Press release
15 September 2023
After a successful first round, the final ceremony of the Innovation Prize was held on April 4, 2024 in Paris, bringing this 2023/2024 edition to an end.
In November 2023, the Major Projects Division of VINCI Construction launched its first 2023/2024 edition of the Innovation Awards, inviting all its employees to submit innovative projects in 6 themes: Environment, Engineering & Technologies, Health & Safety, Productivity, Management & Human Resources and Marketing & Business Development.
Of the 414 submissions received since last November, 68 had already been awarded within the various entities of the Major Projects Division: each of VINCI Construction Grands Projets' operational divisions, Dodin Campenon Bernard, VINCI Construction GeoInfrastructure and Spiecapag.
As Patrick KADRI, CEO of the Major Projects Division, said:
"This award is the perfect embodiment of our vision of innovation within the Major Projects Division. Innovation at the service of green and sustainable growth, focused on the future".
Discover our 9 winning innovations
Environnement - Optimizing and reducing our environmental impact - Project for the underground section of Line 18 of the Grand Paris Express, France
Engineering and Technologies - Linaster - Production monitoring tool and repository for technical project documents, VINCI Construction GeoInfrastructure
Health and safety - Automating and securing lifts in constrained environments - Femernbaelt tunnel project, Denmark
Productivity - Wooden coupler and roller system for pile recutting - Overhead section project of Line 18 of the Grand Paris Express, France
HR Management - Semillero Rosa / Pink Seedbed program - Train 130 women in construction trades and provide them with work experience on our site - Bogotá-Girardot highway widening and modernization project, Colombia
Marketing and Business Development - SMART USERS - Improving management of resource consumption such as water, heating and electricity within facilities - Rennes Airport, France
Jury’s Favourite - Progressive Employment Program (PEP) - Supporting local minorities - Springbank Water Reservoir, Canada and City Rail Link construction projects, New Zealand
Special Award - CONDOR solution - OTool for controlling the use of mobile deck equipment - Initiating Atlantic Bridge project, Panama
Major Prize - EXEGY low-carbon voussoirs - Reducing the carbon footprint of tunnel segments dug with a tunnel boring machine by almost 50%: a world first - Project for the underground section of Line 18 of the Grand Paris Express, France
