News update

The Loire-Atlantique department has appointed VINCI Construction Terrassement to repair the banks and restore the channel of the Nantes-Brest canal.

Hines and AG Real Estate have appointed Bateg (VINCI Construction France) to build the Hekla tower.

Sogea Maroc (VINCI Construction International Network), in a joint venture with Cegelec Maroc (VINCI Energies International & Systems) for the technical works packages, is in charge of the redevelopment and enlargement of the Tazi Palace Hotel in Tangier.

The Council of the Charente-Maritime department has entrusted the Terrassement Sud-Ouest office of VINCI Construction Terrassement (leader), in a joint venture with Laurière and Loca 64, with the installation of anti-flood protection measures on the island of Aix.

After five years of works, on behalf of the Rennes metropolis and public transport operator Semtcar, the joint venture composed of Dodin Campenon Bernard (leader), GTM Ouest and Botte Fondations (both VINCI Construction France), Spie Batignolles Génie Civil, Spie Fondations and Legendre Ouest has completed the tunnelling (8.5 km of tunnel) and civil engineering works for Line b, i.e. nine stations and four ventilation shafts.

Omexom Generation & Distribution Belo Horizonte (VINCI Energies International & Systems) has won a contract with Enel Green Power for the automation of 14 hydroelectric power stations.

Adim Ouest (VINCI Construction France) has secured the project to install the hitherto multi-site École de Design Nantes Atlantique at a single location, on the Island of Nantes (west of France).

A subsidiary of VINCI Railways (VINCI Concessions), Rhônexpress celebrated its 10 millionth passenger in December.

Eurovia Québec Grands Projets is building the William water retention basin.

In Poitiers, Eurovia Poitou-Charentes Limousin has finished reorganising the roads along the route of the future bus service that will link Voie Malraux to the Léon-Blum viaduct and, to the west, the Condorcet bus stop.

Nuvia (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction) is in charge of the planning, project management and installation of the fire protection for the Flamanville EPR, currently under construction in Normandy.

Soletanche Bachy Chile (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction) won a major contract in April for exploratory and hydraulic fracturing drillings, on behalf of Codelco, in the Chuquicamata mine, located in the Atacama Desert in the north of the country.

The joint venture composed of VINCI Construction Terrassement (leader), VINCI Construction France TP Lyon, Eurovia Bavilliers and Climent TP has just handed over, to motorway operator APRR, the 1 km-long link and the two interchanges between the A36 and the RN 1019 by Sévenans (Territoire de Belfort).

On 28 September 2018, in Boromo, the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, inaugurated the composite steel/concrete bridge over the Mouhoun River.

On 17 November, VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) staged its first Spotters Day, for aviation enthusiasts, the so-called plane spotters who rush from airport to airport worldwide, actively sharing their passion on the social media.

In Morocco, the high-speed line linking Tangiers and Casablanca was inaugurated on 15 November 2018, in the presence, notably, of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, French President Emmanuel Macron and Xavier Huillard, Chairman & CEO of VINCI.

On 15 November 2018, the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, inaugurated the North interchange in Ouagadougou.

The S3 expressway between Legnica and Bolków was inaugurated on 15 October in the presence, notably, of Andrzej Adamczyk, Polish Minister for Infrastructure, Paweł Hreniak, voivode of Lower Silesia, and Nicolas Dépret, director of Eurovia’s business activities in Poland.

Work on “l’Archipel”, VINCI’s future head office, has begun in Nanterre in the new Groues district just a stone’s throw from the business district of La Defense.

Every year, the Geste d’Or competition recognises exemplary projects focused on heritage of the past, the present and the future. At the 8th annual edition, VINCI Construction France won no fewer than seven awards.

The project to widen the A10 motorway to four lanes to the north of Orléans, north-central France, officially began on 9 November 2018. Financed entirely by VINCI Autoroutes, the project is one of the largest to have come under the Motorway Stimulus Plan.

25 September saw the lifting into position of the VSM (Vertical Shaft Sinking Machine) being used during the works on section T3C of Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express, which are being undertaken by VINCI Construction (VINCI Construction Grands Projets, leader, VINCI Construction France, Dodin Campenon Bernard and Botte Fondations) and Spie Batignolles.

Undertaken by VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions) within the framework of a 34-year public-private partnership, the motorway bypass project for Regina, the capital of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, is nearing completion.

In September 2018, Eurovia Nord-Auvergne started redevelopment works along 6 km of the banks of the Allier, in the vicinity of the riverside cafés in Bellerive-sur-Allier (central France).

On behalf of the city of Nottingham, Eurovia Contracting North has installed a 50 m-long steel footbridge over the Midland Main Line – a major rail link between London and Sheffield.

The La Marseillaise tower, erected by VINCI Construction France for Constructa, was inaugurated on 25 October in Marseille (south of France) in the presence of Marc Pietri, chairman & CEO of Constructa, Jean Nouvel, architect, Xavier Huillard, chairman & CEO of VINCI and Hugues Fourmentraux, chairman of VINCI Construction France.

An agreement was concluded in mid-October between LISEA (VINCI Railways/VINCI Concessions), SNCF Réseau, Eurotunnel and HS1 (the HSL between the British end of the tunnel beneath the Channel and London) to launch a feasibility study regarding adapting Bordeaux Saint-Jean Station for a future development of cross-Channel traffic.

As of November, vehicles arriving at Las Américas Airport, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), will be welcomed in a new car park, designed to reduce congestion thanks to its three separate zones (for short-term, long-term and premium parking).

WMI (VINCI Construction Grands Projets), leader, and Colombian company CMIJ have secured the contract to modernise the drinking water supply network on the island of San Andrés.

Reinforced Earth India (Soletanche Freyssinet/VINCI Construction) is currently involved in the rehabilitation of a 90 m-high embankment.

TenneT TSO has awarded Omexom Bau Nord/Ost (VINCI Energies Europe) the construction of a 380 kV overhead transmission line between Stade and Agathenburg (Germany).

On 12 September 2018, the Department of Transportation of the state of Georgia inaugurated the new reversible express lanes in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, in the southeast of the USA.

On 26 September, teams from Cardem (Eurovia) demolished two 85 m-high chimneys at the site of the former Stora Enso paper mills in Brebières, near Douai.

Cegelec (VINCI Energies Europe) has been appointed by CFE Bouw Vlaanderen NV to equip the internal structures of the Gare Maritime (maritime train station) with an HVAC system (heating, ventilation, air conditioning), 10 air handling units and 10 heat pumps.

The Ministry of Transport, Public Works, Infrastructure and Regional Development has awarded Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) the works aimed at improving the accessibility of the towns of Gitega and Ngozi.

Carmacks (Eurovia) teams are widening, from two to six lanes, a stretch of Highway 19 in Alberta between the Nisku interchange and Highway 2.

This 7-year contract will involve nearly 120 colleagues.

Grand Paris Habitat and Efidis have awarded GTM Bâtiment (VINCI Construction France) the rehabilitation of the 859 homes in the Résidence des Fleurs in Carrieres-sous-Poissy under the supervision of project managers Aoca and Biotope Ingénierie.

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) began work in August on the construction of the Katosi drinking water treatment plant, located near the capital, Kampala, on the banks of Lake Victoria.

Bateg (VINCI Construction France) is to take charge, on behalf of AXA IM and VINCI Immobilier, of the works on the new Stories business campus in Saint-Ouen (93).

Eurovia Mazingarbe is currently engaged, in sector G of the communes of Bruay-la-Buissière, Ruitz and Barlin (Pas-de-Calais department), in a comprehensive upgrade of a 6 km-long section of Line 2 of the new Bulles bus network.

The NTTA (North Texas Tollway Authority) has awarded TollPlus (VINCI Highways/VINCI Concessions) a contract for the design, installation and maintenance for a period of about nine years of its new back-office system for collecting tolls.

The metropolis of Saint-Étienne has awarded ETF (a Eurovia subsidiary and lead contractor on the tracks works package) the construction of a new tram line.

On 31 July, VINCI Construction Terrassement officially completed the final 23 km of the new section of the A304 linking La Francheville and Le Piquet in the Ardennes, which Élisabeth Borne, French Minister of Transport, had inaugurated on 20 July.

In early July, the joint venture composed of Chantiers Modernes Construction (VINCI Construction France), ETF (Eurovia), Freyssinet, Soletanche Bachy Pieux and Soletanche Bachy France (VINCI Construction subsidiaries) and Baudin Chateauneuf removed the old tracks and the deck in puddled iron, weighing approximately 1,500 t, uncovering the bridge piers.

On 25 July 2018, the OFC joint venture, which includes ETF (Eurovia) and Colas Rail, won the contract for the extension of Line 2 and the creation of a new depot.

On 12 August 2018, VINCI Construction Grands Projets handed over the new Assiut Dam in an official ceremony attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.

In connection with the works on section T3C of Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express – awarded to VINCI Construction (VINCI Construction Grands Projets, leader, VINCI Construction France, Dodin Campenon Bernard and Botte Fondations) and Spie Batignolles – the first S-1119 earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine (external diameter: about 10 m) is to leave the plant of manufacturer Herrenknecht, in Germany, and head for the worksite.

The Puerto Colombia SBCC consortium, formed by Soletanche Bachy Cimas S.A. and Constructora Conconcreto S.A. (both VINCI Construction subsidiaries), has been awarded the contract to rebuild the first 200 metres of the pier of Puerto Colombia, in the Atlántico Department.

The BIM d’Or awards, which Le Moniteur group holds every year, reward construction companies for outstanding collaborative working methods in general, and for their use of digital modelling tools in particular. The VINCI Construction France and VINCI Construction Grands Projets teams received their awards at the ceremony that took place this 17 September in Paris.

Inaugurated in June 2018 at Carrières Unies de Porphyre (Eurovia) and brought into service in early May, the 17,312 photovoltaic panels installed on a surface area of over 7.3 hectares have already produced some 1.8 million kWh.

Eurovia CS, as part of a joint venture, is currently carrying out the modernisation works, aimed at providing travellers with a more comfortable journey, at the station in Veselí nad Moravou, in the southeast of the country.

VINCI, the main partner of Paris FC since the 2015/2016 season, this summer extended its commitment to the Paris club for a further three seasons.

Carmacks (Eurovia) has been appointed by PCL Construction Management to carry outurban development works.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets was awarded the contract to build the 1,050 metre long concrete cable-stayed bridge three kilometres north of the Gatun locks near the city of Colón.

The teams from CBC, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction France, are currently involved in the restructuring work at the Musée de la Libération and the Catacombs in Paris. This operation, which is part of the Paris museum historical heritage renovation plan, will be completed in August 2019 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris.

Following the first two phases of the works to extend Line 3 of the Cairo metro, ETF (Eurovia), leader, is currently laying rails for phase 4A and embarking on the construction of the 5 km-long 4B overground extension.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets, in a joint venture with its British partner Costain, handed over Scotland's longest wastewater tunnel on 30 July 2018.

Eurovia Surfacing is to supply, for a period of four years, surfacing works on roads in the South East of England and Midlands regions, via framework contracts established with Highways England (Eurovia), which is in charge of the operation, maintenance and improvement of motorways and trunk roads in England.

As biodiversity is moving ever closer to the centre of the stage, VINCI Autoroutes has published a booklet presenting the ecological wealth that the areas skirting its motorways and the regions surrounding its network harbour.

Sogea Sud Bâtiment (VINCI Construction France) is currently extending the Raoul Fonquerne aquatic centre in Sète, which is to have a new 50 m Olympic pool and seating for 1,000 people as well as two large sports halls.

For two years now, teams from ETF (Eurovia) have been developing, on behalf of the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis, the west-east and north-south lines that will link Nice Airport to the Allianz Riviera Stadium via the Promenade des Anglais.

Following a competition launched by Danone and the SNCF, VINCI Immobilier, co-developer along with Adim Lyon (VINCI Construction France), laid the foundation stone for Living Leman, a new programme being implemented at the site where Évian-les-Bains mineral waters were once bottled.

Nicholson Construction (Soletanche Freyssinet) has won a contract for earth-retaining works as part of Cleveland’s Westerly Storage Tunnel project, aimed at reducing the pollution of Lake Erie, in Ohio.

Getelec Electricité (VINCI Energies France) is to renovate the urban lighting in Gourbeyre, a town located 4.5 km from Basse-Terre.

Following the bringing into service, a year ago, of the Olympia Odos motorway, VINCI Highways (VINCI Concessions) is continuing its strategy of innovation and improving services for Greek motorists by inaugurating the first two ‘green’ service areas between Athens and Patras.

Menard Group USA and Nicholson Construction (Soletanche Freyssinet) recently completed works begun in 2016 on a major road in order to improve traffic arriving from Harlem River Drive in New York, in the USA.

Spectacular by virtue of its scope and technical complexity, the New Coastal Highway comprises France’s longest viaduct and 6.7 km of embankments. Between now and 2020, it will give Reunion Island a coastal link that is strategically important for the local economy and for the safety of people on the island.

Eurovia BC teams are completing the project to widen – to four lanes, plus separate cycle lanes – 100th Avenue in Surrey, the second most populous city in the province, in the south of British Columbia.

Taking over the concession to operate the ring road in Lima, the Peruvian capital, raised two major challenges for teams at VINCI Highways, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary: taking immediate responsibility for running day-to-day operations on a very busy urban highway, including integrating the 600-strong workforce, and completing a 9 km section where work had ceased with only half the job completed. A challenge on this scale called on numerous skills from across the Group.

Bourdarios (VINCI Construction France) will begin building a housing development made up of seven buildings in the Cartoucherie integrated development zone in Toulouse.

Eurovia CS, as part of a joint venture, is undertaking reconstruction works on the railway line between Český Těšìn and Dětmarovice, in the east of the country, along the Polish border.

In keeping with the diversity and equality policy set out in the Manifesto and implemented within the Group for several years now, VINCI is now working with the Elles Bougent association.

Teams from RECo USA, an American subsidiary of Terre Armée (VINCI Construction), are continuing their task, in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains (Northern California), of raising the Stampede Dam by 3.5m.

ETF (Eurovia) has just completed a project to renew 17 switches and crossings within Paris-Montparnasse station.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets and VINCI Construction Terrassement teams are currently building a pumped storage power plant at Abdelmoumen, 70 km from Agadir.

On 2 July 2018, just before the start of the summer holiday period, VINCI Autoroutes launches its new consumer services brand Ulys.

Conducted by Ipsos on a sample of 11,038 drivers in 11 European Union countries, this vast survey provides an overview of how Europeans behave at the wheel and helps better target road safety messages in each country.

Blythe Construction (Eurovia) is widening North Carolina Highway 273 (NC 273) at Belmont to four lanes, on behalf of the state’s transport department.

By joining Sixense in May, Perazio Engineering, a company specialising in metrology and 3D/4D digitalization, has reinforced a digitalization offering hitherto based on Sixense Mapping, enabling Sixense to offer a complete aerial, land, underground and underwater digitalization service using lasergrammetry, photogrammetry and bathymetry technology.

Mobility ITS (VINCI Energies International & Systems) and Actemium Pays de Gex (VINCI Energies France) have won the contract to modernise and revamp access to the pits of CERN, the European nuclear research organisation located on either side of the Franco-Swiss border, near Geneva.

The new Terminal 1 at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), is continuing to expand.

The teams from the Île-de-France Nord agency from VINCI Construction Terrassement are currently working on Placo Saint-Gobain’s gypsum quarries in the Seine-et-Marne department.

Mesea, a subsidiary of VINCI Railways (VINCI Concessions), has gained the approval of the SNCF for its road-rail lorries and modules.

VINCI Immobilier and the joint venture of developers composed of Altarea Cogedim, DReAM (leader) and Eiffage Immobilier, in association with the Paris-Saclay public development authority (EPAPS), the town of Gif-sur-Yvette and the urban community of Paris-Saclay, have laid the foundation stone for the O’RIZON project, the first residential and services neighbourhood in the heart of the Paris-Saclay urban cluster in Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris region).

May saw the joint venture composed of Campenon Bernard Régions (VINCI Construction) and VINCI Construction Terrassement successfully slide the Voiron railway bridge into place, on behalf of SNCF Réseau.

Operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) since 2016, the Kansai International Airport (KIX) in Japan won Best Baggage Delivery and Best Low-Cost Airline Terminal at the Skytrax 2018 World Airport Awards.

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) and ETF (Eurovia) are currently working as a consortium on a project to install double-track sections on a railway line between Kamsar and Sangarédi, in the west of the country.

On 30 May, teams from Adim Est (VINCI Construction France) laid the foundation stone for a development within the Reims-Bezannes business park, in the presence of Jean-Pierre Belfie, mayor of Bezannes and vice-president of the urban community of Greater Reims.

On 25 May, Eurovia encouraged its 40,000 employees, in 15 countries, to focus on innovation.

On 26 May 2018, the Forum Gdańsk shopping centre, located in the heart of Gdańsk, was opened to the public.

VINCI employees confirm their commitment to innovation by participating in the Viva Technology event which, each year, brings together major groups and start-ups around themes connected with digital transformation and innovation.

LLa Isabela in Saint-Domingue, Puerto Plata and Barahona airports, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), have been equipped with photovoltaic panels that enable them to produce and consume fully carbon-free energy.

Citeos IDF Grands Projets (VINCI Energies France) and its partner Clarity, a San Francisco-based start-up, are laureates of the City of Paris’ Air Quality programme.

Between now and 2022, VINCI Energies will roll out FTTH (fibre to the home) to 900,000 French homes, enabling them to benefit from very high-speed Internet access.

On 21 May at 5:30 am, Bruno Dupety, international director, member of the VINCI Executive Committee and passionate mountaineer, reached the summit of Everest at over 8,000 m above sea level to rise to one of his biggest challenges and achieve his boyhood dream.

For World Bee Day on 20 May, VINCI Concessions reasserted its environmental commitment.

Eurovia Québec Construction, in partnership with Blais&Langlois, has won the first phase of the reconstruction of the James Bay Road, in the north of Quebec.

Ocidim (VINCI Construction International Network) has been awarded a contract for 100 student homes, plus communal spaces, in the commune of Tampon on Reunion Island.

Teams from Eurovia Belgium (Brussels sector) have just completed the first phase of comprehensive development works (roadways and networks) around Line 9 of the Brussels tramway which, located in the north of the city, will link the Simonis metro station with the university hospital and, in the medium term, the future national stadium.

Being undertaken on behalf of Adim Paris Île-de-France by Bateg and Sicra Île-de-France (VINCI Construction France subsidiaries), the works launched on the campus involve the construction of buildings with a surface area of 64,600 sq. metres, including the headquarters of INED (the national institute for demographic studies), research and training spaces, a conference centre, a residence for invited researchers, a project incubator, a Crous restaurant, facilities catering for the needs of campus life and 451 student homes.

Work inside the Salvador da Bahia Airport in Brazil, operated by VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions), is currently being managed by a local consortium made up of Teixeira Duarte Engenharia e Construções s. a, Alves Ribeiro s. a do Brasil and Actemium Transport Solutions (VINCI Energies International & Systems).

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.

After designing and installing the earthquake-resistant supports and the 18 spherical CBS supports (Cryostat Support Bearings), Nuvia and GTM Sud (VINCI Construction) are continuing their collaboration on the design-build of the support for the cryostat of the Tokamak reactor (designed to exploit fusion energy) at the heart of the international ITER project, in Cadarache (south of France).

SNCF Gares & Connexions has awarded a contract to a joint venture composed of VINCI Construction France TP Lyon and Citinéa (VINCI Construction France) for the construction of the north concourse and the Béraudier shopping mall in Lyon Part-Dieu railway station.

Aéroports de Montréal (ADM) awarded the contract to rehabilitate the runways at the Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to the Montreal agency of Eurovia Québec for the 2018 season.

As part of the “post-Fukushima” programme for nuclear reactors, EDF has entrusted the Connekt joint venture, composed of Nuvia Structure (VINCI Construction), Campenon Bernard Nucléaire (VINCI Construction France) and Eurovia, with the project management and the creation of the networks between the buildings housing the last resort diesel generators and the reactor buildings.

On 30 March, the teams from Plendi by VINCI Construction delivered the Hôtel Fauchon La Madeleine project, located in Paris’ 8th arrondissement, on which they carried out the decoration works.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.