Strategy
Respond more effectively to new stakeholder expectations
Eurovia aims to be the leader in its business lines and a choice partner for major clients. As the centre of expertise for transportation infrastructure within VINCI (a privately held public works group), Eurovia is a major player in urban and extra-urban development. The Company shares a common objective with other Group entities: to create global value. Our efforts must meet the needs of users and communities. That is why we pay particular attention to our projects' environmental impact and their contribution to economic, social and community development.
Eurovia's development proceeds in accordance with principles set out in the VINCI Group's charter governing ethical business practices and conduct. Just as in the case of its parent company, Eurovia places human values at the heart of its business practices. Trust, respect, solidarity, and the recognition of individual initiatives and group efforts are the foundations of our strategy. Our management system favours decentralization, autonomy for the various participating entities, and empowering managers through accountability. Since its inception, the Company has implemented action designed to consolidate these principles.
Eurovia is committed to improving its overall performance and profitability, strengthening its industrial capacity, and pursuing growth, further international exposure, and increased diversification in all three of its business lines. Thanks to synergies developed within the VINCI Group, for example with regard to public-private partnerships, Eurovia takes part in major infrastructure projects all over the world.
Eurovia's human resources policy is a strategy of reliance on its highly qualified personnel. Our employees share the Company's values of accountability, solidarity, customer satisfaction, and innovation. The men and women who work at Eurovia on a daily basis devote their skills, creativity, and professional rigour to meeting customer needs. At Eurovia, personnel training, professional development, and safety are top priorities.
Eurovia sustains and enhances its leadership position through a policy of commitment to research and development and forward-thinking innovation - primarily focused on designing solutions that are compatible with sustainable development. Eurovia responds to new client and user needs with respect to transportation infrastructure by creating and implementing increasingly value-added technologies designed to protect the environment and ensure user safety.
A19: 101 km of highway
1.5 million tonnes of materials, including 1.1 million tonnes of asphalt paving were required to build highway A19. This is the story of a highway that had to be built in four years to connect Artenay and Courtenay in the Loiret region. Four years to conduct feasibility studies, carry out construction, and deliver the project for entry into service of a 101-km highway segment linking A10 to A6 and to the existing A19 segment.
No fewer than 100 Eurovia employees were involved on the road-construction portion of this project over an 18 to 20-month period. Asphalt paving was produced by three mobile units. Aggregate materials were sourced from three quarries located at Deux-Sèvres, Morvan and Orne and delivered for themost part (90%) to the worksite by rail. Entry into service for highway A19 occurred in May 2009.
Gaspé: seaborne export system
At Gaspé in eastern Quebec, Canada, Eurovia has implemented a seaborne export system for materials. Since 2008, this operation is able to export between 500,000 and 800,000 tonnes of aggregate annually to the Company's U.S.-based subsidiaries in Florida. The loading dock at Gaspé can accommodate huge cargo ships, over 190 metres in length, which are loaded using 6 conveyors at a rate of 2,250 tonnes per hour.
Acquisition by ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires
In 2008, Eurovia acquired Vossloh Infrastructure Services, a leading French company in the railway systems industry. As a result, Vossloh became ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires. The company employs 1,600 people and focuses on markets in France and the Benelux. Historically (since the late 19th century), urban transit systems - light-rail and underground - are this entity's core competence.
Its teams are expert in a complete range of knowledge and skill sets required for the construction of industrial sidings (that is, terminal tracks servicing industrial sites) and the installation and maintenance of catenary wires and electrical traction lines.
With this acquisition, Eurovia has consolidated its position as a pan-European leader with the capacity to undertake all types of road and rail infrastructure mandates, including construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance, in all markets wherever they are located.
