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.

This project is part of the Dominican government’s cholera eradication programme.

The €108 million contract will be funded through €78.5 provided by the RPE (Emerging Country Reserve) fund and €29.5 million in local financing. The project involves the laying of approximately 500 km of pipes and the design and construction of eight treatment plants with population equivalent capacities ranging from 4,000 to 60,000 as well as six lifting and pumping stations. Meanwhile, an audit will be conducted with a view to improving the performance of the system and optimising the commercial service for the operator. Including six months of design studies, the works will take 42 months to complete.

These facilities comply with sustainable development criteria: simple operation, environmental protection and high-quality treatment. For example, final disinfection will take place in an ultraviolet radiation facility; its power will be supplied by photovoltaic panels, which cover 80% of overall energy requirements.

This new project confirms the expertise offered by VINCI in the international hydraulic engineering market and demonstrated by a number of recent projects: rehabilitation and extension of the drinking water system in the city of Djibouti and a water treatment plant in Kantale, Sri Lanka; improvement of the drinking water distribution and treatment system in Kingston, Jamaica; and a variety of environmental protection projects in several cities in Vietnam.

The civil engineering contract, worth €323 million, calls for building a 7.2  section of tunnel and four underground stations, which are scheduled for opening in October 2013 after 51 months of works. Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires, a VINCI subsidiary, has been declared winner of the track contract, worth €20 million. This package calls for supplying and laying 14 km of track and power rail in the tunnel.

These new contracts reflect the confidence shown by the Egyptian Ministry of Transport in VINCI for almost 20 years. The Group built lines 1 and 2 of the Cairo metro and is currently carrying out phase 1 of line 3 (photo). Phase 1 is scheduled for completion in October 2011; 60 % of the works have been completed to date.

The first line of Cairo’s metro was built by VINCI in the early 1980s. It now carries over 2 million passengers a day. The second line (22 km) was opened in the 1990s. It has 20 stations – 12 of themunderground stations – and carries 1.8 million passengers a day.

This commercial success illustrates VINCI’s ability to execute turnkey metro projects. Apart from lines 1 and 2 of the Cairo metro, the Group’s recent prestigious references include the Budapest, Algiers, Athens, Hong Kong, Rennes and Paris (line 14) metros.

The contract, worth €358 million, calls for building a pumping station with a capacity of 900,000 cubic metres/day and laying over 45 kilometres of pipeline with a diameter of 1,600 millimetres. The station will be used to channel Doha’s wastewater to a treatment plant currently under construction 25 kilometres to the north of the city.

Work will start on the 22nd of March 2009 and take 33 months to complete.

The contract draws on synergies between the VINCI Group’s various areas of expertise (pipe laying, water processing and civil engineering at VINCI Construction Grands Projets; and pumping and electromechanical engineering at Entrepose Contracting), as well as QDVC’s strong local presence. It is the biggest hydraulic engineering contract ever won by VINCI Construction Grands Projets.

The project, in total worth over 500 million euros, calls for the financing, design and construction of a submerged, 8-lane road tunnel, as well as renovating the existing tunnel there and maintaining both tunnels for a period of 30 years. Remuneration of the concessionaire will be in the form of an annual payment, paid by the concession-awarding authority; the amount will depend on the actual availability of the infrastructure to users of these tunnels, which connect the centre of Amsterdam with the northern part of the Netherlands.

The works, lasting 5 years, will be carried out by a consortium made up of VINCI Construction Grands Projets and the VINCI Construction subsidiaries CFE and DEME, along with TBI, Dura Vermeer and Besix.

This contract, valued at €800 million and signed on July 19, 2007, calls for the construction of a plant, a pier methane carrier for the unloading of Liquid Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) carriersjetty, and three storage tanks. Delivery of the terminal is set for September 2011.

As part of this contract, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Entrepose Contracting will design and build the three liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks, each with a capacity of 180,000 m3.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Entrepose Contracting both possess recognized complementary expertise in the construction of LNG storage tanks and have completed, together or separately or in partnership or in partnership, over more than 30 storage tanks in 9 countries overin the past 20 years. This business successsuccessful track record illustrates the potential for synergies powerful synergy that exists between VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Entrepose Contracting, (77.24% of whose capital is held by VINCI).i In which VINCI now hlolds 77.24% of the capital.

The project, which is to be performed on behalf of the State-owned Ukrainian company ChNPP, is financed by an international fund administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

The €432 million contract comprises the design and construction of a confinement shelter in the form of an arch of exceptional dimensions, designed to permit the future dismantling of the old sarcophagus and the wreckage of the reactor that exploded on 26 April 1986. The arch will consist of an 18,000-ton metal framework spanning the existing sarcophagus. It will be 105 metres high, 150 metres long, with a 257-metre span. A special ventilation system will be put in place to prevent the spread of radioactive particles into the environment. The arch will be assembled to the west of the site, in a specially developed zone some distance from the damaged reactor. It will then be slid into place over the existing sarcophagus.

The project will employ 900 people at its peak. All personnel present on the site will be specially equipped to ensure their safety and protection against radiation (including radiation-proof suits and breathing masks), and they will be subject to regular medical and radiation checks. In addition the site will be monitored permanently for radioactivity and atmospheric contamination.

Work will start at the end of 2007 and will last 53 months, including 18 months of planning and design studies.

This contract win, thanks to the know-how of VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bouygues Travaux Publics in the field of nuclear civil engineering and the management of major international projects, is the culmination of important contract negotiations beginning with the international competition for ideas launched by Ukraine, which VINCI won in 1993.

The projects calls for the financing, design, construction and/or repair of 365 km of toll motorway between Athens and Tsakona, in the south-west of the Peloponnese, via Corinth and Patras. It also includes operating the motorway for 30 years.

The concession consortium comprises VINCI (leader with 36%), Hochtief of Germany and three Greek companies, Aktor (a subsidiary of Elliniki Technodomiki), J&P-Avax and Athena.

The works, valued at approximately €2.1 billion, will last six years. They will be carried out by a construction consortium in which VINCI Construction Grands Projets holds the biggest share (36%). The company will be in charge of the operational management of the project.

The project strengthens VINCI’s position in Greece, where the Group already operates the Rion-Antirion bridge under a concession contract. In addition, as part of a consortium comprising VINCI Concessions (13.75%), Hochtief (leader) and several large Greek companies (including Elliniki Technodomiki and J&P-Avax), it recently won the 30-year concession contract for the Maliakos-Kleidi motorway, which covers 230 km on the northern part of the Athens-Thessalonica corridor.

Success on this project illustrates once again the aptness of the Group’s integrated concession and construction business model. The new contract is both the biggest construction worksite and the biggest concession ever won by VINCI outside France. It gives the Group a firm foothold in Greece, which still has major infrastructure needs and where the PPP culture is now well established, as well as a bridgehead into the Balkans.

The contract, worth approximately €250 million, covers the construction of phase 1, which involves 5 kilometres of tunnels and five underground stations. When complete, the third line of Cairo’s metro will be 33 kilometres long and have 29 stations. It will link the airport, located 22 kilometres to the north-east of the city, to Giza’s Mohandessin district.

Phase 1 of this line is scheduled for opening in 2011 after 48 months of construction work. It will increase the network to a total of 100 kilometres and should contribute to relieving traffic congestion in the city. By 2020, the Cairo metro will carry 5 million passengers a day.

This new contract reflects the confidence that Egypt’s Ministry of Transport has shown in VINCI for almost 20 years.

The first line of the Cairo metro was built by VINCI in the early 1980s and now carries over 1.4 million passengers a day. The second line, also built by VINCI, was opened in the mid-1990s. Covering 22 km between Shubra El Kheima and Giza, it has 20 stations, of which 12 are under ground.

This successful outcome illustrates VINCI’s ability to execute turnkey metro projects. In addition to lines 1 and 2 of Cairo’s metro, the company’s recent prestigious contracts in this field include the metros in Budapest, Algiers, Athens, Hong Kong, Rennes and Paris (line 14).

Built within the framework of an overall wastewater treatment system, the tunnels will carry wastewater to the new treatment plant at Brightwater in King County, north of Seattle, before discharging treated wastewater into the sea.

The contract, worth $211 million (about €166 million), covers driving two tunnels of 6.1 kilometres and 3.6 kilometres respectively using two slurry tunnel boring machines (TBMs) with an external diameter of 5.30 metres and pressure of up to 7 bar. The technique, which is rarely used in the United States, is one VINCI Construction Grands Projets’ specific areas of expertise.

The two tunnels will form the central part (Brightwater central tunnel) of a wastewater collection system comprising 22 kilometres of tunnels. They will be made of prefabricated segments installed as the TBMs progress. VINCI Construction Grands Projets will also excavate two access shafts, one 28 metres deep and the other 63 metres. In addition, the company will trench a 1 kilometre pipeline between the new and existing systems. Of this, 0.5 km will be driven using microtunnelling.

Work will start on 28 August and take 51 months to complete.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets is one of the world’s leading specialists in tunnel construction, as illustrated by the numerous references it has in France and the rest of the world. These include the Hallandsas tunnel in Sweden, Mitholz tunnel in Switzerland, A86 motorway to the west of Paris, Terminal 5 tunnels at Heathrow Airport in the UK, and metro tunnels in Cairo, Algiers, Athens and Budapest. Over the past 15 years, VINCI Construction Grands Projets has driven 718 kilometres of tunnels.