News update

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.