Facelift for the Calais belfry

7 October 2010 - New contracts - France

From May to August, the Nord office of Freyssinet France, a subsidiary of Soletanche -Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), was involved, as part of a consortium, in the restoration of the belfry a Unesco World Heritage site in the town of Calais (northern France).

The company was charged with the anticorrosion treatment of the 75 metre-high spire’s internal concrete – a surface area of some 700 sq. metres.