VINCI wins a contract to upgrade drinking water supply and treatment in Jamaica

8 March 2010 - New contracts - Jamaica

VINCI Construction Grands Projets was recently awarded the first phase of the contract to upgrade drinking water supply and treatment for the town of Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, by the NWC (National Water Commission). The contract is worth €51 million.

The work involves laying 19 km of pipes and upgrading two water treatment stations. WMI, subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, will be responsible for optimising management of the network.

The works will start early April 2010 and will last 24 months. They will be followed by a second phase that should be definitively awarded to VINCI Construction Grands Projets before the summer of 2010.

This new project further strengthens VINCI Construction Grands Projets' know-how in hydraulics and civil engineering outside France and, in particular, in Jamaica, where over the last eight years, the Group has constructed a drinking water treatment plant in Logwood, rehabilitated and laid new pipes for the water treatment stations of Great River and Martha Brae, optimised network yield on the NWP (North Western Parishes) project and rehabilitated wells and reservoirs in the framework of the KMA (Kingston Metropolitan Area) project.

 

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