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VINCI Construction Maritime et Fluvial is blazing new trails in France’s public works: it is testing a 30 kVA hydrogen-powered electric generator at its “Ouistreham” sea dock in Le Havre (Normandy).

Warbud (VINCI Construction International Network) and the Agricultural University of Kraków have signed a design-build contract for an innovation and research centre focused on food safety and health.

Through an environmental offset and reforestation programme led by Via 40 Express (VINCI Highways/VINCI Concessions) with Colombia’s National Infrastructure Agency (ANI), more than 3,388 trees have been planted since last year in the municipalities of Soacha and Sibaté, south of Bogotá.

he 2020 BIM d’Or ceremony, organised by Le Moniteur and Les Cahiers Techniques du Bâtiment to reward outstanding projects using digital models, took place on Monday 21 September at Station F in Paris.

Since the beginning of the school year, 34 students have had the opportunity to join one of the two groups taking a BTS (advanced technical) course in electrotechnology, which VINCI Energies has set up in partnership with Les Compagnons du Devoir, a training organisation, in eastern France.

In late July, Eurovia’s Basse-Normandie (Orne sector) office completed the works to transform a disused railway line into a Green Way (voie verte) between Alençon and Couterne, on behalf of the departmental council.

In July, VINCI Immobilier and Foncière Inea agreed the off-plan sale of the Le Stadium office complex in the OL City business park in Décines-Charpieu, to the east of Lyon.

The joint venture composed of Eurovia Lietuva, Eurovia CS and Ltd GTC is renewing a stretch of the line linking the seaport of Klaipėda to Belarus via Vilnius, one of the busiest in the country.

Easy Charge, a subsidiary of VINCI Autoroutes and VINCI Energies specialised in electric mobility, and the Fund for the Ecological Modernisation of Transport have recently been awarded the public service concession (financing, design-construction and operation) of the eborn electric charging stations for a period of eight years.

In Burkino Faso, the teams from Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) have recently delivered the project to restore and extend the new bus station in the capital.

The national road set to improve mobility between Angoulême et Cognac, inaugurated in Charente on 24 July, has one defining feature – 70% of its asphalt is recycled! This is a very high percentage compared to the average of 20%-30% for road works in France. Eurovia Grands Travaux and Eurovia Angoulême managed this project, which harnessed the circular economy.

Actemium Toulouse Robotique & Automation (VINCI Energies) is helping Thales Alenia Space set up a factory to automatically manufacture solar panels for satellites.

New retail areas will open in the North and South terminals at Osaka International Airport (VINCI Airports/VINCI Concessions) this 5 August, after four years of works.

Degaine (VINCI Construction France), is renovating the envelope of the palaeontology gallery at the Natural History Museum in Paris’s 5th arrondissement.

VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions) is providing a series of free audio guides via a mobile app – On our way – on the M11 motorway connecting Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

In Nanterre, West of Paris, on the site of the future VINCI head office, a project that involves VINCI Construction France, VINCI Energies and VINCI Immobilier, the introduction of specific hygiene measures has made it possible to get over 650 workers back on site as they currently focus on the structural work, architectural trades, technical packages and installing the facades.

In Normandy, on behalf of SNCF Réseau, VINCI Construction Terrassement has increased the height of 1,200 lm of platforms; work involving temporarily stopping rail traffic was often carried out at night, by 50 workers.

Axians Cloud Builder Est (VINCI Energies France), a partner of the Lorraine Cancerology Institute for some ten years, has now, thanks to a major pre-sales effort, been awarded the project to renew its IT infrastructure, rationalising and simplifying it around a single Dell storage technology.

The Nord-Médoc coast (west of France) is bordered by sandy dunes which are constantly being eroded by the ocean swell.

VINCI Autoroutes has committed itself to preserving the great hamsters of Alsace, a protected species, as part of the compensatory measures associated with the construction of the A355 motorway that will bypass Strasbourg, in particular through a breeding programme and their reintroduction into their natural habitat.

Cegelec Belgium (VINCI Energies Europe West) is supplying the electrical, plumbing and climate engineering installations of the InnovOcean complex (8,650 m2), the new campus of the Flanders Marine Institute and the Research Institute for Agriculture and Fisheries.

The intercommunal drainage and wastewater association in the province of Liege (AIDE) has awarded Bessac (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction), in a joint venture with a Belgian partner, the construction of a wastewater collector in the commune of Flemalle, near Liege.

VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions), concessionaire of the Via Niedersachsen motorway (A7-2) in Lower Saxony, opened a further 5 km-long section to traffic on 7 June 2020.

On 22 April, a steel bridge was installed in Vrañany, in Central Bohemia.

In May, in the west of the country, teams from Saldus Celinieks (Eurovia) began renovation works on a section a little over 3 km long of the A9 – the national highway linking Riga to Liepaja, on the coast – and on a section some 12 km in length of the P96 road linking Puri to Grivaiši via Auce.

Hubbard Construction (Eurovia) completed the second phase of the project to renovate one of the two runways at Lakeland Linder airport, located alongside the I-4 highway, halfway between Tampa and Orlando.

Ecol Delta has awarded Omexom RE Wind (VINCI Energies International & Systems) the project to build infrastructure for the Luplanté wind farm in Eure-et-Loir.

In line with the comprehensive environmental strategy AirPact pursued by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), Kansai Airports has recently put in place a new initiative to reduce the use of plastic and raise awareness among passengers about its impact on the environment.

Omexom (VINCI Energies) is currently working on building a section of the electricity line between Crete and Peloponnese and in particular laying 15 km of submarine cable to connect the Chania substation (in north west Crete) with the landing point.

Méditerranée Préfabrication (VINCI Construction France) finalised the installation of 231 modules of Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) that form the white exoskeleton of the Manufacture de la mode in Aubervilliers, north of Paris, after just seven months of work.

Tychy EuroviaToday, the city of Tychy in Silesia, Poland is an industrial centre of automotive manufacturing — but tomorrow, it will be an urban centre with cutting-edge traffic management technology.

LisbonAfter rolling out an autonomous robot that uses UV light to disinfect, VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) has introduced an app at Lisbon airport. Passengers can now give their feedback regarding the hygiene measures in place in real time, using 146 QR codes at 43 different points throughout the airport.

Thanks to a partnership between Walsall College and Balfour Beatty VINCI, HS2’s joint venture construction partner for the West Midlands section of the railway, groups of students will supplement their classroom education with hands-on experience at Britain’s new high speed railway.

An assessment of VINCI’s Covid-19 solidarity initiative Watch this video and take a look back at the exceptional support provided by the Group to help workers in the healthcare, sanitation, social and education sectors, helping those in extremely challenging or precarious situations at the time of the pandemic.

Eurovia CS is completing the turnkey construction of a biotechnology system to purify the water at the former Kohinoor open-pit mine in the Ústí nad Labem region of the Czech Republic.

France’s new Mobility Orientation Act (LOM in French) encourages carpooling, and Cyclope.ai (VINCI Autoroutes) is developing new image processing technology that detects the number of occupants in vehicles using reserved carpooling lanes, whether they are seated in the back or front of the car, and travelling by day or night.

On 4 June, five startups incubated for six months under Leonard’s SEED programme unveiled their construction, mobility, real estate and energy solutions online.

On 5th June, VINCI Airports celebrated the resumption of Portugal’s airports business in the presence of António Costa, Prime Minister of the country.

On World Environment Day, VINCI teams went on line to share the action and initiatives they have taken in support of the Group's environmental strategy.

Siemens Gamesa has selected the joint venture led by GTM Normandie-Centre (VINCI Construction France) to build its new offshore wind turbine plant in the port of Le Havre.

While complying with shielding measures, teams from Signature, the Eurovia subsidiary specialising in road signs and markings, worked in April and May to create temporary bicycle lanes throughout France in response to requests from local authorities.

“Pour une fleur avec toi” aims to brighten up daily life for people directly affected by the pandemic while helping horticulturists maintain their operations.

Omexom Norway South/East Distribution Grid (VINCI Energies) awarded by Elvia for demolishing and building of new overhead lines in the 22kV distribution grid sector. The project takes place in Halden town and Aremark area.

Calanbau Brandschutzanlagen GmbH - Augsburg (VINCI Energies) was commissioned with the sprinkler protection for the new paper mill of the Palm group, one of the largest manufacturers of paper and cardboard in Europe, at their headquarters in Aalen-Neukochen.

The "Protecting each other" campaign rolled out in VINCI Concessions airport and motorway networks reminds travellers of the social distancing and health rules to comply with.

Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has recognised Salvador Bahia International Airport, managed by VINCI Airports since early 2018, as "Brazil's most sustainable aerodrome in 2019".

Following completion of Eurovia’s renovation work on its main runway, Rennes Bretagne airport – which is owned and operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) alongside the Ille et Vilaine Chamber of Commerce and Industry – celebrated the resumption of its activities this 15 May.

Cegelec Maroc has decided to provide exceptional support for the national effort to combat the effects of the COVID-19 crisis by making a MAD 5 million (about €470,000) donation to the Special Fund for the Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Kingdom of Morocco.

On April 12th, 2020, Omexom Bahrain has been awarded by LS Cable & System Ltd a part of the 400 KV cabling works for the Ras Legrain substation.

Since the start of the pandemic, VINCI Construction UK has successfully completed the construction of 4 temporary hospitals in Manchester, Deeside, Bangor and Preston to help with the demand for extra hospital bed capacity.

Omexom Australia had to reassess its way of operating. The single biggest challenge during COVID-19 is how the crews and the larger work group can work safety and efficiently while social distancing and managing the additional risks associated with government requirements to minimise the transmission of the virus.

The renovation work on Rennes Bretagne airport’s main runway, which Eurovia carried out for VINCI Airports, was completed on 7 May.

In preparation for the lockdown easing in France, Signature (Eurovia) is working for the Seine Saint Denis department’s authorities, building a temporary bicycle path on the RD 932, the departmental highway connecting Porte de la Villette at the edge of Paris to Le Bourget via Pantin, Aubervilliers and La Courneuve.

SAR, a Eurovia subsidiary specialised in road markings, has resumed work at its plant in Agnetz, about 50 km north of Paris. It has mapped out an action plan, which was approved by its Social and Economic Committee, to resume operations.

Further to the agreement signed by the two partners at the 2020 Salon de l'Agriculture (national agricultural trade show), the FNSEA, France's leading agricultural union, and VINCI Autoroutes have come together to offer truck drivers food baskets featuring local fruits and vegetables or cheeses, depending on the region.

The teams working on the extension of Ottawa’s Confederation Line, within the construction joint venture KEV (which includes Eurovia, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Dodin Campenon Bernard), are supporting the solidarity drive at Marcie’s Café, near their offices.

Eurovia CS is renovating four sections (2, 7, 10 and 16) of the D1 motorway, between Prague and Brno, the Czech Republic’s two largest cities.

At the end of April, less than three weeks after it waslaunched, the Solidarity Initiative promoted by VINCI via the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité has already provided support to more than 280 national or regional non-profit organisations in France.

VINCI Construction France is resuming work on a number of projects, such as the Cité des Sports in Issy-les-Moulineaux or line 14 North T09 of the Paris metro, ensuring safe work practices and proper prevention in compliance with current requirements.

After reorganising tasks and work schedules, Eurovia and VINCI Construction France crews were able to resume work last week on French air force base 105 at Évreux-Fauville.

In Yaoundé, Omexom Cameroon's 30 employees working on public lighting and traffic signal maintenance projects (VINCI Energies) are currently active.

VINCI Autoroutes has teamed up with market research institute Ipsos on the Datacovid initiative. The initiative’s goal is to supply new, anonymous open data to scientists and public and private organisations, in order to track behaviour in France and its impact on the epidemic’s dynamics over time.

In Côte d’Ivoire, 60 Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) employees, including 58 hired locally, took part in the construction of the new Saint Viateur drinking water plant in Abidjan.

A9, A10, A61, A62… motorway widening and renovation projects are gradually picking up again on the VINCI Autoroutes network. Over the past several weeks, VINCI Autoroutes' project management teams have been working in coordination with all business units, project managers and health and safety coordinators on defining rules and procedures in response to the unprecedented context of the pandemic.

Our highly inventive teams are continuing to push great initiatives and ideas across the network.

At the request of the French Ministry of Transport, French start-up TESSAN has installed the very first medical remote consultation booth in the Saint Rambert d'Albon rest area on the A7 highway (France).

In the context of the present pandemic, VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions) is continuing its efforts to support operators in the community as well as its customers and other stakeholders.

“Considering the current pandemic, we just could not ignore the calls for help in combating COVID-19 issued by our medical institutions. It is important for us to show solidarity and responsibility,” explains Jakub Saloni, Managing Director of Menard Polska (Soletanche Freyssinet, VINCI Construction) in Poland.

Following the destruction of part of the teaching hospital in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) by a fire, new buildings meeting international seismic protection standards are currently being erected.

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction), in a joint venture with SCB (Société de Construction et de Bâtiment), has been participating since April 2018 in the construction of the Farahantsana hydroelectric dam on the Ikopa River, 30 km to the north-west of the capital, Antananarivo.

In Greece, the Rion-Antirion Bridge, operated by VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions), has won three awards for energy management initiatives introduced by the teams there.

Via 40 Express (VINCI Highways/ VINCI Concessions), concessionaire of the Bogotá-Girardot motorway in Colombia, has opened Via Esperanza, a reception area for the thousands of refugees fleeing the economic and political crisis in Venezuela.

On 25 January, for the third consecutive year, Orlando Sanford International Airport (Florida), part of the VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) network since 2018, hosted an Aerospace and Aviation Day.

As part of a consortium with Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction), ETF (Eurovia) recently signed a contract to restore 375 km of railway track linking the cities of Tororo and Gulu in Uganda.

“Ideas versus Plastic” was the first challenge organised by VINCI Concessions, worldwide, as part of its Innovate programme, aimed at deploying a culture of innovation on the ground.

VINCI Construction Maritime et Fluvial (VINCI Construction France) and VINCI Construction Terrassement are undertaking renovation works in the port of Banyuls-sur-Mer (south-west France), in order to protect it from bad weather and to preserve local underwater biodiversity.

Part of the VINCI Airports network (VINCI Concessions) since 2016, Aerodom, which operates six airports in the Dominican Republic, inaugurated the first phase of the works to transform the passenger terminal at Santo Domingo Las Américas Airport on 17 December 2019.

VINCI Energies Europe West has secured three contracts for the construction and upgrading of four 400 kV substations, located in an industrial zone in Stockholm and in the counties of Jämtland and Västernorrland, in the centre of the country.

In December 2019, the Aquavallées wastewater treatment plant (STEP) in Bourg-d’Oisans was inaugurated in the presence of distinguished guests, among them Lionel Beffre, prefect of the Isère department, and Jean-Pierre Barbier, president of the department.

The steel cutting ceremony for the MSC Europa cruise ship provided the opportunity to publicly announce PACBOAT, a research and development project designed to contribute to Europe’s transition towards a carbon-neutral economy by 2050.

Sodexo Sports & Loisirs has teamed up with Barillec Marine, a subsidiary of VINCI Energies France, to step up the energy transition of its fleet of Batobus ferries.

Allison, the tunnel boring machine being used to extend the Paris metro Line 14 South, has successfully crossed over the future Line 15 South at the site of the future Villejuif Institut Gustave Roussy station, connecting the two lines.

On 10 December, Adim Paris Île-de-France and Bateg (both VINCI Construction France) handed over the Saint-Gobain tower in La Défense, by Paris.