VINCI - 2005 annual report

The fl oating swimming pool
To meet the requirements of the City of Paris,
which wants the swimming pool to be a key
part of the amenity upgrade under way on the
banks of the Seine, the structure was carefully
designed to limit operating costs and protect
the environment. The swimming pool not only
fl oats, it can also be moved, so that every
fi ve years it can be careened for maintenance
of its metal components.
Building revenue
+21 %
CONSTRUCTION / ACTIVITY
the Salle 3000 hall in Lyon, the Zenith concert hall in Nantes, the Palais
Omnisports sports facility in Toulon and the fl oating swimming pool in Paris.
PPPs were increasingly being used, as were other new forms of contracts;
this gave new impetus to activity growth in a number of important segments.
In the fi eld of security, VINCI Constructon built 21 gendarmerie stations
under BEA long-term administrative leases, as well as three penitentiaries
for juveniles and an administrative detention centre. In the United Kingdom,
VINCI PLC built the Kent police headquarters in Medway under a PFI
(Private Finance Initiative) and took part in the national prison refurbishment
programme under a contract with a value of some €50 million per year.
In Chile, the Group is building three prisons, which it will be managing
under a PPP for a period of 20 years.
In the education sector, beyond conventional calls for tender there was
a considerable increase in activity in the United Kingdom under contracts
awarded by the Jarvis company with a value of nearly £100 million.
Following on from renovation contracts for schools in Stafford and Sandwell,
VINCI PLC began work, in a partnership, on several schools in Derby.
In Germany, after winning, in 2004, a very large PPP contract to renovate
43 schools in the Offenbach district (€295 million) and then manage them
for 15 years, SKE signed a similar contract with a value of €47 million with
the municipality of Bedburg near Cologne.
In the health care sector, taking advantage of the Hôpital 2007 plan
in France, VINCI Construction continued or started work on several major
projects, often in synergy with VINCI Energies business units handling
the technical equipment: the Army hospital in Toulon in southern France
(see opposite); the hospitals in Sarreguemines in eastern France, Bayonne
in southwestern France, and Lunel in southern France; the maternity
and children’s hospital in Lyons in eastern France; the polyclinic in Blois
in central France; and the Conception clinic in Marseilles in southern
France. In the United Kingdom, the Group is carrying out a major hospital
renovation project with a value of £60 million in Liverpool. Overseas,
it is building the teaching hospital logistics centre in Point à Pitre,
Guadeloupe and carrying out the structural work on the Mangot-Vulcin
hospital in Le Lamentin, Martinique.
The year’s record orders also included the future national television
complex in Vietnam (33,000 sq. metres on fi ve levels), which will house
some 15 production studios and be built as a turnkey project under
a €61 million contract.
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