News update

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.