As part of the GATE (Gas Access To Europe) project conducted in consortium with Italian and Spanish firms Techint and Sener, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Entrepose Contracting designed and built three liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks, each with a capacity of 180,000 cubic metres.
These structures are part of a building program for a regasification terminal with a capacity of 8,000 million cubic metres a year. The project, which was carried out in an Oil & Gas environment that called on the Group’s full experience and expertise, confirms the outstanding synergies that exist within VINCI’s diverse business lines and skilled trades.
Conectar el Peloponeso con la parte continental de Grecia a través del estrecho de Corinto era un sueño ante el que habían fracasado numerosos proyectos hasta la construcción del puente con múltiples tirantes de fijación Charilaos Trikoupis (Rion-Antirion), logro técnico de gran amplitud. El puente, de una longitud de 2.883 metros, exigió unas técnicas únicas para proteger su estructura en condiciones extremas. Puede resistir seísmos de magnitud 7 en la escala de Richter, vientos de casi 250 km/h y el choque de un petrolero de 180.000 toneladas a una velocidad de 16 nudos. Hay quien dice que, en caso de fuerte seísmo, el puente sería el lugar más seguro de la región. Además, los automovilistas sólo necesitan 5 minutos para atravesar el estrecho, frente a los 45 minutos en trasbordador.
El metro de El Cairo empezó a construirse en 1981 y su construcción no se ha detenido desde entonces. Esta colaboración forma parte de un programa de ordenamiento territorial: el metro de El Cairo es un ferrocarril metropolitano que responde a las necesidades de la capital, congestionada de día y de noche. En 1981 se trataba de la primera red de metro construida en África. Contribuimos a construir 3 líneas de metro de las cuales la línea 3 está parcialmente abierta y sus ampliaciones se entregarán en 2018. Cada estación consta de 3 niveles: el de la boletería, un nivel intermedio (en el que hay distintos locales técnicos) y el nivel de los andenes.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets was mandated by Tuc Rail to build the Liefkenshoek rail link to ease the flow of freight traffic in the port of Antwerp. This public-private partnership (PPP) contract, which has a 42-year term, called for the design, funding, construction, and maintenance of a dual railway infrastructure 16.2 kilometres long. To be more specific, the project called for a backfilled rail platform (4.76 km) with several concrete structures, an open-trench and cut-and-cover section (4.27 km), upgrades to the existing underwater Beveren tunnel to comply with current standards (1.2 km), and construction of two parallel tunnels, to be bored concurrently, each 5.97 kilometres long running under the Kanaaldock and the Escaut river. This infrastructure was designed to connect the north and south shores of the port of Antwerp and enable freight flow under the canal and the Escaut river.
Australia is endowed with vast, offshore natural gas reserves; as a result, it has attracted many global oil companies that are investing in huge projects. The Wheatstone project, located near Onslow in northwestern Australia, is one of those huge investment projects. The objective is to build infrastructure to liquefy natural gas for commercial purposes. Following several success stories in this sector over the past 30 years, VINCI Construction Grands Projet and Entrepose Contracting were asked to provide engineering, supply logistics, and construction services for two double-walled storage tanks for liquefied natural gas (LNG), each with a capacity of 150,000 cubic metres and two storage tanks for condensates, each with a capacity of 120,000 cubic metres.
Se encargó a VINCI Construction Grands Projets el diseño y construcción de un túnel sumergido (1 x 2 carriles y 2 x 3 carriles, de 715 m de longitud), así como la renovación y reconstrucción de un antiguo túnel sumergido.
Además de la construcción del túnel sumergido (2º Coentunnel) y la renovación del 1er Coentunnel, los trabajos incluyeron: 2 obras de ingeniería nuevas, 12 obras de ampliación, 13 obras de renovación, 14 kilómetros de calzadas así como la instalación de pantallas acústicas y anticontaminación.
Este proyecto se inscribe en el marco de desdoblamiento de carriles de la autopista A10 (zona noroeste de la carretera de circunvalación) y del primer tramo de la A8 al noroeste de Ámsterdam.
The Tideway Scheme consists of designing and building a system for wastewater and stormwater transfer and storage in central London. No less than 32 kilometres of tunnels will be necessary to increase the capacity of the existing network. This ambitious project aims to intercept wastewater and stormwater and divert them into treatment plants to prevent effluents into the River Thames. VINCI Construction Grands Projets, in a joint venture with Costain Limited, and Bachy Soletanche Ltd have been invited to participate in the construction of the East works package, one of the three making up the Tideway project. This package will connect Chambers Wharf and the Abbey Mills Pumping Station where the Lee Tunnel starts in East London. It consists of the design and construction of two tunnel sections: a main 5.5-km tunnel and a connecting 4.6-km tunnel.
The new Assiut Dam, which is located on the Nile some 250 kilometres north of Luxor, is designed to replace an existing dam, built early in the 20th century 400 metres farther upstream. This new project, inaugurated in an official ceremony on August 12, 2018, aims to regulate the flow of the Nile, providing water for irrigation and power-generation (32-MW output produced by four 8-MW turbines). Accordingly, the dam is equipped with a power plant. Two locks ensure river navigation. The dam is designed to maintain a head of 4 metres to ensure a minimum discharge of 445 cubic metres per second into the Ibrahimia Canal to irrigate nearly 700,000 hectares of land between its location and Cairo.
La densidad y extensión de la ciudad de Londres hacen de su red ferroviaria un desafío urbano permanente. La red Crossrail atraviesa Londres de este a oeste. Este proyecto representa una de las mayores obras de infraestructuras ferroviarias en Europa.
En este proyecto VINCI Construction Grands Projets formó parte del consorcio que obtuvo 2 de contratos. El primer de ellos (lote C510) incluía la construcción de los túneles de las estaciones de Liverpool Street y de Whitechapel y de las obras asociadas. El segundo contrato (lote C512) incluía la demolición parcial de la estación de Whitechapel, la construcción de la nueva estación, de un nuevo espacio para el área de venta de billetes, así como de 3 pozos, de las estructuras internas, de una pasarela y de los andenes de las plataformas, además de los lotes electromecánicos y arquitectónicos asociados.
Since 2004, Cambodia has experienced economic growth, which has resulted in an increase in the number of travellers, including both among the local population and visiting tourists. To respond to growing needs, we designed and built extensions at two airports in the country, thereby doubling their surface areas. VINCI Airports relied on the expertise of VINCI Construction Grands Projets to achieve these expansion projects. Within the VINCI Group, concession know-how is combined with design-build know-how to respond optimally to future user needs. In addition, in 2017, has been delivered a new arrivals hall and boarding-area extension at Phnom Penh Airport.
