VINCI Construction Grands Projets was mandated by Sri Lanka’s national agency for drinking water and sanitation to rehabilitate and expand the drinking-water treatment plant in Kantale. The project calls for the construction of a new 1,500-cubic-metre raw water storage tank, new water-treatment capacity equal to 18,000 cubic metres a day, and a new 1,500-cubic-metre tank to store treated water. The project also covers the rehabilitation of all structures and buildings in the existing plant, including replacing process, electromagnetic, and electrical equipment. Also included in this project are the development of two water intakes and raw-water pumping stations and supply and installation of the equipment for the treated-water pumping station. Finally, the project also covers automation of the treatment plant and pumping stations and supervision of the drinking-water distribution system as a whole for the region of Trincomalee.

Following the delivery of several building projects in Malaysia, VINCI Construction Grands Projets was called on to design a 10-storey office tower at Kota Kinabalu on the island of Borneo. The building features 4 levels of underground parking, a 3-level podium with a retail vocation, and a 10-floor tower. The building covers a total area of 65,000 m².
Presently, the tower accommodates several restaurants, a bank, offices in the petroleum industry, and numerous showrooms (Honda, Hap Seng Star, Mercedes-Benz, and Hap Seng Properties).

VINCI Construction Grands Projets was one of the entities selected by the National Stadium Company (a consortium of Chinese concession-holders for the Stadium) for a technical assistance contract to build the Beijing National Stadium specifically for the 2008 Olympic Games. The project involved offering assistance to the project management team, particularly in the organisation of the building plan and the site. Our success in obtaining this contract is due in particular to our Stade de France credentials.

As compared with the rest of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, the capital, is well-supplied in drinking water. However, this city with a population of 1.6 million is adversely impacted by uneven access to drinking water from one community to the next – a problem aggravated by its fast-paced population growth and industrial development. In response to this situation, the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) decided, as part of its 2005-2020 Master Plan, to build a new treatment plant in Niroth to produce drinking water. The project includes a water-intake system in the Mekong River, a raw-water pumping station, a filtration facility, and a treatment plant that feeds potable water into the city’s distribution system. Given the project’s considerable scope, a decision was made to divide it into two phases, with each phase encompassing a capacity of 130,000 cubic metres a day. A call for tenders was issued for each phase, and VINCI Construction Grands Projets won the call for tenders for the second phase in 2014, one year after the entry into service of the initial phase.

Located 70 km west of Karachi, the Hub River thermal power plant was the first private energy-production project in Pakistan to receive international funding and support from commercial banks. It consists of four generating oil-fired units each rated at 323 MW gross output, located along the Arabian Sea, at the mouth of the Hub River, in the province of Baluchistan. This power plant with a capacity of 1,292 MW includes two remarkable construction features: a water intake built in the sea 200 metres from the shore, and a smokestack measuring 200 metres in height and 23 metres in diameter.

As part of developments north of the city of Doha, the capital of Qatar, a consortium consisting of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, QDVC, and Entrepose Contracting was entrusted with the task of building the largest wastewater-pumping station in the Gulf States. The structure was designed to collect, raise, and convey wastewater from North Doha to a plant located some 20 kilometres to the north in the desert. The project included construction of a wastewater-pumping station with a capacity of 900,000 cubic metres a day as well as the supply and installation of pipes.

The Hercules Port or Condamine Port extension project was devised in 1999 with the goal of positioning Monaco as an important port for cruise liners and luxury yachts. It consisted of the construction of a one-hectare backfilled platform at the foot of Fort Antoine to which a breakwater was attached by a metal ball-and-socket joint; a prefabricated jetty (145 metres long) and six concrete caissons for protection; a transition structure between the breakwater and the coast; and an abutment caisson supporting the articulated joint forming the fixed point of the breakwater.
This port is one of the rare deep-water ports on the Côte d’Azur. This feature makes it a natural choice for receiving large yachts. That is why the construction drew on specific techniques which took the marine environment into consideration and which were developed and patented in the principality.

Following its participation since 1981 in the construction of the first metro line in Africa (in Cairo) and from 1993 to 1997 to a second metro line, VINCI Construction Grands Projets began work in June 1998 on the Al Azhar road tunnels. The project, located in the historic centre of Cairo, the old Fatimid city, and the Khan el Khalily district, provided a considerable technical and scheduling challenge. Work carried out for the National Authority for Tunnels included building two road tunnels, 2.6 and 2.8 kilometres long, respectively, trench junctions with existing roadways, and additional structures. The tunnels, which have a diameter of 8.4 metres, were excavated with a TBM. The worksite was particularly challenging given space restrictions, dense pedestrian and motorised traffic, the proximity of buildings, underground utility networks, and flyovers.

The Maliakos-Kleidi project on which VINCI Construction Grands Projets was mandated consisted in rehabilitating and developing a motorway. This infrastructure is 245 kilometres long: 205 kilometres of motorway were to be rehabilitated and 40 kilometres of new motorway (the focal point of the project) were to be built. The new section to be created as part of a design-build mandate also includes construction of 3 dual motorway tunnels (11 kilometres long in total) to prevent the above-ground crossing of the Tempi Valley, which is a tourism destination, two dual flyovers, and embankments featuring small structures and hydraulic works.

We built a wastewater treatment plant in the commune of Saint Joseph on Reunion Island for Communauté d’Agglomération du Sud (CASUD).