London’s spread and density make managing its railway network a constant challenge. The Crossrail network crosses London from east to west. This was one of the largest railway-infrastructure projects in all of Europe.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets involved in it as part of a consortium in charge of 2 contracts. The first contract (lot C510) included the construction of tunnels at Liverpool Street and Whitechapel Stations along with related structures. The second contract (lot C512) called for the partial demolition of Whitechapel Station and construction of a new station and ticket-sale space. It also included construction of 3 shafts, internal structures, a footbridge and tunnel platforms, along with related electrical, mechanical, and architectural infrastructure.
The Sud Europe Atlantique high-speed rail line (LGV SEA) is the largest civil engineering project in Europe this decade and the most extensive railway infrastructure concession contract ever awarded in Europe.
This 300-kilometre-plus project is designed to reduce travel time between Paris and Bordeaux by nearly an hour. VINCI Construction Grands Projets was part of the consortium in charge of designing and building this new rail line whose operation by private interests is set for a period of 50 years.
This rail project required the building of more than 500 standard engineering structures along the 302-kilometre line, including 24 viaducts, 15 grade separations, and 7 cut-and-covers.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets was mandated by the ministry of transport, public works, and water management in the Netherlands to design and build a 16-kilometre section including a composite bridge (steel structure) spanning the Hollandsch Diep (1,190 metres long), two underwater tunnels crossing the Oude Maas and Dordtsche Kil (2,640 and 2,600 metres long, respectively), a 1,000-metre access viaduct, various engineering structures such as bridges and trenches, including the 935-metre Mokhoek open trench as well as 8.5 kilometres of railway infrastructure slabs resting on 27,000 driven piles.
This mandate is Lot Number 4 of the HSL project (fourth geographical sector out of a total of five for the high-speed line connecting Amsterdam to the border with Belgium).
The new terminal at Dushanbe International Airport is designed to deliver better service to users. For this project, we designed and built a two-level, 12,000-square-metre building that can accommodate 1.5 million passengers a year. The project was launched in 2012 and the terminal was inaugurated in September 2014.
In January 2006, the Entreprise Métro d’Alger entrusted the construction of Algiers’ first metro line to a consortium consisting of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Siemens Transportation Systems and the Spanish company CAF. It was a contract for the turnkey delivery of a 9.5 km rapid transit line with a rolling stock of 14 trains for the Algerian capital. Our portion consisted of the finish and layout of 10 stations (nine underground and one overground), as well as the construction of a 16,000 m² service building and maintenance rooms.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets was responsible for the civil engineering works, architectural layout of the stations, electromechanical equipment, escalators as well as the Anassers control station and the Bach Djerah maintenance rooms.
Construction of this dual rail tunnel below the Pannerdensch Canal was part of the “Betuwe” project, a new rail line designed to convey merchandise between the port of Rotterdam and Holland’s border with Germany. This 160-kilometre line can accommodate container railway cars. The work package assigned to us called for the design and construction of the Pannerdensch tunnel, a 6.3-kilometre structure. The project included construction of a dual bored tunnel 1,620 metres long (8.5 metres in inner diameter), portals and access ramps over a distance of 1,200 metres, and 3.3 kilometres of railway platform made from backfill material. In addition, the Pannerdensch Canal tunnel possesses a special feature: it is equipped with gates (square cofferdams) at either end designed to prevent flooding.
The Øresund crossing connects Copenhagen Airport to the city of Lernaken, south of Malmö. It includes, in succession, a tunnel, an artificial island, a viaduct, a cable-stayed bridge, and a second viaduct. The infrastructure, which as a whole extends over a distance of 16 kilometres and accommodates both a highway and a rail line, is the result of 3 major contracts. The first contract called for the construction of a tunnel, the second for dredging operations, and the third for a bridge. VINCI Construction Grands Projets was mandated to design-build the tunnel. To be more specific, this project included construction of an submerged tunnel 3,510 metres long enclosing a dual 2-lane highway and double-track rail line (making it then the longest structure of its kind in the world). The tunnel includes gateways and access ramps at both extremities, technical buildings housing the ventilation systems, and exits linking to road and rail networks.
