Rising more than 160 m above the esplanade at La Défense, the 36 and 37-floor towers, Chassagne and Alicante, respectively, were built in 1995 for Société Générale.
The buildings cover a total surface area of 204,000 m2, stand 40 m apart, and include conventional office space. Like two parts of a cylinder slashed in the middle, they are connected by a series of trading rooms in the heart of the bank.
In 2011, ONEAD (Djibouti’s national water and sewerage authority) awarded a contract to VINCI Construction Grands Projets to rehabilitate and expand the drinking-water supply network in Djibouti. The project consisted in rehabilitating 36 wells, carrying out network segmentation by district, repairing leaks in defective equipment, installing 100 kilometres of HDPE pipes, and providing 2,000 connections. Following this initial phase and the client’s satisfaction, we were hired once again in 2015:
For the second phase which consisted of rehabilitating the drinking-water network and expanding it by 36 kilometres, building a semi-underground storage tank, and providing no fewer than 3,000 connections. This phase was designed to improve access to water in working-class neighbourhoods and newly developed urban areas.
For another contract for a project that was complementary to the second phase of the initial project; it consisted in expanding the main water-supply network by 25 kilometres, upgrading three water towers, implementing a telemetry system for the drinking-water segment of the network, and – on the sanitation side – rehabilitating 3 STEP and the open-air drainage channel.
Yemen’s National Water and Sanitation Authority mandated us to build a wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 50,000 m³/day in the capital city of Sana’a. The project, located north of the capital city next to El Rahaba International Airport, included construction of an underground intake wastewater pipeline made of fibreglass that is 6 kilometres long and ranges in diameter from 1,200 to 1,500 millimetres, civil engineering for the filtration plant, construction of a 200,000-m³ storage pond for wastewater designed for irrigation purposes, and implementation of about 3 kilometres of cast-iron or fibreglass pipes ranging in diameter from 80 to 1,500 millimetres. The treatment plant includes a workshop, a back-up power station (4 MW), and an administrative building.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets was mandated by the ministry of transport, public works, and water management in the Netherlands to design and build a 16-kilometre section including a composite bridge (steel structure) spanning the Hollandsch Diep (1,190 metres long), two underwater tunnels crossing the Oude Maas and Dordtsche Kil (2,640 and 2,600 metres long, respectively), a 1,000-metre access viaduct, various engineering structures such as bridges and trenches, including the 935-metre Mokhoek open trench as well as 8.5 kilometres of railway infrastructure slabs resting on 27,000 driven piles.
This mandate is Lot Number 4 of the HSL project (fourth geographical sector out of a total of five for the high-speed line connecting Amsterdam to the border with Belgium).
Berjaya Times Square, located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was at the time of its construction in 2003 the largest residential and shopping complex in Southeast Asia.
The building consists of two 46-storey towers (200 m) which occupy more than 250 metres. They house at least 800 shops, 1,200 flats, 65 restaurants, 48 lifts, 5,000 parking places, 9 cinemas as well as an amusement park with a roller coaster ride of more than 800 metres.
A 400 kilómetros al sur de Santiago de Chile (la autopista comienza en el kilómetro 413), se extiende entre Chillán y Collipulli esta autopista de 165 kilómetros. Esta obra constituye una nueva etapa en la expansión de VINCI Construction Grands Projets en América latina. El grupo VINCI ha sido la primera empresa francesa que participa en el mercado chileno de concesiones de autopistas.
Hicieron falta 36 meses para la construcción de este tramo de autopista de 30 kilómetros con 2 carriles por sentido, y cuyo objetivo principal es desdoblar la panamericana « Ruta 5 sur ». A lo largo de este recorrido en zona sísmica se despliegan 29 enlaces viarios, 36 puentes, 15 pasos elevados y 600 obras de saneamiento o de riego.
The new terminal at Dushanbe International Airport is designed to deliver better service to users. For this project, we designed and built a two-level, 12,000-square-metre building that can accommodate 1.5 million passengers a year. The project was launched in 2012 and the terminal was inaugurated in September 2014.
Situada a unos 1.200 metros de altitud sobre el río Yalong, cerca de la ciudad de Panzhihua, la presa de Ertan es la mayor infraestructura hidroeléctrica jamás construida en China después de la de las 3 Gargantas, e hicieron falta casi 91 meses para completar la obra. Esta presa en arco de hormigón de doble curvatura parabólica de 240 metros de altura y 775 metros de longitud en la coronación forma parte de un proyecto de mayor alcance que consta de 11 presas. El proyecto global tiene como objetivo explotar el potencial hidroeléctrico de la región. Los 17.000 Gigavatios anuales que produce la presa ofrecen una alternativa a la producción de energía a partir del carbón, muy contaminante, y fomenta el desarrollo económico de la región de Sichuan.
On the strength of the experience of having built the Ariane 5 launcher kits, VINCI Construction Grands Projets was commissioned by the European Space Agency to build a launch preparation zone and a launch centre for Soyuz rockets. This project was part of the Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre program and involved designing, executing and leading the construction of a preparation zone, launch pad and launch centre for Soyuz rockets.
On 15 April 2001, just two years after the first stone was laid, the World Trade Center Abu Dhabi was ready to be opened to the public. Located in the city centre, this 220,000 m2 mall has seven levels, two of which are dedicated car parks with 2,300 spots. This turnkey design and build contract also included external roadworks and various other networks. One of the main challenges that we had to tackle during the course of this project was the particularly short deadline given: only 24 months for such a large-scale project.