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New contract for the Assiut dam in Egypt

On 12 December 2011, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed the contract for the design-build of the Assiut dam, in Egypt, with the Reservoirs and Grand Barrages Sector (RGBS), part of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation. The works, valued at 266 million euros, will be carried out by a consortium composed, in equal parts, of VINCI Construction Grands Projets (leader), Arab Contractors and Orascom. The works will start on 2 May 2012 and should take a little over 5 years to complete (64 months).
12/13/2011

Contract to build a residential and office complex in Malaysia

Wangsa Tegap, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berjaya Corporation, has awarded VINCI Construction Grands Projets (70%, leader) and Hitachi (30%) a contract to build the first phase of the Berjaya Central Park residential and office complex in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
10/03/2011

The venture in Jamaica continues with a contract to rehabilitate the Mona and Hope Water Treatment Plants

On September 20, 2011, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed a $17.5-million contract to rehabilitate two water-treatment plants, Mona and Hope, which provide drinking water to the eastern districts of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston.
09/26/2011

Contract to build sewer systems in five cities in the Dominican Republic

VINCI Construction Grands Projets has signed a design-build contract with INAPA (Instituto Nacional de Aguas Potables y Alcantarillados) covering wastewater collection, transfer and treatment systems in the cities of Monte Cristi, Neiba, Azua, San Jose de Ocoa and San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic. This project is part of the Dominican government's cholera eradication programme.
09/13/2011

Contract to build two tunnels in the El Teniente mine, Chile

VINCI Construction Grands Projets (60%) and Soletanche Bachy (40%) have been announced winners of the contract to design and build two tunnels in Chile. The contract, awarded by Codelco, the country’s national copper company, is worth $400 million.
09/08/2011

New contract as part of the Lusail Light Rail Transit System project in Qata

QDVC, a Qatari subsidiary of Qatari Diar (51%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (49%), has just won a contract for a further works phase of the Light Rail Transit System (LRT) construction project in the new city of Lusail, 15 km north of Doha, Qatar. The €374 million design-build contract covers civil engineering works in the eight underground stations, a viaduct across the motorway linking Doha with the northern part of the country and preliminary works on an LRT depot and maintenance workshop. The work is expected to take 38 months to complete.
07/29/2011

Hydroplus is awarded a contract to optimize the Quipolly Dam in Australia

On June 22, 2011, Hydroplus Australia Pty signed a contract with Liverpool Plains Shire Council (local government) to design, build, and install fusegates on the Quipolly Dam, located in New South Wales, approximately 300 km north of Sydney. The project will secure the dam against floodwaters in compliance with Australian regulatory requirements and increase storage capacity by over 2.8 million m³ (a 55% increase).
06/30/2011

Contract for the new London express rail link - Crossrail

VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche Ltd (VINCI Construction), members of the BBMV consortium along with Alpine Beton und Monierbau, Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall, have won the €275 million contract (VINCI’s share: 36.7%) to build the tunnels for the Liverpool Street and Whitechapel stations in London.
01/13/2011

VINCI wins contract to build an underground car park and landscaped gardens in the centre of Doha, Qatar

QDVC, the Qatari subsidiary of Qatari Diar (51%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (49%), has won the contract to design and build an underground car park and the landscaped gardens fronting the Doha Sheraton Hotel, in the financial and diplomatic district of West Bay.
09/08/2010

WMI wins a contract in Tanzania

On June 23, WMI, in joint venture with EBI (Egis BCEOM International, an engineering and consulting firm), signed a contract to upgrade the drinking water supply system in the city of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania.
08/24/2010

VINCI Construction Grands Projets signs a new RPE contract in Vietnam

On July 21, 2010, VINCI Construction Grands Projets (70%), in consortium with OTV (30%), a subsidiary of Veolia Eau, signed a new RPE contract (intergovernmental loan program with emerging economies) with the city of Thai Nguyen in northeastern Vietnam. The €6.2 million contract covers: design, supply, installation, and start-up for 9 wastewater pumping stations; 18 km of pipeline network; 5 km of teletransmission network; and supply of specialized maintenance equipment.
07/30/2010

Contract to rehabilitate and extend a drinking water treatment plant in Sri Lanka

VINCI Construction Grands Projets (International Water Works department) has just signed an Emerging Countries Reserve (ECR) contract valued at €10 million that calls for the upgrade of the drinking water supply system for the city of Trincomalee in northeastern Sri Lanka. As a result of the upgrade, the Kantale plant will increase its daily drinking water treatment capacity from 36,500 m³ to 54,500 m³.
07/08/2010

Signature of an agreement for the Ca Pass tunnel and road project in Vietnam

VINCI Construction Grands Projets has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the turnkey construction of the Ca Pass tunnel and road project in Vietnam. The signing took place in the presence of Mr Dominique Bussereau, France’s Secretary of State for Transport, and Mr Nguyen Hong Quan, Vietnam’s Minister of Construction.
06/24/2010

QDVC is awarded the second phase of the light-rail system project at Lusail in Qatar

QDVC, the Qatari subsidiary of Qatari Diar (51%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (49%), was awarded the second phase of the project to build the Lusail light-rail transit (LRT) system, 15 km north of Doha. The contract, valued at €129 million, covers civil works of the cut-and-cover tunnels and the construction of pumping and ventilation shafts. This phase of the project will be completed in 23 months. The first phase, currently underway by QDVC, covers feasibility studies, design and earthworks.
03/23/2010

New Hydroplus contract for the Foss Dam in the United States

On January 8, 2010, Hydroplus, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, signed a €200,000 contract with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to upgrade Foss dam spillway. The scope of the works includes design and engineering of a Fusegate System and technical support. The Fusegate solution will bring the dam into compliance with the dam safety regulations in terms of discharging the design flood. This mimizes the amount of construction works and preserves the appearance of the structure. Foss Dam is located 35 kilometres west of Boston, Massachusetts.
03/19/2010

Contract to upgrade drinking water supply and treatment in Jamaica

VINCI Construction Grands Projets was recently awarded the first phase of the contract to upgradedrinking water supply and treatment for the town of Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, by the NWC (National Water Commission). 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.
03/08/2010

Contract for Lee Tunnel in London

VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche Ltd (VINCI Construction), in a 50/50 joint  venture with Morgan Est, have been awarded the Lee Tunnel contract by Thames Water, the longstanding operator of London’s water services. The contract, worth a total of €476 million, calls for building a 7 km tunnel for storm water and wastewater in east London.
01/18/2010

VINCI has signed an agreement for the Ho Chi Minh City light rail

VINCI Construction Grands Projets, in a consortium with LOHR Industrie for the rolling stock, has signed, at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister François Fillon and the Vietnamese authorities, an agreement covering the –turnkey construction of the first light rail line in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
11/13/2009

New Hydroplus contract in Greece

Following Dafnozonara,  Hydroplus has been awarded a second upgrade contract in Greece, valued at €544,000. Signed on September 9, 2009, this contract seeks to optimise the Kastraki spillway, a hydroelectric dam belonging to the Public Power Corporation (Greece’s EDF). It calls for the design and engineering of the upgrade, as well as technical assistance for the project. Like Dafnozonara, the Kastraki dam is located in western Greece, on the Acheloos River. It is Greece’s second largest hydroelectric dam currently in operation, after the Kremasta dam.
09/24/2009

A second contract in Trinidad and Tobago

On July 28, 2009, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed a contract worth $27.3 million with Trinidad and Tobago’s National Infrastructure Development Company (NIDCO) that calls for the design and construction of a composite bridge over the Churchill Roosevelt highway near the community of Aranguez on the island of Trinidad.
08/10/2009

Contract for phase 2 of Cairo metro line 3

VINCI Construction Grands Projets, as consortium leader, has signed a contract with Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) for the civil engineering works package of Cairo’s metro line 3. The civil engineering contract, worth €323 million, calls for building a 7.2 km 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.
06/23/2009

Contract to build a pumping station in Qatar

Through a consortium made up of subsidiaries VINCI Construction Grands Projets (leader), Entrepose Contracting and QDVC (a Qatari subsidiary owned 49% by VINCI Construction Grands Projets and 51% by Qatari Diar), VINCI has signed a contract with the Doha Public Works Authority, PWA Ashghal, to build a pumping station to the north of Doha, capital of Qatar.
03/20/2009

Hydroplus upgrades the Urrá dam in Colombia with Fusegates

On October 17, 2008, Hydroplus signed a turn-key (non civil engineering) contract valued at €4 million with Urrá E.S.P. to upgrade the Urrá dam in Colombia. The Urrá hydro-electric facility, which is located in the department of Córdoba in northwestern Colombia, features four 85-MW turbines and has a total capacity of 340 MW. Fusegates will bring about an increase in storage capacity and hydro-electric production as well as better control over flood discharge without altering the current infrastructure and without adversely impacting the environment.
01/27/2009

Contract to build control tower at new Tripoli airport in Libya

VINCI Construction Grands Projets (65%), in a consortium with Libyan Development Company or Lidco (35%), signed a €55 million contract on 13 November 2008 to build the control tower for the new Tripoli airport. The contract covers civil engineering and all the technical and architectural building trades (€42 million), as well as airport infrastructure (€13 million). The work is scheduled to take 18 months.
12/24/2008

Exclusive agreement with Balfour Beatty for the construction of pressurised water reactors in the UK

VINCI, through its subsidiaries VINCI Construction Grands Projets and VINCI Plc, has signed an exclusive agreement with Balfour Beatty, in the form of a 50/50 joint venture to bid on upcoming tenders issued as part of the United Kingdom’s programme to build next generation nuclear power plants. As the UK is the first European country to launch massively into the construction of these new power stations, ten pressurised water reactors (PWR) could be built.
12/05/2008

VINCI wins a tunnel construction contract in the United States

VINCI Construction Grands Projets, leader (65 %) of a joint-venture with the American contractor Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc. (35 %), recently signed a contract with the City of Detroit (Detroit Water and Sewerage Department) to build a tunnel for carrying treated wastewater from the city for discharge into the Detroit river.
11/27/2008

Contract for the Liefkenshoek rail link at Antwerp

On November 5, 2008, VINCI Construction Grands Projets (25%) in a consortium with MBG (25%), subsidiary of CFE, CEI-De Meyer and Wayss & Freytag, signed a contract worth €680 million for the Liefkenshoek rail link. This four-and-a-half-year project calls for the design and construction of a dual railway infrastructure 16.2 km long, connecting the north and south shores of the port of Antwerp in Belgium, for the transportation of merchandise by train. The new infrastructure will relieve traffic congestion around the port, which is undergoing substantial expansion in its merchandise-transportation activities.
11/19/2008

Two new contracts for Hydroplus

The first contract, signed on July 24, 2008, calls for the design, manufacture, and transportation of eight Fusegates and includes technical assistance during the installation process on the Goéland dam in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The second contract, signed on August 7, 2008, calls for the design of nine steel Fusegates and technical assistance for the Dafnozonara hydroelectric dam in western Greece. This is the first project for Hydroplus in Greece!
09/12/2008

New RPE contract in Vung Tau

On May 24, 2008, a joint venture consisting of VINCI Construction Grands Projets (20%) and OTV (80%), a subsidiary of Veolia Eau, signed a new RPE contract Vung Tau, southern Vietnam (RPE refers to an intergovernmental loan program with emerging economies). The contract, valued at €15 million, calls for the installation of a waste-water-treatment system (which is the part of the mandate assigned to VINCI Construction Grands Projets) and the building of seven pumping stations and one water-treatment plant.
06/04/2008

Signature of the contract for the world’s longest bridge between Qatar and Bahrain

On May 6, 2008, VINCI Construction Grands Projets, lead contractor of a consortium of construction companies, and Middle East Dredging Company (also known as Medco and a subsidiary of CFE, VINCI Group) signed a $3-billion design-build contract with the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway Foundation for a bridge connecting Qatar and Bahrain.
05/07/2008

Launch of the study phase for a hotel-construction project in the Seychelles

QDVC, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets (49%) and of Qatari Diar (51%), has won a 9-month contract to carry out an initial feasibility study and produce a costing estimate for the construction of a hotel complex located on the island of Mahé, the largest island in the Seychelles and home to the tallest peak in the archipelago.
04/22/2008

VINCI will begin work on the construction of a regasification terminal in the Netherlands

A consortium bringing together VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Entrepose Contracting (a VINCI Construction subsidiary), Techint (Italy), and Sener (Spain) has just received the go-ahead for the construction of a re-gasification terminal in the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands for Gate Terminal BV.
01/29/2008

United Kingdom: widening of the M1

VINCI Construction Grands Projets, in partnership with Morgan Est and Sir Robert McAlpine, has obtained a design-and-build contract for the widening of the M1 motorway near Nottingham.
01/17/2008

Qatar-Bahrain Liaison

On September 29, 2007, VINCI Construction Grands Projets (lead contractor in a joint venture), in partnership with Qatar Dredging – a subsidiary of CFE, itself a VINCI subsidiary –, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoOU) with the Qatar- Bahrain Causeway Foundation, a bi-national organization, regarding thea construction project to build a fixed maritime sea link between Qatar and Bahrain.
01/15/2008

Record height for Hydroplus fusegates

Following a study that revealed  the Canton dam’s insufficient flood-discharge capacity, plans were made to build a new emergency spillway to provide adequate flood protectionthat the spillway at the Canton dam was inadequate for flood discharge, a new emergency spillway had to be built. To that endaccomplish this mission, 9 fusegates, at each one 9.14 metres high – the tallest ever built anywhere in the world –, will be installed on the existing dam. As a result, the dam’s total discharge capacity will rise from 9,900 m³/sec to 18,000 m³/sec.
08/24/2007

Contract to build a highway interchange

VINCI Construction Grands Projets has just signed a contract to build the CRH/UBH highway interchange and related structures, connecting east-west and north-south highways in Trinidad and Tobaggo.
08/24/2007

Hydroplus at the heart of renewable forms of energy

As part of a project, supported by the German KfW Development Bank,  to promote renewable forms of energy sources in Armenia, supported by the German KfW Development Bank, Hydroplus is taking part in the rebuilding rehabilitation of and upgrade of the currently a disused currently Vorotna dam, : the Vorotna dam located in southern Armenia.
08/01/2007

Fusegates for the Allan river in France

On June 26, 2007, Hydroplus and GTM Terrassement (main contractor for the major contract from the client: Communauté d’agglomération du pays de Montbélliard) signed a €248,500 contract to build and install fusegates at a retention basinbreakwater on the Allan river.
06/26/2007

Contract FASEP in Morocco

On April 24, Hydroplus received notification of a FASEP contract valued at €335,398 from Morocco’s Direction générale du Trésor et de la politique économique (DGTPE), calling for a study on the optimization of water mobilization at a dams complex belonging to the country’s hydraulic-resource authority, Direction des aménagements hydrauliques (DAH).
04/24/2007

Drinking water in Algeria

On March 26, 2007, WMI in partnershiptandem with two feasibility study firms, BRL Ingénierie and NEE, signed a €3.2-million contract with Algérienne des eaux (ADE) for a project designed to improve the quality of drinking water at Saïda and Béchar.
03/26/2007

Waterworks in Jamaica

On February 12, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed an €18-million contract with Jamaica’s National Water Commission (NWC) to rehabilitate and extend existing infrastructure as part of a project to increase drinking-water supply to the Kingston Metropolitan Area.
02/12/2007