News update

On 18 April 2018, VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) inaugurated the commercial zone and the new terraces at Itami Airport, in Japan, part of a vast renovation programme aimed at transforming the airport into a destination in its own right and enhancing the customer experience.

In 2017, 88 maintenance vehicles were hit on the VINCI Autoroutes network, a statistic that rises to 185 when taken across the entire motorway network in France. In 2018, VINCI Autoroutes is further developing its actions to improve the safety of its men and women in yellow vests, with the aim of encouraging active prevention, in particular by informing drivers in real time about the presence of patrol personnel.

The Rion-Antirion bridge operated by VINCI Highways, subsidiary of VINCI Concessions, was the setting of a unique artistic performance on 25 March, Greek Independence Day. Dancer Katerina Soldatou put on a show of aerial choreography that perfectly showcased the bridge’s technical features, performing spectacular figures over 50 metres above sea level.

Sogea Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) has completed the works of the basic contract for the Diori Hamani interchange in Niamey, the country’s capital.

Within the framework of a project in Bailly Romainvilliers (Paris region), teams from the EJL Chelles offices (Eurovia and Eurovia Mitry-Mory) are collaborating with the Arforia start-up, which specialises in the development of virtual and augmented reality projects.

Airports Council International (ACI) has just awarded Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA), aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville and Siem Reap airports, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions).

Nicholson and Menard Group USA (both VINCI Construction) have teamed up within the framework of the project to build a biodigester in the wastewater treatment plant in Grand Rapids, in Michigan.

In connection with the development of the island’s infrastructure, builder HB estructuras metálicas SA has appointed Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) to supply and install the 16 hangers required for the Laguna Española Bridge, which will link Queen Beatrix Airport and the town of Pos Chiquito.

VINCI Airports has signed a 25-year concession contract with the Serbian government for Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, in the Republic of Serbia.

Eurovia Contracting South teams are currently working on improving traffic flow in Tottenham Court Road, one of the most congested roads in London.

Ringway (Eurovia UK) has just secured a one-year extension to its service contract with the town of Milton Keynes.

Teams from GTM Bâtiment Aquitaine (VINCI Construction France) are currently enlarging the exhibition centre in Bordeaux (west of France).

Adim Est, Sogea Est and Sotram, subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France, will be in charge of works package M3 North of the TGV integrated development zone (ZAC) in Bezannes.

In the south of France, VINCI Immobilier has started marketing the first homes of the new Nice Le Ray programme, which it has developed in a joint venture with Adim Côte d’Azur (VINCI Construction France).

The joint venture composed of SMTPC, Sogea Mayotte (VINCI Construction International Network subsidiaries) and Runway Safe has just signed a design-build contract, aimed at ensuring runway safety at Dzaoudzi-Pamandzi Airport, with airport operating company Société d’Exploitation de l’Aéroport de Mayotte.

Porto Airport (Portugal), managed by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), has been named second-best European airport in the “Airport handling over two million passengers” category by Airports Council International (ACI).

A joint venture composed of Eurovia Montesson (leader), Watelet TP Plaisir and EJL Les Mureaux (Eurovia subsidiaries), Bouygues TP and Razel Bec is building a new road between the communes of Montesson and Sartrouville (Yvelines department).

Within the framework of the TransAdriatic Pipeline project (TAP), between mid-November and mid-February 2018, HDI (Entrepose/VINCI Construction) set a world record by laying the longest stretch of pipeline ever created in one “go” by horizontal directional drilling.

Jean Lefebvre Pacifique (VINCI Construction International Networks) has finished refurbishing a 2 km-long section, near the commune of Yaté, of a link road between two roads accessing the south of the island.

At the site in Gavet (south-east France), Dodin Campenon Bernard (VINCI Construction), in a joint venturewith Spie Batignolles TPCI (leader),is deploying its raise boring expertise.

In the 20th edition of the “Pierres d’or” competition, the DUO towers projectin Paris – designed by architect Jean Nouvel and being implemented by Bateg (VINCI Construction France) and several VINCI Energies France business units (Cegelec Tertaire IDF Projet, SDEL Imtec, SAGA Tertaire, Lefort Francheteau and Uxello IDF) – was awarded the “Pierre d’or 2018” for the best development programme at a gala evening heldin the Garnier Opera House in Paris.

Soletanche Polska (VINCI Construction) has won its first contract on behalfof Capital Park, within the frameworkof the rehabilitation and conversionof the Norblin factory in Warsaw.

VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions),in a joint venture with Teixeira Duarte Engenharia and Construções SA, Alves Ribeiro SA of Brazil and OEngenharia LTDA (VINCI Energies), has signed an EPC contract – Engineering, Procurementand Construction Management – with Actemium Transport Solutions (VINCI Energies International & Systems) forthe first phase of the project to expandand modernise Salvador da Bahia Airport.

Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) is pushing forward with the construction of a suspension bridge over the Rio Perené river, on the edge of the Amazon jungle.

The joint venture composed of Eurovia’s Mitry-Mory (leader) and EJL IDF Chelles offices is developing the bus stations of the Marne-la-Vallée/Chessy multimodal network.

Actemium O&G offshore (VINCI Energies International & Systems) has secured two contracts with Petrobas (Brazil’s national company for oil research, extraction, refining, transportation and sales) forthe maintenance of seven platforms located off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

Travaux Midi Var (VINCI Construction France), in a joint venture with Léon Grosse and Renaudat, is currently working on a project, on the site of the former Chalucet Hospital in Toulon (south of France), launched at the initiative of the Toulon Provence Méditerranée agglomeration community, the City of Toulon and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Var department.

A joint venture composed of Campenon Bernard Dauphiné Ardèche (VINCI Construction France) in association with AIA Architectes, Atelier 3A, AIA Ingénierie and Dalkia (EDF Group) has been named winner of a competition for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the redevelopment of the Sainte-Marie Hospital in Privas (southern France).

VINCI Immobilier in collaborationwith architects Lalou-Lebec, is to developa mixed-use and innovative urban programme in Lille: WENOV.

The six airports operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) in the Dominican Republic have met all the requirements for obtaining the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) programme’s Level 1 accreditation – a first in the Caribbean region.

The joint venture formed by HEB Construction (VINCI Construction International Network), Downer, Tonkin & Taylor, Aecom, NZTA and the DIA has just completed development works on the quay in Waitangi, in the Chatham Islands.

Designed by VINCI and operated by VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions), the Vasco-de-Gama bridge (12.3 km) that crosses the Tagus estuary in Lisbon, was built on the occasion of the 1998 World Exposition in order to relieve traffic pressure on the 25-April bridge

Soletanche Polska (VINCI Construction) teams are creating the foundations for two buildings in Generation Park, a mixed-use development in the centre of Warsaw.

Warbud (VINCI Construction International Network) is moving ahead with its Mennica Legacy Tower project in Warsaw (Poland): 115,300 sq. metres of office space, a 140 m-high, 34-storey tower and a 9-storey building – and aiming for BREEAM Excellent certification.

Sogea Sud Bâtiment, GTM SudOuest TP GC and Arbonis (all VINCI Construction France) will shortly be starting work on the new station (3,000 sq. metres) in Nîmes (south of France).

The Comol5 joint venture, composed of VINCI Construction Grands Projets,TBI Mobilis, Croonwolter&dros andDIMCO (DEME Infra Marine Contractors), is pushing ahead with the constructionof the Rijnland Route, in South Holland

ETF Polska (Eurovia) will complete its works on the Polish rail network in August 2018.

Eurovia Québec is currently working on the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Île Bigras and Île Verte bridges in the Îles-Laval district, near Montreal.

In early February 2018, five employees of Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) flew off to Rwanda for two weeks, having volunteered to take part in a Bridges to Prosperity project to build a footbridge in the south of the country.

Dumez GTM Calédonie and Jean Lefebvre Pacifique (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom subsidiaries), in a joint venture with SAS Keteveta and Citeos Nouvelle-Calédonie (VINCI Energies France), are currently carrying out site development works for an extension (surface area: 15 hectares) to the PANDA integrated development zone in Nouméa.

Leonard’s acceleration committee, which met in late January 2018, selected eight Intrapreneur projects (being developed by VINCI employees); five of them are preparing to enter the acceleration phase.

In January 2018, Warbud (VINCI Construction International Network) signed a contract with HB Reavis Construction PL for the structure, in reinforced concrete, of the Varso Tower, in the centre of Warsaw (Poland).

Since the end of 2017, the ETF (Eurovia) and TSO joint venture has been building the rail infrastructure for the RATP in order to extend the Line 11 of the Paris metro.

As part of the project to build Line 1 of the metro (Bên Thành - Suôi Tiên) in Ho Chi Minh-City, Bachy Soletanche and the major projects division of Soletanche Bachy (VINCI Construction) are undertaking diaphragm wall works for a station and an underground tunnel.

On the VINCI Autoroutes network, the A9/A61 motorway fork to the south of Narbonne links the A61 motorway (Toulouse - Narbonne, South of France) to the A9 motorway (Perpignan - Orange).

The GBH Group has awarded Sogea Martinique (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) the structural works of a project to create an industrial site for the bottling and storage of rum at the Habitation Clément estate, in the commune of Le François, in Martinique.

A joint venture led by VINCI Immobilier has been awarded, by EPAMARNE (Marne-la-Vallée public development authority), the “Live differently – the Sycomore Eco-neighbourhood” project, located in Bussy-Saint-Georges, in the Seine-et-Marne department.

VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions) has won a contract for electronic toll collection system and customer relations services for the Central Texas and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authorities, the government agencies in charge of transport in 14 Texan counties.

Since 1 February 2018, the VINCI Autoroutes electronic payment badge can be used to pay the toll on part of the Spanish AP-7 motorway, between the border (Le Perthus) and Barcelona.

In January 2018, teams from GTM Hallé (VINCI Construction France) began work on the Primméa L’EssenCiel operation in the TGV Nancy Grand Cœur integrated development zone (east of France).

Eurovia Atlantique Le Mans, in a joint venture with GNT, is working on the project to deploy the Syner’gie district heating network in the Le Mans metropolitan area.

To mark this anniversary, on Sunday 28 January 1,200 Saint-Denis children were invited to form a human 20 on the pitch of the stadium.

GTM Hallé (VINCI Construction France) has just handed over the Muse shopping centre in Metz (north-eastern France), created on behalf of Apsys.

Teams from the Eurovia Midi Pyrénées – STPAG office are currently working on the second tranche of the Town Centre project in the commune of Auch (south-west France), which involves reorganising the town centre, expanding the pedestrian areas and redeveloping the square in front of the Cathedral of Sainte-Marie.

In line with its approach favouring innovation and sustainable development, VINCI Immobilier has been collaborating for several months now with a young start-up, HABX, winner of the Reinventing Paris competition in 2016.

January 2018 will see the Copiapó office of Bitumix (Eurovia) completing its development of a new site dedicated to the “Cruz de Mayo” (May cross) festival in the city of Vallenar (Atacama region, in the north of the country).

On 17 January 2018, CBC (VINCI Construction France) launched the redevelopment of the international lycée in Saint-Germain-en- Laye (Paris region).

Created by Eurovia CS and Eurovia SK, the new D3 motorway bypass round Žilina (north of the country), which forms part of the European multimodal corridor, is now open to traffic.

On 13 December, VINCI Airports inaugurated the new arrival hall and the extension to the boarding area at Phnom Penh International Airport, in the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia, Bin Chhin.

In Seville, on the construction project for the future largest shopping and leisure complex in Andalusia, Menard Spain (VINCI Construction) has been carrying out soil improvement works since the last quarter of 2017 in preparation for the installation of the foundation slab.

In Bogota, work has just begun on what will be Latin America’s largest cancer treatment and research centre.

In late December 2017, after more than five years of works, the 8 km-long “Le Piquet-Rocroi” section of the A304, in the Ardennes, was opened to traffic in line with the completion deadlines laid down by the client, the regional environment, development and housing authority.

On a site in the Bay East Garden area that was originally reclaimed from the sea, Bachy Soletanche Singapore (VINCI Construction) teams have just finished creating a diaphragm wall – a project connected with the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL).

In early December 2017, Synerail, a company 30%-owned by VINCI Railways (VINCI Concessions) and VINCI Energies, definitively switched 16,000 km of railway lines in France over to operating using GSM-R.