News update

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

In New York, Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) designed and supplied the stay cable system and provided assistance during the installation of the cables of the new bridge on the expressway connecting the Queens and Brooklyn neighbourhoods, which has just been inaugurated.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ocidim and SBTPC (both VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) are currently working on the Mascarin residential project in La Possession, on Reunion Island.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Urban Dumez (VINCI Construction France) has just launched the works of the Vert en vue (Green Outlook) operation in Strasbourg (east of France).

On the A89, in the Corrèze department, January 2017 saw VINCI Autoroutes teams start building the La Pologne wildlife crossing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction) teams started carrying out seismic surveys for the Tarsus underground storage project in November 2016.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).