VINCI - 2005 annual report

Revenue
+11 %
in France
Communication in Calais
To keep local residents abreast of progress
on the three-year project, Eurovia set up a
website that can be accessed by the public
from two kiosks in the city centre, as well as
a toll-free telephone number, an information
offi ce and a free electronic newsletter.
France
EUROVIA / BUSINESS REPORT
Eurovia’s business activity in France, accounting for 56%
of its revenue, continued to increase at a steady pace (+11%
in 2005, compared with +9% in 2004). Growth was generated in all regions
but was particularly strong in the Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes regions (+20.6%).
Several acquisitions, accounting for total revenue of €32 million, bolstered the
group’s network. These were mainly quarries (the Pélissard, CLHP, CBA, Grands
and Lebrat companies, with a combined capacity of 750,000 tonnes per year)
and materials recycling facilities (Fillot TP: 250,000 tonnes per year).
Eurovia was involved in 15 tramway projects, i.e. on the vast majority
of such projects now under way in France. The company’s urban development
capabilities, covering a wide range of expertise in urban amenity upgrades
(earthworks, re-routing of utility networks, construction of development sites,
facade-to-facade development, cobblestone and fl agstone pavements, etc.)
make it a leader on this market, where it has been operating since projects
of this type were fi rst launched in the 1980s. The company’s related services
offering also gives it a competitive edge in urban regeneration projects:
for example, Eurovia’s proposed community communication plan helped
win it the contract for the comprehensive refurbishment of several city-centre
boulevards in the northern French city of Calais.
Business was also brisk in construction and renovation of major infrastructure
such as motorways (notably the construction of several sections totalling 61 km
of the A89 motorway for ASF and the 2x3 lane widening of a 16.5 km section
of the A42 motorway in eastern France), airport facilities (new Airbus delivery
centre in Toulouse, Lyons – Saint Exupéry airport extension) and major urban
amenity projects such as the development of the banks of the Rhône in Lyons.
Alongside these major projects, a very large number of smaller contracts were
carried out for public and private sector customers, forming the base of Eurovia’s
recurring business activity. The company also carried out three high profi le
projects: pavement renovation at the Place Charles de Gaulle (Place de l’Etoile)
in Paris, using an innovative technique to regenerate the cobblestones in situ;
renovation of the Place Stanislas in Nancy (see page 75) and; road refurbishment at
the Château de Versailles, using heritage conservation techniques.
PAPYRUS INVENTS THE WORKSITE OFFICE
PAPYRUS INVENTS THE WORKSITE OFFICE
Honoured by Le Monde Informatique and La Tribune and awarded the VINCI 2005 Innovation Award Management prize,
Papyrus software enables Eurovia’s site foremen to enter worksite data directly into the company’s information system. The
communications tool, supported by a PC tablet, enables operations managers to be simultaneously “at the offi ce and on the worksite”, reduces the amount
of time they spend on administrative tasks and gives them access to a large number of functions (intranet, e-mail, shared documents, etc.) that extend and
enhance their jobs. Papyrus has already been issued to 2,500 foremen in France and 500 in Germany and their Czech counterparts will be receiving it in
2006. The system is being rolled out as part of Eurovia’s overall endeavour to step up international information exchange, knowledge sharing and managerial
synergies so as to optimise productivity across the group as a whole.
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