- Road construction and maintenance
- Urban development
- Building light-rail transit systems
- Building and maintaining railways
- Carrying out civil engineering mandates
- Making transportation infrastructure safe
- Feasibility studies and construction for drainage networks
- Building lasting infrastructure
- Installing road equipment
Making transportation infrastructure safe
To limit road-related risk and help minimize accidents, Eurovia designs and provides dedicated solutions and intelligent paving options that make transportation infrastructure safer.
Chile: a road in the middle of the desert
In the Atacama desert, the world's most arid region, Bitumix has upgraded a 15-km section of the Calama/Chiu-Chiu road. The company was mandated to repair the shoulders, pave the road, build an access ramp, and install road signs and markings. Undertaken for the country's ministry of public works, the worksite mobilized approximately 15 employees for a four-month period.
Bitumix also completed asphalt paving of a new 9-km bypass, providing access to the Chuquicamata mine, the world's largest open-pit mine. Over a three-month span, the company poured 45,000 tonnes of coating.
Porous asphalt on highway A9
The Nîmes division poured nearly 900,000 m² of Drainovia® porous asphalt on the Remoulins-Nîmes section of highway A9. The six-month project was designed to upgrade the pavement for greater driver comfort. Porous asphalt allows rainwater to drain through the top layer of pavement, thereby reducing skid and improving traction and visibility in wet weather conditions.
4,000 m² of Viagrip® for Escota
The pavement of toll area lanes in the Escota network consists of concrete slabs, which due to repeated vehicle traffic become worn, slippery, and dangerous. Following an initial test, Escota selected Viagrip® as a solution to improve traction in its toll areas and hired the Eurovia Fréjus division to implement the solution as part of a four-year contract.
This year, teams from Fréjus and GTU, a specialized subsidiary, applied a total of 4,000 m2 of Viagrip® at four locations: Nice, Aubagne, Fréjus, and Aix-en-Provence.
Enhance safety in school zones
In 2008 in France, 7,409 children under the age of 15 were involved in road accidents. And 44% of these accidents occurred on their way from home to school. In response to this situation, Signature Industrie has created the "Léa et Téo" concept which complements regulatory road signs and enhances visibility in school zones, resulting in greater protection for schoolchildren....
"Léa" and "Téo" are two panels depicting a stylized girl and boy on a bright yellow fluorescent background that ensures maximum visibility for the two characters created by Signature, which can easily be seen by both children and drivers. The panels' contemporary and personalized design allow children to identify with them and, as a result, be more aware of road hazards. Choice of colour for clothing, hairstyle, the use of a regional or sports accessory or bilingual indications - these are all variations that can turn the panels into a community safety mascot.