VINCI - 2008 annual report

WOMEN MOVE INTO MAINTENANCE
The promotion of equality and diversity includes giving women
access to all the company’s jobs. In 2008, following Escota’s
forward-looking jobs and skills management programme, eight
women moved into the maintenance sector for the first time.
Seven now hold motorway worker jobs and one has become a works
supervisor. Also for the first time, one woman has moved into a toll
maintenance job.
ANIMAL PROTECTION
The construction of the A19 includes ambitious measures to protect
animals. Based on studies to identify species living near or crossing
the motorway (such as deer, which roam between the Fontainbleau
and Orleans forests), 116 animal crossings have been created. Of
these, 105 are for small animals and 11 for big ones. Two of the latter,
located in the forest of Montargis, have been developed on top
of structures covering the motorway for a distance of 150 metres.
Trees and bushes have been planted on the surface of these platforms
to provide continuity with the forest. In addition, the underground
passages have been designed to avoid the “tunnel effect”;
the vegetation, wood fencing (to prevent glare from headlights) and
earth shoulders make the animals feel safe and allow them to graze
as they move from one side of the motorway to the other.
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