Sogea - 1999 annual report

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E D I T O R I A L
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P R O F I L E
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K E Y
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F I G U R E S
H I G H L I G H T S
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H U M A N
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R E S O U R C E S
B U I L D I N G
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C I V I L
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E N G I N E E R I N G
H Y D R A U L I C
E N G I N E E R I N G
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S E R V I C E S
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A D D R E S S E S
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n 1999, the substantial improvement in Sogea’s
results in virtually all of its major operating areas
was confirmed. The Group’s markets - building,
civil engineering, hydraulic engineering and services returned to growth, driven by private-sector
investment in housing and industry in particular.
Sogea’s organization, based on its dense network
of specialized contractors linked together by its
multidisciplinary regional Divisions, enabled the
Group to make the most of the improved economic
situation by pursuing selectivity of order-taking.
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The return to a sounder business situation gave
Sogea the opportunity to select business in a more
discriminating way, get to know its customers
better, develop the training of its people, improve
production and strengthen the added value of its
business activity.
This enabled the Group to take part in a number
of high-profile projects. In France, the Adria Tower
at La Défense, the Rauze and Verrières Viaducts,
the re-routing of network systems as part of
the Montpellier, Strasbourg and Orleans tramway
projects, new maintenance contracts in the Paris area,
and the private car parks built and operated by Sogea
in Marseille and Nice are a few examples.
On the international market, which accounts for half
the Group’s net sales, Sogea’s strategy of putting down
strong roots continued to bear fruit. The company
recorded good results in the United Kingdom and is
successfully pursuing its policy of expansion in Africa.
Norwest Holst received its first PFI (Private Finance
Initiative) contract in Wales, while Sogea and Satom
were awarded major roadworks projects in Central
Africa, various civil engineering projects in Morocco and
several hydraulic engineering contracts in West Africa.
International development, focused on hydraulic
engineering, similarly chalked up significant successes
in Palestine, Kosovo and Kazakhstan. In the Indian
Ocean and the West Indies, the Group’s business was
driven by major environmental engineering projects.
The 1999 momentum at Sogea is expected to continue
unabated in 2000. The Group intends to step up its
sales policy based on customer responsiveness and
local service and to pursue its strategy of profitability
and selectivity by focusing on its high added value
range of products and services.
Sogea will be implementing this strategy on the basis of
the synergies and development momentum provided by
the now independent SGE Group, which is asserting its
leading position on the European construction market.
Xavier Huillard
Chairman and CEO
P R O F I L E
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Comprehensive expertise
provided locally
Sogea operates primarily in four
located geographically close to their
Finally, Sogea is present, on a case-
main business sectors: building, civil
customers, and is one of the leading
by-case basis, in other geographic
engineering, hydraulic engineering
French construction companies and
areas in its traditional hydraulic
and services. In 1999, with markets
the third largest car park operator in
engineering business.
generally picking up and volumes
France.
recovering after the strong drop
With their operations going back
of previous years, Sogea posted net
more than half a century in the
sales of 1,959 million euros, including
French West Indies and 35 years in
609 million euros in Norwest Holst
the Indian Ocean, Sogea and its
net sales.
subsidiaries are among the leading
With 15,000 employees, Sogea is
made up of multidisciplinary
regional Departments which are
building and civil engineering
companies in the French overseas
departments and territories.
Sogea is both a local company,
thanks to its locations
geographically close to its customers,
and a global company thanks to its
cohesion and size; it can therefore
provide all its customers with
high-level expertise in a partnership
relationship which is further
strengthened by Sogea’s mastery
structured as a particularly dense
In Africa, where they have been
of the main stages of construction
network of specialized, autonomous
operating for 70 years, Sogea and its
projects, from design to construction,
and decentralized agencies and
subsidiary Satom have 26 agencies
financing and maintenance.
subsidiaries. The company’s
and are the leading building and civil
locations are first and foremost in
engineering companies in western
mainland France, the French West
and central Africa.
Indies, the Indian Ocean, Africa,
the Benelux countries and the
In Europe Sogea is more particularly
represented in the Benelux countries
United Kingdom.
by Denys and in the United Kingdom
In mainland France, Sogea has a
by Norwest Holst, one of the major
network of over 100 profit centres
construction companies in that country.
Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Serge Michel
Directors
Xavier Huillard
John Stanion
Honorary Chairman
and Director
Gérard Billaud
Michel Cambournac
Bernard Huvelin
Jean Malassigné
Roger Martin
Gérard Mohr
Pierre Parisot
Antoine Zacharias
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
Chairman and Chief Executive
Norwest Holst Group PLC
Pierre-Michel Chaudru
Pierre Billon
Deputy General Manager,
Île-de-France
Financial Director
Jean Rossi
Legal Director
Xavier Huillard
Chairman of the Board
Deputy General Manager,
French Regions
Philippe Ratynski
Deputy General Manager,
International
Jérôme Benet
Hervé Meller
Human Resources Director
K E Y
F I G U R E S
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B U I L D I N G
C I V I L
E N G I N E E R I N G
H Y D R A U L I C
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Turnover by geographic area
Turnover by geographic area
Turnover by geographic area
as percentage, in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
as percentage, in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
as percentage, in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
MFF
Île-de-France
Md
%
Île-de-France
1,548 236
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French Regions
2,284 348
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International
495
United Kingdom
75
2,412 368
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French Regions
International
MFF
Md
%
81
12
2
635
97
20
1,183 180
United Kingdom
1,241 189
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40
2
MFF
Md
%
218
33
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French Regions
1,154 176
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International
1,017 155
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37
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Île-de-France
20
38
40
United Kingdom
342
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Turnover building
Turnover civil engineering
Turnover hydraulic engineering
in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
MFF
Md
MFF
Md
MFF
Md
1997
6,364
970
1997
3,246
495
1997
2,724
415
1998
6,128
934
1998
3,023
461
1998
2,878
438
1999
6,739 1 027
1999
3,140
478
1999
2,731
416
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S E R V I C E S
Turnover by geographic area
T U R N O V E R
in millions of FF and millions of Euros
as percentage, in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
as percentage, in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
Île-de-France
South
MF
Md
%
126
19
51
76
12
30
7
1
3
North-West
19
3
8
South-East
19
3
8
West
51
30
MFF
Md
1997
12,552
1,913
1998
12,263
1,868
1999
12,857
1,959
MFF
3
8
8
Md
%
Building
6,739 1,027
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Civil
engineering
3,140
478
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25
Hydraulic
engineering
2,731
416
21
21
247
38
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Services
E M P L O Y E E S
Turnover services
TURNOVER BY LINE
OF BUSINESS
TURNOVER BY
GEOGRAPHIC AREA
as percentage, in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
as percentage and number
in millions of FF
and millions of Euros
MFF
MFF
Md
1997
218
33
1998
234
35
1999
247
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Engineers, Managerial
1,650
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Clerical, Technical and
Supervisory
2,580
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Manual Workers
10,452
71
Md
%
Île-de-France
1,973 300
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15
French Regions
4,184 640
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International
2,695 410
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21
United Kingdom
3,995 609
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H I G H L I G H T S
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JANUARY
• Sobea Île-de-France is selected to
operate the Mantes-la-Ville car
park for a period of eighteen
years.
• Dodin wins the contract to build
55 structures on the A89, A87 and
A66 Motorways.
• On the international market,
Satom is awarded the contract to
renovate the airport in Timbuktu,
Mali, and Sogea inaugurates the
Ermesinde waste water treatment
plant in Portugal.
MARCH
• The cornerstone is laid for the
Verrières Viaduct being built by
Dodin on the A75 Motorway near
Millau. • Caroni performs the civil
engineering work on the new Astra
plant in Dunkirk (architect: Jacobs
Serete) and is awarded the construction
contracts for the Raimes (architect:
Parallèle 3) middle school in the
Nord and the Université du Littoral
in Calais (architect: cabinet
G. Neveu). • Denys wins a contract
for underground works as part
of the construction of the BrusselsAmsterdam high speed rail line.
MAY
• The construction of a building
for the Glaxo-Wellcome
pharmaceuticals group is awarded
to Sogea Nord-Ouest.
• In Mayotte, the General Council
taps Sogea to build the
Mamoudzou waste water
treatment plant and operate it for
a period of two years.
• In the French West Indies,
Sogea wins the contracts for the
Sainte-Anne and Sainte-Luce water
treatment plants.
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FEBRUARY
• Sicra is awarded works package
6 at the Dupleix ZAC in Paris’s
15th arrondissement, as well as a
housing contract for Cogedim in
Issy-les-Moulineaux (architects:
Atrium Studio-P. and C. Vigneron
et Partenaires-B & ArchitectesD. Hertenberger-J. Vitry).
• In Africa, Sogea, bidding in a
consortium, is selected to build
the Bertoua-Garoua-Boulaï road
in Cameroun.
APRIL
• Chanzy-Pardoux begins
construction work on the Metz
incineration plant (architects:
Ch. Delfante-Cabinet Paulin and
Mariotti). • In Gabon, the
company wins three substantial
contracts: Satom is awarded the
civil engineering work on the
Owendo conventional thermal
power plant in Libreville; Sogea
is the winner of the competitive
bidding for the 57 km road
between Lalara and Mitzic and
obtains the contract to design and
build two hospitals in Port-Gentil
and Koulamoutou respectively
(architects: Vamed Engineering).
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1. In fiscal 1999 there
were numerous industrial
sector successes,
particularly in the
pharmaceutical industry,
an example of which is
the Glaxo Wellcome project
in Evreux shown here.
2. Among the many
contracts won by Sogea
and its subsidiary Satom
in Africa were two large
roadworks projects
in central Africa.
3. The Sogea Sud
hydraulic agency in
Montpellier performed
alterations on the sewage
sea discharge system in
the city of Sète.
4. Sogea was awarded
nearly 1,500 new parking
spaces in France in 1999,
located primarily in
Marseille, Paris and Tours.
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JUNE
• Sicra wins the contract to build
a housing complex for Meunier
Promotion in the Avenue
Napoléon-Bonaparte in RueilMalmaison.
• Géfiparc wins the 15-year
Anvers car park concession in
Paris’s 9th arrondissement.
• Inauguration of the composting
unit at Champagne-sur-Oise built
by Sicra and Sobea Île-de-France
(architect: BBJ).
SEPTEMBER
• The President of France Télécom
Communications inaugurates the
B2 office building built by Sicra
in the Nord ZAC in Montrouge
(architects: DLM-Arte JM
Charpentier & Associés).
• In Montpellier, completion
of the Valedeau drinking water
reservoir with a capacity of
28,000 m3.
• Sogea Rhône-Alpes starts laying
50 km of optical fibre north of
Lyon.
NOVEMBER
• Sicra, as part of a consortium,
receives the works order for the
T3 (Adria) tower in Courbevoie
(architect: Conceptua).
• On Reunion Island Sogea is
asked to build 125 public housing
units in Saint-Louis as part of the
Café marron-Tan rouge project
(architects: Marraud-LehayeDelpech).
• Sogea provisionally wins the
contract to lay 51 km of pipelines
in Astana, Kazakhstan.
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JULY - AUGUST
• Sicra Maintenance begins a
maintenance contract for Generali
Immobilier in the Avenue Hoche.
• In Marseille, Sogea Sud-Est hands
over the Bouchard clinic car park
which it is to operate for twenty
years, and wins the contract to
enlarge and operate the Beauregard
clinic car park.
• Sogea Est is awarded the contract
to build and operate the Maxéville
water purification plant.
• Norwest Holst is the lead company
in a consortium which will regenerate
the old industrial area in Cardiff Bay
as a part of a PFI (Private Finance
Initiative).
OCTOBER
• The City of Vincennes awards
to Sobea Île-de-France the contract
to build and operate as a concession
for a period of 30 years its “city
centre” car park.
• Sogea Sud-Ouest wins the
contract to build the Toulouse
courthouse (architects: P. PrunetJ. Munuez). Sogea receives the
notification to proceed with
construction of the Négril water
treatment plant in Jamaica.
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DECEMBER
• Socogim, a subsidiary of Sogea
specialized in project financing,
is named lead company for the
reconstruction of the Cèdres clinic
in Brive-la-Gaillarde (architects:
SCP Bernard and TrufierSA Groupe 5).
• Dodin wins the contract to build
a composite 500 metre long,
100 metre high viaduct on the
A89 Motorway between Bordeaux
and Clermont-Ferrand (architects:
Lavigne-Montois).
H U M A N
R E S O U R C E S
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s part of the decentralization policy
which Sogea embarked on two years
ago, the Human Resources Department
has taken a number of initiatives to increase
the autonomy and accountability of employees
working in the various profit centres.
MOBILITY
In May 1998 the Sogea Human
Resources Manager set up an
orientation program for young
engineers and works managers.
The approach is proactive and the
focus is on inter-regional mobility
and staff member exchanges. Each
young person hired by a subsidiary
will from now on take part in the
9 month program, spending
6 months on a construction site
and 3 months in a design office,
during which time he or she will
be supported and tracked by a
sponsor.
Following the first 9 month
period, new employees work with
their HR manager and their
sponsor to perform a first review.
They are then required to move to
another agency or region. Their
new assignment is selected in
accordance with Sogea’s in-house
mobility rules and in coordination
with the mobility Commission set
up for this purpose.
New employees then spend
12 months in their new assignment.
During a five year period, their
career within the company is
regularly monitored by their subsidiary
with head office support.
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TRAINING
Starting in March 1999 and
throughout 2000, entrepreneurial
training courses are being held
for heads of profit centres.
This training is given by company
staff and addresses such diverse
issues as contract management,
human resources, IT tools,
communications, customer
relations, financial management
and accident prevention.
Similar training is given to works
managers and site managers.
As of June 1999, they have also
been receiving training to improve
their technical skills and potential
in the framework of an overall
approach to production resource
excellence.
PREVENTION
Sogea has assigned safety
specialists to each of its regional
offices and expanded its head
office-based prevention and team
networking structures. The
company has embarked on a new
approach to prevention based on
an analysis of the health problems
experienced by workers and on
studies of accidents in which they
were injured. This approach is
based on regular meetings bringing
together approximately 15
workers and health and accident
prevention specialists. The goal is
to identify the behaviour of skilled
workers in risk situations and
to seek practical ways of raising
awareness.
In an approach similar to the one
taken to quality, an international
reference base on prevention and
safety is currently under study.
Sogea wishes to adopt this
approach and is even anticipating
the reference base by setting up
a 12-point action plan listing
concrete measures to be taken on
construction sites.
INTERNATIONAL
In June 1998, the International
Department introduced a training
program for all its supervisory
staff to provide them with the
enhanced management and
administrative skills they require
for their jobs. Administration,
management, human resources,
negotiation, financing, contracts,
prevention and quality are the
major themes addressed.
In Africa, activities to provide
orientation, training, and mobility
of local staff have been stepped up
in order to achieve greater
availability of local skills in all
business lines.
Finally, a study was conducted
in 1999 on the implementation,
from January 1, 2000, of uniform,
updated expatriate staff regulations.
B U I L D I N G
Sogea is today
a leading
operator in
the building
sector, in both
new construction
and renovation,
public and
private sector,
functional
and industrial
buildings.
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he French market is currently picking
up in private housing, thanks to
government measures providing tax
incentives to rental housing, and in school
facilities and the industrial, retail and service
sectors thanks to ongoing investments.
Sogea, which generates 50% of its net sales
in building, is among the market leaders.
Profile
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1. Sicra handed
over the second phase
of the Gobelins project
in the Nord ZAC
in Montrouge.
Built as a co-development
project by Sogam,
its subsidiary specialized
in project planning,
the contract involved
11,000 m2 of office space
which will be occupied by
France Télécom.
In new buildings and in renovation, Sogea has
continued to refocus its activity on private-sector
customers. In housing, the company has actively
pursued its partnerships with private developers.
It has also expanded its project financing and
planning activity.
But it is primarily in the service, retail and industrial
markets that Sogea, expanding its range, has
developed a special working relationship with its
customers.
With its experience in project financing, its planning
skills, its track record and its offer in the areas of
maintenance and property management, Sogea is
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more than a builder: attuned as it is to its customers,
the company can provide an overall response to all
their expectations.
In the United Kingdom where Norwest Holst
generates a third of its business in the building sector,
the company has continued its general contracting
strategy and made the most of deregulation
implemented in that country, more particularly the
PFI (Private Finance Initiative) which encourages
private-sector financing of public-sector projects.
Norwest Holst has furthermore phased out its social
housing activity.
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2. Caroni, a subsidiary
of Sogea Nord, built
the new pharmaceutical
plant for Astra Zeneca
in Dunkirk; the structural
work was completed
in 112 days.
3. As the T2 “Egée“ Tower
project was completed,
Sari awarded to Sicra
the contract to build
its twin, the T3 “Adria“
Tower, at La Défense.
The confirmed phase
which has been signed
covers 29 storeys.
A conditional phase could
raise that number to 42.
4. Again at La Défense,
Sicra also won the contract
to do the structural work
on the Sofitel Hotel
in Courbevoie.
Activity
In the Île-de-France, Sicra has confirmed its rank as
the second leading building company in the greater
Paris area. It has reorganized into specialized
departments: new works, renovation, project
financing, planning, full-service maintenance and
industrial customers. In the course of the fiscal year
the company continued or began work on several
projects at La Défense: the T2 towers, the Sofitel
Hotel, the T3 Adria tower (architect: Conceptua),
which it will be building in a consortium with
Campenon Bernard Construction. Sicra also started
large construction sites on the Quai du Point-du-Jour
(architect: C. de Portzamparc) and in the Left Bank
ZAC (architects: Arte J.-M. Charpentier & AssociésT3 C (Axe France)-Dusapin / LeclercqB. Tournier-Lasserve). It is also building the AnatoleFrance middle school in Puteaux (architects:
Guidicelli Architectes), the Baudelaire lycée in Evry
(architect: L. Martel) and a shopping centre in Serris
near Marne-la-Vallée. In 1999, Sicra also performed,
in a REX (experimental construction) project, the
structural renovation of the Quatre-Tours complex
in Le Blanc-Mesnil as well as part of the last phase
of the Nord ZAC in Montrouge (architects: Sopha
Architectes and Arte & Charpentier) where the
company is also the planner. The renovation market is
no longer growing at its previous rate but it still makes
up a third of Sicra’s activity.
EXPERIMENTAL CONSTRUCTION
Renovation and work site logistics
At the end of February, 1999, Sicra completed renovation work
on the Quatre-Tours complex in Blanc-Mesnil. Together with
the Sogea Development-Marketing, France Department,
Sicra carried out an experimental works (REX) approach on
this project which involved worksite logistics and scheduling
in the framework of sequential renovation.
Two new REX projects to be conducted by Sicra in Meudon and
Chelles (architects: Laumonnier and Meninger) aim to
determine which procedures and methods are necessary to set
up high-performance logistics systems on smaller work sites.
B U I L D I N G
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In the French regions, Sogea’s building activity
expanded and the company refocused on
higher-added-value activities. In the north of France,
in 1999, there was growth in industrial activity at
Sogea and its subsidiary Caroni, in addition to their
traditional activities in public buildings, particularly
schools. Examples are a major project built for Astra
in Dunkirk (architect: Jacobs Serete); the Guiscard
middle school (architect: Bellière Manière) and the
Avesnes-sur-Helpe lycée (architects: H. GaillardL.Corbeau); the Fiegnies middle school (architect:
J. Corbeau) and the Caudry lycée (architects:
Kroll-Nicol-Thelot). Sogea’s Northwest and West
regions also experienced growth in activity. Sogea
Nord-Ouest built three industrial buildings for
Glaxo, Sidel and Enerflux Industrie, while Sogea
Atlantique began construction of a cogeneration
power station in Montoire-de-Bretagne. In the West,
Sogea’s activity is also continuing apace in the housing,
service and structural renovation sectors, a major
example being the renovation of the Kastler-Guitton
lycée in La Roche-sur-Yon. In the large South-West
area Sogea has reorganized by setting up two regional
departments. The first, Sogea Sud-Ouest, is located in
Toulouse and manages the Midi-Pyrénées, Aquitaine
and Limousin regions; its building activity
experienced a major boost in Toulouse with the
construction of the courthouse led by its subsidiary
Croizet-Pourty (architects: P. Prunet-J. Munuez).
The second regional department, Sogea Sud, is based
in Montpellier and concentrates on the LanguedocRoussillon and Aveyron regions. It has also recorded
some successes, particularly in the housing and
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1. Sogea Nord-Ouest
completed the new plant
of the Glaxo-Wellcome
pharmaceutical
company in Evreux;
its sophisticated
framework includes a
large counterbalanced
top which overhangs
the building.
2. The Vatry airport
construction project,
built by Sogea Est, was
visited by the President
of the Republic last
September. Sogea is
also building the BaselMulhouse airport.
3. Sogea Sud-Ouest built
the teaching facilities
for the Murail University
history sciences training
and research centre
in Toulouse.
4. Sogea Sud-Ouest
completed construction
of a telecommunications
building for SFR
(Cegetel) in Toulouse.
5. Sogea Nord-Ouest
built the Rouen CES.
industrial sectors: 100 housing units in Lunel
(renovation architect: H. Zirah), 59 in Montpellier
(renovation architect: H. Zirah), for the Arcade
group; a cogeneration building for the Montpellier
teaching hospital and Dalkia (renovation architect:
J.-L. Michel). In the East, Sogea and its subsidiaries
(Hallé, Chanzy-Pardoux, Urban and Sotram) did a
brisk business related to the start of work on the
Basel-Mulhouse and Vatry airports. Chanzy-Pardoux
completed restoration of Meinsberg Castle (renovation
architect: M. Goutal) and continued structural
renovation of the European school in Luxembourg
(architects: Cabinet Bauer) and restoration of
Strasbourg Cathedral.
In the Indian Ocean, Sogea continued its public
housing and school building activity. In 1999 it won
the contracts for construction of 125 housing units
in Saint-Louis (architects: Marraud-Lehaye-Delpech),
office space for the television station in Saint-Denis
(DPV Architecture) and the structural work and
sports facilities for the Saint-Benoît lycée (architect:
Ph. Goetz). Meanwhile SBTPC, which celebrated its
35th anniversary during the year, maintained its level
of activity in housing and expanded in the industrial
and service sectors.
Sogea is also developing in Madagascar and Mayotte,
examples being ongoing construction of the Pamadzi
middle school (architect: D. Héricourt) and the
INDUSTRIAL
MARKETS
Delivery times, service and dialogue
In 1999, Sogea’s recognized expertise in the design and
construction of industrial buildings was illustrated by the
construction, by Caroni, of the Astra Zeneca plant in Dunkirk
(architect: Jacobs Serete). In the field of industrial contracts,
Sogea attempts at all times to meet three requirements.
The first is stringent adherence to delivery times which are
always very tight. The second requirement relates to the level
of service expected by the customer. The third and final
requirement is the need to maintain a constant dialogue with
the client so as to adapt the project to the customer’s schedule
and budget constraints.
B U I L D I N G
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1. Sogea Sud,
as general contractor,
built 41 public housing
units at the Cres,
near Montpellier,
for the Arcade Group;
this was an Experimental
Works project using
the Styltech (Usinor)
process.
2. As part of the
Millenium festivities,
Norwest Holst built
the extension of
the National Portrait
Gallery in London.
3. Norwest Holst
completed construction
of a 1,700 space capacity
car park and a multiplex
in the Oracle shopping
centre in Berkshire.
company’s selection to do the structural work on
the Majicavo Koropa school complex (Atelier
d’architecture du Lagon-M. Villaume) and the
municipal centre in Koungou (Mayotte architectureM. Henion) in Mayotte.
In the French West Indies, Dodin Guadeloupe is
specialized in social housing. This year the company
won the contract, for example, for construction of
154 social housing units in Baie-Mahault (architects:
Cirany-Houelche-Boucher) and 140 units in Morne-àl’Eau (architects: Mocka Célestine-Berthelot-RomneyJalet). In Martinique, while Sogea was completing
construction of the Schoelcher towers (architect:
Montjoly) it was awarded the structural contract for
274 studio apartments on the same campus (architects:
Cabinet Fontes & Arnihac). Sogea Martinique was also
the winner of the bidding for the structural work on
96 housing units in Saint-Pierre.
In Africa, Sogea won the contract to renovate the
airport in Timbuktu, Mali, as well as to build two
hospitals in Port-Gentil and Koulamoutou, Gabon.
Finally, the company was awarded the contract to
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build a building at the fruit terminal at the port of
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and a plywood plant for Leroy
in Gabon.
In the United Kingdom the building market
experienced strong growth. Norwest Holst, one of the
country’s twenty leading construction firms, expanded
its activities among private sector customers. Its major
successes in this area include the Oracle car park and
multiplex cinema (PDD Architects) for Hammerson;
the Milton Keynes (Mosscrop Associates) and
Uxbridge office complexes (Hamilton Associates);
the Leicester warehouses built for Kingspark Prologis
(Architects: Stephen George Partners) and the
Southampton Magistrates Court (architects:
Hampshire County Architects department).
Norwest Holst is also specialized in engineering,
fitting and finishing, and maintenance work and
it completed several large projects in these areas
in 1999 including office complexes for Daiwa
(architects: Ove-Arup Partners), British Airways
and Rabobank (architects: Verbeek-Bell) and storage
platforms for Odebrecht Oil and Gas Services.
Outlook
In coming years Sogea will focus on consolidating its
growth in terms of earnings, continuing the efforts it
has been making over the last several years to
decentralize its organization, overhaul its marketing
approach and perfect its production facilities and
networking operations.
The company’s development potential is connected to
its ability to be attuned to its customers and adapt to
its markets. For Sogea, the focus will be on providing
the most comprehensive response possible to all the
expectations of its public and private sector clients.
Project financing, financial engineering, planning,
design, building, maintenance, property
management... all Sogea’s capabilities will be at the
service of its customers.
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PROJECT
STRUCTURING
Successes in Toulouse and Limoges
In 1999, Sogea developed the activities of Socogim, a subsidiary
specialized in project structuring and pre-development.
In Toulouse, Socogim won an assistance contract with the
Immochan company. This contract provides that Socogim will
control a 65 ha property on the edge of the city. The company
will carry out development studies and identify operators,
while Sogea will perform the work.
In Limoges, a project structuring operation has been started
for the design and construction of 17 luxury housing units
in the city centre (architect: G. Valleron). Socogim will carry
out the studies and be involved under a property development
contract, signing a works contract with Sogea Sud-Ouest.
The client is the owner of the land, a local industrialist.
C I V I L
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Sogea is present
in all types of civil
engineering: both in
France and on the
international market
it provides
engineering structures
of all kinds,
underground,
maritime and inland
waterway works,
environmental
engineering
and industrial civil
engineering; and
in Africa it is active
in the roadworks and
earthmoving sectors.
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T
he market for major civil engineering
projects, suffering from completion
of large undertakings such as the TGV
Méditerranée high speed rail line, has been
in something of a slump in France. Sogea,
whose business is primarily in medium-sized
works, was not directly affected by the
downturn. With its finely-meshed network of
agencies and the expertise of its specialized
subsidiary Dodin, the company held up
relatively well, by comparison with the
industry as a whole. In Africa, political
instability in a number of areas together with
the crisis in raw materials led to the shutdown
of a number of large projects. After the record
levels of business over the last couple of
years, activity was marking time in 1999.
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1. Dodin is currently
working on several
sites in the Toulon
naval shipyards, in
particular construction
of the future berth
for the aircraft carrier
Charles-de-Gaulle.
Profile
Civil engineering at Sogea is basically in the hands of
its subsidiary Dodin specialized in the construction of
large engineering structures and also in maritime and
inland waterway works. In fiscal year 1999, Dodin
merged the activities of its two regional entities,
Dodin Sud and Dodin Nord.
With its specialized subsidiaries and agencies Sogea
masters all the business lines in civil engineering:
Structures of all types, underground works, maritime
and inland waterway works, environmental
engineering, cogeneration, telecommunications. Sogea
also has a recognized capability in special projects
through its subsidiaries Cofex Île-de-France and Cofex
Littoral.
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2. Dodin completed
construction of a second
Saint-Denis Viaduct,
near the Stade de France,
in early 2000.
Activity
In mainland France, after handing over the Tanus
motorway viaduct (architect: Ph. Fraleu) and the
Vernègues high speed rail viaduct (architect: Amadeo),
Dodin began construction of the Verrières Viaduct
(architect: Mascarelli) near Millau and la Rauze
Viaduct (architect: Lavigne) in the Lot whose tallest
piers reach a height of more than 140 m.
The company also continued the expansion of the SaintDenis Viaduct in the Paris area; several engineering
structures on the A89 (Bordeaux-Clermont-Ferrand),
A87 (Angers-La-Roche-sur-Yon), A66 (ToulousePamiers) and A20 (Brive-Toulouse) Motorways;
maritime works in the Toulon naval shipyard and the
port of Saint-Nazaire. Finally, Dodin began work on
3. Dodin is building
the Rauze Viaduct on
the A20 Motorway for
the Autoroutes du Sud
de la France. Composed
of a single girder deck
resting on piers which
are more than 100 metres
high, the structure will
be 555 metres long and
24 metres wide, with
spans of 130 metres.
4. Dodin is currently
building 15 standard
engineering structures
on the A87 Motorway
between Angers
and la Roche-sur-Yon.
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In the overseas departments, Sogea is recognized
today as one of the main civil engineering operators,
particularly in the area of the environment.
In Africa, where Sogea and its subsidiary Satom
generate half their business in roadworks, the group
is now also expanding onto the engineering structure
market.
In Europe, Norwest Holst is one of the major British
earthmoving and environment-related civil
engineering companies and it also builds engineering
structures. Finally, Denys remains very active in high
tech civil engineering (tunnel boring, microtunnelling,
underground works).
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VAL
DE
RENNES
A deck on crutches
Sogea Bretagne has completed the construction of the North
Viaduct of the future Val de Rennes, a 755 m long structure
whose construction got underway in July 1998 (architect:
Foster). The outstanding technical feature of this viaduct is
that its deck rests on 17 metal crutches which are between 3.5
and 4.5 metres high and weigh 30 tons each, a system which
took several months to design. In addition, Sogea teams were
forced to solve a difficulty related to the general profile of
the structure and the slope of the deck which is 10% in some
places. On both sides of the viaduct Sogea Bretagne also built
the access ramps which are 100 m long and lead to cut and
cover trenches for which Dodin was responsible.
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the La Galaube dry stone revetement dam and
construction of the Villeneuve-sur-Lot locks. In the
South-West, Sogea and Croizet-Pourty completed the
Bergères Viaduct (architects: Atelier 13-J.-P. Loupiac)
on the A89 Motorway as well as a composite concretewooden bridge in Merle.
In environmental engineering, Chanzy-Pardoux
started construction of the Metz incineration plant
(architects: Ch. Delfante-Cabinet Paulin and Mariotti)
and Sogea Nord began work on the Noselles-sur-Lens
incineration plant (architect: Delfante) while Sobea
Île-de-France and Sicra handed over the Champagnesur-Oise composting unit (architect: BBJ).
Throughout France, a number of regional departments
of Sogea participated with GTIE in laying 120 km of
channeling for optical fibre and Sogea Rhône-Alpes is
now laying 50 km of it north of Lyon.
In France and on the export market Dodin has
contributed its know-how to a number of Sogea
regional entities by participating in several work sites.
In the French West Indies, the year’s highlight was
the start of the incineration plant and energy
production unit in the Centre of Martinique, work
having started at the end of last year. Martinique also
won the contract to build the Basse-Pointe bridge
which is being built in an urban area.
On Reunion Island, apart from the bridges with
segments cast in place and launched which SBTPC
and Dodin are now completing in Bras-Panon and
Sainte-Marie (architects: Lavigne-Fraleu), Sogea’s
subsidiaries won several contracts for structures and
roadworks.
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In Africa the roadworks sector continued to grow.
In 1999, Sogea and Satom won the contract to build
150 km of road between Kayes and Yelimané in Mali,
47 km between Djermaya and Massaguet in Chad,
69 km between Notsé and Atakpamé in Togo and
57 km between Lalara and Mitzic in Gabon.
A major success was the construction contract for
248 km of road between Bertoua and Garoua-Boulaï
in Cameroun, won by Sogea and Satom coperating
in a consortium.
4. Sogea Maroc
received the contract to
build the supports
for 84 wind generators
in Tétouan (Tangiers)
for the Compagnie
éolienne du détroit
(EDF).
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1. Sogea and its
subsidiary Satom are
completing construction
of the rolled, compacted
and moulded wall dam
at Ziga, Burkina Faso.
2. Sogea and its
subsidiary Satom won
two important contracts
for roadworks in central
Africa: construction of
247 km of roads between
Bertoua and Garoua-Boulaï
in Cameroun and 54 km
between Lalara and Mitzic
in Gabon.
3. Sogea Bretagne
completed construction
of the North Viaduct on
the future Val de Rennes.
This structure is
755 metres long and rests
on 17 metal stilts
weighing 30 tons each.
ENVIRONMENT
An incineration plant in Martinique
Following a call for tender based on performance, a consortium
made up of SGE Environnement (SGE Group), CGEA-Onyx,
CT Environment (Austrian Energy) and Sogea Martinique was
awarded, at the end of 1998, the contract to design, build and
operate the household waste incineration plant by the Syndicat
intercommunal du centre de la Martinique (Sicem) which brings
together the municipalities of Fort-de-France, Le Lamentin,
Schoelcher and Saint-Joseph. Sogea Martinique began the civil
engineering work in November, 1999.
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In civil engineering, Sogea continued construction of
the Ziga dam in Burkina Faso and the Dapaong dam
in Togo as well as the bridge over the Moulouya river
in Morocco. The company completed the work of
raising the Sadiola dam in Mali as well as extraction
of uranium ore from the Mikouloungou mine in
Gabon. In addition, Sogea won the contract to build
the Owendo conventional thermal power plant
in Libreville, Gabon. The company won contracts
in Benin to renovate engineering structures and in
partnership with Dodin it will be extending the port
facilities in Cotonou; in Morocco, the construction of
wind farms in Tétouan; in Gabon, several earthworks
and civil engineering projects for the new Comilog
ferro-manganese plant.
In Europe, Norwest Holst has managed to increase
its activity despite the lack of growth of the market.
In 1999 the company had its first major success in the
PFI sector with the construction of an avenue linking
the Cardiff Bay with the city centre. It will be
responsible for its maintenance for a period of 25 years.
In addition, Norwest Holst obtained or continued
several projects related to road and rail infrastructure:
the A12-M11 road link, the railway station near
Luton airport, earthmoving work on the M1 and A1
Motorways.
It is also building the Mid Kent section of the
future London-Dover Channel Tunnel Rail Link and
Hungerford Bridge in London.
In the Benelux, Denys was awarded several projects
on the Brussels-Antwerp high speed rail line.
Outlook
While continuing its customer and activity diversification
so as to be independent of market cycles, Sogea will be
stepping up its policy of working increasingly on a
network basis and leveraging internal synergies so
as to be able to innovate in the many projects it has
identified for coming years.
Sogea’s regional entities will thus be able to avail
themselves to an even greater extent of the specialized
subsidiaries within the company, Dodin and Cofex,
as they did on a large number of occasions in 1999
on both the French and export markets.
The environment, industry and telecommunications
markets should continue to grow and enable Sogea to
consolidate its position.
Despite the slowdown in activity in Africa, the main
projects undertaken during the fiscal year and the
company’s leading position should make it possible for
it to withstand the slump better than its competitors.
In the United Kingdom, finally, the development of
the road and rail markets and the good order book
at Norwest Holst should provide that company with
good prospects for the year 2000.
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1. Norwest Holst built
two new symmetrical
footbridges across
the Thames in London
as part of the
“Hungerford Bridge
Millennium Project“.
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2. Norwest Holst,
through its subsidiary
SGE Holst Investments,
is the leader of
a consortium in charge
of renovating the old
industrial quarters in
Cardiff in the framework
of a PFI.
CENTRAL
AFRICA
300 km of roads in Cameroun and Gabon
3. In 1999, Denys was
awarded the contract
to renovate existing
pipelines and lay new
ones as part of the
Brussels-Amsterdam TGV
high speed rail project.
Sogea and its subsidiary Satom won two large roadworks
contracts in central Africa in 1999. In Cameroun, the
construction of 247 km of road between Bertoua and GarouaBoulaï will start following completion of 4 million cubic
metres of earthmoving; 1.9 million tons of gravel; 55,000
cubic metres of concrete and 220,000 tons of bituminous mix.
Duration of the work: 28 months.
The other contract is for construction of 54 km of road between
Lalara and Mitzic in Gabon. This road in bituminous mix
(62,000 tons) will rest on a foundation of 45 cm of laterite
cement and a base layer of 15 cm of crushed rock. The work is
to be completed in 18 months.
H Y D R A U L I C
E N G I N E E R I N G
Sogea has
recognized
know-how in
highly technical
specialized
hydraulic
engineering.
This expertise
makes it the only
company in France
to provide such
services as guided
horizontal
drilling and
high-performance
water purification
processes.
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I
n metropolitan France, the hydraulic
engineering market is made up
primarily of small contracts which
generate stable, repeat business.
In the French West Indies and in the Indian
Ocean major environmental capital
investments have boosted the market for
construction of water treatment and
purification plants.
In Benelux, despite a slump in the hydraulic
engineering sector, the market for industrial
pipelines with high technical value added
has held up.
In Africa water supply and irrigation works
remain a source of buoyant business.
In all of these sectors Sogea retained a special
position throughout 1999 and it remains
one of the main players on the market.
Profile
Historically, hydraulic engineering is the business line
in which Sogea has very strong roots and the sector
accounts for a quarter of the company’s overall
activity and represents a major asset for it. The
company covers all specialties related to hydraulic
engineering: design and management of drinking
water supply networks and treatment of rainwater
and waste water; supply, laying, renovation and
maintenance of pipeline networks for all fluids in all
sizes and in all materials, with and without inspection
facilities; design and construction of drinking water
plants and purification plants; construction of
pumping stations, overpressure stations, seawater
desalination plants; horizontal drilling and guided
drilling; pipe-jacking and laying of pipeline systems
by means of microtunnelling equipment.
The particularly fine-meshed network of local
agencies which make up Sogea makes it possible for
the company to respond to all contracting authorities
within very short intervention and completion times
which are guaranteed thanks to the Sogea teams’
excellent familiarity with the terrain.
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Activity
In the Paris region, Sobea Île-de-France was awarded
the contract in 1999 to build two large collectors: one
in Paris’s 12th arrondissement, the other at the Porte
de Sèvres. It also doubled the capacity of the large
diameter pipe which provides drainage for the Vals
de Seine and la Grande-Paroisse in the Seine-et-Marne.
Finally, Sobea Île-de-France has developed a technique
which is unique in France: guided horizontal drilling
which it has used on a number of construction sites for
the Paris Airports.
In the French regions, hydraulic engineering
experienced a good year in which it won a number
of large contracts related to the Orleans, Montpellier,
Nancy, Strasbourg and Nantes tramway systems.
1. Sobea Île-de-France
supplied and laid
a 1,400 mm diameter
pipe at the Porte
de Sèvres, in Paris's
15th arrondissement.
2. Sogea received
contracts in the course
of the year to perform
major network diversion
projects as part
of the Orleans, Nancy,
Montpellier, Strasbourg
and Lyon tramway
system projects.
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3. Sogea completed
construction of the
Valedeau drinking water
reservoir in Montpellier.
This structure has a
capacity of 28,000 m3 and
is made of two 53 m
diameter cylindrical tanks
which are nearly 8 m high.
4. Sogea continues to be
one of the specialists in
large diameter pipe laying,
as here, in Avignon.
A project carried out by
Sogea Sud-Est.
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CATCHMENT
A mountain on the route
In 1999 Sobea Île-de-France undertook work aimed at doubling
the capacity of the pipeline system which catches water
between the Vals de Seine and the Grande-Paroisse in the Seineet-Marne. This project includes the supply and trench laying
of a sheetmetal-reinforced concrete pipe with a diameter of
1,000 mm and a length of approximately 860 m. The route
of the pipe crosses Tarpenton mountain with an altitude
differential of 50 m and the laying of 15 pipes on a slope
of up to 67%. In addition, work is being done to construct
related civil engineering structures, a safety spillaway,
a load-limiting structure and a gravel discharge structure.
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Several contracts to build purification plants were also
awarded to the company: in Boulogne, in Brittany, in
Aujany (in the Isère), in Tarare, in Douai and on the
island of Yeu.
In the areas of sewage and drinking water supply
systems the company has developed, particularly in
the South-East and in the Rhône-Alpes regions (two
regional locations which are almost exclusively focused
on hydraulic engineering), new niche activities related
to the industrial sector, particularly for Lafarge, Shell,
BP and GDF. In the west of France, finally, Sogea
acquired the SBTP company which is located in SaintNazaire and specializes in hydraulic engineering and
road operations.
In the West Indies, Sogea Martinique won the
contracts to build several purification plants in SainteLuce, Sainte-Anne and Dillon. Dodin Guadeloupe also
was awarded construction of the Saint-François
purification plant.
Finally, the award of the contract to build the Négril
purification plant in Jamaica prompted the West Indies
Department to set up a new branch office at the end
of 1999, Sogea Jamaica. This new branch confirms the
company’s determination to expand in the Caribbean as
already demonstrated several years ago by the contracts
won in Sainte-Lucie.
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1. Sogea started
works package 3 of
the agricultural station
at Doukkala, Morocco.
2. Sogea Sud’s
Hydraulique agency in
Montpellier performed
work to modify the sea
treated water discharge
system in Sète,
involving the laying
of a 3,000 m long,
1,000 mm diameter pipe.
In the Indian Ocean the development approach
undertaken several years ago at Sogea is beginning
to pay off, as witness the completion of a seawater
desalination plant, the construction now underway
of the Mamoudzou plant and the drinking water
supply works in Dapani, Mayotte. In Madagascar
the company won, among other things, the work
on the Lake Alaotra agricultural project.
On Reunion Island Sogea was awarded in 1999
the contract to build the purification station for the
municipalities of Le Port and La Possession (working
with the Sogea Water Process Department) as well as
the construction of a reservoir in Saint-Denis.
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On the African continent, hydraulic engineering
accounts for nearly one-third of Sogea’s activity.
1999 was a particularly good year: continuation of
work on the Soukkala agricultural centre in Morocco;
new projects for the Ké Macina and Molodo
agricultural centres in Mali; water supply works for
Elf in Congo. Sogea also recently won contracts
to lay pipelines at Essouira and Agadir, Morocco.
In Nigeria, Saton began the water supply works
at Ibadan. Finally, SPC, a Sogea subsidiary in South
Africa, was awarded a contract for the renovation
of a 33 km long steel pipeline.
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3. In July 1999,
Aimé Césaire, Mayor
of Fort-de-France,
inaugurated the Dillon
water treatment plant
built by Sogea Martinique.
4. Sobea Île-de-France
built the second pipe to
channel water between
the Vals de Seine and
the Grande-Paroisse,
in the Seine-et-Marne.
PROCESS
WATER
Successes overseas and in mainland France
Sogea Process Water, associated with several Sogea regional
departments, achieved several successes this summer in using
innovative water purification and treatment technologies
developed by US Filter Memcor. In the overseas departments and
territories, Sogea’s Process Water department won two contracts
on Reunion Island. The first relates to the construction of
drinking water treatment plants in the Le Port and La Possession
municipalities. The second contract, won with Sogea Réunion,
relates to deodorizing through chemical scrubbing the facilities
of the “La Jamaïque” purification plant.
In mainland France, the company won the contract to build the
Vaujany plant in the Isère (capacity: 70 l/s). A second contract,
awarded to Sogea and its subsidiary Sogea Nord-Ouest, is for
the supply of the process and the equipment for the Douai-Siado
sludge drying unit.
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In the Benelux, activity for the industrial sector
remained modest in 1999 but it should pick up in
2000. In the field of pipe and oil and gas pipeline
laying, Denys continues its partnership with GDF.
The company recently signed a large contract with
the latter for the reinforcement of its gas
transportation network to the south of Europe. Denys
also operates outside the Benelux, as witness its
recent successes in the north of France.
Finally, Socea, a Denys subsidiary specialized in the
installation of concrete pipelines and a leader in the
field, developed – for its 35th anniversary in 1999 –
a new patent for the construction of very large
diameter wells which are installed through kirving.
In the United Kingdom Norwest Holst is currently
completing the construction of a water treatment
plant in Miworth for Severn Trent and it has just
begun work on another at Birkenhead for North
West Water. As part of its business diversification and
building on its experience of more than 100 years in
hydraulic engineering, Sogea began a few years ago to
actively seek business in the export market beyond its
traditional operating areas. This initiative has already
led to several successes: in Palestine, the company
has just completed work to improve the efficiency of
the drinking water systems in Bethlehem and Hebron;
in Portugal it handed over the Ermesinde purification
plant in 1999; it is currently doing work in Kosovo
together with teams from Générale des Eaux; and
finally in Kazakhstan it has just been provisionally
selected to lay 51 km of steel pipe in Astana.
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1. Denys has for many
years been a master
of advanced hydraulic
engineering techniques,
particularly drilling and
micro-tunnelling.
2. Denys built a 900 mm
diameter siphon
under the Escault at
Antoing as part of
the Western Hainaut
drinking water
supply project.
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Outlook
In its traditional operating zones Sogea will be
maintaining and consolidating its position by
leveraging the know-how acquired in maintenance
and repair work and also in high-tech specialty areas
such as guided horizontal drilling or construction of
large diameter pipelines.
The development of networking and synergies with
specialized building and civil engineering entities, as
well as project planning and pre-development should
make it possible for Sogea to focus more on
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operations with private-sector developers.
Overseas, the outlook is also promising, particularly
in the environmental sector where many new projects
are expected to be coming on stream.
On the international market Sogea has a position,
a reputation and skills which should enable it to
maintain its level of activity and even to win new
contracts in its traditional zones of operation and
beyond.
Finally, in coming years Sogea will be looking
into opportunities for acquisitions which will be
particularly targeted on niche markets in the
hydraulic engineering sector and on high-potential
geographic regions in France and abroad.
3. The SIVU water
treatment plant of
the Upper and Lower
Goulaine, built by
Sogea Atlantique,
was acceptance
tested in 1999.
4. Sogea is today
a specialist in large
diameter pipe laying
on both the French
and international
markets.
NEAR
EAST
Efficiency doubled on networks
In 1999, Sogea and its subsidiary WMI completed work to
improve the efficiency of the drinking water systems in
Bethlehem and Hebron in the Palestinian territories in the
southern West Bank.
For three years, Sogea and WMI teams updated the map
of the systems of the two cities, detected and repaired leaks,
organized water and billing management systems and trained
the staff of the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA).
The efficiency of these networks which in 1997 stood at only
40 to 45% is now more than 80%.
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S E R V I C E S
With more than
40,000 parking
spaces under
management
at 60 locations
in 25 cities, Sogea
is the third largest
car park operator
in France today.
With its design,
construction and
operation capabilities
Sogea is able to
provide its customers
with global solutions
which meet all their
needs.
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O
ver the last couple of years the
public authorities have been calling
on the private sector to finance,
develop, build and operate a number
of facilities, particularly car parks.
More recently private companies – hotels,
clinics, property developers – have also
begun to call on outside providers for
financing, design, construction, operation
and maintenance of their installations.
Against this backdrop Sogea’s experience
as a management company and the
complementarity between that specialty
and the building industry are advantages
which the company has been able
to capitalize on very successfully.
Profile
Sogea’s service activity is today primarily focused on
parking and multi-service maintenance as well as the
management of water treatment plants.
Sogea is the third largest car park operator in France
and has been active in the sector since 1970. Today it
manages more than 40,000 parking spaces in more
than 60 locations in nearly 25 cities.
Its track record in consulting and engineering and
also in design, construction, renovation, maintenance
and operation of car parks makes it possible to
provide both its public and private sector customers
with customized solutions and comprehensive
services.
With the new label, called Vitamine, which it created
in 1999, Sogea will from now on be guaranteeing
to the users of its car parks total customer service
quality and convenience. The granting of the right to
use the label requires that the car park applying for
it must increase their service in the areas of security,
information, traffic – automobile and pedestrian –
signing and related services.
When it comes to multi-service maintenance, the
experience of Sicra Maintenance in the Île-de-France
for nearly 10 years now has enabled Sogea to begin
to develop this activity in other regions. Sogea Ouest
for example has set up MTI (Maintenance and
Industrial works).
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Activity
1. Built in 1978,
the Heurteloup
automated car park
in Tours is still one
of the most modern
in France.
2. In the Île-de-France,
Sogea manages nearly
25,000 spaces through
its three subsidiaries:
Sobea Île-de-France,
Effiparc and Gefiparc.
In the area of car parks, Sogea has won a number
of local authority contracts.
In Paris, Sobea and its subsidiaries Gefiparc and
Effiparc were already managing the car parks at
the Place de la Concorde, the Ecole de Médecine,
Vincent-Auriol, Gaité-Montparnasse, Alhambra,
Méridien-Etoile, Villette and Place des Fêtes with
a combined total of more than 7,000 spaces.
There are an additional 13 sites, including the Stade
de France. Overall the company is managing more
than 23,000 parking spaces in the greater Paris area.
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Companies are increasingly tending to refocus on
their core business and outsource "peripheral" work
to specialized maintenance companies. The services
provided by Sicra Maintenance Multiservices and by
the new entities which Sogea has set up in the French
regions include all the services which enable a
building to work and endure: high and low voltage
electricity systems, air conditioning, plumbing and
architectural specialty services.
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3. Sogea operates the car park
at the Méridien-Etoile hotel
near the Porte Maillot in Paris.
VITAMINE
4. Sogea was awarded
the contract to operate
the Anvers car park in the
9th arrondissement in Paris.
LABEL
Car parks with a difference
In 1999, Sogea invented "Vitamine P". This label commits the
company to high quality customer service, convenience and
a variety of services in its car parks. Vitamine car parks offer
their customers an area set aside for information and various
other services. Customer service representatives in the car
parks, an essential security factor, are part of the Vitamine
charter. Second commitment: convenience. Automobile and
pedestrian lanes will be better signed. Means of payment
will be more efficient and innovative, the car parks better
maintained and better lit. Finally, in its Vitamine car parks
Sogea guarantees the provision of many different services
such as car wash, cycle parking, routine car maintenance,
electrical charging posts and relays of surface retail outlets.
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In 1999, Sogea’s position in the Île-de-France was
further bolstered by four major successes. In January,
Sobea Île-de-France won the contract to operate
the car park in Mantes-la-Ville with a capacity of
340 spaces for a period of 18 years. In July, the City
of Paris awarded to Gefiparc the concession to
modernize and operate the Anvers car park under
the Square d’Anvers in the 9th arrondissement.
This contract, with a duration of 15 and a half years,
includes work to renovate and upgrade to standards
which has been entrusted to Sobea Île-de-France
(526 spaces after the work is completed).
In September, Sobea won the contract to extend
street parking in the city of Orsay (862 spaces).
In November, finally, Sobea was awarded, in a public
service delegation procedure, the 30 year concession
for the car park which will be built as part of
the “city centre” project in Vincennes (265 spaces).
4. Sogea operates
and maintains
the 6,000 parking
spaces at the
Stade de France.
5. Sogea manages
many surface
and street parking
spaces, particularly
in the Paris region
and in Saumur.
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1. The results of a
customer satisfaction
survey carried out among
users of the Saint-Marc
car park show that 92%
of customers are satisfied
with the car park and
even rank it first among
the main car parks on
the Right Bank in Rouen.
2. Sogea has operated
the Place de la Comédie
car park in Montpellier
for 25 years and will be
performing renovation
and service enhancement
work on it during the
course of the year 2000.
3. In Marseille,
Sogea handed over
the Bouchard clinic
car park which it is
to operate for 20 years
and was selected to
expand and operate the
Beauregard clinic car park.
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In the French regions, Sogea and its subsidiaries are
currently operating more than 25 locations in Nantes,
Nevers, Saumur, Tours, Vannes, Rouen, Béziers,
Montpellier, Toulouse, Avignon and Marseille, with
a total of 19,000 spaces. In 1999 construction was
finished on the car parks at the Lenval clinic in Nice
and Bouchard clinic in Marseille, the operation of
which has been entrusted to Sogea Sud-Est. Again in
that ancient city, Sogea Sud-Est has also been asked
to perform the extension work and operate the car
park at the Beauregard clinic (450 spaces).
In the South Sogea has continued the renovation and
modernization of the Jean-Jaurès car park in Béziers
which it was already operating.
In conjunction with the introduction of the Vitamine
quality label, five car parks will be commencing work
in the first quarter of 2000 to upgrade to the
requirements of the agreement. These will be the
Anvers and Vincennes facilities (Île-de-France),
the Comédie car park in Montpellier, Jean-Jaurès in
Béziers and Anatole-France in Tours for which Sogea
has just been awarded the 35-year concession.
The 35 sites for which Sicra Maintenance Multiservices
performs maintenance include the Stade de France,
the headquarters building of Arthur Andersen in
Neuilly-sur-Seine, the corporate headquarters of the
SGE Group in Rueil-Malmaison and the Dior LVMH
building in the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. Sicra
Maintenance Multiservices is also present in twelve
high schools in the Île-de-France region.
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MAINTENANCE
Double in the Île-de-France
On 1 July, 1999 Sicra Maintenance started the maintenance
contract for the common installations of the Generali
Immobilier building in the Avenue Hoche in Paris.
The company signed a similar contract with the Regus company,
the only tenant in the building, to maintain the private areas,
some 7,000 m2.
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1999 was the year in which the maintenance contract
for the common facilities of the Generali Immobilier
building in the Avenue Hoche in Paris began, on
July 1. The company also signed a similar contract
with the Regus company.
In the United Kingdom Norwest Holst is also
expanding into maintenance as part of the PFI
contract which it was awarded in Cardiff.
To underpin its commitment to this activity it set up
a specialized subsidiary in 1999, SGE Holst Facilities
Management.
With regard to water treatment plant management,
Sogea is today operating the Barberey plant in the
Troyes area where Sogea is also responsible for
the waste water and water distribution systems.
The company is also managing the plants in Charleville,
Maxéville, Persan-Beaumont, Douai, Clermont-Ferrand
and Hasbruck as well as the salt water desalination
plant in Mayotte, an island for which Sogea also
handles water distribution.
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NEW
CONTRACT
Private-sector clinic car parks
For the last two years Sogea has substantially expanded its
private car park operation business. Following the contract with
the Hotel Méridien-Etoile in Paris in 1997, Sogea was asked
to build and operate three car parks for private clinics.
The company handed over, in the summer of 1999, the 170-space
car park of Marseille’s Bouchard clinic, which it will operate
for 20 years. Sogea also inaugurated, at the end of the year,
the car park at the Lenval clinic in Nice. Finally, Sogea won
the contract to extend (from 250 to 450 spaces) and operate
the car park at the Beauregard clinic in Marseille.
2. Sicra Maintenance
Multiservices provides
multitechnique
maintenance for
the headquarters of SGE
at Rueil 2000.
3. In the Avenue
Montaigne, LVMH-Dior
has awarded the
maintenance contract
for its facilities to Sicra
Maintenance Multiservices.
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The development of maintenance activity will be
coming essentially from private-sector service
companies. In France, the main Sogea subsidiary
specialized in this line of business is Sicra
Maintenance Multiservices which in 1996 was the
first French company in this sector to receive ISO
9002 certification. Its expertise should gradually
extend to new regions such as the West and the
South East where the service sector has expanded
considerably over the last couple of years.
In water treatment, Sogea transferred most of its
contracts to Générale des Eaux over the last few
years. However, its comprehensive capabilities
(design, construction, operation) and its roots in
local markets have enabled it to keep and develop
its water treatment and purification activity.
1. Sicra Maintenance
Multiservices obtained
the maintenance contract
for the Tribunal de grande
instance at Bobigny.
Outlook
In car parks, the acquisition in July 1999 of the
leading French company and European Number 2
Sogeparc by the SGE Group should make it possible
to leverage promising synergies as already
demonstrated by a joint bid put in by Sogea and
Sogeparc for the construction, renovation and
operation of 5 car parks in Bordeaux.
Sogea’s multidisciplinary teams, their comprehensive
engineering, design, construction and operation
capabilities, and their local roots are advantages on
which the company can build, particularly in the private
sector (hotels, clinics, developers) in a market whose
potential Sogea’s recent successes clearly demonstrate.
Interesting prospects for the company should also
be developing soon, especially in the capital, when
a number of large concessions run out.
4. Sogea operates
several water treatment
and purification units
in mainland France and
in the overseas territories.
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A D D R E S S E S
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Sogea
9, place de l’Europe - BP 320
92851 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex - France
Tel.: + 33 1 47 16 40 00
Fax: + 33 1 47 51 91 01 - www.sogea.fr
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
Sicra
36, rue du Séminaire - Centra 307
Chevilly-Larue - 94586 Rungis Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 1 49 78 51 00 - Fax: + 33 1 45 60 90 42
Sobea Île-de-France
54, av. Victor Hugo - BP 234
92504 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 1 55 94 02 00 - Fax: + 33 1 55 94 01 90
Sogea Bretagne
ZI du Prat - Av. Paul-Duplex
CP 3724 - 56037 Vannes Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 2 97 47 70 91 - Fax: + 33 2 97 68 84 56
Heulin
301, av. Bollée - BP 229
72005 Le Mans Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 2 43 40 28 28 - Fax: + 33 2 43 40 28 29
South-West
Sogea Sud-Ouest
60, bd de Thibaud - BP 1788
31084 Toulouse Cedex 1, France
Tel.: + 33 5 62 11 10 00 - Fax: + 33 5 62 11 10 34
3, rue Gaspard-Monge
ZAC de Pessac-Canéjan - BP 160
33606 Pessac Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 5 56 46 68 22 - Fax: + 33 5 56 36 75 75
East
Bourdarios
ZI Les Ports
82800 Nègrepelisse, France
Tel.: + 33 5 63 64 21 21 - Fax: + 33 5 63 30 80 65
Sogea Est
ZA Lesmenils - BP 69
54703 Pont-à-Mousson Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 3 83 80 83 80 - Fax: + 33 3 83 81 29 89
Croizet-Pourty
Servières-le-Château
19220 Saint-Privat, France
Tel.: + 33 5 55 28 26 05 - Fax: + 33 5 55 28 41 32
Chanzy-Pardoux
Rue Costes-et-Bellonte - 57157 Marly, France
Tel.: + 33 3 87 62 89 27 - Fax: + 33 3 87 65 39 48
South
FRENCH REGIONS
Urban
19, route d’Eschau
67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France
Tel.: + 33 3 88 40 56 10 - Fax: + 33 3 88 67 26 70
North
Sogea Nord
274, bd Clemenceau - BP 3019
59703 Marcq-en-Barœul Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 3 20 99 25 50 - Fax: + 33 3 20 99 78 00
Caroni Construction
274, bd Clemenceau - BP 1029
59701 Marcq-en-Barœul Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 3 20 99 78 78 - Fax: + 33 3 20 99 78 00
North-West
Sogea Nord-Ouest
335, rue du Rouvray - BP 43
76650 Petit-Couronne, France
Tel.: + 33 2 32 11 46 79 - Fax: + 33 2 32 11 46 00
West
Sogea Atlantique
213, route de Rennes - BP 39
44701 Orvault Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 2 51 83 34 30 - Fax: + 33 2 51 83 34 49
Sogea Sud
381, av. du Mas-d’Argelliers
34966 Montpellier Cedex 2, France
Tel.: + 33 4 67 69 72 00 - Fax: + 33 4 67 69 72 99
South-East and Rhône-Alpes
Sogea Sud-Est
Lotissement Plein Soleil
13097 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 2, France
Tel.: + 33 4 42 16 07 00 - Fax: + 33 4 42 24 00 52
Sogea Rhône-Alpes
12/14, route de Vienne - BP 7007
69343 Lyon Cedex 07, France
Tel.: + 33 4 72 80 12 80 - Fax: + 33 4 78 61 94 60
O V E R S E A S D E PA R T M E N T S
AND TERRITORIES
French West Indies
Sogea Martinique
206, av. Maurice-Bishop - BP 485
97241 Fort-de-France Cedex, France
Tel.: (0 596) 73 19 00 - Fax: (0 596) 60 69 55
Dodin Guadeloupe
Impasse Émile-Dessout - ZI de Jarry - BP 2284
97198 Jarry Cedex, France
Tel.: (0 590) 26 84 85 - Fax: (0 590) 26 87 92
Indian Ocean
Sogea Réunion
1, bd du Chaudron - BP 21
97491 Sainte-Clotilde Cedex, France
Tel.: (0 262) 48 39 00 - Fax: (0 262) 28 13 12
SBTPC
28, rue Jules-Verne - BP 2013
97824 Le Port Cedex, France
Tel.: (0 262) 42 45 00 - Fax: (0 262) 43 49 80
Sogea Mayotte
ZI de Kawéni - BP 22
97600 Mamoudzou, France
Tel.: (0 269) 61 11 42 - Fax: (0 269) 61 13 77
Sogea Madagascar
Anosizato Est - BP 517 - Antananarivo 101
Tel.: (261) 20 22 695 95
Fax: (261) 20 22 353 40
AFRICA
Benin
Satom/Sogea
BP 2190 - Quartier Akpakpa
Rue de l’Hôtel Aledjo PLM - Cotonou
Burkina Faso
Satom/Sogea
ZI Goughin - 01 BP 571 - Ouagadougou 01
Cameroun
SPECIALIZED SUBSIDIARY
Dodin
26, chemin de la Flambère - BP 3128
31026 Toulouse Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 5 62 74 80 40 - Fax: + 33 5 61 49 20 87
Sogea/Satom
Boulevard des Nations-Unies - BP 283 - Douala
Central African Republic
Satom
Av. de l’Indépendance
BP 1368 - Bangui
Chad
Satom
Route de Farcha - BP 14 - N’Djamena
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Congo
Senegal
Construction
SGE Congo
120/121, boulevard Lyautey - BP 212
Brazzaville
Sogea
Dakar
Norwest Holst Construction Ltd
Equatorial Guinea
Chez Sogea Gabon
BP 3936 - Boulevard Rémi Issembé
ZI D’Oloumi - Libreville
Gabon
Sogea/Satom /Sobea
BP 3936 - Boulevard Rémi-Issembé
ZI D’Oloumi - Libreville
Gambia
Sogea
PO Box 2230 - Serrekunda - Banjul
Ghana
Sogea/Satom Ghana Branch
Airport Residential Area - Houses n° 3 and 5
Ambassadorial Estate Extension
PO Box C 754 Cantonments Roman
Ridge-Accra
Guinea
Satom
63, allée Ro - 408/82 Kaporo - BP 862
Conakry
Ivory Coast
Sogea/Satom
Immeuble Longchamp - Avenue Marchand
BP 656 - Abidjan 01 Plateau
Mali
Satom
Route des Abattoirs
BP 77 - Bamako
Mauritania
Satom
BP 5573 - Îlot A n° 0076 Tevragh Zeina
Nouakchott
Morocco
Sogea
165, av. Allal Ben Abdallah - BP 121 - Rabat
Niger
Satom
ZI Route des Brasseries - BP 139 - Niamey
São Tomé
Satom
BP 285 - São Tomé
South Africa
Southern Pipeline Contractors
PO Box 61 - 1836 Kliprivier (Transvaal)
Tanzania
Sogea Tanzania Branch
Chole Road - Plot n° 1401 E
Massani Peninsula - Dar es-Salaam
Togo
Sogea/Satom
BP 35
Route d’Aneho - Lomé
Uganda
Sogea
Tagore Crescent - Plot n° 11
PO Box 6942 - Kampala
PORTUGAL
Sogea Portugal
Edificio Montevideo
Avenida Montevideo, 236 - 4150 Porto
Tel.: 00 35 12 26 19 77 47
Fax: 00 35 12 26 10 68 08
BELGIUM
Denys
Industrieweg 124
B-9032 Wondelgem Gent
Belgium
Tel.: (32) 9 254 01 11
Fax: (32) 9 226 77 71
Socea
Vaartstraat 126
B-2520 Oelegem / Ranst
Belgium
Tel.: (32) 3 475 00 08
Fax: (32) 3 485 78 77
UNITED KINGDOM
Norwest Holst Group PLC
Astral House, Imperial Way - Watford
Hertfordshire WD2 4YX - Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 19 23 23 34 33
Fax: (44) 19 23 25 64 81
Building division
Astral House, Imperial Way
Watford Hertfordshire WD2 4YZ
Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 19 23 47 04 59
Fax: (44) 19 23 21 26 07
Civil engineering division
Astral House, Imperial Way
Watford Hertfordshire WD2 4YZ
Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 19 23 47 03 21
Fax: (44) 19 23 21 02 97
Netherton depot
Wakefield road
Bootle-Merseyside - Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 15 15 24 49 00
Fax: (44) 15 15 25 31 39
Rail division
Astral House, Imperial Way
Watford Hertfordshire WD2 4YZ
Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 19 23 47 02 32
Fax: (44) 19 23 47 03 34
John Jones (Excavation) Ltd
Norjon House, Newby Road
Hazel Grove, Stockport - Chershire SK7 5DU
Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 16 14 83 93 16
Fax: (44) 16 14 83 80 06
Norwest Holst Soil Engineering Ltd
Parkside Lane, Dewsbury Road
Leeds LS11 5SX - Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 11 32 71 11 11
Fax: (44) 11 32 76 04 72
Engineering
Rosser & Russell
Building Services Ltd
Orbit House, 1-6 Ritz Parade
London W5 3RD - Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 18 19 82 22 22
Fax: (44) 18 19 82 22 10
Norwest Holst Engineering Ltd
Astral House, Imperial Way
Watford Hertfordshire WD2 4YX
Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 19 23 47 02 75
Fax: (44) 19 23 47 02 64
Manufacturing
Conren Ltd
Redwither Works, Wrexham
Clwyd LL13 9RD - Great Britain
Tel.: (44) 19 78 66 19 91
Fax: (44) 19 78 66 11 20
Photography credits:
Y. Blond, J.-P. Bolle, A. Da Silva, H. Davidson, P. Demail, C. Gruner, Martineau, B. Pesle, PhotoDisc,
D. Riffet, F. Vigouroux, photothèque Denys, photothèque Norwest Holst, photothèque Sogea, DR
Design and production: Plan Créatif
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9, place de l’Europe - BP 320 - 92851 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex - France
Tel.: + 33 1 47 16 40 00 - Fax: + 33 1 47 51 91 01 - www.sogea.fr
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