Sogea - 1999 annual report - Vinci

more than a builder: attuned as it is to its customers,
the company can provide an overall response to all
their expectations.
In the United Kingdom where Norwest Holst
generates a third of its business in the building sector,
the company has continued its general contracting
strategy and made the most of deregulation
implemented in that country, more particularly the
PFI (Private Finance Initiative) which encourages
private-sector financing of public-sector projects.
Norwest Holst has furthermore phased out its social
housing activity.
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2. Caroni, a subsidiary
of Sogea Nord, built
the new pharmaceutical
plant for Astra Zeneca
in Dunkirk; the structural
work was completed
in 112 days.
3. As the T2 “Egée“ Tower
project was completed,
Sari awarded to Sicra
the contract to build
its twin, the T3 “Adria“
Tower, at La Défense.
The confirmed phase
which has been signed
covers 29 storeys.
A conditional phase could
raise that number to 42.
4. Again at La Défense,
Sicra also won the contract
to do the structural work
on the Sofitel Hotel
in Courbevoie.
Activity
In the Île-de-France, Sicra has confirmed its rank as
the second leading building company in the greater
Paris area. It has reorganized into specialized
departments: new works, renovation, project
financing, planning, full-service maintenance and
industrial customers. In the course of the fiscal year
the company continued or began work on several
projects at La Défense: the T2 towers, the Sofitel
Hotel, the T3 Adria tower (architect: Conceptua),
which it will be building in a consortium with
Campenon Bernard Construction. Sicra also started
large construction sites on the Quai du Point-du-Jour
(architect: C. de Portzamparc) and in the Left Bank
ZAC (architects: Arte J.-M. Charpentier & Associés-
T3 C (Axe France)-Dusapin / Leclercq-
B. Tournier-Lasserve). It is also building the Anatole-
France middle school in Puteaux (architects:
Guidicelli Architectes), the Baudelaire lycée in Evry
(architect: L. Martel) and a shopping centre in Serris
near Marne-la-Vallée. In 1999, Sicra also performed,
in a REX (experimental construction) project, the
structural renovation of the Quatre-Tours complex
in Le Blanc-Mesnil as well as part of the last phase
of the Nord ZAC in Montrouge (architects: Sopha
Architectes and Arte & Charpentier) where the
company is also the planner. The renovation market is
no longer growing at its previous rate but it still makes
up a third of Sicra’s activity.
EXPERIMENTAL CONSTRUCTION
Renovation and work site logistics
At the end of February, 1999, Sicra completed renovation work
on the Quatre-Tours complex in Blanc-Mesnil. Together with
the Sogea Development-Marketing, France Department,
Sicra carried out an experimental works (REX) approach on
this project which involved worksite logistics and scheduling
in the framework of sequential renovation.
Two new REX projects to be conducted by Sicra in Meudon and
Chelles (architects: Laumonnier and Meninger) aim to
determine which procedures and methods are necessary to set
up high-performance logistics systems on smaller work sites.
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