Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, both subsidiaries of VINCI, have been awarded a contract with JSC Yamal LNG, owned by NOVATEK (80 %) and TOTAL (20 %), to perform an engineering, procurement, supply, construction and commissioning contract covering four cryogenic full-containment liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks (each composed of a 9% nickel stainless steel interior container and a pre-stressed concrete external container) with a capacity of 160,000 cubic meters each.
These tanks will form part of a 16.5 million tons per annum natural gas liquefaction project, which will utilise the resources of the South Tambey Gas Condensate Field situated in the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Federation.
In order to meet the project schedule requirements to make the first 2 tanks available in 2016, the detailed engineering, supply of the first equipment, camps, temporary facilities and piling works in the permafrost were started in June 2013 under a Letter of Award arrangement.
Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets have a track record of building more than 30 LNG storage tanks in 11 different countries over the last 20 years.
The two work packages involve the construction of four sections of a 3,600 meter long, 6-lane causeway coastal road between La Grande-Chaloupe and La Possession as well as the construction of an interchange at La Possession. The roadway dike has been specially designed to withstand the physical constraints of coastal construction especially 100-year flood waves.
With a combined contract value of 530 million euros for the two packages, the project is scheduled for completion in 2018.
GTOI and SBTPC have joined forces on this project, providing an entirely ‘local’ response to this contract of exceptional scale, with VINCI Construction Terrassement bringing in their expertise in major earthworks projects.
Jean-Luc Marx, Préfet de La Réunion et Didier Robert, Président de la Région Réunion lancent aujourd’hui officiellement la construction du viaduc de la Nouvelle Route du Littoral, réalisé en groupement par VINCI Construction Grands Projets (mandataire) et Dodin Campenon Bernard, filiales de VINCI Construction, Bouygues Travaux Publics, filiale de Bouygues Construction, et Demathieu Bard.
Ce viaduc en mer de 5 400 mètres, le plus long de France, qui longe le littoral, reliera Saint-Denis (chef-lieu de La Réunion) à La Grande Chaloupe. C’est un élément majeur de la nouvelle route du littoral dont deux voies seront dédiées aux modes de transport doux (bus, piétons/cycles) et qui remplacera l’actuelle route de corniche entre Saint-Denis et la Possession, exposée aux risques d’éboulements rocheux et de submersion par la houle ou lors d’épisodes cycloniques.
Les travaux du viaduc, d’un montant de 715 millions d’euros, s’achèveront en 2018. Ce viaduc sera réalisé selon une solution technique proposée par le groupement, par laquelle plus de 95 % des ouvrages seront préfabriqués à terre avant d’être posés majoritairement par voie maritime.
The €60 million contract covers design and construction of a four-level car park, a three-storey podium of shops and a 10-storey office tower with a total surface area of 65,000 sq. metres, located in the northern part of the island of Borneo. The work will get under way on 1 August 2013 and handover is scheduled on 31 March 2015.
With this new contract, VINCI Construction Grands Projets reinforces its operations in Malaysia, where it handed over the 700,000 sq. metre Berjaya Times Square project, Asia’s largest contiguous residential and shopping complex, in Kuala Lumpur in 2003 and is currently building the 185,000 sq. metre Berjaya Central Park project.
The contract, with a value of about €1.5 billion, covers design and construction of a dual-tube underground line with a length of 13.8 kilometres between the Doha airport and the Msheireb neighbourhood in the historic centre of the Qatari capital.
The future red line will run along the Gulf coast. One of the project’s challenges will therefore be to prevent water ingress during tunnel boring operations. Five earth pressure tunnel boring machines with an outside diameter of more than 7 metres will operate simultaneously. The contract also includes the design and construction of six underground stations, 51 safety connections between the tubes and three emergency evacuation shafts.
The works will take five years to complete and involve up to 3,000 people.
The works will be carried out with minimum impact on road transport in this part of the city, where traffic is very heavy, thanks to an 8 kilometres system of conveyor belts that will remove excavated materials. The project’s impact on the environment will also be minimised, with the installation of noise barriers and systems to control dust emissions to the atmosphere.
The red line will be the first of the four planned Doha metro lines. The operation is one of the major projects carried out under the Qatar Rail Development Program, which aims to develop transport infrastructure in Qatar, notably in the run-up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
QDVC is currently building the light rail system for the new city of Lusail north of Doha. It will be Qatar’s first rail transport system.
The contract calls for the spillway on the De França dam to be raised by 1.5 metres by installing fusegates along the dam’s 55-metre sill. As a result, the structure’s storage capacity will be increased by 7 million cubic metres, which is 30% of its current capacity.
The De França dam (France dam), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil, one of the country’s 5 regions, fills completely during the rainy season and provides drinking water to the municipalities of Piritiba and Miguel Calmon year-round. In 2012, the Northeast Region of Brazil experienced such severe drought that the State of Bahia declared a state of emergency in half of its municipalities. The present contract is designed to enable the authorities to respond to the region’s growing water-related needs.
This is Hydroplus’s first contract in Brazil. Work will have to be completed in 10 months.
Other similar mandates for the Northeast Region of Brazil are under study. The region contains over 300 dams for water supply, irrigation, and energy production.
The contract, totalling €40 million, includes civil engineering for the Haroun station and the completion of 680 metres of tunnel extension between the Al Ahram and Haroun stations. Excavation will be done with the existing Imothep tunnel-boring machine, awaiting restart in the Al Ahram station since October 26, 2012.
Construction work will begin immediately and should be completed within 17 months. This new phase should allow Phase 2 to be put into service up to the Al Ahram station by mid-2014.
The next step is the attribution of phases 3 and 4 of Line No. 3 which, once completed, will run beneath the Egyptian capital from east to west, connecting the airport to the neighbourhoods west of the Nile River.
This new contract reflects the confidence that the Egyptian Ministry of Transportation has shown for VINCI over the past twenty years. The Group has already constructed lines 1 and 2 of the Cairo metro system, in addition to Phase 1 of Line No. 3, inaugurated on February 21, 2012, and which serves the eastern section of Cairo from its downtown core.
The contract is worth around €300 million and is expected to run for five and a half years.
The design studies will begin in April 2013 and the main civil engineering works in autumn 2013. The main building will house the Tokamak reactor, a 28 m-diameter cylinder, 29 m high and weighing 23,000 tonnes). With the two adjacent annexes, this will form a concrete structure 120 m long, 80 m wide and 80 m high.
The other auxiliary buildings comprise the Assembly building, a two-story Control Building and miscellaneous industrial buildings.
The contract also provides for several large (4m x 4m, 40 tonnes) anti-radiation, highly pressure-resistant nuclear doors, to be designed and built by a consortium comprising Cegelec (a subsidiary of VINCI Energies) and Sommer.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is a first-of-a-kind global collaboration in the field of energy. It will be the world’s largest experimental fusion facility and is designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power.
Fusion research is aimed at developing a safe, limitless and environmentally responsible energy source. Europe will contribute almost half of the costs of its construction, while the other six Members to this joint international venture (China, Japan, India, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the USA), will contribute equally to the rest.
Fusion for Energy
Fusion for Energy (F4E) is the European Union’s organisation for Europe’s contribution to ITER.
One of the main tasks of F4E is to work together with European industry, SMEs and research organisations to develop and provide a wide range of high technology components together with engineering, maintenance and support services for the ITER project.
F4E supports fusion R&D initiatives through the Broader Approach Agreement signed with Japan and prepares for the construction of demonstration fusion reactors (DEMO).
F4E was created by a decision of the Council of the European Union as an independent legal entity and was established in April 2007 for a period of 35 years.
Its offices are in Barcelona, Spain.
www.fusionforenergy.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/user/fusionforenergy
twitter.com/fusionforenergy
ITER
ITER is a first-of-a-kind global collaboration. It will be the world’s largest experimental fusion facility and is designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power
Fusion is the process which powers the sun and the stars. When light atomic nuclei fuse together to form heavier ones, a large amount of energy is released. Fusion research is aimed at developing a safe, limitless and environmentally responsible energy source.
Europe will contribute almost half of the costs of its construction, while the other six Members to this joint international venture (China, Japan, India, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the USA), will contribute equally to the rest.
The site of the ITER project is in Cadarache, in the South of France.
www.iter.org
VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche Ltd (VINCI Construction), members of the BBMV consortium along with Alpine Beton und Monierbau, Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall, have won the €275 million contract (VINCI’s share: 36.7 %) to build the tunnels for the Liverpool Street and Whitechapel stations in London. The contract is part of the Crossrail project, which will provide an express rail link running east-west across London in 2018.
It calls for the construction of the Liverpool Street and Whitechapel station tunnels and associated works. Each station has two platforms approximately 400 metres long, numerous cross-passages and underground branches connecting to the new Crossrail stations.
The works represent a total of about 190,000 m³ of excavation and 60,000 m³ of concrete lining. They are scheduled to start in February 2011 and will take approximately five years to complete.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets is a world leader in underground works, with numerous references and 10 tunnel boring machines in action in 2011 on the group’s worksites. These include the Hallandsås and Liefkenshoek rail tunnels in Sweden and Belgium, respectively, as well as the Cairo metro in Egypt.
The first contract for the Jamaica Water Supply Improvement Project (JWSIP) – Category B is an extension of the JWSIP – Category A project that has been already carried out by VINCI Construction Grands Projets and voted “Project of the year 2012” in Jamaica out of all types of engineering projects done on the island.
For this latest project, VINCI Construction Grands Projets will replace the water transfer pipes that supply the urban area of Kingston and that currently have a large number of leakages. The new raw water pipes will also supply a new water treatment station on the Rio Cobre river. Three drinking-water treatment plants on the northern coast of Jamaica will also be rehabilitated. The works, totalling $62 million (about €47 million), will start at the beginning of 2013 and will last 24 months.
The second contract in Port Antonio, in the north east of Jamaica, covers the laying of water-supply pipes in the urban region, as well dredging works and the construction of an outlet to the sea. This work represents the second phase of a project carried out in the same town by VINCI Construction Grands Projets in 2010.
The works, which will cost $17.5 million (approximately €13 million), started in December 2012 and will last 18 months.
