Artelia is a French design firm specializing in engineering, project management, and consultancy. Launched in 2010, Artelia is active building construction, water, energy, environment, industry, maritime operations, transportation, urban development, and multi-site projects. The group also participates in
public-private partnership. Artelia is ranked 83rd among international design firms.
History
Coteba was founded in 1961 as a subsidiary of
Compagnie Générale des Eaux
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.
[Coteba repris par ses dirigeants](_blank)
Les Échos, 25 September 2003 It was known as one of the leading French companies specializing in project management of large-scale building construction projects. Coteba expanded its activities to include engineering, transportation and major urban infrastructure. Coteba was also known for managing multi-site projects for international clients.
In 1995, Coteba became part of
Nexity. In 2003, Coteba's management and specialized funds
Crédit Mutuel
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CIC
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Organizations Canada
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* Canadian International Council
* Canadian Islamic Congress
* Chemi ...
and
Crédit Agricole
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acquired Coteba from Nexity.
In 2006, Coteba acquired, for an undisclosed price, the engineering departments of
Thales
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Engineering & Consutlting (THEC), which specialize in infrastructure, building construction—in particular hospitals—and industrial processes. Coteba recruited an additional 300 workers, an increase of 40% of its 700 staff size at the time. In 2007, Coteba's entire share capital was taken over by its management.
[Coteba est repris à 100 % par son management](_blank)
Les Échos, 3 October 2007 Between 2003 and 2007, Coteba's staff size doubled.
Sogreah
Sogreah was founded in 1923 when the Laboratoire Dauphinois d’Hydraulique was built in Grenoble. In 1955, the laboratory renamed itself Société Grenobloise d’Etudes et d’Applications Hydrauliques (Sogreah).
[Histoire de Sograh](_blank)
, Proscot Sogreah specialised in design studies and construction projects in the field of hydraulics. It has a
hydraulics physical scale model laboratory, a shiphandling training centre, and a range of numerical models. In 1958, the company moved into rural engineering, irrigation, water supplies and sewerage systems.
Sogreah also operated in the water, energy, the environment and urban development sectors. It participated in the design of the tidal power station on the River Rance
in France and developed the
tetrapod
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, a concrete breakwater armouring block. In 1967, Sogreah became part of the
Alstom
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group, which subsequently became
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.
On 31 December 1998, Sogreah become an independently held company via a
MBO,
after which its staff size tripled to over 1200 employees.
Merger
In July 2009, a merger between Coteba and Sogreah was announced. At the end of 2009, a memorandum of agreement was signed by the two firms defining their merger into a holding company named Artelia. In 2011, the merger was completed.
Artelia
Artelia's development since its foundation has consisted of internal and external growth. Between 2010 and 2013, 12 companies joined the group. At the beginning of 2010, Sodeg, a building engineering consultancy specialising in healthcare, industrial, educational, cultural and leisure facilities, joined the group as it was being founded.
In April 2011, Artelia acquired Spretec, an engineering firm specialising in structural mechanics, and in May 2011, Détente Consultants, a consultancy firm specialising in tourism.
In 2012, the group completed six acquisitions, adding 200 new employees to its workforce and extra turnover of €23 million for a complete financial year. It first acquired the technical design firms GECC AICC, RL Consultant and Ingetech, building construction specialists in the
Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône an ...
region of France that design institutional kitchens. In March 2012, Artelia acquired UK-based building form Appleyards, which provides project management and consultancy services for construction and infrastructure projects on behalf of clients. In April 2012, the group acquired Sotec, a former subsidiary of the
Systra
SYSTRA is a multinational engineering and consulting group in the mobility sector, whose fields of activity include rail and public transport. In 2019, it employed a staff of about 7,300 people, and is a limited company which shareholders includ ...
group that specialised in water, the environment and urban development. In May 2012, Artelia acquired DPG Plan in
São Paulo
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, Brazil, specialising in engineering, architecture and project management in construction and infrastructure. In September 2012, Artelia acquired Copramex, which specialises in coastal environment studies around the Mediterranean Sea and in polluted soil remediation. In November 2012, the group acquired Haskoning France, which specialises in polluted site and soil rehabilitation, industrial risks and sustainable management of natural resources.
In April 2013, Artelia acquired
ICADE
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's engineering department, consisting of Arcoba, Gestec and Setrhi-Setae, thereby strengthening its building construction and industrial facilities sector and making it the French leader in the field. The same year, the group consolidated the range of its infrastructure engineering services by acquiring Secoa and Quadric, specialists in civil engineering structures.
Organisation
Artelia's operational organisation consists of nine "business units":
•Bâtiments Ile-de-France
•-Bâtiments régions & équipements
•Mobilités & infrastructures
•Villes & territoires
•Europe & Retail
•Asie, Inde, Amérique
•Eau & Afrique Moyen-Orient
•Industrie
•MOE (Denmark)
It has 55 branch offices in France and offices in 40 countries. In 2019 the group's international turnover represented 36% of the group total.
Notable projects
Following is a selection of recent, notable projects led by Artelia in France and elsewhere:
* Extension of
Safran
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site in
Gennevilliers
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History
On 9 April 1929, one-fifth of the ...
,
France
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: Safran is in the fields of forging, casting and the machining of aircraft parts. It chose Artelia to provide design and construction supervision services for the extension, asbestos removal operations and rehabilitation of the production workshops, laboratories and offices.
*
Forum des Halles
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in
Paris
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. Created 30 years ago, Les Halles is an underground urban development monument in central Paris. It is the principal gateway to the city, handling 750,000 people a day. A redevelopment scheme is currently underway to improve its operation and accessibility, and integrate it more effectively into the city. Artelia is providing project management and general coordination services for this project.
*
Grand Paris Express
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in the Paris region of France: The Grand Paris Express project involves the construction of four new driverless metro lines and the extension of existing ones. Nearly 200 km of new lines and 75 stations are to be built by 2030. Artelia is assisting the Société du Grand Paris and
STIF with this project.
* Renovation of the
hôtel de Crillon
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in Place de la Concorde,
Paris
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, since 2012.
* Nickel Mine in
Goro, New Caledonia: Vale Inco Nouvelle-Calédonie, a subsidiary of the
Vale
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Norway
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Portugal
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mining group, is developing an opencast
nickel
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mine at Goro, since 2010.
* Hydropower project in Boureya, Guinea for the Senegal River Basin Development Authority (OMVS). The earthfill dam will be 60 m high and 1.5 km long, and will supply a 160 MW power plant providing electricity to 120 km of transmission lines.
* Calais Port 2015 in
Calais
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, France: Artelia is providing engineering services for the Calais 2015 project managed by the
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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regional authorities. The project includes the creation of a new 60 ha harbour basin sheltered by a 3.6 km long breakwater, a 100 ha reclamation area and a service harbour for tugs.
* Drinking water networks in the
Muscat Governorate
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, Oman: PAEW, the Public Authority for Electricity and Water, has awarded Artelia Oman a contract to supervise the construction of the drinking water networks in the
Governorate of Muscat
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.
*
Royal Dutch Shell
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and its service station network: Shell renewed its partnership agreement with Artelia International for a further three years. This involves managing investments in its fuel distribution network. The new contract concerns 11 countries, mainly in Europe.
*
Grenfell Tower
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– 24-Storey Residential Tower Block in North Kensington, London, England
Notes and references
Bibliography
* Anne Dalmasso, ''SOGRÉAH (Société Grenobloise d’Études et d’Applications Hydrauliques) : du laboratoire à l’ingénierie indépendante (1923–2010)'', Entreprises et histoire, 2013/2, N°71, p. 23 – 38
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