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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