July 2012

Highly specialized jobs
performed by Eiffage
Interview with Bernard Lemoine
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Chairman Eiffage Énergie and of Clemessy
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Highly specialized jobs
performed by Eiffage
report
Eiffage’s sphere of expertise encompasses a whole range of
outstanding professions as testified by the know-how to which this
Group can justifiably lay claim, the universal areas covered and
the highly specialized conditions under which these professionals
work. An overview of such jobs:
16 Marine engineers working under water
17 Stonemasons
18 Deep-sea diving professionals
19 Removing and replacing piping-systems in nuclear
power-stations
20 Robotic gluing and assembly of mirror parts
21 Heating specialists to regulate wine vat temperatures
Bernard Lemoine
Chairman of Eiffage Énergie and of Clemessy
6-9 HIGHLIGHTS
10-11 THE EVENT
Grand stadium of Lille: let
the celebrations begin!
The Eiffage teams are getting into action so
that the LOSC team can play its forthcoming
match on home-ground, on 18th August in
the brand spanking-new Grand Stadium.
12-14 INVITED GUESTS
Pierre Ferret and
Denis Valode
The Grand Stadium is not the creative
achievement of a single architect but,
in fact, of … two such architects.
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Photo accreditations: ANMA/Artefactory, Bruno Bertin, Joachim Bertrand, Barbara Dumont, Elisa/Valode & Pistre Architects/Pierre Ferret
Architect Workshop / Max Lerouge, Christophe Guibbaud, Frédéric Hédelin - public works, Artur Jasinski & Wspolnicy Studio, Ora-Ito Architect, Aurélien Pic, Yves-Marie Quemener,
Gérard Tordjman, Karine Warny – Tandem. Technical photography support: APRR, Clemessy, Eiffage, Eiffage Constuction, Eiffage Construction Métallique, Eiffage Énergie, Eiffage Public
Works, Pradeau & Morin. Printed on FSC-certified Novatech Satin.
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Summary
Editorial
“Working better as a team”
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22-23 FOCUS
Eiffage Rail feels like
it has grown wings
Eiffage Rail, a subsidiary created in
January 2010, has gone up a gear to aim
for membership of the highly selective club
of the “top 4” of those majoring in railwayengineering projects in France. Its size will
show a tenfold growth over a five-year
period, in terms of turnover and workforce.
24-27 NEWS
28-31 Commitments
Have your say
Coming back to the in-house satisfaction
survey conducted at Eiffage by the design
and opinion-poll company, Harris
Interactive.
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The Eiffage convention 2012, which was held
for the first time on the14th and 15th June
2012 in Marseille, was attended by 450
senior managers because I wanted to focus
primarily on the proper management and
monitoring activities to be conducted on the
sites. I believe that it is an essential priority
to improve the management of the smallest
sites by sharing our good working practices,
and similarly to improve that of the largest or
most complex sites by creating synergies
amongst the different branches.
The joint working efforts are, in fact, bearing
fruit, as has been attested by the publicprivate partnership contracts recently
awarded, when looking at these eight
colleges in Seine-Saint-Denis, for which
Eiffage has been commissioned to ensure
the design, construction, operation and
maintenance over a twenty year period.
Thereafter, in a context which remains under
certain pressure, both at financial level and
in terms of market forces, the diversity of
our locations and expertise, coupled with
greater consistency in applying these, are
testimony of our success and improved
margins.
In such regard, our economic model which
combines putting down roots locally and
making global offers, must more than ever
before be given substance. We still must
develop our business goodwill and
strengthen our existing network so as to be
even closer to our clients.
At the same time, we have to progress
from a product-related logic to a combined
product/service logic in order to meet better
the requirements of our clients. In fact,
we are increasingly becoming bound under
contract to a performance-related
obligation, but with decreasing means
to achieve this. This should, nevertheless,
encourage us to strengthen our design
capacity and rigour with regard to the
figures.
In parallel, we must identify those markets
most likely to prove productive and profitable
in the future and adopt a dynamic approach
to ensuring that we attain a guaranteed
market position.
It is by working together
that we shall launch a
new Eiffage!
Pierre Berger
Managing Director
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INTERVIEW
Synergie : You assumed the
Chairmanship of the Energy branch of
Eiffage, in March 2012. Can you provide
us with an outline of the process which
led to this?
I have been working in the energy
sector for more than fifteen years
and I am therefore fully aware of the
various facets of this sector and the
stakes involved. From 1983 to 2002, I
was employed in various capacities in
Alstom, in Energy and Transport. In 2003,
I returned to the electrical engineering
group, Cegelec, which maintains a
presence both in infrastructures sector
and in the industry and service sectors.
Following the buy-out of Cegelec in 2010
by Vinci, I became Assistant Managing
Director of Cegelec and Deputy Managing
Director of the Energy division of Vinci.
Being an engineer at heart, I still find
these professions inspiring me with a
driving passion.
B.L. :
“Weak currents
show sustained
growth”
Synergie: Which lessons have you learnt
from such experiences?
B.L. : During the nineties, I lived through
the difficult transformation of an
industrial giant. Such an experience,
at the time, enabled me to become
immersed in the management style
applied by the English and to learn
that performance targets could be met
by adapting to alternative reference
standards. The French think in terms
of profit whilst the English conversely
apply a cash culture – where cash funds
are often perceived as the only really
tangible financial means. Profit is an
opinion, cash is a fact!
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Bernard Lemoine, Chairman of Eiffage Énergie and of Clemessy
“In today’s world,
energy stakes are
crucial.”
Bernard Lemoine assumed the Chairmanship of the
Energy branch of Eiffage on 15th March 2012. He
highlights the determining qualities characterising
the services provided by the Group, in a context where
energy, performance guarantees and savings are
increasingly becoming strategic issues.
To come back to the thread of my account,
I also lived through the merger of Alstom
with the Swiss-Swedish company, ABB,
and thus evolved in a highly international
environment. Thereafter at Cegelec, I
immersed myself in the service culture
of our local professionals in the areas
of services, industry, infrastructure and
large-scale specialist project sectors.
Synergie: What are the strengths of
Eiffage’s Energy division?
This is the third national player in
the electrical and air-conditioning sector
achieving a turnover of almost 3.2 billion
euro. It has vast development potential
and operates in national markets where
the competitors are all subject to the
same constraints. Furthermore, in
B.L. :
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today’s and even more so, in tomorrow’s
world, the energy stakes, both in terms
of production and consumption will
remain crucial.
Specifically, the services of the Energy
division remain a determining factor to
ensure energy efficiency in buildings and
infrastructures. For the past ten years,
the energy-saving part – i.e. all that
is at the heart of automated systems,
safety and energy management – has
been showing steady and sustained
growth compared with the strong power
consumption element. Operation and
maintenance may be added to this in
order to guarantee our clients such
energy efficiency performance-levels
over the long-term. Finally, within the
Eiffage Energy division I get a feeling
of the culture of good workmanship,
which is frequently appreciated by our
clients.
Synergie: Which, in parallel, are the
challenges that Eiffage Énergie should
take up?
B.L. : Eiffage’s Energy division is not one of
the most efficient performers amongst
the companies of the sector with respect
to safety and profitability. This is why
it is essential to keep reminding our
on-site teams of the importance of
meticulously respecting the pertinent
safety measures on a daily basis.
In addition, the financial culture is
becoming a lot more sophisticated
Short biography
Born in 1958, Bernard Lemoine is a
graduate of the ‘École Polytechnique’
and ‘École nationale supérieure des télécommunications’. From 1983 to 2002,
he held various posts whilst employed
by Alstom, in the transport and energy
sectors. In 2003, he joined Cegelec,
which maintains a presence in infrastructure projects, as well as equally, in
the industrial and service sector. In
2010, it became part of the Vinci Group.
Bernard Lemoine was then appointed
Assistant Managing Director of Cegelec and
Deputy Managing Director of the Vinci
Group’s energy department.
and better coordinated. I therefore set
up monthly business reviews, thereby
providing an opportunity to review the
activities of the units. Every manager
of a profit centre must have clear
responsibilities and clear-cut annual
objectives. There must be no cop-out of
achieving performance. To summarize,
I intend putting Eiffage’s Energy under
due pressure.
“Defining a specific
strategy for each
sector of the market”
Synergie: Have you devised a three-year
action-plan?
I intend setting out a specific
strategy for each sector of the market
– for example, in the service sector
(education, real-estate, health…),
industry (aeronautics, environment,
petrochemical…) and infrastructures
(telecommunications, transports,
networks …) – because these activities
cover very different stakes, which must
be very clearly defined.
B.L. :
In my opinion, defining a strategy
means drawing up a report of the places
in question and specific objectives and
then outlining the means of achieving
this: what stage have we reached? Where
are we heading? How do we get there? I
have set up shared communication tools
in order to be able to respond to these
three challenges for each industrial
sector in which the division operates,
by the end of the year. In some cases,
the responses will be straight-forward;
in others, some company buy-outs will
perhaps be necessary in order to develop
certain activities.
Concerning safety, it is essential for us
to be amongst the best in the business,
in the short term. With regard to
profitability, the operating result must
equally be brought up to the level of
the best performers. It is important to
nurture our goodwill; all those small
commissions amounting to less than
50,000 euro, which provide us with
a livelihood. We must maintain our
market share in this sector!
As regards exports, I am aiming at a
30% increase in turnover by targeting
the African continent as a priority. For
historical reasons, we enjoy a certain
degree of closeness with some of these
countries and we are able to respond to
their requirements, in terms of buildings
and infrastructure. We can deliver
“turn-key” projects, thereby providing
real added value. The potential is
promising.
Synergie: In your opinion, is
co-operation between divisions a basis
for development?
B.L. : Absolutely. Eiffage’s Energy division
must contribute to Group and not only
at financial level. The various divisions
of Eiffage can and must interact
more upstream of any projects. The
synergy between the divisions must
not, however, come into play solely
at commercial level. Both the clients
and players financing the projects now
demand guarantees and sustainable
performance. The energy-management
systems lie at the heart of running
and maintaining buildings as well as
infrastructures in the long-term. The
role of the Energy division is essential
here.
Synergie: Why are you confident?
To my way of thinking, you don’t
go out onto a sports pitch to lose, but
rather to win! Others have achieved this,
so why shouldn’t we ? We have huge
levers such as Clemessy, for example.
The synergy at this level of approaching
specialists, local practices and specialist
jobs is unheard of and a highly promising
undertaking. And then, there is, above
all, that formidable strength which we
can call upon from our male and our
female workforce, duly equipped with
the required skills and ready to rally
round to rise to the challenge and win!
Confidence is contagious and I have no
doubt as to our success! —
B.L. :
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HIGHLIGHTS
The eight architects gave the various establishments a decisively modern appearance, which breaks with the linear facades of old and showcases timber framing.
Eiffage wins contract for eight colleges worth
almost 200 million euro in Seine-Saint-Denis
At the beginning of April, Eiffage was
awarded a partnership contract to
build eight 21st century colleges by the
General Council of Seine - SaintDenis.This is a first for the Group. Even
though, in August 2010, Eiffage was
commissioned with the energy efficiency
improvements of eighteen lycées in the
Centre region and then in February 2011 with
constructing the professional lycée Jean- Zay
in Jarny (Meurthe-et-Moselle) as a publicprivate partnership, this is the first time that
the Group will be responsible for the finance,
building, operation and maintenance of
colleges under the Order of 17th June 2004.
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“Changing the appearance” of the colleges
of Seine - Saint-Denis – that is the aim of
the General Council chaired by Claude
Bartolone who, in this respect, adopted an
exceptional investment plan of 703 million
euro over the period from 2010-2015. Hence,
twenty one colleges will be built or rebuilt,
12 of which on the basis of a partnership
contract.
At the beginning of 2012, Eiffage was
successful in winning the two lots of four
establishments it was bidding for,
representing a turnover of almost 200
million euro, to which will be added 2.5
million euro for rent per annum over twenty
years for providing service, major
maintenance and renewal work. This type
of project will provide a consistent volume
of activities for the subsidiaries for 20132014 as well as recurrent income for twenty
years – whilst having everything well under
control from a risk aspect. —
POINT OF REFERENCE
This is the first time that the Group
will take responsibility for the
finance, construction, operation and
maintenance of the colleges under
the order governing partnership
contracts of 17th June 2004.
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The whole thing hinges around a central location comprising all buildings
and which will accommodate the new town hall and market hall.
Arcachon: the summer resort town dons
its best finery
For Eiffage, the inauguration of the
summer resort of Arcachon (Gironde) in
the middle of March marked the outcome
of a four year construction project. This
completely new Project of 32,000 m 2
represents a turnover of 150 million euro
for the real estate part and 72 million euro
for the building section. The Group was
chosen to rebuild 70,000 m2 of paving right
in the heart of Arcachon, over a surface area
of three hectares, whilst maintaining the
architectural identity of this bathing resort,
which was created during the second half
of the 19th century and highly admired for
its residences of that time.
This is the opportunity for Eiffage Construction
to testify to its triple competence as a developer,
promoter and construction company. Working
together with seven architects, the teams from
the town and Eiffage drew their inspiration
from the local heritage. They therefore had
recourse to local companies and craftsmen to
develop elements, which will liven up the 1,200
linear metres of facades – from framework
structures to balconies, through pediments,
gables and mosaics. Some of the forgotten
materials, such as the glazed tiles, have been
repeated for the event. Nearly all the
accommodation has already been offered
for sale since the beginning of June. —
POINT OF REFERENCE
32 000 m2, 150 m € turnover for the
real estate part, 72 m € turnover for the
building section, 337 new apartments,
5,500 m2 businesses, 1 multiscreen
cinema, 1 parking area for 650 cars.
Home stretch for the tram network
of Greater Dijon
The bets were on for the tram network of
Greater Dijon (Côte d’Or). Eiffage was largely
involved in executing part of each of the two
lines. The track was welded on 4th May last in
the presence of François Rebsamen, the senatormayor of Dijon. The commissioning of the first line
for commercial service is scheduled for September
2012, i.e. six months in advance of the original deadlines
and the second line will be welcoming its passengers
in December.
For the Group, which called in 150 people, the completed
work represents 42 million euro of turnover (excluding
tax), of which 30 million euro was for the infrastructure
and 12 million euro for the track. This is the first tram
system executed by the Group as a whole. The
infrastructure and track laying work was assigned to
one group of companies only. —
The commissioning of the first line for commercial service is scheduled for September 2012.
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HIGHLIGHTS
A veil of glass is laid on the Louis Vuitton
foundation
A technical feat of aesthetic audacity.
The “Louis Vuitton creative foundation” – the
exceptional building dedicated to
contemporary art, commissioned by Bernard
Arnault, the president of the LMVH luxury
group, to house his collection from 2014
onwards – is under construction in the Jardin
d’acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne
(Paris). This is an extraordinary site, in which
Eiffage Construction Métallique is involved
in the delicate task of building the twelve
glass sections forming the glass chrysalis
Eiffage Construction Métallique was
commissioned with the delicate task of building
the twelve glass sections which will form the
glass chrysalis conceived by the AmericanCanadian architect, Frank Gehry.
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conceived by the American-Canadian
architect, Frank Gehry, winner of the Pritzker
prize (1989) and the Gold Lion prize of the
XI Biennale of Venice (2008).
Glass sections of inextricable complexity!
They total 13,500 square metres and comprise
3,600 glass panels of 1.5 x 3 metres with an
overhang of more than 20 metres. Their
design required the development of specific
computer-aided design software. Their fitting
demanded the technical experimentation
appraisal of the scientific and technical
centre of the building. Technically, large
wooden and metal posts – the “tripods” – are
covered with a stainless steel net framework
supporting the glass panels. The first four
glass sections have been partially laid. But
this is like lacework because each piece of
glass has its own unique shape according to
the highly complex drawing produced by
Frank Gehry – who, incidentally, was behind
the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
Completion of the work is scheduled for the
end of 2013. —
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Meeting point in
2014 for the Eiffage
marathon on the
Millau viaduct
The Eiffage marathon on the Millau viaduct
(Aveyron) will, from now on, take place every
two years. The next run will be held in 2014, when
Eiffage will celebrate ten years of the viaduct being
opened to traffic. The latest run took place on Sunday,
13th May 2012 and was hugely successful. Almost 14,000
runners, ranging from enthusiasts to seasoned
professional athletes, crowded the deck under glorious
sunshine. This was nothing more or less than a half
marathon of 23 kilometres, of which 5 kilometres were
at an altitude of 270 metres, between the sky and earth!
Amongst the 14,000 participants were almost 450
Eiffage colleagues, including the managing director,
Pierre Berger, who brilliantly defended the Group’s
colours. —
POINT OF REFERENCE
A half marathon of 23 kilometres, of which
5 kilometres were at an altitude of 270 metres,
between the sky and earth.
Almost 14,000 runners, ranging from enthusiasts to seasoned
professional athletes, crowded the deck under glorious sunshine.
Eiffage 2012 convention: 450 managers meet in
Marseille
© Christophe Guibbaud
Working better together.This was the
main thread of the Eiffage 2012 convention
which took place in Marseille (Bouches-duRhône) on the 14th and 15th June 2012,
attended by 450 managers of the Group. The
managing director, Pierre Berger, would, in
fact, like to develop the synergies between
the various branches of the Group and
encourage mobilisation of all key skills.
Beyond this, in a context that is still difficult,
both at financial level and in terms of markets,
greater coherence is a guarantee of success
and improved means of retaining margins.
The inter-branch synergies can also lead to
winning large-scale contracts. —
The Eiffage 2012 Convention took place in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), on the 14th and 15th June 2012,
attended by 450 managers of the Group.
Find Pierre Berger’s full speech, together
with the presentations of the various
delegates on Planet’Eiffage.
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The Event
Grand Stadium of Lille: let
the celebrations begin!
The Eiffage teams are spending the whole summer getting into action. Their aim: to
allow Losc, Lille’s football-team, to play its first match on home-ground on the coming
18th August, in a brand spanking new grand stadium.
THE HIGH
POINTS
OF 2012
23 February:
start of
installing the
polycarbonate
pipes on the
east-facing
façade
17 and
18 April:
moving the
“events box”
platform
2 May: start of
installing the
stadium seats
Summer:
handover of
the Grand
Stadium
to Lille
Métropole
N
ow that the work is finished
get the show on the road!
And an emotional start
on Saturday 18th August next: the
referee blowing his whistle right in
the middle of the Grand Stadium
of Lille Métropole, accompanied
by the rousing clamour of 50,000
supporters. On that evening
Lille’s football-team, the Losc, will
welcome AS Nancy on the second
day’s play for the League 1 football
championship.
We’ll do everything to be ready for
the crucial ‘D-Day’, Gilles Malavallon,
director of Elisa, stated. This 100%owned subsidiary of Eiffage was
awarded the public-private partnership contract with Lille Métropole
in respect of the finance, design,
maintenance, upkeep and the commercial exploitation of this outstanding complex.
A venue, which will have required
an investment of 324 million euro
(excluding the real-estate outlay),
is to be managed under a concession arrangement until 2043. It is
our responsibility to present the
people of Lille with a brand spanking new stadium that is perfectly
suited to football and allow Losc
to play its first home match of the
2012-2013 season, as highlighted
by Gilles Malavallon.
A team at work
24-HOUR COUNT-DOWN
No sooner will the lights of the
August festivities have been
switched off than our team members will resume work to complete
the other installations of this
unique stadium. A stadium – just
like the Millau viaduct – where all
branches of the Group (Eiffage
Public Works, Eiffage Construction
Métallique, Eiffage Energie, Eiffage
Construction, Eiffage Real-Estate
and Eiffage Concessions) played
their part. From the outset, the
stadium was designed bearing in
mind its multiple uses, its specific
volumes, its organisation, access
requirements etc., as detailed by
the Director of Elisa. It was necessary to make immediate provisions
to make full use of this facility and
… make it profitable.
The result is a worldwide unique
space – a stadium that can be
changed within 24 hours into a sports
palace or an arena, so as to diversify
potential sources of revenue.
Be the judge! In its stadium configuration (50,100 seating capacity),
this luminous show-case will serve
as a venue for football matches –
the Losc - with an average priority
of 25 days per annum. But,
equally, other forms of bigvenue competitions can be
strengthening its teams. Joining them are: Marie Chalhoub, formerly in
charge of the ticket office of the Stade de France [National Stadium], Guillaume
Narjoux, former General Secretary of Paris Bercy and ex-director of the Nikaïa
palace in Nice, and seasoned connoisseur of the world of events and shows
and Maxime Deneuville, head of security. In all 60 to 70 people will be
working at normal cruising-speed in the Grand Stadium of Lille (excluding
hotels), of which some twenty are employed directly in Elisa.
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held, such as rugby: the Tricolore
XV could be playing against
Argentina on the 17th November
next. Amateurs take note! In 2016,
the metropolitan area of Lille will
be a candidate in the running to
welcome several matches of Euro
2016.
In the meantime, it will also have
served as a venue for the holding
of large-capacity concerts (from
40,000 to 56,000 seats). A major
asset: its extending roof can be
closed within 30 minutes, so that
play can continue in bad weather,
noise can be attenuated in the neighbourhood and “darkness” created for
any spectacles put on there.
But the most outstanding innovation is the “event box” – Mean feat
of technological achievement. The
northern half of the grassed area
is, in fact, spread out over a vast
Gilles
Malavallon,
Director of
Elisa.
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number of hours
required to transform the
stadium from its football
configuration to an arena
configuration.
30:
minutes to open and
to close the stadium’s sliding
roof
31:
years; the term of the
public-private partnership
between the Lille Métropole
Urban Community and Elisa,
from the time of handover of
the Grand Stadium
50,100:
number of
seats in the Grand Stadium,
in its football- or rugby
configuration
56,000:
number of seats
in the Grand Stadium, in its
central scene configuration
to put on a 360°show
metal platform. This can be raised
(4,000 metric tonnes!) and slid into
position (to the nearest millimetre)
above the southern half. A gigantic
area is thus formed – the biggest
in Europe. A huge curtain isolates
the unoccupied section of the stadium. Pure magic!
15,000 TO 30,000 SPECTATORS
ACCOMMODATED IN THE
EVENT BOX
According to whether the scene is
located on one side or in the centre,
this box of tricks can be converted
into a sports palace or concert
venue capable of seating 15,000 to
30,000 spectators. A number of
sporting federations (tennis, tabletennis, basket-ball, hand-ball,
equitation etc.) have already visited
the site to assess its potential. As
for the event organizers, they will
appreciate the modular-concepts,
which make this arena unique in
Europe. This “event box” will,
however, only be completed at the
end of this year, owing to legitimate
delays and handover is scheduled
for mid-December. Without
further hesitation, Elisa, together
with the assistance of Grand Stade
Rayonnement, the commercial
arm set up with Losc, has already
started with marketing promotions
by holding hospitality events
(spectators’ boxes, stands, etc.)
and promoting other adjoining
areas which are likely to generate
additional income. Hence, 15% of
the seats in the stadium are
classed as “VIP” (the highest rate
in France).
Already, 80% of such spectators’
boxes are fully booked-up for the
next three years! 10,000 squaremetres of available multi-purpose,
spaces have been provided. Apart
from competitive events, these
spaces can be used for exhibitions,
conventions, company seminars
and so on. Catering and hiring out
advertising spaces will also gua­
rantee additional income. Finally,
together with Eiffage Real-Estate,
Eifaltis, a small subsidiary of Elisa,
launched a development programme over approximately 20,000
m2 to include a residence for community services with 135 studio
apartments to accommodate students and 36 ‘T2s’ for business
clients, plus two hotels (one, a twostar B&B incorporating 99 rooms
and a three-star ‘Park Inn’ incorporating 127 rooms), a keep-fit
centre for sports-enthusiasts
(managed by ‘La Générale de
Santé’), offices and some ten or so
restaurants, themed-bars, etc..
In all, Elisa is aiming at an annual
turnover of some twenty million
euro, during the initial years of
operation, apart from the sixteen
million Euros of annual dues that
Lille Métropole will be paying to
the former during the 31 years of
the concession. With this
outstanding stadium, Eiffage
intends to demonstrate that it is
possible to combine inventiveness,
technical expertise, beauty and
profitability. —
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Guests
Pierre Ferret
Denis Valode
Ferret Architectural
Practice
Valode & Pistre
Agency
Two eminent signatures of
the world of architecture
at the service of a unique stadium
Lille’s Grand Stadium has not been signed off by one, but by two architects!
Denis Valode, of the Valode & Pistre Agency, having won the French ‘Equerre
d’Argent’ (1992) and the ‘Grande médaille d’argent’ of the Academy of Architecture
(1999), and Pierre Ferret, of the Ferret Architectural practice, awarded the
premier grand prize for architecture by the ‘Académie des Beaux-Arts’ and
winner of the ‘Grand prix de Rome’ (1975), being a passionate enthusiast for
sporting arenas. Renault’s ‘Technocentre’ at Guyancourt and the Leonardo
da Vinci university project in particular, has been attributed to the former
and the technical football centre and the Toulouse stadium to the latter.
Interviews croisées.
Pierre Ferret
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“The Eiffage engineers are
keen high-achievers”
Synergie: The Bird’s Nest at Beijing,
erected for the 2008 Olympic Games,
showed that stadia could be the
vehicle for an image …
Denis Valode
Synergie: Your agency, Denis Valode,
has some spectacular achievements
to its credit – from the Contemporary
Art Museum of Bordeaux to the ‘T1’
Tower at La Défense in Paris. Is the
Grand Stadium of Lille your first
sports-related feat?
Yes, indeed! – following a
succession of nearly-successful
attempts. Our agency had reached
the finalist stage of preliminaries for
a project to complete the stadium at
Melun Sénart (Seine-et-Marne), and
then for completing that of Saint-Denis
(Seine-Saint-Denis). That’s why, for
the Grand Stadium of Lille (Nord), we
embarked on this together with Pierre
Ferret, a keen sports buff.
D.V. : Synergie: Pierre Ferret, after the
French national Rugby Centre at
Marcoussis, you signed, together
with Denis Valode, for Lille’s Grand
Stadium. From where does this
passion for stadia stem?
I am both a sportsman and an
avid supporter of football and rugby
teams. My professional degree awarded
in 1975 by the School of Architecture
of Bordeaux University, related to
a sports-related subject. I was also
naturally interested in sports teams.
I completed the national Football
Centre at Clairefontaine (Yvelines), the
national Rugby Centre at Marcoussis
(Essonne), as well as the sports complex
at Dunkirk (Nord), the athletics stadium
in Tunis and the ‘PSG’ training centre at
Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines).
P.F. : Synergie: How did two architectural
practices, each with its own identity
and specific focus, work together on
the Grand Stadium of Lille?
D.V. : We
were given responsibility for
the choice of organisation and the
corresponding urban integration, as the
Grand Stadium of Lille constituted the
founding of a new district. We worked
on the surrounding area of the stadium
and then on the accommodation,
hotels and corresponding car parks.
We were also given responsibility for
designing the shape of the stadium, its
envelope as a building, its structure
and for co-ordinating the overall
project.
P.F. : We
worked together with respect
to the design and creation. Thereafter,
Denis Valode developed the envelope
(roofing, steel-framework structure)
and I worked on the overall arena
(stands, walkways, sundry premises,
spectator-boxes, cloak rooms, grassed
area and events box). Denis Valode was
used to large scale projects whilst I
was more familiar with the sporting
aspect and had greater contact with
the sporting movement. However,
in the field of sport, the most minor
detail, such as the width of a seat, may
well generate a ‘knock-on effect’ to the
extent where such width is reduced by
the number of seats. Besides which,
sport sometimes makes people go
crazy! So sturdy seats and fittings
have to be provided whilst also taking
account of the health and safety of
both spectators and players.
D.V. : When I gave a presentation of
the Grand Stadium of Lille before
the locally elected representatives,
including the Mayor of Lille, Martine
Aubry, I highlighted the fact that in our
day and age, widespread metropolitan
areas owe their very existence to
their large-scale sports installations.
I’m thinking of the image of Beijing,
formerly symbolised by its Forbidden
City whilst today, it is reflected by the
Bird’s Nest. It is a fact that the Grand
Stadium will showcase the image of
Lille’s metropolitan area throughout
the world! It will become an icon! Its
form, its external façade made from
polycarbonate tubing to diffuse light as
well as its retractable grassed platform,
which will allow all types of shows and
sporting events to be shown, make this
a unique structure.
P.F. : The Bird’s Nest is, indeed, a vehicle
for an image but therein lies the danger:
it must not remain as such, i.e. a beautiful
body without an engine inside! However,
a stadium is not an “object” but rather
the combined concept of urbanisation,
architecture and functions, in which
living beings evolve.
Synergie: What difficulties do stadia
pose for architects? Can beauty be
combined with such an imposing
edifice?
Do rules prevent creativity? The
very opposite is the case! Lille’s Grand
Stadium imposed the need to delve for
real treasures of technical inventiveness
and allowed us to invent new rules, to
the extent where we created an “events
venue” made up of all kinds of parts,
which can also be used for football!
Furthermore, we lowered the first
row of terraces in order to reduce the
impact on the environment.
P.F. : [g]
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Pierre Ferret
Denis Valode
Ferret Architectural
Practice
Valode & Pistre
Agency
“The Grand Stadium of
Lille imposed the need
for real treasures of
technical inventiveness”
The Association of Architects
of Lille recently organised an
exhibition on stadia throughout the
world, which shows to what extent
architectural solutions can lend
different personalities to the stadia,
in spite of the constraints associated
with distance or the curves of visibility.
As we designed the Grand Stadium of
Lille to be lower but with greater profile
compared with traditional stadia, it
does not display this overpowering
scale as in the Parc des Princes in Paris.
In order to enhance the distinctive
stamp that it imprints on its hometown, the façade facing the road will be
fitted with electro-luminescent diodes
designed to generate images.
D.V. : Synergie: The Grand Stadium of
Lille will soon be opening its doors.
Will this be a reference-point for
your practice?
Pierre Ferret
Denis Valode
Oscar Wilde was fond of saying:
One must have grand dreams so as not
to lose sight of them when pursuing
them. I never lost sight of my dream
of the unique stadium! The “events
box” will allow you to attend an event
like an opera or a basket-ball world
final. What is more, no other theatre
in the world can accommodate an
audience of 30,000 persons. Madison
Square Garden in New York cannot
take more than 22,000. Finally, owing
to the combination feasible within one
and the same installation in stadium P.F. : form, a ‘Zénith’ and sports palace, we
have been able to demonstrate at the
tendering stage, that our project was
the best – something Martine Aubry
always commented on.
D.V. : The Grand Stadium of Lille already
serves as a reference point and will be
a very attractive visiting card, knowing
that our practice maintains a presence
not only in Paris, but also in Moscow,
Shanghai and Beijing. The State of
Qatar (for the World Cup) and Russia
are planning to building stadia. —
How did your co-operation with the Eiffage teams go?
Pierre Ferret: I have been working with Eiffage for
some time now, this being a pledge of the trust that
I place in that firm. At the project design stage, the
Eiffage-teams immediately raised concerns about
the feasibility of the retractable grassed platform,
given that this was a first! When I conceived the
idea of the “events box”, I wasn’t sure whether
Eiffage would take the risk with this large-scale
innovation. Thanks to the in-depth technical
expertise of Eiffage’s engineers and site-workers,
who are accustomed to achieving the impossible
since their involvement with the Millau viaduct,
we were able to achieve this world-first, bound to
produce a ‘buzz’ of excitement, as soon as the
broader public has the opportunity of viewing it.
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Denis Valode: The concept of a retractable grass lawn immediately
appealed to Eiffage’s engineers who, ever since the Millau viaduct,
enjoyed rising to the challenge of attaining such feats of
achievement! Without such an enterprising culture at Eiffage,
there are certain factors which we should, otherwise, not have
overcome. The fact that Eif fage Construction Métallique,
specializing in steelwork-structures, is taking part here has also
provided a sense of direction. We have enjoyed very good trustinspiring relationships, both with Eiffage Concessions and with
Eiffage Travaux Publics, as well as with Eiffage Construction, and
we have thus been allowed to play our part in designing and
supervising the work. As architects, we can see the advantages
to be gained from such public-private partnerships, because
once a project is being finalized, we will be alongside those who
will be executing it and can thus define optimum solutions.
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These highly
specialized jobs
within Eiffage
Stonemasons restoring the brilliance of historical monuments; professional ‘divers’
in oil-refineries, meeting the challenges of working on installations prone to bursting
into flames; operators penetrating the bowels of nuclear power stations to replace
thousands of pipes… Eiffage offers a broad range of highly specialist work,
characterized by its know-how, the areas covered and the exacting conditions under
which such work is carried out. Here is an overview.
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Highly specialized jobs
performed by Eiffage are
sometimes the fruits of
history and acquisitions –
in the image of Munch.
This company was
involved in the
maintenance of nuclear
power stations and joined
forces with Eiffage
Construction Métallique in
1994, or Pradeau & Morin,
a subsidiary of Eiffage
Construction, which was
bought back by Fougerolle
in 1985. These jobs are also
often associated with
industrial maintenance in
the broad sense, or testify
to the highly specific
expertise acquired over the
course of time, just like the
specialized know-how
developed at Clemessy.
Others developed in the
field, thanks to certain
contracts such as the job of
a property buyer, which
originated with the highspeed Perpignan-Figueras
railway line site (Eastern
Pyrenees, Galicia).
These highly specialized
jobs are also linked to the
special conditions of
certain sites, such as the
maritime civil engineering
work carried out by Eiffage
Travaux Maritimes et
Fluviaux, which entail all
the occupational hazards
of civil engineering sites,
even if only battling the
tides and bad weather!
This report highlights
some of these occupations
without obviously claiming
to provide an exhaustive
list, given that the Eiffage
Group is multifaceted.
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Highly specialized jobs
performed by Eiffage
MARINE ENGINEERS
WORKING
UNDER WATER
Roughly 30 million euro of turnover per
annum, 160 people, Eiffage Travaux
Maritimes et Fluviaux (Eiffage Public Works).
I
n order to facilitate the dredging
of Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche),
one of the most visited tourist
sites in France, the teams of
Eiffage Travaux Maritimes et Fluviaux
- ETMF for short – are working right
in the middle of the bay alongside
t h e i r c o l l e ag u e s o f E i f f ag e
Construction Métallique, in order to
prepare for the construction of a footbridge to take the place of the former
sea wall.
ETMF is currently involved in the construction of the quays and in redeveloping the banks of the eco-district
adjoining the Flaubert Bridge in
Rouen (Seine-Maritime). ETMF is also
rebuilding the dam at Villeneuve-surYonne (Yonne) on behalf of the Voies
Navigables de France [Waterways of
France] and has extended quay J in
the port of Sète (Hérault). Work on
the latter site required the laying of
120 concrete beams and 236 slabs
laid on 115 pillars under water!
TIDES AND BAD WEATHER
“We conduct 80% of our activities at the
water’s edge, Jérôme Scoffoni, director
of ETMF explained. We are mainly
active in the north-west corner of France
along the coastline from Dunkirk to Nantes
and along the Seine even if this means
working in other areas of the national
territory”. ETMF, which employs 160
people and achieves an annual turnover of around 30 million euro, has
three agencies located in Haubourdin
(north), Petit-Quevilly (SeineMaritime) and Caudan (Morbihan).
“Maritime civil engineering operations
have to put up with all the usual hazards
of civil engineering sites and also take
account of tides and bad weather, Jérôme
Scoffoni continued. Our highly specialised staff – pile drivers, marine engineers,
crane operators, welders – deep-sea divers,
tugboat captains – use specific equipment
such as lift pontoons, hydraulic hammers,
jack operators, barge pushers … These
sites are linked with geotechnics and projects are becoming more and more complex.
We are also increasingly involved in
design and build”.
ETMF still has the wind in its sails
owing to the public authorities’ requirements to encourage river traffic, proceeding with the developments
specified in the reinforced coastal
defence plans against natural hazards
Extending the quay J – Port of Sète
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STONEMASONS
Roughly 10 million euro turnover per
annum, 40 people, Pradeau & Morin
(Eiffage Construction).
(following the Xynthia hurricane),
developing offshore wind farms (which
involves the planning and development of port platforms) and marinas.
“We are seriously thinking of extending
our activities to the Mediterranean”,
Jérôme Scoffoni added. “We have put
ourselves forward as candidates in the
invitation to tender relating to the execution of the so-called frigate quays in the
Toulon basin (Var) as part of the European
multi-mission Frigate naval programme”.
A contract estimated at 40 million
euro which, in the event of success,
could be an excellent bridgehead for
ETMF to develop a sustainable and
profitable business locally. —
it compliant with health and safety.
A noble trade
“We currently have forty stone cutters,
because Pradeau & Morin only operates
in the Île-de-France, where half of the
monuments are entered in the national
record of historic monuments”, Pascal
Pleuvy, director of Pradeau & Morin
indicated. “It takes roughly ten years to
train a stonemason, of which four years
are spent training for the CAP [professional
certificate of aptitude] followed by a
vocational diploma relating to historic
monuments. We have no concerns about
recruitment, given that the youngsters are
attracted by the nobility of the trade and
its artistic dimension”, he underlined.
Amongst such trades, the spirit of
companionship is very marked – with
3,000 stonemasons recorded in France
- “the working methods remain traditional
even if stonemasons are increasingly using
electrical tools such as sanders or
saws”. —
© Pradeau & Morin
Cordouan lighthouse
T
he north tower of the church
of Saint- Sulpice, the peristyle of the Palais Royal or
the Columns of Trône in the
Place de la Nation, in Paris (Île-deFrance), took on a new lease of life.
All these monuments were put into
the expert hands of stone cutters
of Pradeau & Morin. This subsidiary
of Eiffage Construction, which has
been in existence for 120 years, is
the only company in the Group that
is qualified to work on historic
­m onuments. Currently, Eiffage
Construction is restoring the Ecole
des Francs-Bourgeois [FrancsBourgeois school] situated in a hotel
of La Mayenne. This is a site also
employing the services of the
­“compagnons” [the association] of
stonemasons, together with their
colleagues from the traditional
trades, in order to restore this particular hotel and teaching establishment to its original state and make
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Colleagues of Eiffel Industrie penetrate so-called “pyrophoric” realms.
DIVERS GOING DOWN
INTO THE DEPTHS
Roughly 2.5 million euro annual turnover and some twenty employees Eiffel Industrie (Metals division).
I
n order to change catalysts,
otherwise known as “chemical
transformers” for industrial
processes, some twenty colleagues
of Eiffel Industrie regularly don
protective diving gear, to penetrate to
the very depths of installations located
within the bowels of oil-refineries - and,
in particular, deep within installations,
termed “pyrophoric”, because their
contents risk ignition on exposure to
oxygen. They have to render such
catalysts inert, by flooding them with
nitrogen, which then causes the
ambient air to become unbreathable.
Eiffel Industrie is the second main
player in this highly specialist market,
which, at national level, accounts for
some ten or so million euro turnover.
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This is not the only original profession practised by Eiffel Industrie,
which, with its 2,500 workforce, is
also involved in sectors as varied as
aeronautics, marine, nuclear, petrochemical, refinery or iron and steel.
VIBRATION analyses
“Eiffel Industrie remains highly active in
industrial maintenance. Some sixty or so
of our colleagues are specialized in
installing and maintaining steam or gas
turbines, in France and, above all, abroad”,
Alain Noret, Director of Eiffel Industrie
explained. The company is developing
its activities, for example, in highpressure cleaning, which involves
cleaning and scouring the plant and
equipment in refineries or in chemical
sites following dismantling. This
also helps to prepare for any
subsequent work or repairs to such
equipment. “We are re-launching our
upstream maintenance support by
drawing up the maintenance schedule
for units under construction, as well as
the downstream maintenance of already
existing plant and machinery, by
integrating various disciplines, including
thermographic monitoring and vibration
analyses”, as specified by Alain Noret.
Furthermore, a team of some sixty
employees of Eiffel Industrie, being
specialists in marine maintenance
and repair, will become involved in
“overhauling” private or military
vessels during technical breakdowns
or to carry out conversions. —
Highly specialized jobs
performed by Eiffage
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“Pipe removers”, “pipe refitters”
in nuclear power stations
An annual turnover of approx. 40 million euro and a workforce of roughly
100 at Munch (Eiffage Construction Métallique).
Munch provides entire tranches of power stations.
T
hey seem to be working in
the very entrails of a nuclear
power station. They are
surrounded by thousands
of pipes – between 90,000 and
120,000 of them! – laid out in layers
four metres high and stretching from
eleven to thirteen metres in length.
They take on the task of replacing
and refitting these pipes – otherwise
referred to in their jargon as “pipe
removers” and “pipe refitters”. These
are the one hundred or so colleagues
at Munch, a niche company that is
part of Eiffage Construction Métallique
that is nurtured by its Director, Étienne
Royer.
“A power generating station includes
three circuits”, recaps Étienne Royer,
who equally directs the boiler-making
division and specialist sectors of
Eiffage Construction Métallique. “The
reactor, which produces the pressurized
hot water, is located in the first circuit.
This pressurized hot water will be used
to generate the steam of the secondary
circuit which, in turn, will rotate the
turbine. In order to condense this steam
into water, it has to pass through
thousands of pipes already conveying the
water from the “cold source” – i.e. the
third circuit”.
Highly-specialised tooling
“Carrying out the appropriate pipe removal
/ pipe refitting work, requires experience,
machinery and highly specialized tooling,
as the pipes are as thin a cigarette paper!
Étienne Royer explained. “Munch which
is located in Frouard, near Nancy
(Meurthe-et-Moselle) and celebrated its
100-year anniversary in 1999, is involved
in fitting entire tranches of power
stations”, he added with enthusiasm.
“We are still the only French company to
carry out such operations and have
accordingly filed a number of patents.
Hence, a conventional operation will
extend over four to five weeks, working
a seven-day week. The workers operate
in very difficult conditions, in a damp
atmosphere, often having to bend over or
kneel down”. Such de-piping work, as
freely admitted by Étienne Royer
himself, “is not much fun”. Pipe refitting,
on the other hand, is a less tedious
process. In “the good years”, Munch,
with its workforce of around 100,
generates a turnover of 40 million
euro. However, Munch does not intend
to stop whilst on such a good track! Its
new challenge? – “full-scale refits” of
power stations. Please note EDF’s
schedule, which aims at increasing the
useful life of French nuclear power
stations from 30 to 50/60 years. So
much renovation work at the mid-life
stage, which implies replacement of
certain installations and.... thousands
of pipes – predictably contributes to the
greatest fortune of Munch! —
An operation spread over four to ten weeks.
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Highly specialized jobs
performed by Eiffage
ROBOTIC GLUING AND
ASSEMBLING OF MIRROR PARTS
Roughly 6 million euro turnover per annum, 30 people, Clemessy
(Ouest-Atlantique).
I
n order to fit mirror parts to vehicle bodies, the car manufacturers
traditionally used rubber lip seals.
But, towards the end of nineties,
these rubber lip seals were replaced
by gluing. The large windscreens as
well as the small windows such as the
rear quarter panels located at the rear
of the vehicles, or the sliding roofs are
now assembled in this way. It is in this
context that the automatic gluing
machines, using robots and marketed
under the Rambure brand, have been
developed at Clemessy in Rennes (Illeet-Vilaine), as explained by Philippe
Guédon, company director of Clemessy
Ouest-Atlantique.
Highly specialized,
technical know-how
Thirty people at Clemessy can master this
technology, which has been installed with all
the car manufacturers. It requires highly
specialized technical know-how in several
sectors, such as controlling temperature, flow
rate and pressure to ensure an even application
of glue on the windows, as well as mastering
mechanical integration and the appropriate
robotics, Philippe Guédon explained.
At the outset, we developed our company by
working for the PSA Group in particular,
whereupon we gradually expanded to other
European car manufacturers, which is what
we shall continue to do, he continued. At the
same time, we would like to pass on this knowhow to other assembly lines – in particular to
parts of the body made from composite materials, which are an interesting alternative to
steel.The car manufacturers are most anxious
to reduce the weight of cars by going one
step further and improving energy costs.
Parts made from composite materials are
assembled by gluing and constitute a
de­velopment strategy, he concluded. —
Installations supplied by Clemessy, Russia.
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Staff at Therm-Inox help the cellar masters to maintain their vats at the proper temperature.
HEATING SPECIALISTS TO REGULATE
WINE VAT TEMPERATURES
Roughly 1.5 to 2.5
million euro turnover
per annum, ten people,
Therm-Inox and ThermInox Maintenance
(Eiffage Énergie
Atlantique).
M
outon Rothschild, La Tour
Martillac, Palmer, Haut
-Bailly! Therm-Inox and
Therm-Inox Maintenance,
the latest two companies which recently
became part of Eiffage Énergie, made
their appearance in the greatest vineyards of Bordeaux. The thirteen colleagues from the two companies spend
their days alongside the cellar masters,
to help them maintain their vats at the
correct temperature by producing hot
or iced water, which circulates in as
many pipes. A unique know-how within
the Group and rare within the wine
trade: the number of companies offering such a service can be counted on
the fingers of one hand, in a market
which, in the Aquitaine region, does not
exceed 15 million euro per annum!
Heat regulation
Therm-Inox and Therm-Inox
Maintenance were established in 1999
and 2000 respectively by a heat and
air conditioning specialist, Thierry
Dubourg. They were purchased by the
Group in January last. It is true to say
that Thierry Dubourg is practically a
pure Eiffage product, having worked
at Forclum Electricity for 10 years,
between 1983 and 1992. Having then
spent a further 10 years at Spie Trindel,
he launched his business and designed
his own heat regulation cabinets. His
colleagues are all specialists - heating
engineers, pipe welders, refrigeration
and electrical engineers etc., - who are
all familiar with working on gas or fuel
oil boilers. As part of our work, we
installed more than 1 km of piping at
Mouton-Rothschild, he explained. I really
appreciate the variety this job has to offer,
which also puts me in touch with farmers
and architects or even company directors.
It goes without saying that this trade only
operates by word of mouth.
Thierry Dubourg has a dream: of being
able to pass on this know-how to other
winegrowing regions like Champagne
and Bourgogne. It would be sufficient to
provide ad hoc training to a key airconditioning specialist to create equivalent
teams in these regions. And why not
create a division called Eiffage Énergie
Grands crus et châteaux? In all events,
he is not short of enthusiasm. —
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Eiffage declares its ambitions
in the railway sector
Eiffage Rail, a subsidiary formed in January 2010, is notching up top speed in its aim to
become a member of the highly exclusive top-4 club in the railway industry in France.
Its size will multiply tenfold in five years both in terms of turnover and workforce.
E
iffage Rail, the youngest
company, only founded ten and
a half years ago, feels as if it is
growing wings. Created in January
2010, this subsidiary of the Eiffage
Group has ambitions to join the
highly exclusive top-4 club in the
railways sector. “Aiming at the top 4 is
normal. Eiffage is the No. 3 in France in
Public Works and Civil Engineering and
one cannot do any less”, Jean-Luc Trottin,
Director of Eiffage Rail explained.
Even if the fame of the Group is
undisputed, its prominence in the
railway sector was almost non-­
existent, in spite of being involved in
“We are aiming at
expanding and
achieving critical mass.
But without sacrificing
profitability”
Jean-Luc Trottin
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working on many sites over the past
10 years – whether in the tramway
sector with a small group company
(STPV) or the high-speed lines (LGV),
with LGV Perpignan-Figueras (see
boxed section) or various sections or
complex engineering structures on
the LGV East. Hence the need to combine the skills within one and the
same company.
With a turnover of 3 million euro in
2010, this has now risen to 20 million
euro in 2011. We must maintain this
level in 2012 and reach 100 million
by 2015, with a financial balance from
2013 onwards. “Yes, we are aiming at
expanding and achieving critical mass”,
Jean-Luc Trottin stated. “But without
sacrificing profitability”. The number of
employees rose from 20 in 2010 to
one hundred at present. 100 to 150
new recruits are anticipated within
the next 2 years. Eiffage Rail therefore
defined four lines of development:
first the trams. The company was
awarded the 3 x 7 km Dijon tramway
(Côte-d’Or) in July 2010, followed by
the renovation of the T1 section to
Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) for
RATP and was also awarded the second tranche of the Bordeaux tramway
(Gironde) (extensions to Pessac and
Bègles) where work started this summer. Eiffage Rail is now intending to
fight for all invitations to tender relating to the establishment, renovation
or extension of lines: Grenoble (Isère),
Lyon (Rhône), Avignon (Vaucluse),
Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), the 5th line of
Montpellier (Hérault) or the two new
Toulouse lines (Haute-Garonne). From
this September, an agency will be set
up in Île-de-France so to meet better
the future requirements of Greater
Paris.
The second and third lines of
­development are the renovation of
the railway lines and the ITEs – the
connected terminal installations – in
other words, those railway infrastruc-
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For the LGV Bretagne
- Pays de la Loire, an
innovation will allow
us to lay 1,200 metres
of sleepers and track
per day!
tures which allow companies, quarries and ports to connect up to the
national rail network.
In the first case, this entails taking a
greater chunk of the billion euro of work
which SNCF puts out to tender each
year on behalf of RFF, in order to
regenerate and improve a railway
network which ages very quickly. In the
second case, there are many promising
sites, even though the economic crisis
is slowing down investment. For
example, Eiffage Rail will execute a
multi-modal platform in the port of le
Havre (26 km track, 52 points)... a
contract worth 13 million euro.
This now leaves us with the fourth line
of development – the most symbolic:
the high-speed lines (LGV). Eiffage
signed the 25-year public-private partnership agreement in July 2011 for the
construction and maintenance of the
LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (BPL),
between Le Mans and Rennes: 214 km
of lines (including 182 for the LGV) and
an investment of 3.4 billion euro. This
is the largest project of the Group –
including all sectors. This is something
Jean-Luc Trottin is very proud of: “We’re
going to climb Everest”! What is more,
we’ll have to work quickly – very
quickly. The work is scheduled for the
beginning of 2015 and has to be completed by mid-2016! Once again, Eiffage
will have to demonstrate its ability to
innovate. A new method of laying track
on ballast is being investigated. The
aim: to install 1,200 metres of sleepers
and track per day!
This is a 100% Eiffage offer and all the
skills of the various sectors will be part
of the action: civil engineering and
excavations, laying the tracks and catenaries, signalling systems, electrical
equipment and building the stations
etc. Even the German subsidiaries
(Eiffage Rail Deutschland and Wittfeld)
will be involved. This is, without doubt,
the main asset of the Group. The
Millau viaduct project gave rise to
team synergies - an interweaving of
its companies with a strong desire to
work together and provide the principals with a global solution.
With the LGV BPL brought in, Eiffage
Rail is already eyeing up the projects
for the next 20 years: the high speed
lines of Bordeaux-Hendaye, BordeauxToulouse, Paris-Orléans-ClermontLyon, and Paris-Normandy. And why
not, one day, the well-known LyonTurin or the costly Marseille-Nice
routes… Coming closer to home:
extending the E-line of the Paris RER
from Saint-Lazare to La Défense and
Mantes-la-Jolie (Île-de-France) is
expected soon. Beyond France, there
will be no lack of projects. In two or
three years’ time, with the teams who
will dedicate themselves to the LGV
BPL, Eiffage Rail fully intends to
branch out internationally and avail
itself of the expertise and networks
of Eiffage Rail Deutschland, which
has a presence in Asia and Central
Europe. —
A first experience of high speed
All the Group sectors were involved in the 44.4 km section of the
high-speed line (LGV) Perpignan-Figueras delivered by Eiffage in
2009. Commissioned at the end of 2010, this LGV made a 50-minute
saving on the Paris-Barcelona route (8 hours previously,) thus putting
these two metropolitan cities 5 hours 30 minutes away from one
another, once the Spanish high-speed train network is connected.
This is a first. The 53-year concession was awarded to TP Ferro, a
Group held in equal share by Eiffage and ACS-Dragados of Spain.
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A futuristic service station
on the motorway of the sun
A futuristic enclosure, a vegetable
dome created by the design and
architecture office of Ora-ïto…
The service area of la Chaponne,
located close to Avallon (Yonne), on
the A6 in the Paris-Lyon direction,
fully meets APRR targets – i.e. to
modernize the service stations and
provide a range of services under
one and the same roof, such as
shops, catering, lounge area or
games room for the children, free
WiFi access, an emergency station
fitted with a defibrillator etc. APRR
observed that where the buildings
are pleasant, car drivers will be
encouraged to take longer breaks,
which are beneficial from a safety
aspect, and they also tend to
consume more, which in turn
improves sales for the operators (as,
in this case, the Elior caterers and
Tackling Puy-de-Dôme!
A departure station inspired by the farms of the Auvergne and
built entirely of black Volvic Stone; an arrival station in buried
concrete at 1.415 metres altitude… Eiffage Construction and
Eiffage Énergie demonstrated their skills with the construction of
two stations at Panoramique des Dômes with the latest rack-and
pinion train of Puy-de-Dôme. It was commissioned on 23rd June
last. The engineers and workers spent one and a half year’s work
on this Project, costing a total of 80 million euro, of which 13
million euro were for Eiffage Construction. All this under
particularly acrobatic conditions – the sixty workers making up all
trades, had to rub shoulders with a 1,500 volt power cable, with all
the risks this entailed. The climatic conditions at the summit of the
volcano were also particularly harsh (winds of up to 217 km and
-30°C in February) not to mention the fact that the heavy site
equipment had to use the only access road which had sharp bends
over a distance of six kilometres. It was also necessary to evade the
consequences of a possible earthquake … at the sides of the
volcano by reinforcing the two buildings. —
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Delek-BP oil company) and
ultimately for the motorway
concession holder himself. Other
service stations, such as Allier-Doyet
and Allier-Saulzet, near Montluçon
(Allier) on the A71 and
Châteauvillain, near Chaumont
(Haute-Marne) on the A5 – will also
be redesigned with the same dual
objective of architectural research
and a vast array of services. —
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An ultra-modern commercial centre
for Eiffage Poland
The teams at Eiffage
Poland signed a contract
for the construction of the
Amber commercial centre
in Kalisz, the oldest city
in Poland located in the
eastern central part of
the country. The investment represents
160 million zlotys, i.e.
roughly 36 million euro.
The centre, which will
feature four floors, will
extend over a surface area
of 88,000 m2 and will be
built in nineteen months
time. It will house
140 shops, including
restaurants and cafés,
7 cinemas and a car park
for 1,100 cars. —
The rectorate of the Academy
of Bourgogne will make a
spectacular come-back in 2012
In record time – i.e. in a space
of eighteen months - Eiffage
Construction is putting the finishing
touches on the new rectorate of the
Academy of Dijon (Côte-d’Or) for the
national Ministry of Education. The eight-storey building, signed
by the architect, Rudy Ricciotti, could
be of particular significance with
its frontage, which is striated with
white ultra-high performance
concrete strips supplied by Eiffage
Travaux Publics and its glued
exterior windows supplied by Goyer,
a subsidiary of Eiffage Construction
Métallique. In fact, the facade company is fully responsible
for this. This site also combines the skills of Eiffage Énergie,
Clemessy and Eiffage Énergie Thermie, with Eiffage Energie,
in particular, managing the technical overview. Handover is
scheduled for 20th August 2012. —
La Seine-Saint-Denis is
recycling its waste
As a group, Eiffage Travaux Publics will be
responsible for the entire civil engineering work
in Romainville and Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis)
of the future household waste management
depot of Syctom, the agency which processes and
recycles the household waste of 84 districts in the
urban area of Paris. The contract, which includes
preparatory work, excavations, foundations,
road building and other networks as well as the
building shell, comes to 61.6 million euro. It was
signed with Urbaser Environnement, a French
subsidiary of the Spanish Urbaser group, which
has been commissioned by Syctom to build and
run this new unit. —
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NEWS
A military
vessel
refloated
The Gand Ring: two years
to complete the loop
Work on ring 4 in Gand (Eastern Flanders) started on the 1st March 2012. Eiffage
Benelux is part of the consortium executing the project. The total work comes to
around 70 million euro and is expected to run for 32 months. The Flemish region
wants to complete the missing link by way of this public-private partnership as
quickly as possible. The project includes four bridges, including a suspension
bridge, five tunnels and almost 2.5 kilometres of road networks. Apart from the
design and execution, the consortium will also be responsible for the maintenance
of the infrastructure for the next thirty years. —
Rejuvenating
the bridge
of Aquitaine
Inspections carried out by
the Interdepartmental
roads directorate of
Atlantique (Dira) revealed
problems with the structure
of the deck of the bridge
of Aquitaine (Gironde), the
large bridge of Bordeaux,
which was built in the 60s.
With its vast experience in replacing the connecting rods
of the bridge of Tancarville, Eiffage Construction
Métallique was awarded the contract to restore this bridge.
Engineers and fellow workers will proceed with the
dismantling, reinforcement and refitting the bridge, as well
as replacing 662 fishplates [metal parts used to connect
two rails] and 850 traps. —
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ARC (Atlantic Refit Center)
entrusted Eiffel Industrie
Marine with the refitting of
the former North Sea
fisheries protection vessel.
The operation mainly
consists in strengthening the
hull, creating new steel
bulkheads, producing and
laying a helicopter bridge
and executing the pipework.
Eiffel Industrie is also
involved at mechanical level,
with overhauling all the ­stepdown gears – shaft lines
–rudder blades [part of the
ship’s rudder capable of
pivoting]. The work started
mid-February 2012 and will
be completed in July. —
Unibridge® bridges are
spreading to the four
corners of the globe
In Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhône), in the
dedicated Unibridge® workshop, modular bridges
destined for the emerging countries (Philippines,
Iraq, West Africa, Sri Lanka…) –, are following the
course of production, at a rate of two box caissons
per day. The Unibridge® comprises basic caissons
11.60 metres long, which can be transported in
containers. No welding is required for their
assembly. Since the project started three years ago,
more than 1,200 caissons have been produced and
more than 200 bridges dispatched to the four
corners of the globe. —
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The
Quadrilatère
Richelieu
brought up to
standard
The Jean Lamour institute in Nancy:
An encounter with science
The European Union, the government, the region of Lorraine and Grand Nancy
(Meurthe-et-Moselle) are financing the building of one of the biggest scientific
laboratories in the east of France, on the Artem Nancy site. Its name? The Jean
Lamour institute. Eiffage Énergie Thermie Grand Est will be involved in this project*
and execute the Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning and Smoke Extraction
sections lot as well as the clean rooms. The latter teamed up with the Faure Qei
design office (part of the ATR Group) for the design and build and completion of
specific laboratory-related work, until their qualifying results can be assessed. The
same teams will construct the floors, walls and ceilings of the clean rooms within
the confines of the building envelopes. The overall turnover will be 10.7 million euro,
given that the inauguration is scheduled for 2015. After having participated in the
construction of the first tranche of this university campus, Eiffage Énergie Lorraine
Marne Ardenne will again become involved on the site to deploy the CTM
(Centralised Technical Management), together with Schneider Electric. —
The Quadrilatère Richelieu,
the historic site of the French
national library in Paris
(Île-de-France) has benefited
from an upgrade to bring
the electrical equipment
(11 million euro), plumbing
and fire protection systems
(12 million euro) up to
standard. Following a most
thorough survey and clearing
out of the existing
installations, the electrical
and thermal engineers from
the Ile-de-France Region of
Eiffage Énergie will carry out
the complete renovation of
all fluid-related systems.
The Ministry of Culture also
commissioned Eiffage
Énergie Thermie Île-deFrance to proceed with the
entire technical and
architectural overview of
the project. This will allow
for perfect mastering of how
to incorporate the networks
into the decor and panelling
of these classified buildings. —
* as also Eiffage Construction and Eiffage Construction Métallique
Clemessy puts its energy in Lyon
As part of the Lyon Cité Campus university redevelopment project, the
Insa faculty of engineering (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Lyon
(Rhône) commissioned a group of companies, including Clemessy, with the
construction of an experimental engine platform. This one million euro
contract will replace the current equipment with a more reliable, highperformance system. It will also enable outside organisations to use these premises and offer
students greater openings in research and the economic world linked to their apprenticeships.
Clemessy was chosen on account of its experience in test benches and process engines, in its
expertise in car testing systems and owing to its presence in Lyon, to execute HV and LW systems
and manage bench transfers, for the Accoustics department of Insa. —
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COMMITMENTs
Have your say!
18,197 colleagues at Eiffage replied by Internet or post to the large-scale
in-house satisfaction survey, conducted by the design and opinion-poll
company, Harris interactive. This is the opportunity for you to express your
pride at being part of the Group, to pay tribute to the importance of its
values and to underline the potential it can offer you. It also allows you to
have a say on subjects like training, pay and even work organisation.
Y
ou were asked to have your say
and you have done so! The
in-house satisfaction survey
conducted by the design and opinionpoll institute, Harris interactive, during
the spring of 2012 amongst all employees
in all countries of the Eiffage Group, was
crowned with success, with 18,197
replies (of which 14,770 were from
France). The response to the survey was
good both on the Internet (with 10,823
responses, i.e. a rate of between 50%
and 80% depending on country) and by
post (with 7,374 replies, i.e. a rate of just
over 20% for France, which was well
above the results normally obtained in
similar surveys).
Strong attachment
to the Group
Concerning the Group’s commitment,
you can see the results below. One can
see right away that you felt attached to
the company. 86% of those who replied
stated that they were happy working
with Eiffage (of which 31% were highly
satisfied). Likewise, 89% of you stated
that you were proud to belong to the
Group – which was a feeling particularly
marked amongst the managers and colleagues, but a little less so amongst the
employees, technicians and supervisors.
This feeling of belonging is somewhat
geared to the agency or division you
belong to rather than towards the
Group.
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SURVEY
RELATING
TO IN-HOUSE
SATISFACTION:
On first sight, the main indicators are
favourable to Eiffage
Of which “highly satisfied”
The survey relating to in-house
satisfaction conducted by Harris
Interactive includes several
indicators. We will highlight
three important ones.
The first attests to your pride
in belonging to the Group,
the second refers to your interest
in the work and atmosphere
in the departments and
the third testifies to your
state of mind.
83%
Satisfaction
86%
90%
31%
31%
29%
37%
94%
Of which highly proud
89%
88%
90%
Pride
36%
38%
31%
38%
94%
Of which “very much so”
83%
81%
84%
Recommendation
Total
Colleagues
32%
35%
27%
32%
89%
Employees, technicians and supervisors
Managers
France and Poland withdrawn from these indicators
Quite agree
Rather agree
Do not agree
Do not agree at all
X% ST agree
Job satisfaction is nurtured by job interest and
the working atmosphere in the department
“I’m interested in my work”
Total
41%
Colleagues
Employees, technicians
and supervisors
Managers
38%
41%
48%
8%
3%
50%
9%
2%
49%
51%
89%
8% 1%
5%1%
44%
“The atmosphere is good in my department”
Total
Colleagues
Employees, technicians
and supervisors
Managers
32%
47%
28%
48%
36%
42%
46%
46%
14%
7%
16%
8%
13%
5%
9%
3%
79%
The majority has a positive state of mind but a
quarter of colleagues adopt an attitude of detachment.
Amongst the following words, which is the one
that currently best characterises your state of mind
with respect to your work at Eiffage?
25%
2%
14%
(B=14)
11%
Colleagues: 25%
Employees, technicians
and supervisors: 27%
Managers: 36%
27%
(B=25)
Motivited
(B=13)
14%
(B=15)
Colleagues: 12%
Employees, technicians
and supervisors: 18%
Managers: 16%
Confident
31%
(B=33)
58%
Wait-and-see
Sceptical
Worried
Indifferent
Under the “motivated” section, France shows a 25% decline
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A sign of this commitment: 83% of colleagues, who gave their opinion, confirm that they would recommend
Eiffage to the outside. In this respect,
the management highlights, above all,
the development potential within
Eiffage and the culture of the company,
whilst the workforce values the size of
the Group, working conditions and
respect of employees as ‘average’. All
parties consider the Group as being
solid and praise its values. They also
underline the expertise and know-how
of employees.
However, whilst 58% of those who
replied state that they are motivated
or confident, 25% of them state that
they are sceptical or worried and 14%
adopt a wait-and-see attitude when
they are questioned about their state
of mind. Moreover, four out of ten
employees state that they are unaware
of the values of Eiffage, even though
they make up the second, most promising image for the Group.
Xavier Lanthiez and Delphine Martelli-Banégas presented the results of the survey conducted by Harris Interactive
during the convention that was held in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) on the 14th and 15th June 2012.
Interest in work
A lot of you acknowledge your interest
in work, but only 74% of you stated that
you had the necessary means to carry
it out and 79% considered that the
working atmosphere was good in your
department. Even if the perception of
industrial safety is satisfactory, several
points spark off reservation: the lack
of solidarity amongst colleagues, the
lack of recognition, training and, more
18,197 responses
18,197 of you replied to the in-house satisfaction survey conducted by Harris
Interactive, of which 85% were men and 13% women. 81% were French, 7%
Senegalese, 4% Spaniards, 3% Germans, 3% Belgians, Dutch or inhabitants
of Luxembourg and 1% Polish (the 1% balance corresponding to those
questionnaires where nationality was not specified).
In status terms, there are 55% factory workers and “compagnons” [association
members], 29% salaried staff, technicians and supervisors and 14% management
– 2% of those questioned did not specify their position. All ages were represented
with 6% young people under the age of 25 years, 23% in their thirties, aged
between 25 and 34 years, 45% in their forties, aged between 35 and 49 years
and 23% seniors aged from 50 to 59 years. People aged 60 years and above
made up 2% of the respondents. In terms of seniority, the percentages differ
appreciably with 12% of people who have been with the group for less than
two years whilst 19%, on the other hand, have been working for the Group for
more than 20 years. The majority of staff have been with the company from
six to ten years. Responses, which well testify to the social reality of Eiffage.
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to the point, remuneration, which is
often judged as inequitable from the
point of view of the job itself and when
compared with the rest of the sector.
Likewise, the quality of work
organisation and procedures to be
complied with, seem capable of
perfection amongst 30% of you.
Hierarchical relations are also criticised.
The overall managers are more readily
acknowledged for their availability and
less for their ability to adapt to change
and provide training.
With respect to information, whilst
78% of you state that you are well
informed about the current state of the
Group or company, only 66% state that
they have easy access to the information
required to do the job.
The majority of you (84%) state that
you are confident in the future of
Eiffage. But only 70% of you state that
you are confident about the future of
your job within Eiffage or about your
own future in Eiffage. —
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Five questions to…
→ Delphine
Martelli-Banégas,
Director of the Corporate Division
at Harris Interactive
Synergie: What interests does a large group like Eiffage
have in conducting an in-house satisfaction survey?
Delphine Martelli-Banégas : The main interest is to listen to
Group employees and obtain feedback on their
views of different subjects – including working
conditions and the image they have of the company,
its environmental policy or actions under the
banner of social responsibility. From this point of
view, Eiffage made the courageous choice to survey
all its employees – including all trades, branches and
countries – and in particular, to include the
specialist trades. Very often, the large groups of
companies limit themselves to canvassing a section
of their company, like the managers for example, or
staff employees, given that it is more easy to sound
them out, simply because they have e-mail access.
“
Eiffage made the courageous
choice to survey all its
employees”
Synergie : Were you surprised at the results?
The response rate is satisfactory – for all the
categories of people questioned. Out of the number of
surveys we carry out, one category - whether staff, a
sector or country – does not contribute. With regard to
Eiffage, we did not note any special drop-out. The
whole Group was mobilized and uniform. Besides
which, the survey records very special situations
relating to certain categories of staff, such as the
specialist trades or countries, such as Senegal. The
perceptions thus processed are both specific and diverse,
meaning that the whole thing is not “averaged out”,
which would not make much sense. The results show
that when the employees were not satisfied with certain
aspects, they said so, without beating about the bush.
D.M.-B. :
“
The whole Group was mobilized
and uniform”
Synergie: How to you correct the inevitable bias
inherent in this type of survey?
We endeavour to check that the various
populations are all properly represented and reflect
the theoretical structure of the workforce. If there is
any doubt about representation, then we try to
“correct” the missing population in order to
estimate its real position in the company.
D.M.-B. :
Synergie: How can Eiffage make best use of your work?
A global assessment of the results is essential.
It must also be ensured that they are relayed to the
sectors and at different management levels. The
latter must then share these results. The survey will
be all the more beneficial if an action plan is set up
at the same time, based on the points of vigilance
which have been identified in order to make
improvements.
D.M.-B. :
Synergie: As for you, how did you conduct this enquiry?
A large number of people – even within
Harris Interactive or outside service providers – have
been recruited. An initial design team spent one and
a half month from the middle of March to the end
of April preparing the survey, on what was almost a
full-time basis. From the end of April, a production
team proceeded with the “ground phase” which
consisted in producing the survey on line together
with a postal survey. In the latter case this involved
printing, putting the survey in an envelope and
posting it to all the countries before finally receiving
the questionnaires. An outside service provider
manually entered the replies from the hard copy
questionnaires over the next days. Finally, the design
team was responsible for processing and analysing
the results over a period of three weeks in May.
D.M.-B. :
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TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT
“Job dating” in Vélizy
Master chefs
with star
ratings
Michel Gostoli, chairman of Eiffage Construction and Michel Boudinet, regional director of Eiffage
Construction Île-de-France, pointed out the importance of links between education and companies and
presented the various professions in the building and real estate sectors.
A “Job dating” evening was held on 26th March last at the head office of
Eiffage Construction in Vélizy (Yvelines) to mark the entry of a promotional
group of students from the École supérieure d’ingénieurs des travaux de la
construction de Cachan (ESITC) into the world of work. Created in 1991, after
the baccalauréat, ESITC Cachan trains students in the building and civil
engineering trades, by offering a 5-year course emphasizing the technological
aspects of the construction sector. Eiffage Construction supported a
promotion from this prestigious school throughout the five years of training.
Fifty of these students who registered for the 5th year, were taken on, as were
also twenty students from year 4 seeking a course. Eiffage Construction will
start a new 5-year cycle from September onwards by sponsoring the
2012/2017 promotion. —
“Bridges” towards the future
In 2011, Eiffage Énergie wished to bring an
initiative, which was adopted the previous year
in the central eastern region, into general use:
namely develop an approach in a professional
context, relating to the (re) learning of basic
knowledge – i.e. reading, writing and arithmetic.
These problems can affect all colleagues.
They affect them both in their daily lives and in
carrying out their jobs and entail consequences
in terms of site safety. How can one apply
an instruction which one does not properly
understand? The “link” approach, founded
on a voluntary basis, has recently been developed
in order to acquire and develop this basic
knowledge. One hundred and nineteen colleagues from Eiffage Énergie took
part in the first sessions, which took place over 112 hours. Other sessions
could be organised depending on demand. —
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In order to help foremen
develop their skills, Eiffage
Travaux Publics has introduced
a training scheme at national
level, known as Master Chef.
The course is geared to all
foremen of the Road/Regions
division of Eiffage Travaux
Publics, irrespective of their
seniority and initial training.
It comes with its ‘leitmotiv’:
the different mix of levels and
expertise will provide the
richness of exchange, sharing
knowledge and executing the
work together.
On a practical level, “Master
Chef” is broken down into two
modules, of a total duration of
35 hours. This would form the
common basis, which could
then be completed by a specific
course relative to each foreman,
based on the requirements
expressed. A third, optional
module, dedicated to both the
construction manager/foreman
is also provided. This will allow
for an on-site assessment of the
effective implementation of the
methods and tools developed
during training and give
practical solutions to the
problems encountered on a
case basis. Thirty sessions have
already been scheduled for this
year. The aim: to improve
productivity and share good
practices in matters of
prevention. —
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performances
Expertise and innovation:
a winning combination
Eiffage Construction is multiplying its
regional initiatives to bring out its
expertise and innovations in the
foremen. A Purchase and Innovation
fair will be held on the 27th November
2012 in Bordeaux at the Pin galant in
Mérignac (Gironde). Its subject is
“Savings in sustainable building” and
will be geared to the housing sector.
The aim: to invite clients and foremen
to discover the innovations presented
by suppliers – both in-house and
outside companies. Eiffage
Construction is hoping to surf on the
success of Sophia-Antipolis (AlpesMaritimes), at the end of 2011, where the EFPI (Eiffage Construction fournisseurs
produits innovants – Eiffage Construction – Suppliers’ innovative products) fair was
held. Home automation, joinery profiles based on linen, LED slabs from Eiffage
Energie, HVA cabins, ConceptTM and Pac. R2 from Eiffage Construction Industries…
there was no lack of innovation to provide answers to clients on the look-out for
new state of the art products —
Clemessy on the way towards Group
certification
Following an audit carried out by the Association française
d’assurance de la qualité (Afaq) [French quality assurance
association] from 12th to 30th March 2012, the companies, EIS,
Clemessy Méditerranée et Fluides IT, were the first of the Clemessy
Group to be awarded ISO 14001 certification. This standard
essentially covers environmental management – i.e. what a company does to
minimize the damaging effects of its activity on the environment and continuously
to improve its environmental performance. The experience of EIS, Clemessy
Méditerranée et Fluides IT in this matter will be shared and carried out by the other
companies of the Clemessy Group, which will also request certification during the
course of the next three years. The aim is that all the companies of the Clemessy
Group will have been awarded their certifications by 2014.
What is more, Clemessy was awarded renewal of its AFAQ ISO 9001 certification,
relating to quality management systems, for the coming three years. The scope
of certification covers engineering, design, studies, manufacture, installations,
commissioning, corrective and preventive maintenance of plant and machinery:
! Electrical (electric panels);
! Low and high voltage electro-technical systems up to 400 kV [kilovolts];
! Mechanics of instrumentation, automation, IT and low currents ;
! Piping and measurement;
! Fire safety systems;
! Video monitoring and intrusion detection in the industrial and service sectors. —
Midi-Pyrénées:
accessibility
pros!
Eiffage Construction
Midi-Pyrénées, the Pamiers
agency, was awarded the
title of “accessibility pros”,
by the French Building
Federation, through its
certification body, Qualibat.
This distinction highlights
those companies capable of
guaranteeing or improving
the accessibility of a building
to the old and disabled.
The law of 11th February 2005
governing the standards
of accessibility “to and from
a building for the old and
disabled”, is imposed on
public buildings in particular,
as well as on buildings that
are new or undergoing
renovation and on individual
homes. This decree becomes
effective before 1st January
2015.
The “Accessibility pros”
certification is a guarantee
of professionalism for
principals. According to the
regional directorate of the
environment, development
and housing (Dréal), roughly
300 public buildings are
affected in Midi-Pyrénées,
together with many private
buildings (cinemas, hotels,
etc.). The demand for private
dwellings should also
increase given the ageing
population. —
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initiatives
SOCIAL COMMITMENT
The motorway puts on
a fabulous spread
Let the holidaymakers discover or rediscover the value of French gastronomy,
which is entrenched in the intangible cultural heritage of humanity: such is the ambition of APRR and AREA, which this summer are organising a
series of events on the subject of “Culinary art, flavours and local know-how”.
Hence, the equivalent of eighty days of games, workshops and tastings of
regional products are anticipated. The two motorway concession holders
enlisted the help of the general councils, regional councils and county
tourism boards. The general council of Allier and the county tourism boards
of Jura will organise some real events at the motorway service stations to
help holidaymakers discover their regions, which are served by two
networks. Partners, such as the Casino Group shopping outlets, the catering
firm Élior and even ‘La Maison de La vache qui rit’ in Lons-le-Saunier (Jura)
also willingly agreed to assist in order to help attract future tourists. —
Digging out a gas main:
a life-size exercise
Poland is given the
philanthropic award
The construction sector of Eiffage Poland
was awarded the second “leaders of
philanthropy 2011 prize” organised by the
Polish building trade and industrial
companies. In 2011, Eiffage Poland provided
the finance for a children’s leisure complex
in Warsaw and the complete renovation of
a public hospital department in the Polish
capital. In addition, colleagues of the Group
also participated in “Children’s Day” and
carried out some renovation work in the
socio-therapeutic centre of Warsaw. This
year, Eiffage Poland was one of the sponsors
of the European football championships
organised for children who live in a
children’s home. —
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synergie
GROUP magazine
The Infrastructure division of the agencies of Eiffage Énergie
in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) and Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques),
the fire-brigade and GRDF (Gaz Réseau Distribution France –
Gas distribution network of France) took part in an emergency
exercise, which simulated digging out a gas pipe. A film of this event was sent to the parties involved and to
the regional and national levels of Eiffage Énergie. This film
was also distributed, with commentary, to all staff in Pau and
Tarbes. This experience was truly appreciated by those
involved (in-house and outsiders), the client (SDE), agencies,
subsidiaries of the regional directorate and Eiffage Énergie,
which could adopt this action at national level. —
synergie #17
Eiffage challenge:
roughly 3,000
sportsmen still in
the running!
Multi-activities, football, tennis: this is divided into regions for the
qualifiers! The first two days of this 34th Eiffage challenge took place
on the 8th June at Touquet (Pas-de-Calais) and the 21st June in Vittel
(Vosges). Roughly 500 colleagues took part in this internal
competition, which was open to everyone. Welcome to the newly
registered, who make up almost half! The programme will
continue from September to November, so start training flat out
this summer! A grand finale will be organised in June 2013. In all,
roughly 3,000 colleagues from the Group will take part in these
regional qualifications, which include all the divisions and all
social-professional categories. —
agenda
Delegation from
the West:
21st September
in Cesson-Sevigné
(île-et-Vilaine)
Delegation from
the North West:
28th September
Le Grand Quevilly
(Seine-Maritime)
Delegation from
the South West:
12th October
in Boé (Gironde)
Delegation from
the île-de-France:
19th October
in Paris-Val-deMarne (Val-deMarne)
Delegation from
the South:
9th November
in Beaucaire
(Bouches-duRhône)
Delegation from
the Centre-East:
23rd November
in Meyzieu (Rhône)
Obtain all information from Planet’Eiffage
Vittel 2012: all in action for the qualifiers.
The Eiffage foundation wants to
provide training in the building
and public works trade
115,000 downloads from
the motorway SOS
emergency call terminal
The Eiffage foundation will support a project to the tune of
10,000 euro, proposed by Alexandre Chardon, director of Eiffage
Construction Franche-Comté, who would like to provide training
for the building and public works trade and thereby create jobs.
The aim is to participate in the financing of the equipment on
board a bus belonging to the Indibat Group – a bus that is meant
to be a mobile training and information tool. Indibat defines itself
as a socio-professional ‘lift’ for
job-seekers and an external
human resources management
service for the building and
public works trade. —
The emergency call terminals developed by APRR
and accessible on Smartphones, has passed the
115,000 download mark. Almost 78.2% of these
were made by holders of iPhones and 21.8% by users
of Android Smartphones. This facility means that
drivers no longer have to get out of their car to make
a call from the emergency call terminal, since the
latter is now “on board”. This will also limit the risks
of accident. —
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