surfacing has just completed resurfacing works in Thames Street, which runs alongside one side of Windsor Castle and serves the castle’s main entrance.
Projects update and handover

Track and ballast renewal works

01/03/2017 - News update - Poland
In late 2016, ETF Polska (Eurovia) completed track and ballast renewal works on behalf of PKP PLK, the national company responsible for the maintenance of the rail network, on a 10 km section of Line 274, which links Wrocław, the country’s fourth-largest city, with Zgorzelec, on the German border.
Projects update and handover

Exceptional lifting operation for future Chlef cement works

01/03/2017 - News update - Algeria
In early February 2017, teams from Entrepose International Network (VINCI Construction) lifted into place the steel structure of the future building where cement will be pre-mixed at the planned Chlef cement works, 200 km to the south-west of Algiers.

February 2017

Events

Inauguration of the South Europe Atlantic HSL Tours-Bordeaux

28/02/2017 - News update - France
The SEA HSL Tours-Bordeaux was inaugurated on 28 February 2017 in Villognon (western France), in the presence of French President François Hollande and of Alain Rousset, president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Xavier Huillard, chairman & CEO of VINCI, Laurent Cavrois, chairman of Lisea and Patrick Jeantet, chairman of SNCF Réseau.
New contracts

Network of cycle paths in Poland

15/02/2017 - News update - Poland
Eurovia Poland has signed a contract with the regional road authorities in Cracow for the construction of a cycle path from Zakopane to Sromowce Niżne, in the Tatra Mountains in the south of Poland, close to the border with Slovakia.
Projects update and handover

VINCI Autoroutes to implement 25 operations for better mobility in the territories on its network

13/02/2017 - News update - France
As part of the Motorway Investment Plan signed with the French state on 26th January 2017, VINCI Autoroutes is planning to implement 25 operations for better mobility in the territories on the ASF, Cofiroute and Escota networks.
New contracts

End of downstream drive on Romanche Gavet project

09/02/2017 - News update - France
At the Gavet site (south-east France) where Dodin Campenon Bernard teams are currently working, the TBM Rosali completed its drive on 9 February 2017, after several months of drilling in a downstream direction, towards the underground power plant.
Projects update and handover

Off-plan sale of the Le Belvédère Building in La Défense

01/02/2017 - News update - France
On 1 February 2017, VINCI Immobilier announced that an off-plan sale of the Le Belvédère Building, located in Puteaux, in the La Défense neighbourhood by Paris, had been agreed with AG2R La Mondiale.
New contracts

Maintenance for Santiago metro

01/02/2017 - News update - Chile
In early January 2017, a joint venture headed by ETF (Eurovia) secured the contract for the maintenance, for a period of seven years, of the metro in Santiago de Chile.
New contracts

Contracts for three schools in Mayotte island

01/02/2017 - News update - France
SMTPC (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) is participating in three school projects on the island of Mayotte. In the south of the island, it will be responsible for the shell construction of a secondary school for 900 pupils in Bouéni.
Projects update and handover

Urban redevelopment in Nouméa

01/02/2017 - News update - France
Jean Lefebvre Pacifique (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) has just completed the redevelopment works – utilities, urban lighting, traffic lights, roadway, pavements and green spaces – in Rue Jules Ferry in Nouméa, in New Caledonia.
New contracts

Extending the Cairo metro

01/02/2017 - News update - Egypt
ETF (Eurovia), as part of a joint venture notably including Orascom Construction, has signed a contract to extend Line 3 of the Cairo metro towards the west bank of the Nile.
New contracts

Renovation of communication networks

01/02/2017 - News update - Austria
Projects update and handover

New quay for the port of Sète

01/02/2017 - News update - France
From March to October 2016, Eurovia’s Juvignac office was involved, sub-contracting for Soletanche Bachy (VINCI Construction), in the construction of a new quay in the port of Sète (south of France).

January 2017

Projects update and handover

Three school contracts in Guadeloupe

30/01/2017 - News update - France
Dodin Guadeloupe and GTM Guadeloupe, subsidiaries of VINCI Construction Dom-Tom, have just won three contracts for the construction of schools in the centre of Guadeloupe.
Events

Ggaba treatment plant in Uganda

24/01/2017 - News update - Ouganda
On 24 January 2017, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni formally opened the drinking water treatment plant, rehabilitated by Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network), on the Ggaba peninsula in Kampala.
Events

Inauguration of the Veolia Campus

23/01/2017 - News update - France
Created by Bateg and CBC, both VINCI Construction France subsidiaries, on behalf of Icade, the Veolia Campus in Aubervilliers, by Paris, was inaugurated on 23 January 2017.
Events

Enhanced traffic information thanks to exchanging data with Waze

18/01/2017 - News update - France
VINCI Autoroutes has joined the Connected Citizens programme, which is based on the exchanging of information on traffic conditions, anonymous, free and real time, between Waze – the traffic and community navigation app – and its partners.
Projects update and handover

Signature of the final contracts for the Meliã Hotel in Roissy

18/01/2017 - News update - France
VINCI Immobilier has signed the final agreements with the ADP Group and Meliá Hotels International to develop the four-star Innside by Meliá Hotel at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Projects update and handover

Asphalting of the Kelo-Pala road in Chad

16/01/2017 - News update - Chad
Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) started asphalting the road between Kelo and Pala, in the Mayo Kebbi region (south of the country), in January 2017, on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and accessibility.
Events

Jesselton towers in Kota Kinabalu

16/01/2017 - News update - Malaysia
VINCI Construction Grands Projets teams handed over the Jesselton residential towers in Kota Kinabalu, on the island of Borneo, on 16 January 2017, a month ahead of schedule.
Events

Join-up for the road bridge over the Wouri

12/01/2017 - News update - Cameroon
In Douala, on 12 January 2017, just two months after completion of the railway bridge, teams from the joint venture formed by Sogea-Satom, Soletanche Bachy, Dodin Campenon Bernard and Sogea TPI (all VINCI Construction) concreted the final voussoir of the road bridge over the Wouri into place.
Projects update and handover

Redevelopment of Sainte-Anne Prison in Avignon

11/01/2017 - News update - France
Girard (VINCI Construction France) is to redevelop the Sainte-Anne Prison, in the historic centre of Avignon (south of France), into a vast urban and architectural complex.
Projects update and handover

Handover of technical facilities at a teaching hospital in Martinique

06/01/2017 - News update - France
In late 2016, Sogea Martinique and SIMP, both VINCI Construction Dom-Tom subsidiaries, and Cegelec Projets Antilles Guyane (VINCI Energies France) handed over the new 40,000 sq. metre technical resources centre at the La Meynard teaching hospital (CHU) in Fort-de-France.
Events

New Borderouge interchange on the A62

05/01/2017 - News update - France
Opened to traffic on 23 December 2016, the new Borderouge interchange on the eastern ring road round Toulouse (south-west France) was formally inaugurated on 5 January 2017 in the presence of Pierre Coppey, chairman of VINCI Autoroutes, Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie region, Georges Meric, president of the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council, Jean-Luc Moudenc, president of Toulouse Métropole and mayor of the city, and Pascal Mailhos, prefect of the Occitanie region.
New contracts

École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay

01/01/2017 - News update - France
CBC (VINCI Construction France) is to build the new, Paris-Saclay école normale supérieure (an elite higher education institution) at the Plateau de Saclay (Paris region).
Projects update and handover

Extending the A304

01/01/2017 - News update - France
Eurovia’s Ludres and Sedan offices have joined forces to implement the pavements works package of the A304’s “Ardennes Y” project, following on from the earthworks, engineering structures and reinstatement of road connections works package supplied by the joint venture comprising VINCI Construction Terrassement (leader), Dodin Campenon Bernard, GTM Lorraine (VINCI Construction France) and Eurovia Champagne-Ardenne.
Projects update and handover

Drinking water supply

01/01/2017 - News update - Burundi
Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network), on behalf of the national water distribution authority (Regideso), is undertaking works for the supply of drinking water to three of the country’s towns: Ngozi, Kayanza and Muyinga.
Projects update and handover

Road junction on the Cracow – Slovak border road

01/01/2017 - News update - Poland
A joint venture, within which Eurovia Poland is in charge of all the roadworks, is building an interchange at the junction of the DK47 and DW961 roads at Poronin.
New contracts

Installing noise barriers

01/01/2017 - News update - Germany
As part of the federal government’s noise reduction programme for the German rail network, the Teco Schallschutz office of Eurovia Germany has been appointed to create nine noise barriers (height: 2 - 3 m; length: 6.6 km) at Bottrop (North Rhine-Westphalia).
Projects update and handover

Another key stage completed at Yamal

01/01/2017 - News update - Russian Federation
On the project to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks led by the Entrepose Contracting - VINCI Construction Grands Projets joint venture at Yamal, in Siberia, a further key stage was completed in late December 2016 with the lifting, and placing in position on the roofs of the No. 1 and No. 2 tanks, of the platforms and pipe racks prefabricated at the Kaliningrad site.
Projects update and handover

First fill for Gabès gas tanks

01/01/2017 - News update - Tunisia
In Gabès, at the site created for the Société Nationale de Distribution des Pétroles for the storage of liquefied hydrocarbons (six sand-filled storage spheres, each with a capacity of 4,000 cu. metres), the Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction) teams have started filling operations.
Projects update and handover

Preparatory works for the Tarsus project

01/01/2017 - News update - Turkey
Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction) teams started carrying out seismic surveys for the Tarsus underground storage project in November 2016.
Projects update and handover

Motorway interconnection

01/01/2017 - News update - Spain
Late December 2016 saw Probisa (Eurovia) teams complete works aimed at improving the link between the A30 motorway, connecting Madrid and Murcia, and the A7, which runs along the Mediterranean coast to link Barcelona with the south of the country.
Events

Grand Parc project in Bordeaux

01/01/2017 - News update - France
GTM Bâtiment Aquitaine (VINCI Construction France) handed over its rehabilitation, on an occupied site, of the 530 homes in the Grand Parc complex in Bordeaux (west of France) at the end of 2016, after more than two-and-a-half years of works.
Projects update and handover

Completion of the Escondida project

01/01/2017 - News update - Chile
Geocean (Entrepose/VINCI Construction), as part of a joint venture including Soletanche Bachy Chile and Bessac (also VINCI Construction subsidiaries), completed the maritime works of the Escondida Water Supply project in the Antofagasta region, in northern Chile, in December 2016.

2016