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VSL News 2006 Issue 2 VSLNews2-2006 29/11/06 17:39 Page 1 NEWS THE VSL NEWS MAGAZINE • ISSUE TWO 2006 VSL & PARTNERSHIPS Attractive network for business ETA for VSL Casino in Macao VSLNews2-2006 29/11/06 17:39 Page 2 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 4 SUSTAINABLE Global issues at local level: VSL objectives to help ensure sustainable development 4 DEVELOPMENT 4 FACTS&TRENDS 6 Protection of critical assets: New tests for Ductal® 6 Tanks: Cryogenic success in Fujian, China 7 PARTNERSHIPS COVER STORY 8 8 VSL and partnerships: Attractive network for business Some of VSL’s new trump cards for relevant services: JV partnerships recently signed… SITE INSIGHTS 14 Australia: Gateway to alliance 14 Dubai: Record pace for world’s biggest mall 18 France: Landmark win for VSoL® 23 CORES 6 Chile: 30,000m2 distribution centre in Santiago 23 Hong Kong: Shatin T3 bridge nears completion 17 highlights FOCUS 24 European Technical Approval (ETA) for VSL post-tensioning systems This provides VSL with the most comprehensive range (from 1 to 55 strands) of ETA approved of the market. SLABS 21 TECH SHOW 27 Playing mega scale in Macao PRECAST 27 Venetian Macao Phase I is a large scale development to build another giant casino. For VSL, it is a large scale precast beam installation project Cover photo: the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel Phase I NEWS, magazine published by VSL International Ltd. • Bern, Switzerland and VSL • Challenger - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Director of Publication: Jean-Philippe Trin • [email protected] Editor in chief: Jane Rousseau • [email protected] Co-ordinators: Carlos Such, Renata Tamburrino, Doris Tong. Distribution: Sandra Puel • [email protected] Design: Red Line Photos: D. Allan, F-X. de Larminat, J. Roussseau, others. Copyright: VSL • VSLNews2-2006 29/11/06 17:39 Page 3 ISSUE TWO • 2006 EDITORIAL Sustainable development: our responsibility For over 50 years, VSL has made valuable contributions towards innovative and highly-efficient construction solutions focusing on raw material consumption (concrete, steel, etc.). Our local facilities spanning more than 40 countries and our training policy are both aimed at long-term sustainability, by promoting integration and economic development across many nations. The term sustainable development is in vogue today, but the prime focus needs to be placed on personal and collective responsibility. We must adapt our mode of operations and make the most of our team spirit inside the company to expand the approach and convert our broad-based drive for environmental protection into decisive actions. Sustainable development is more than a concept, it embodies a daily practice derived from a visionary objective and from the will to work for a future to preserve a high- quality planet for our children's sake. Jean-Philippe Trin VSLNews2-2006 29/11/06 17:39 Page 4 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Global issues at VSL is constantly reassessing its way of working and looking to best practice, quite simply to ‘be the best’. Sustainable development is already firmly on the agenda. During 2006 objectives have been developed. round the world, from developed areas of the world, and governments and industry is not enough to control the A to the public, there is a problem, especially in developing growing realisation that current areas. As development continues methods of development are and grows in intensity, new and unsustainable. In 1987 the UN larger problems will emerge. For successfully promoted the most example there simply is not widely used definition of enough fuel in the world for sustainable development countries like China and India use “Development which meets the cars like North America does. 4 needs of the present without The effects on the world of Asia’s compromising the ability of future recent demands for natural generations to meet their own resources can clearly be seen needs”. Current levels of resource (e.g. steel shortages). It has risks. For example consumer usage and wastage are placing to recently been reported that China’s boycotts due to poor performance high a burden on the planet. greenhouse gas emissions will risk corporate reputation. Globally we are not meeting the exceed the USA’s 20 years earlier Companies that anticipate changes needs of the present let alone than predicted. in resource availability and considering the future. acceptability of working practice New ways are in a stronger position. A part to play of doing business Leaders in business, government, We are using up our natural Higher energy costs, a growing academia, and communities are resources quicker than we are demand from consumers and providing innovative new solutions replenishing them. We face a governments are putting greater to sustainability issues. Large future that will be less secure. pressure on businesses to change. corporations, as well as small We all need to However, these businesses are going beyond legal reduce our Development which challenges are also compliance to conserve resources. environmental meets the needs of the opportunities to Perhaps the single most influential impact, not just improve factor that has emerged is the because it is the present without performance realization that waste reduction, right thing to do, compromising the ability through reduced energy efficiency, and pollution but also because of future generations to input costs, better prevention make economic sense. it is in our own “ external relations Companies are starting to meet their own needs long-term best and greater understand that sustainability (Definition used by UN and many interests. other organizations). innovation. involves more than ethical The standard In tomorrow's considerations - it improves the approaches in the past to the world, sustainability will more bottom line and is good business. environmental problems visibly impact on business generated by business have been performance.” Increasingly, social How to survive? legal driven "end-of-the-pipe" and environmental issues are an Sustainable Development is not a clean-up efforts. This approach area of risk for businesses new thing to VSL though it has not has had limited success in alongside traditional economic been called this before. Few NEWS N°2•2006 VSLNews2-2006 29/11/06 17:39 Page 5 t local level businesses survive for 50 years, as improving is even better. • Improving the capability of staff VSL has done, that have not As such during 2006 objectives to assist in designing already embraced aspects of have been developed to ensure and implementing sustainable sustainability. For example VSL that VSL is covering ‘the development initiatives; invests heavily in R&D and is fundamentals’, and targeting its • Auditing of suppliers on quality continually introducing new efforts. These include reducing and social issues; techniques (e.g. Pipeline impacts on the environment, • Initiating research projects Rehabilitation). employees and the wider focused on sustainable An important aspect of community. In particular the development; sustainability for VSL is being part following areas will be focused on • Encouraging reduction, reuse, of the local community. This has in 2007: recycling; been done by adopting a decentralized business model, which better meet the needs of local markets and allows greater flexibility in decision making. VSL 5 also produces high quality work, more safely and with less waste than its competitors, and of course VSL’s core activities reduce the resources used by clients and increase efficiency (e.g. prestressing, precasting). Additionally VSL also looks after its employees better than the norm especially in ‘terms and conditions’ (30 year service awards are not uncommon in VSL). They are also active in supporting charities (e.g. the Lighthouse Club Construction Charity in Hong Kong) and industry • Assessing customer • Providing educational support to development initiatives. satisfaction systematically employees and their families. and in relation to a wider Global issues range of business VSL operates in over 40 countries, at a local level concerns; employing 80 different Until now there has • Aiming to be a nationalities usually as a small or been no clear leader in health medium sized company. VSL is strategy in relation to & safety therefore in a position to some of the wider standards in all understand global issues at a local aspects of areas; level, and also local issues. This is sustainability such as • Improving the not something new, and is not a environmental impacts. ratio of women marketing slogan, it has been a The full power of the group in technical cornerstone of VSL’s success to network has not been used at and date. The new measures are the local level to address all operational simply expanding the scope of sustainability issues. Also roles; what is meant by ‘sustainable while VSL may be good, development’. ■ NEWS N°2•2006 VSLNews2-2006 29/11/06 17:39 Page 6 FACTS&TRENDS Geotechnics Long cores > Intrafor’s steerable long hole coring method is attracting considerable interest among tunnel designers in Hong Kong. It will be used to gather information about the complex geology of fault zones at the ends of a 5.5km-long drainage tunnel to be built from Tsuen Wan to Ting Kau. The advanced technology of horizontal directional coring will enable coreholes of 935m and 660m to be drilled from the portals across the fault zones. ■ Contact: [email protected] Ground engineering intrafor.com First project in the UAE Network > VSL is carrying out its first to 1,200mm. A BC40 cutter and five New Turkish 6 ground engineering project in the cranes were mobilised from Hong UAE, with Intrafor’s installation Kong and Perth. They will shortly of diaphragm walls for Burjuman be joined by a second cutter, an licensee station and a cut and cover tunnel MBC30. The project team has a as part of the new Dubai Metro. challenging task in installing Japan Turkey Metro JV has been 73,000m2 of diaphragm wall by building the metro since late 2005.
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