Motorway maintenance in the Midlands
_ VINCI Construction is active in the United Kingdom through five business lines: roadworks, road and motorway maintenance, building, civil engineering and facilities management. In building, VINCI Construction consolidated its position in the healthcare sector by winning several contracts (emergency departments at Tameside Hospital in the Manchester area and Manchester Royal Infirmary, GenesisCare cancer treatment and research centre in Guildford, Surrey) and by continuing work on large-scale projects such as the Paterson building site at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. Activity was also brisk in the residential building sector (University of the West of England in Bristol, New Victoria development in Manchester) and in the renovation of historic buildings (The Guildhall, York). The facilities management activity, which takes over once building works are completed, grew on the back of new multi-year contracts in the academic sector (University College London) and defence sector (maintenance contract for some 60 buildings in London and south-east England). Civil engineering activity was supported by the High Speed 2 project, which the Taylor Woodrow subsidiary is involved in, and work on Old Oak Common station. Taylor Woodrow also won two framework contracts, one covering National Highways’ motorway network in southern England and the other the airports of Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands (Manchester Airports Group). In addition, Taylor Woodrow was presented with an innovation award by the Institution of Civil Engineers for the first use of Exegy® ultra-low-carbon concrete in the UK (on the construction of the EcoPark South sustainable waste management hub in London). In roadworks, Eurovia UK won large contracts involving the motorway networks in the Midlands and East Anglia in England. Maintenance and services subsidiary Ringway, which manages over 50,000km of roads, secured a 10-year contract to maintain and improve 560km of roads and 290km of pavements in Surrey, south-west of London.