Declared a public utility in 1998, the A19 was categorised as an important project by the Comité interministériel d’aménagement du territoire (CIADT Interdepartmental Planning and Territorial Development Committee). The construction of this motorway was a priority. The section linking Artenay and Courtenay today allows transit traffic to bypass Greater Paris and provides an east-west crossing route. This motorway involved 11 million cubic metres of excavation along 101 km with no less than 102 artworks, 70,000 m3 of concrete, 7,500 tonnes of passive reinforcement, 4,000 tonnes of metal framework and 1.2 million tonnes of bitumen. Arcour, a subsidiary of VINCI Concessions, took charge of operating the concession (for a period of 65 years).
After the success of the largest residential and shopping complex, Berjaya Times Square, built in the 2000s, VINCI Construction Grands Projets is signing another agreement with the same client (Berjaya Group) for the construction of the new Berjaya Central Park.
With this project, VINCI Construction Grands Projets is once again building a colossal structure of more than 185,000 m² combining a 46-storey office building and a second 48-storey tower housing the Ritz Carlton hotel.
Stade de France, located in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, is the largest football stadium in France. It has a capacity of 80,000 seats, of which 25,000 are mobile, thereby permitting various configurations – this feature was a world first in 1997. Thanks to its innovative architectural design, Stade de France is an exceptional structure. Its roof in the form of an ellipsis is one of its most striking features, and one of the most difficult to achieve. It was built to replace Parc des Princes as the main venue for the World Cup of Football competition held in France (Parc des Princes was deemed too small for this purpose). The design for Stade de France was inspired by the Pan Am’s Worldport terminal at JFK International Airport. The elliptically shaped stadium is topped by an elliptical disk supported by 18 steel masts placed at 40-metre intervals. The complex includes a neighbouring annex stadium, two underground car parks on three levels with a total capacity of 4,000 vehicles, and an above-ground car park with 2,000 spaces.
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project is a water and electrical power supply project implemented by the governments of Lesotho and South Africa to find new sources of supply to support development in both countries. This major undertaking is the largest water-transfer project ever launched in Africa. Our consortium was in charge of part of the project. Our work package included building hydraulic conduits 65 kilometres in total length and 5 metres in diameter, two water intake structures with siphons, and several shafts and installing a surge chamber.
In 2014, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed its first contract in the Dominican Republic with the Instituto Nacional de Aguas Potables y Alcantarillados (INAPA).
The goal was to design and build a wastewater treatment system in the cities of Monte Cristi, Neiba, Azua, San Jose de Ocoa, San Cristóbal, and Villa Vasquez.
This design-construction project, covering 6 cities, consists of the design of 400 km of sewerage systems, 10 pumping stations, 5 lagoon water treatment systems and 1 activated sludge water treatment system.
The project also includes the installation of a 54-km sewerage system, the construction of three pumping stations (270, 170 and 11 m3/hour) and a lagoon water treatment system. In Villa Vasquez, it involves constructing a 36-km sewerage system, one pumping station (270 m3/hour) and a lagoon water treatment system. In San Cristóbal, the project consists of the construction of an activated sludge water treatment system. Finally, with the assistance of WMI (VINCI Construction Grands Projets subsidiary), we have the task of establishing a technical diagnosis for drinking water supply.
El Teniente – the world’s largest underground copper mine – is located at an altitude of 1,500 to 1,900 metres in the Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins region in the Andes mountain range. The project for which we were commissioned by Codelco includes the blasting of two tunnels, each 9-km long with an average cross-section of 65 m² (one to transport staff and the other to carry ore), as well as the construction of two intermediate access tunnels for a total length of 6 km. These tunnels created a new level in the El Teniente mine to extend its operation for another 50 years.
In operation since 1976, the Marne Aval (downstream) SIAAP water treatment plant in Noisy-le-Grand was entirely modernised in 2009. This wastewater treatment plant is compact, modern and highly advanced technologically. It features the most stringent techniques for high environmental quality in the construction sector. So, this modernisation doubles the wastewater treatment capacity of the Marne Aval plant and reduces the space required.
In order to supply the City of Faisalabad with drinking water, we were mandated by Pakistan’s Water and Sanitation Agency to increase drinking-water production capacity, renovate, improve, and expand the supply and distribution network, and optimize network performance. As part of a public utility project to supply an entire section of the city with water, this new treatment plant is designed to operate 24/7.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets has participated in the modernisation of the Brussels South filtration plant, which was opened in 2000. The project, including the implementation of an entirely new water, sludge, and odour treatment equipment, is now able to significantly improve the quality of the water treated, especially on nitrogen and phosphorus, for 25% of the wastewater in the Brussels region.
The Communauté d’Agglomération du Pays Ajaccien (CAPA Ajaccio urban district council) has been engaged in a voluntary effort to restore the quality of water. To sustain this initiative and create the required conditions for a regional development project, the state and the CAPA have signed the “Horizon 2013 – Contribution of Ajaccio to cleaning up the Mediterranean” agreement to upgrade the agglomeration’s sanitation system so that it meets the standards of the European Union’s urban wastewater treatment directive.
