THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF VINCI CONSTRUCTION UK ISSUE 57 / WINTER 2017

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HS2 Contract Announcement The Balfour Beatty VINCI JV has been advised of the intent to be awarded two of the High Speed 2 main works civils contracts worth a combined total of c. £2.5 billion. The joint venture comprises Balfour Beatty and VINCI Construction (Taylor Woodrow, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and VINCI Construction Terrassement).

In a two-part design and build contract the team will deliver Lot N1, valued at c. £1.32 billion, between the Long Itchington Wood Green tunnel to the Delta Junction / Birmingham Spur and Lot N2, valued at c. £1.15 billion, from the Delta Junction to the West Coast Main Line tie-in.

Main construction work is scheduled to start in 2018/19, following a period of detailed design work.

Awards for Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade

Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade is the culmination of a £350 million, seven- year project that has also contributed to the regeneration of a major part of London. In recognition of their hard work and commitment, the team recently picked up two awards: a National Rail Award in the category of Major Project of the Year for what the judges described as a 'complex engineering challenge in a very confined area'; and a BCIA award, also in the category of Major Project of the Year.

FROM DIESEL TRAIN DEPOT TO STATE-OF-THE-ART CROSSRAIL MAINTENANCE FACILITY Back in 2014, Bombardier Building a new depot is a multi- to start testing; and the Operations, PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Transportation UK Ltd disciplinary task combining design, Maintenance and Control (OMC) building construction, civil engineering, was completed and handed over to train We collaborated with our key delivery came up with will see an increase of awarded Taylor Woodrow the railway systems and operational operator, MTR Crossrail, for their staff to partners to develop a hybrid renewable 50% of renewable energy provision £142m contract to transform expertise. Extra route miles and more begin working on site. energy system comprising photovoltaic and a 65% reduction in CO2, saving the former Old Oak Common technically advanced rolling stock cells and solar heated water. Ground approximately 17,000 tonnes of CO2 diesel train maintenance demands depot facilities that meet not THE OMC Building contains nine source heat pumps will control over the 32-year life of the project. The depot in West London into an only the maintenance and cleaning maintenance roads with inspection pits, heating and cooling, originating from a system is also expected to significantly requirements of new trains but also cranes and jacks that are able to lift an combined heat and power plant. reduce operational costs. energy saving state-of-the-art the operational requirements of entire train. The 32 sidings provide stabling facility for Crossrail. Old Oak increasingly frequent timetables. areas for the trains to be located overnight Whilst the use of renewable The team were recognised for their Common is an integral part and for minor cleaning operations to be technologies is widely employed, this achievement at the UK Rail Industry of the Crossrail project as, The depot will become operational in carried out when not in use. solution is unique in the extent and Award ceremony where they won once complete, it will provide stages and has recently reached some integration of system technologies both the Cost Base Reduction and major milestones. The whole project is due to be complete that switch between energy sources as Environmental and Sustainability maintenance, stabling and by mid-2018 ready for the Elizabeth demand and availability dictate. categories. Now the lessons learnt office accommodation for the During November, the power for the Line to start operating by the end of the will be used as best practice to new fleet of 200-metre long Overhead Line Equipment was switched year, providing the capital’s first new The hybrid energy system that Taylor deliver the same benefits to Elizabeth Line trains. on; the first train arrived at the depot railway for decades. Woodrow, GI Energy and NG Bailey future projects.

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Communiqué Issue 57 1 NEWS ROUND-UP

REGENERATION The Chesterfield Hospital P21+ Theatre Refurbishment Programme Work Starts on New Wigan Bus Station The Chesterfield Hospital P21+ theatre refurbishment programme has been completed.

Work commenced back in June 2014 following the construction of a new build theatre and associated M&E infrastructure work to provide decant space to enable the The Building division has started work team to commence the complex on the £15.7 million redevelopment of refurbishment of four laminar flow Wigan Bus Station. The first stage of the and eight standard theatres, a staff redevelopment includes the demolition of room extension and refurbishment, the old bus station to make way for initial remodelling and creation of new ground works. Once complete, the new bus storage facilities, including all new station, delivered by Transport for Greater plant and associated equipment. Manchester (TfGM), will provide improved Critical to the successful delivery waiting areas for passengers, a ticket and of this project was being able to information outlet and retail facilities. maintain the client's theatre activity whilst completing the theatres on White Hart Lane Station Upgrade a sequential basis during normal working hours and within a live hospital environment. There was also the additional complexity of the theatres being landlocked in the centre of a busy hospital site, which created extremely challenging logistical constraints. Transport for London (TfL) has announced Taylor Woodrow as the The team are now preparing to successful bidder to design and commence their fifth project rebuild White Hart Lane station. The on the site, which will include redevelopment of the station, which is an extension to the Emergency used by 1.3m customers a year, will see Department and a new MRI unit. improvements including a new ticket hall and station entrance as well as step-free access from street to platform. HEALTHCARE SPECIALIST EXPERTISE The redevelopment directly supports the regeneration of the area which includes St Ann’s Hospital, Tottenham Conren Help to Make Moscow’s Roads Safer plans for the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium, a museum, hotel and new homes.

Redevelopment of Warrington Town Centre

Integrated Health Projects (IHP), a joint Darlington Memorial Hospital Conren’s exclusive distributors for Russia and the Baltic States, AO FPK Transagentstvo, venture between VINCI Construction Reaches Milestone regularly buy Truegrip BT, Conren’s market leading anti-skid road safety surfacing. Will UK and Sir Robert McAlpine, has been Morris, Conren’s Export Sales Advisor, flew out to Moscow in September to visit one of awarded a £17 million contract to design their overseas agents to provide some training on the product. and build a 74-bed Mental Health Unit as part of the redevelopment of St Ann’s The total enquiry was for an area of 150,000m2 for an innovation park on the outskirts Hospital in Tottenham. of Moscow, which would be applied to paths and roads for the whole complex.

The new, purpose-built, mental health FPK are also contractors for the roads and highways, and have already effectively inpatient building will replace the installed Truegrip in many locations. current outdated mental health wards on the site. Warrington Borough Council has awarded Museum of Modern Art the Building division a £69 million contract This is the first project awarded to IHP The VINCI Technology Centre UK has as part of the £107 million redevelopment under the new P22 Framework Agreement. just completed weather-tightness of Warrington town centre. When testing of a façade sample for the completed in 2019, the scheme known as Healthcare Estates Awards Museum of Modern Art in New York. Time Square, will provide a new family- Spire Hospital has been shortlisted at this friendly shopping, restaurant and leisure year's Healthcare Estates Awards in the Work is progressing with the refurbishment Measuring 19m high x 15m wide, this experience including: category of New Build Project of the Year. of existing operating theatres as part of is the biggest sample the Technology a £22 million contract awarded to IHP at Centre has tested in over 30 years and • A new 2,500-seat, 13-screen cinema Delivered within just 20 months by Darlington Royal Infirmary. is rumoured to be the largest cladding for Cineworld VINCI Construction UK's Building test sample in the world. • New restaurant units below the cinema division, the £35 million private A complex phased programme of decant complex at ground and mezzanine level hospital in South Manchester is the and redevelopment has involved the The test regime was severe and technically • A new 100,000 sq ft four-storey largest hospital development to be demolition of a six-storey redundant demanding. Tests undertaken included office block delivered in the city for over five years building situated in the immediate vicinity water-tightness, building movement to • A new market hall to be built behind a and sets a new standard in healthcare of the hospital to allow construction of simulate seismic conditions and thermal retained Grade II listed façade provision within the region and for Spire six new theatres over three floors with a cycling to simulate temperature extremes • High quality public realm works. Healthcare nationally. mortuary at ground floor level. experienced in New York.

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EDUCATION Science and Technology Facilities Council

Buckinghamshire New As part of a four-year University FM Contract contract with the Science and Technology Facilities Council, VINCI Facilities provides a dedicated service delivery team who work alongside the in-house teams at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury sites.

VINCI Facilities has been awarded a STFC is one of Europe's largest £5 million Total Facilities Management multidisciplinary research organisations contract with Buckinghamshire New which coordinates research on some of University. The contract will run for the most significant challenges facing three years with the possibility of two society such as future energy needs, one-year extensions. Services provided monitoring and understanding climate include cleaning, security, reception change and global security. It supports and concierge, landscaping, pest control an academic community of around 1,700 and event support to the University in particle physics, nuclear physics, and Campuses in High Wycombe, astronomy including space science. Uxbridge and Aylesbury. In addition to planned preventative maintenance works, VINCI Facilities also Crescent Purchasing deliver project and minor works including Consortium Framework the procurement and installation of two 750kw Airedale free cooling Turbocore® Chillers for the on-site data centre.

The team has also installed an energy data management system covering all STFC sites which links to a cloud based VINCI Facilities has successfully system. This allows the client to view secured a place on the Crescent energy usage, building management Purchasing Consortium (CPC) system set points and all critical alarms. Framework. The four-year framework has been established to provide Total Facilities Management (TFM) at further education colleges, universities, sixth Howard Gardens The Building division has been awarded separate buildings, including social and LEISURE forms, academies, schools, museums Student Accommodation an £18 million contract by property leisure facilities and a car park. and other similar organisations. The Howard Gardens Student development and investment company, IAAF World Athletics Championships Accommodation complex has been Cityheart, to design and build a 295-bed Swansea University Cambridge International School delivered in time for the 2017-18 academic student accommodation complex for the Bay Campus – Phase 1C The Cambridge International School has year. Located on the former site of University of Gloucestershire. The latest phase of the UK’s largest new build awarded Building Solutions a £2 million Cardiff Metropolitan University, two new university campus is complete. Situated on a 65 contract to transform a Grade II Listed accommodation blocks provide beds for 686 Located in the Blackfriars area of acre former BP Transit site in Port Talbot, the building into a 200-entry early years’ nursery students along with community facilities Gloucester City Centre, this is Phase one Building division has delivered five residential and infant school. A new multi-purpose including library, gym and cinema. of the development and includes sixteen blocks totalling 543 en-suite student rooms. building also forms part of the contract studio rooms, thirty-six cluster bedrooms VINCI Facilities maintain the arena at to provide covered external teaching University of Gloucestershire and townhouses provided over four This has brought the total number of the London Stadium as part of a 25-year and play areas within the courtyard and student residences, provided in three concessions contract. During a major improvements to the existing main services. distinct phases for the Campus to 2,005. event such as the IAAF World Athletics Championships, the VINCI Facilities team Building Solutions’ expertise of working Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle will be on-site 24 hours a day to provide within historic buildings will ensure The Building Solutions division of VINCI event - specific cleaning activities and that features such as finishes, cornices, Facilities is underway with external engineering expertise to ensure the coving and skirtings remain intact, redecoration and repair to the front and smooth running of flood lights, generators, despite the requirement to upgrade rear façades of the Voltaire and Maurois bathroom facilities and the sound system. services and other building components buildings at the Lycée Français Charles de A help-desk is also available 24/7 to react to complete the work. Gaulle in South West London. to issues through an appropriate responder.

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO A CHANGING WORLD by Bruno Dupety the ways in which we do this. This year where VINCI Facilities is maintaining the Chairman and Chief Executive marked the 9th competition covering 12 arena for VINCI Stadium as part of a 25 VINCI PLC and VINCI Construction UK Ltd regions throughout the world, of which year concessions contract; and HS2 where the UK and Ireland is one. the BBV joint venture consists of VINCI Making the most of the synergies within Construction (Taylor Woodrow, VINCI the VINCI Group was the theme of this On a more regular basis, representatives of Construction Grands Projets and VINCI year’s annual international conference. VINCI companies meet through a network of Construction Terrassement) working Through a comprehensive and integrated Pivot Clubs to share experience and know- alongside Balfour Beatty. range of solutions and services, VINCI how in common areas and to innovate and companies are working together to create business opportunities that can be Improving the collaborative capacity help clients prepare for increasing delivered using our Group capability. of VINCI Construction UK is a strategic urbanisation, environmental challenges objective that can really enhance our and digitilisation. Co-operation doesn’t only happen on a commercial prospects. Not only that, global scale. By working together, VINCI access to this wider network brings The VINCI Group recognises how companies in the UK can leverage ideas, benefits to our clients because we have important it is to learn from each other skills and entrepreneurial flair to deliver top- at our disposal access to both local and by sharing ideas. The biennial VINCI quality work in all sectors. Current examples global knowledge and the ability to tackle Innovation Awards competition is one of of this include the London Olympic Stadium projects of real complexity and scale.

Communiqué Issue 57 3 PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY

2017 VINCI Innovation Regional Award Winners VINCI UK Foundation

The VINCI Innovation Awards competition takes place every two years and is one of the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne is one of 24 organisations ways in which we recognise and showcase the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our to be awarded employee and financial support by the VINCI UK Foundation in 2017. people, both as individuals and teams. A grant of £7,850 and the assistance of Richard Etherington, Project The UK and Ireland Regional Innovation Awards Ceremony took Congratulations to the five winning entries from VINCI employees from VINCI Construction Manager from VINCI Construction place last week at the Institution of Civil Engineers. This was Construction UK. Out of the five, Improving Rail Possession UK will help to transform the gallery’s UK’s Building division, is the project the 9th competition covering 12 regions throughout the world, of Planning with 4D and Healthcare Repeatable Rooms, will go existing Art Box Learning Space and sponsor and has undertaken to help which the UK and Ireland is one. through to the final stage of the competition. update digital resources. out on a regular basis by providing advice and support with updating the Bruno Dupety, Chairman and CEO of VINCI PLC, welcomed Xavier Huillard, Chairman and CEO of VINCI, presented Adults accessing mental health Art Box Learning Space. everyone to the ceremony with a special thank you to the the Grand Prize to Freyssinet for its Elevarch system, services use Towner’s collection and external judges who all made such a huge contribution to the an alternative solution for raising structures for the exhibitions to develop as artists. Clare Dobson, Director of Development high standard of this year’s competition: electrification of railway lines. at Towner Art Gallery said: By attending the weekly Arts in Chris Hendy – Atkins “VINCI is a vibrant Group because each of our companies Mind project, they overcome social “We are delighted to receive this Paul Morris - Thames Tideway demonstrates its vitality in its activity, in its market and in isolation by sharing their experiences support from the VINCI UK Foundation Mark Lee - ABI Equipment its territory. The VINCI Innovation Awards competition is the and connecting with others. for Towner’s Learning Programme. Geoff Hunt – Arup perfect illustration of this capacity for initiative that is at the Supporting people of all ages to realise Paul Doney - Highways England heart of our entrepreneurial culture, which springs, first, from The space also plays host to a wide their potential through creative learning Julie Sharman - Canals and Rivers Trust the ingenuity of our teams working on the front line.“ variety of other activities including and to improve health and wellbeing is Neil Gibson - Buckinghamshire County Council Xavier Huillard, Chairman and CEO of VINCI Tiny Towner, a free weekly creative at the heart of Towner’s mission. Our play session for under 5s and a accessible programme has achieved “For VINCI, innovation is more than an aspiration. It’s not Watch a short film on our web site to find out what the judges and regular programme of workshops national recognition and this partnership just something we talk about in our marketing material. And entrants had to say about the competition. and events for all ages, inspired will enable us to continue providing importantly, the best ideas can be simple ones. They don’t have by the gallery’s Collection and excellent programmes for the people of to be complex. In fact, the greatest value is when they can be Exhibitions Programme. Eastbourne and the surrounding area.” applied by everyone, everywhere, again and again.” Bruno Dupety, Chairman & CEO, VINCI PLC and VINCI Construction UK Limited

Out of 167 projects submitted at the beginning of the competition, 34 were shortlisted at the Regional Jury in May and, of those, 12 made it to the ceremony in London to receive cash prizes totalling £27,500.

VINCI Fives Football Tournament Honor Goodsite Visits Space Project Jamie Young Receives CIOB Award

Helping to break the silence The annual VINCI Fives Football Thirty-five children from a school local Jamie Young, Senior Design Manager in the Tournament was held in September, with to the Building division’s Space Studio Building division, has been involved with around Mental Health teams competing from VINCI businesses project in Manchester visited the site the CIOB young professionals group for a across the UK plus a team from France. recently and were joined by construction number of years and has visited colleges As part of our Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) agenda, safety mascot, Honor Goodsite. and universities to talk to students about the VINCI Construction UK has agreed to raise the issue of Congratulations to London Pride who, for benefit of CIOB membership and the wide- mental wellbeing as part of our commitment to creating a the 4th time in the competition’s history, The team gave the children a site tour ranging opportunities available within the workplace free from stigma and discrimination. won the Tournament, beating a very good explaining the dangers of a live site construction industry. His dedication was Illuminati side 3-1 in the Final. environment. During the same visit the recognised recently when he was presented In recognition of that commitment, Mental Illness and is funded by the on 19th October 2017, the Divisional Department of Health, Comic Relief client, Sharp Futures, showed the children with an award by Sir Ranulph Fiennes at MDs signed the Time to Change and the Big Lottery Fund. Donations to charity were made in around the Space Studio complex, a this year’s CIOB Annual Dinner. Employer Pledge. Time to Change exchange for BBQ food vouchers, raising purpose-built facility for high end TV, film is England’s biggest Initiative To support our commitment to the a total of £860 for the Lymphoma and commercial production. to raise awareness of mental Pledge, we have agreed an action Association, a worthy cause providing health and challenge stigma plan of activity that will help to specialist information and support to and discrimination. It is run break the silence that surrounds help lymphoma patients, their relatives, by charities Mind and Rethink mental health in the workplace. friends and carers.

CREDITS | Editor: Melanie Mathews, Communications Director, VINCI PLC / [email protected] Design: VINCI Construction UK, Graphic Design

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