This first phase, valued at €76 million, comprises the turnkey construction of a 9-storey podium block and a 46-storey office tower as well as the structural construction of a 48-storey Ritz Carlton residential tower.
The complex will have a total area of 185,000 sq. metres.

Work will begin immediately and take 27 months to complete.

In 2003, VINCI Construction Grands Projets built the 700,000 sq. metre Berjaya Times Square complex, Asia’s largest residential and shopping complex in a single phase, for the same customer in Kuala Lumpur.

Founded more than 40 years ago, HEB Construction is a leader in the New Zealand construction market. The company offers a broad array of expertise in civil engineering, engineering structures, hydraulic engineering, roadworks, earthworks, marine and port works, pre-casting and transport. The company employs 750 people and generated revenue of about €230 million in 2014.

With this acquisition, VINCI confirms its strategy of expanding in the high-growth international markets. New Zealand’s GDP increased by more than 3% in 2014 and the country’s construction and infrastructure sectors hold out prospects for steady growth.

“HEB Construction’s fundamentals form an excellent fit with those of VINCI and its new projects reflect its vitality. One good example is the new contract notification in April of this year to build a 27 km four-lane urban motorway in Wellington. The project, in which HEB is participating as a member of a joint venture, has a value of more than €500 million and is one of the island’s largest current infrastructure projects.”, says Philippe Chavent, Chairman of VINCI Construction International Network*.

*VINCI Construction International Network was set up in 2014 as a network of local subsidiaries with permanent locations to support VINCI Construction’s international expansion. VINCI Construction International Network currently has locations in Africa (via its subsidiary Sogea-Satom, which operates in more than 20 African countries), Overseas France (French West Indies, French Guiana, Reunion Island, Mayotte, New Caledonia) and Central Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia). VINCI Construction International Network employs 16,000 people and generated revenue of €2,150 million in 2014.

The Egyptian authorities have demonstrated renewed confidence in the joint venture led by VINCI Construction Grands Projets alongside Bouygues Travaux Publics, a Bouygues Construction subsidiary, and their Egyptian partners, Orascom Construction and Arab Contractors, by awarding them the contract for the new phase of civil engineering for Line 3 of the Cairo metro between Haroun and El Nozha stations.

The new phase of works (Phase 4A) continues on from Phase 2, which was brought into service in May 2014 more than six months ahead of schedule. Phase 4A consists of 5.15 km of tunnel and five underground stations on Line 3, the east-west link across the Egyptian capital.

The joint venture has committed to a very short design-build delivery deadline of 34 months based on the experience it has acquired over more than 30 years of working on the metro project, the oldest in Africa, and to a technical innovation. In a first worldwide, earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine Imhotep, used for the previous phase, will be modified to operate as a slurry pressure balance machine. This change will generate savings for the joint venture on both its execution time and budget.

The project, worth €264 million, will employ around 3,200 people, mostly Egyptian.

This publication ratifies the conclusion of the tender process organized by the Chilean government, which was made public on February 4, 2015. The Nuevo Pudahuel consortium made up of Aéroports de Paris(45% of the consortium), VINCI Airports (40%) and Astaldi (15%) now have the right to start studies and prepare the operation of the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago de Chile after the end of the current concession on September 30 2015, for a duration of 20 years.

As the airport operator, the Nuevo Pudahuel consortium main duties are to:

• the renovation of existing installations with the redesign and extension of the current terminal
• the funding, design and construction of a new 175,000 sqm terminal,which will increase the airport’s capacity to 30 million passengers, with potential for expansion beyond 45 million
• the operation and commercial development for the duration of the concession (20 years) of the main infrastructures: existing terminal and new terminals, car parks and future property developments

Design and construction works will be carried out by a consortium made up of VINCI Construction Grands Projets (50 %) and Astaldi (50 %).

This new 24 km long section of motorway includes a 2.5 km long cablestayed viaduct above the river Usk, two key interchanges and 36 structures.

This £750 million project will help deliver government aims to improve infrastructure in Wales by making it more efficient, safer and more sustainable.

Development work will commence immediately, a Public Local Inquiry should get under way about 18 months from now and construction, subject approval by the authorities, could start in spring 2018.

VINCI has significant expertise in complex road works. Examples are the widening of the M1 junctions 25 to 28 carried out in the UK, the East End Crossing in Indiana (United States) currently under construction and the new coastal highway project on Reunion Island, which is just getting under way. It also has substantial expertise in environmental planning and local stakeholder relations (M1 Widening and Bexhill Hastings Link Road in the UK, Tours-Bordeaux high speed rail line and A89 motorway in France).

The world-class companies, which have been chosen after intense competition as the preferred tenderers, will build a component each of the three parts of the mega tunnel that has been split into geographical sections of west, central, and east. This means thousands of jobs will be created in London over the coming years, and excellent value for money for customers.

The project, which will be the biggest infrastructure project ever under taken by the UK water industry, will make London’s sewerage network fit for the 22nd century and will help prevent the millions of tonnes of sewage pollution that currently discharge into the tidal River Thames every year.

Andy Mitchell, Chief Executive at Thames Tideway Tunnel, said: “We have selected our preferred bidders to work on the three main works packages because we have absolute faith in their ability to carry out these major pieces of work safely, considerately and sustainably and we are looking forward to working with them to offer the thousands of jobs that will help make this project a reality.

“This is not just an engineering project, this is about reconnecting London with its river by cleaning it up and making it something that is integral to our city, for the growing population, thriving businesses and to increase leisure uses. This is a unique opportunity to be involved in improving London’s environment and economy and we’re very excited for what the future holds.”

The Thames Tideway Tunnel project will create more than 4,000 direct sustainable jobs, and another 5,000 jobs indirectly. It will be offering hundreds of apprenticeships and work placements, is committed to employing local people, and will be creating a never-before seen surge in the river economy through marine employment opportunities.

The contractors which have been chosen as the preferred main works tenderers are: BMB JV (Joint Venture of BAM Nuttall Ltd, Morgan Sindall Plc and Balfour Beatty Group Limited) for the West contract, FLO JV (Joint Venture of Ferrovial Agroman UK Ltd, Laing O’Rourke Construction) for the Central contract and CVB JV (Joint Venture of Costain VINCI Construction Grands Projets Bachy Soletanche) for the East contract.

The contracts are expected to be awarded in the summer, when the investors who will be chosen to finance and deliver the project as the Infrastructure Provider, are announced.

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Working together as the Nuevo Pudahuel consortium, Aéroports de Paris (45 % of the consortium through), VINCI Airports (40 %) and Astaldi (15 %) have been selected by the Chilean government as having presented the best offer for the concession of Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago de Chile, South America’s 6th largest airport which saw 16.1 million passengers in 2014, almost half of whom were international passengers.

The project consists on the management and development of the airport. The financial offer was fixed at 77.56 % expressing the proportion of revenue from the concession to be turned over to the government. In application of the new concession contract, the Nuevo Pudahuel consortium will be granted from 1 October 2015 (at the end of the current concession contract) with the following main missions:

• the renovation of existing installations with the redesign and extension of the current terminal
• the funding, design and construction of a new 175,000 sqm terminal, which will increase the airport’s capacity to 30 million passengers, with potential for expansion beyond 45 million
• the operation and commercial development for the duration of the concession (20 years) of the main infrastructures: existing terminal and new terminals, car parks and future property developments

The project covers a 7-storey podium over two underground levels that will house a 20,000 m2 shopping centre and more than 900 parking spaces, as well as a complex made up of three 20-storey residential towers with a total of 333 apartments. The value of the contract, which does not include the foundations and underground levels, is €70 million. Handover is scheduled in July 2016.

This further success confirms VINCI Construction Grands Projets as an operator in Malaysia, where local developers appreciate the quality of the structures it has completed and is currently building. VINCI Construction Grands Projets is currently carrying out the Menara Hap Seng tower project in Kota Kinabalu under a design-build contract and is also operating in Kuala Lumpur with the current Berjaya Central Park residential and office complex, having previously handed over the Berjaya Time Square shopping centre in 2003.

The motorway will ensure smooth traffic flow in a highly congested area with some 140,000 cars per day. Russian-French teams will operate the motorway and ensure a very high standard of maintenance, safety and traffic information.

The M11 motorway meets the most exacting European standards in terms of technical requirements, environmental integration, land take optimisation (30% reduction in surface area required compared to the initial project), hydraulic transparency and noise protection for local residents.

This first section of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg motorway will be progressively opened to traffic between now and the summer of 2015.

The Russian state awarded the concession for the first section of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg motorway to NWCC, a joint subsidiary of Mostotrest and VINCI Concessions, in 2008. The contract covers design, financing and construction of the section and its operation and maintenance for a period of 30 years.

Built under a concession contract, the motorway is financed through a combination of shareholder investment (RUB 9.2 billion – VINCI Concessions 50%, Mostotrest 50%), a ruble bond issue (RUB 10 billion), a bank loan (RUB 29 billion) and a state subsidy of RUB 23 billion.

The project establishes an additional link between the two banks of the Escaut estuary in the Port of Antwerp, currently Europe’s second-largest port, to accommodate an increase in goods traffic and free up capacity on the suburban rail lines to decongest the road network.

The works, awarded to the LocoRail joint venture and accounting for a total investment of €840 million, were carried out under a public private partnership (DBFM contract). The LocoRail joint venture bringing together CFE (25 %), VINCI Concessions (25 %) and BAM PPP–PGGM (50 %) is responsible for financing, designing and building the infrastructure and then maintaining it for a period of 38 years. Financing is provided by the EIB (European Investment Bank) and six commercial banks: Bayern LB, Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING, Banco Santander and Société Générale.

The design-build contract was awarded to the LocoBouw joint venture made up of MBG, CEI-De Meyer, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau. The work covers tunnel infrastructure and technical installations in the 16.2 km tunnel, which includes a 4.27 km cut and cover, a renovated existing tunnel (Beverenspoortunnel) and a double bored tunnel with a length of nearly 6 km. The highly complex project got under way in 2008 and was completed on schedule in July 2013. Tests were carried out on the line in 2014.