05STORIES OF CONFIDENCE

THE SOUTH EUROPE ATLANTIC HIGH SPEED RAIL

“I think it’s fair to say that allthe partners appreciate theexpertise and solidarity ofthe SYSTRA team. This uniqueteam spirit is something weshould cultivate to ensure thefuture of SYSTRA!”

Pascal Dumont, Deputy Director of the COSEA SEA consortium

THE BIGGEST RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN EUROPE

The amazing South East Europe Atlantic high speed rail project is part of the French Government’s Grenelle programme to commission 2,000km of new high speed line by 2020.

The figures speak for themselves so there’s no point talking in detail about technical feats and tight deadlines. For us, the SEA high speed line is much more than building 300km of track, 400 engineering structures including 19 viaducts or employing up to 7,000 people at the busiest times. For us, it’s a personal commitment that brings together a hundred SYSTRA employees with all the stakeholders every day in this €7.8 billion public private partnership.

SYSTRA invested around €400 million in this partnership. It’s

the first of its kind in France with much of the finance for the construction of the line tied to the 50-year concession granted by the infrastructure managers, Réseau Ferré de France (RFF). It’s a whole new way of approaching major projects and speeding up their introduction. On this project, we were the engineers responsible for line’s design and maintenance – activities that go far beyond our original core business. Through our AFACOR subsidiary we also helped the commissioning authority to acquire land between Angoulême and Bordeaux (France).

Once this new Tours – Bordeaux section of line is completed in 2017, it will take only 2h05 to travel between Paris and Bordeaux. The planned extensions to Toulouse and Spain will open up major new economic prospects for the entire South Atlantic coast. This is all about men and women who share an unwavering vision of modern, ambitious mobility.

key figures on sea

400including 19 viaducts and 7 cut and cover tunnels

engineering structures

320km/h

operating speed

40km

connections to existing lines

302km

double high speed tracks

13,000catenary pillars

— 1The Boëme Viaduct (France)

— 2Cut and cover in the Vienne (France)

— 1 — 2

INDRE-ET-LOIRE

VIENNE

DEUX-SÈVRES

CHARENTE

CHARENTE-MARITIME

GIRONDE

The Vienne

The Indre

The Loire

A 10

A 10

A 85

CHÂTELLERAULT

POITIERS

ANGOULÊME

Connecting line to Saint-Avertin

Connecting line to Monts

Connecting line to Celle-Saint-Avant

Connecting line to Migné-Auxance

Connecting line to Fontaine-le-Compte

Connecting line to Villognon

Connecting line to la Couronne

Connecting line to Ambarès-et-Lagrave

Connecting line to Juillé

Veigné inclined cut

Maillé cut and cover

Vienne viaduct

Auxance viaduct

Migné-Auxances cut and cover (A10)

Poitiers cut and cover (RN147)Fontaine-le-Comte cut and cover (A10)

Marigny-Brizay cut and cover

North Charente viaduct

Elevated track at la Couronne

Claix viaduct

Saye viaduct

Virvée viaduct

Falaise viaduct

Dordogne viaduct

Goujonne viaduct

Boëme viaductSouth Charente viaduct

Charente Médiane viaduct

Connecting line to Fontaine-le-Comte

Vonne viaduct

Boivre viaduct

Manse viaduct

Indre viaduct

40

80

160

200

240

280

300

0

The Charente

The Dordogne

The Garonne

TOURS

BORDEAUX

120

High speed rail line

Existing Tours-Bordeaux line

Motorways

Construction bases

Maintenance bases

Power sub-station

It took a dream team of experts to fi nd fi nance for a €7.8 million high speed rail concession project that would cut journey times from Bordeaux to Paris down to two hours … The LISEA private public partnership is an amazing success story.”With 340km of new line between Tours and Bordeaux (including connecting lines), the SEA high speed line is one of Europe’s largest railway projects. There was a lot resting on this project in terms of regional planning and opening the networks to

There’s a colossal amount of work involved in building a 302km high speed rail line between Tours and Bordeaux: moving nearly 50 million cubic tons of excavated material, building over 400 engineering structures, laying over 1,200km of track and ballast. But it involves much more than construction work…It’s a monumental project - we were responsible for both

Hervé Tricot,President of LISEA,Tours and Bordeaux SEA Concession holder

Xavier Neuschwander,President of COSEALine designer/constructor

The LISEA privatepublic partnership is anamazing success story

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It’s a monumentalproject“

”design and construction work, as well as incorporating the results from consultations with the local authorities on integrating the line into the surroundings and the local economy.On a concession the size of the SEA, it is very important to listen carefully to local people, to be fl exible on environmental protection and manage everything meticulously from the detailed preliminary design studies through to planning studies. None of this would have been possible without a partner like SYSTRA, in whom we have confi dence.

Southern Europe. It needed strong partners, ready to take a share of the risk. That’s exactly what SYSTRA was willing to do when it entered into a partnership with VINCI to provide maintenance services for 50 years, demonstrating its belief in the durability of the design and the reliability of the line.

PROJECT ORGANISATION

RFF Concession

grantor

GIE COSEADesign/

Construction

Design/construction contract

LISEAConcession

holder

A Consortium led byVINCI Construction comprising:

Eurovia, INEO,

Cegelec, BEC, NGE, TSO, VINCI Énergies, VINCI Construction Grands Projets

Européenne TF, Arcadis,

EGIS Rail...

MESEAOperations/

Maintenance

RFF CTM and GSM-R service provider

systra shareholdings

key figures on sea

50 years

durationof the concession

3 regions

6 counties

117 communes

a prestigious project

€ 7,8bn

value of the ppp

SYSTRA invested€400 million

+7,000at peak times

n° of people working on the project

— 1Construction of the Dordogne viaduct (France)

Signalling Telecomssub-Group

Energysub-Group

Designsub-Group

Superstructuresub-Group

MESEA(Vinci 70%)

COSEA

50%

1%6,7%13%

44% 30%

Olivier Gouin,MESEA Deputy Managing Director

“Integrating maintenance requirements for the SEA from the design/construction phase so that services are fully operational by the time the line is commissioned and to meet the concession holder’s performance and availability targets for the duration of the concession.”

François Viennot,COSEASignalling Telecoms sub-Group

“Insuring against technological discrepancies between the TVM300 and ERTMS N2 systems is always a tightrope act – a major feat.”

Olivier Holtzmann,COSEA Energy sub-Group

“Providing a group of industrial partners with the know-how and expertise in railway systems to design, build and guarantee high-quality energy supplies throughout the entire line.”

Philippe Colinet,COSEASuperstructure sub-Group

“Guaranteeing rail and road safety during the engineering works and safety at construction bases. A key priority for the next 50 years!”

Karine Meyer,SYSTRA SEA Manager

“Implementing management controls, managing employees, developing skills, anticipating resource requirements, and establishing links between the various SYSTRA sub-Groups and Divisions – all to satisfy the needs of our partner, Vinci.” SYSTRA employees

at the heart of the project

Laurent Hoffmann,COSEA Design sub-Group

“Simultaneously producing civil engineering structure and railway equipment designs to tight deadlines whilst also incorporating the constructor’s modifications.”