ASF - 2002 annual report - Vinci

Environment and Sustainable Development
be taken into account which
and our policies
standards to last, and with a concern
for economical performance and
cost control, are the reflection of a
global approach by the ASF group.
It is this integrated approach, from
design to bringing into service, for
which the panel of judges of the
“Rubans d’Or 2002” awarded a special
prize for the A20 motorway between
Cahors Nord and Souillac.
In consultation with local players at
the time of each construction site,
the 1% landscape and development
policy contributes to enhancing the
territory of the communes which are
located alongside the motorway, in
terms of landscape, the economy
and tourism. In 2002, the charters for
the routes of the A66 motorway in
Haute-Garonne, the A87 in Vendée
and the A89 in Puy-de-Dôme were
completed.
On the already existing motorways,
the “Ecolisières” policy initiated by
ASF follows the same logic of
concerted development seeking to
reconcile in the long term the necessities
of the motorway with those of
urban planning and the near environment.
In this perspective, ASF supports
the “town entrances” competition
by the “Ligue Urbaine et Rurale”
(town and country league) which
recompenses towns which undertake
to rehabilitate their dilapidated outskirts.
An undisputed expertise in the
“green” heritage
Over the years the Group has set up
and perpetuated an extremely rich
vegetation heritage. Today more
than 10,000 hectares of “vegetation
areas” are looked after according to
the “extensive management”
method initiated by ASF: the
consumption of fertilisers is very low
in favour of the use of organic compost
without any peat (recycling of
organic matter, protection of peat
bogs), the virtual abandon of plantcare
products (weed-killers, insecticides,
fungicides) in favour of mechanical
interventions leading to the
selection of the species of vegetation
to be preserved, the creation of
non-irrigated areas planted with species
adapted to soils and climates to
save water and not requiring much
looking after. These areas have
become havens sheltering an
In 2002, ESCOTA and the “Conservatoire
des Etudes des Ecosystèmes
de Provence” (Provence
conservatory for the study of ecosystems)
signed a framework
agreement with the aim of reinforcing
the remarkable preservation
of the biological heritage on
the land underlying the motorways.
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