2013-vinci-annual-report

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01 In Belgium, Actemium implemented
the automation works package of the
extension of the Fluxys underground
natural gas storage site in Loenhout.
02 In December 2013, VINCI Energies
acquired Mentor, a British company
specialising in assisting oil and gas
infrastructure operators.
03 Connecting optical fibre.
04 VINCI Facilities will be providing
facilities management for the 48
Thales sites in France until the end
of 2017.
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Outside France, service sector business
was very strong in Belgium thanks to the
many projects under way for public-sector
clients (Nato headquarters, headquarters
of the Council of the European Union in
Brussels) and in Switzerland (new head
office for Roche, extension of the Novartis
campus, construction of workshops for the
watchmaking industry).
Maintenance and facilities
management
Accounting for 14% of the business line’s
overall revenue, VINCI Facilities experienced
a substantial decline in 2013 (down
6.1% to €1.3 billion). To maintain added
value, VINCI Facilities focused its positioning
even more closely on markets with the
highest technical component, where it can
develop operating synergies with the works
business units. Implementation of this strategy
entailed renegotiating or discontinuing
a number of contracts and stepping up sales
and marketing momentum in targeted multi-technical
maintenance and facilities
management markets. VINCI Facilities is
now concentrating on contracts under
which it can make the most of its advanced
energy efficiency solutions that build on the
business line’s ability to fine-tune consumption
and thermal renovation expertise.
These efforts produced significant new
contracts in 2013 such as those awarded by
Nexity in France (facilities management for
48 buildings belonging to the La Française
group) and the Crédit Coopératif (multi-technical
maintenance at 86 branch
offices). The framework agreement signed
in 2011 with Société Générale, which covers
the banking group’s main Greater Paris area
sites, was extended to additional services at
a new Paris site and to several subsidiaries
in the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany.
This contract, which is coordinated and
managed in full transparency with the customer,
is a good illustration of the long-term
partnerships VINCI Facilities seeks to
develop. In addition, as part of Group synergies,
VINCI Facilities has been providing
maintenance at the Allianz Riviera in Nice
since the autumn of 2013, and will be doing
the same at the new Bordeaux stadium now
under construction.
International activity, which represents
over 40% of VINCI Facilities’ volume,
involves operations in 20 countries, especially
Benelux and Germany, where its
business units carry out integrated maintenance,
in particular of school facilities
under PPPs.
Telecommunications
Contracts relating to communication networks
and systems amounted to €0.9 billion,
or 10% of VINCI Energies’ overall activity.
Infrastructure
Telecommunication network activities,
carried out under the Graniou brand, benefited
in 2013 from two trends that cut across
all European markets in which VINCI
Energies operates: the roll-out of 4G in
mobile telecommunication and of fibre
optics in fixed-line networks, comprising
fibre to the premises (FTTP) to connect businesses
and homes, backbone networks, and
replacement of microwave with optical
fibre systems at radio sites to accommodate
constantly increasing traffic.