VINCI - 2005 annual report

EMERGENCY AID ACTIVITIES
The VINCI Solidarity With Asia scheme was
launched within days of the tsunami of
26 December 2004. It encouraged Group
employees to support the humanitarian
organisations Médecins du Monde and
UNICEF in their efforts to assist the
victims of the disaster - and VINCI made
a commitment to match employee donations.
By the end of the appeal, a total of
€406,736 had been sent to the two
NGOs. Meanwhile, in Cambodia, the 700
employees of the Phnom Penh Airport concessionaire,
a VINCI Concessions subsidiary,
joined forces to speed up the handling of
emergency supplies airlifted in by the UN’s
World Food Programme (WFP).
LOCAL INITIATIVES
FOSTERING SOLIDARITY
VINCI’s commitment to social inclusion
through work is complemented by
initiatives launched by Group companies
to foster solidarity. Through its club for
socially aware property developers
(Club des Promoteurs Citoyens), VINCI
Immobilier signed a three-year agreement
with the Abbé Pierre Foundation in April
2005 to support its social housing
programme. For each home sold by VINCI
Immobilier, the company’s lawyers transfer
€30 to the Abbé Pierre Foundation. In an
extension of the partnership forged with
Médecins du Monde during the struggle to
get emergency aid to stricken communities
in South-East Asia, VINCI Construction
Filiales Internationales is participating in
the rehabilitation of a health centre
in French Guiana. Ringway, Eurovia’s UK
subsidiary, works with the NGO Care
International to raise funds. An SNC group –
an SNC (Solidarités Nouvelles Face au Chômage) is
a French NGO that provides support,
through local groups, to the long-term
unemployed in their attempts to fi nd work –
has been created at VINCI.
Heritage
preservation
With their long tradition and broad expertise
as builders, VINCI and its subsidiaries help
safeguard France’s historic and cultural
heritage through corporate sponsorship
schemes and the dissemination of information
about archaeological discoveries.
The Hall of Mirrors at the Château
de Versailles
VINCI is a major partner of the French
Ministry of Culture. In that capacity, it has
been carrying out the fi rst comprehensive
restoration of the Hall of Mirrors at the
Château de Versailles since 2004, thereby
helping to preserve one of the great masterpieces
of the world’s architectural heritage.
Within the framework of an innovative
skills-based sponsorship arrangement,
VINCI is fi nancing the works – €12 million
– and making available the expertise
of its various subsidiaries specialising
in the restoration of historic buildings.
An entirely restored Hall of Mirrors is
scheduled to open in May 2007.
VINCI is involving all Group employees
and shareholders and their families in this
operation by giving them a free pass to
the Château de Versailles for the duration
of the project.
The Guimet Museum collection
VINCI has added to the collection at the
National Museum of Asian Art by donating
a rare piece: a silver-bronze statuette from
Gandhara representing a third century
bodhisattva.
Place Stanislas in Nancy
Several VINCI subsidiaries were involved
in cultural events organised to mark the
renovation of Place Stanislas in Nancy,
a gem of eighteenth century architecture
and a UNESCO World Heritage site. VINCI
Park, for example, supported the “Nancy
2005, le Temps des Lumières” exhibition
about the city during the enlightenment
period, and Eurovia, which renewed the
paving stones in the square, backed the
production of the fi lm La Mémoire poétique.
A RESPONSIBLE GROUP / CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
The Caillié house in Timbuktu
In 1828, René Caillié, the great explorer,
was the fi rst European to visit Timbuktu.
The house he once lived in is to be restored
under the terms of a memorandum
of understanding signed by Sogea-Satom’s
offi ce in Mali, the Malian Ministry of
Culture and the current owners of the house.
Disseminating information about
archaeological discoveries
VINCI subsidiaries are required to organise
rescue archaeological surveys before
embarking on construction and regional
development projects.
Arcour, the VINCI Concessions subsidiary
awarded the concession for the new A19
Artenay-Courtenay motorway, more than
fulfi lled its legal obligations in this respect
in 2005 when it signed an agreement with
the local council and INRAP, the French
institute for research in rescue archaeology.
Their intention is work together to make
full use of the research undertaken as part
of the project. Joint actions will include the
production of a 90-minute documentary
fi lm, staging an exhibition and organising
visits for schoolchildren. The archaeological
surveys have uncovered the foundations
of two Gallo-Roman buildings in districts
never previously excavated.
In Cambodia, the VINCI Concessions subsidiary
operating Siem Reap airport, near
the Angkor temple site, funded and carried
out rescue archaeology excavations on its
own initiative in partnership with INRAP
as part of the project to extend the airport
concession. Moreover, in cooperation with
UNESCO, VINCI Concessions is implementing
a programme aimed at helping
to manage tourist fl ows at the temple
site information centre. This programme
represents an investment of $2 million over
two years.
Spending in the form of corporate sponsorship
and through the VINCI Foundation
amounted to €7 million in 2005.
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