The Balfour Beatty VINCI SYSTRA HS2 joint venture announced its formal contract award for the management of the construction and delivery of HS2’s Old Oak Common station, in North West London, in September 2019. The joint venture will be responsible for the final design, construction and commissioning of Old Oak Common station, delivering 6 underground platforms and 8 platforms on the adjacent Great Western Main Line. Once completed, HS2’s new Old Oak Common station will become the UK’s best-connected rail station, providing direct services to three major airports and eight of Britain’s ten largest cities.

 As one of the most significant construction projects in Great Britain for decades, HS2 will act as a catalyst for growth, boosting growth in the Midlands and North. Phase 1 for these contracts had been awarded in July 2017 for the design of the West Midlands area, where more than 500 engineers and technicians, including the joint venture’s designers, worked successfully to enable the project to switch from design to construction. The construction contract (phase 2) for HS2s main civil engineering works packages Lots N1 and N2 was awarded to the Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) joint venture in April 2020. The scope of works for these packages comprise extensive earthworks, ground engineering, viaducts and tunnels along a 90 km stretch between the Long Itchington Wood Green tunnel in the south to the West Coast Main Line tie-in near Litchfield in the north with a major junction into central Birmingham at Curzon Street.

The contract involves the design, construction and financing of 27.5km of infrastructure for a light-rail transit (LRT) system in order to extend the Confederation Line to the west and east of the city of Ottawa.
It includes the construction of 4km of rail in cut-and-cover tunnels, 20 engineering structures, 16 stations, of which one underground and one elevated, and a maintenance centre. It also covers the delivery of associated systems.

The Link Alliance consortium, leaded by VINCI Construction Grands Projets, is in charge of carrying out three lots on this project.
Lot 3 covers the design and construction of a 3.45 km extension of a railway line, including 3.2 km of tunnel, to connect the existing stations of Britomart and Mount Eden. On the route, 3 new stations will be built, including 2 underground.
Lot 5 concerns the construction of two civil engineering structures and a new 2 km lane, while maintaining traffic on the North Auckland Line.
Lot 7 includes the installation of electrical systems, catenaries, signaling and control system for the entire City Rail Link.

Doubling the Copenhagen metro’s capacity – that’s the target for the network-extension programme in the Danish capital on which VINCI Construction Grands Projets is deploying its expertise in underground works. Our consortium was awarded the design-build contract for the Copenhagen metro’s fourth line. Works include: two tunnels each 4.4 km long (bored using earth-pressure TBMs), civil engineering for five underground stations and switching shafts, sub-trades, electrical and mechanical systems, architectural interior works for the stations, and ventilation in the tunnels.

The Grand Paris Express project will transform daily life for thousands of people living in Île-de-France from as early as 2024 to 2030 as VINCI Construction Grands Projets puts its expertise in underground infrastructure and large-scale project management to work for this vast initiative to enhance mobility in Île-de-France. In February 2018, we were awarded Lot GC02 for Line 14 South, which will link Olympiades station (in Paris’s 18th arrondissement) to Orly Airport.

As part of Eole, the project to extend line E of the RER rail network to the west, VINCI Construction Grands Projets, a member of the consortium led by VINCI Construction France, took part in the construction of a new train station under the CNIT dome, along with tunnels measuring a kilometre long, a shaft 40 metres deep and 15 metres in diameter, and several underground walkways connecting line E to line A of the RER, to lines L and U of the Île-de-France suburban rail network, and line T2 of the Tramway system.

New metro Lines 2 and 3 in Athens criss-cross the city from north to south and east to west. This turnkey design-build project included two tunnels, 9.2 and 8.4 kilometres long, respectively, and no fewer than 21 stations. This infrastructure, which is used by 600,000 passengers on a daily basis, has reduced car traffic in the city centre and cut the pollution that is harming the Greek capital’s historic centre by 8%. Today, the Athens metro is among the most modern in all of Europe.

Santiago Airport occupies a strategic position in South America (the continent sixth-largest airport) and especially in Chile where it is a hub for international connections.
In conjunction with our partners, we build five new terminals, which will cover a total surface area of 250,000 m², designed to double the airport’s current capacity from 15 to 30 million passengers.
The contract also calls for upgrades to part of the existing 30,000-m² terminal, two four-level car parks with a surface area of 93,000 m² and 800,000 m² of surface car-parks and airports roads.

Construction of the Cairo metro began in 1981 and hasn’t really stopped since. This collaborative project is part of a regional development program: the Cairo metro is an urban rail network that serves the Egyptian capital beset with traffic congestion day and night. This was the first metro construction project on the African continent. We’ve contributed to the construction of three metro lines; Line 3 is partially in operation, and its extensions will be delivered in 2018. Generally, each station includes three levels: ticket counters; an intermediate level for technical services; and platforms.