Effective management for a safe equipment fleet
VINCI Construction Grands Projets is permanently involved in about 40 large-scale projects running in more than 20 countries on all continents. Effectively managing an equipment fleet which is so spread out across the world with very different local resources and varied regional standards is a challenge in itself.
We therefore have developed an internal equipment management tool serving our shared ambition: to provide projects with reliable machinery and tools, whose rigorous maintenance guarantees performance, and to allow their effective and swift mobilisation anywhere in the world.
The design of innovative and specific tools
Our projects are unique. They are often of unusual scale and offer equally exceptional technical challenges. Our project-focused innovation policy drives our teams to design bespoke tools at the cutting edge of technology.
Anchored in the company’s DNA, innovation is reflected in the development of tool or machinery prototypes, created through a solid culture of partnership with manufacturers from different sectors and start-ups.
In this way, we can adapt existing tools to our specific needs or create tools that we need from scratch. We carry out functional analyses of the new equipment with particular attention to safety and environmental aspects, and then monitor the production with our manufacturing partner. We ensure that locally recruited workers receive prior training on these new tools.
Focus New Coastal Road
When building the viaduct of the new coastal road on Reunion Island, one of the challenges was securing the constructions in the sea, which had been reduced to the minimum necessary through more than 95% prefabrication on land. To install the very large precast segments in the sea, a self-elevating and self-propelled platform the size of a rugby field with non-standard bridge cranes was developed. The design and project teams designed, developed, and built this unique platform for a safe and efficient worksite.
Focus Cairo Metro
On the metro project in Cairo, Egypt, the tunnel boring machine from a previous phase was transformed for work on phase 4a of Line 3. The earth-pressure Imhotep TBM was modified on site to function under mud pressure through the addition of a hydraulic mucking system.