Press release
23 December 2024VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche Ltd (VINCI Construction), in a 50/50 joint venture with Morgan Est, have been awarded the Lee Tunnel contract by Thames Water, the longstanding operator of London’s water services.
The contract, worth a total of €476 million, calls for building a 7 kilometres tunnel for storm water and wastewater in east London.
Located 55 metres to 75 metres below ground, the tunnel will halve the 32 million cubic metres of wastewater that are discharged annually into the River Thames by collecting it at its source. The contract also calls for the construction of four large shafts, as well as supplying and installing the equipment and automation systems necessary for managing the effluent and lifting it more than 80 metres.
Work will start shortly and be completed in 2015.
This contract is part of the Thames Tideway programme, which includes the construction of a second tunnel, 32 kilometres long. Work on this tunnel is scheduled to start in 2015.
The Lee Tunnel contract strengthens VINCI’s presence in the UK, where it started operating in the early 1990s and where it generated revenue of €2.3 billion in 2008.
