Coyne et Bellier is a global consulting and engineering firm based out of

Gennevilliers Gennevilliers () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of Île-de-France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2017, it had a population of 46,907. History On 9 April 1929, one-fifth of the ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. They specialize in infrastructure projects such as dams, nuclear and hydroelectric power plants, roads, tunnels and other below-surface facilities. The company also carries out

environmental A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...

and

social impact assessment Social impact assessment (SIA) is a methodology to review the social effects of infrastructure projects and other development interventions. Although SIA is usually applied to planned interventions, the same techniques can be used to evaluate the s ...

. They operate out of 43 offices in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The company was created by

André Coyne André Coyne (10 February 1891, Paris – 21 July 1960, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French civil engineer who designed 70 dams in 14 countries. He received his education at École Polytechnique and its School of Civil Engineering afterwards. He wor ...

and is a subsidiary of

Tractebel Tractebel is a Belgian subsidiary which provides consultancy and engineering services in the energy, water, nuclear and infrastructure sectors for the ENGIE group, as well as for national and international institutions and customers in the publi ...

History

The company was established by

in 1947 as Engineering Consultancy André Coyne et Jean Bellier (ACJB). Of the many projects the company designed, the

Tignes Dam The Tignes Dam, also known as the Chevril Dam, is an arch dam on the Isère in the municipality of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. In planning since the 1920s and under the protest of locals, the dam was constructed betw ...

in France which was completed in 1952 which was followed by the

Bin el Ouidane Dam The Bin el Ouidane Dam is an arch dam located south of Beni Mellal on the El-Abid River in Azilal Province, Morocco. Designed by Coyne et Bellier and constructed between 1949 and 1953, the purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production and ...

in Morocco in 1953. In 1959, the

Kariba Dam The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The dam stands tall and long. The dam forms Lake Kariba, which extends for and holds of water. Construction Th ...

along the Zambia/Zimbabwe border was completed and the

Malpasset Dam The Malpasset Dam was an arch dam (convex surface facing upstream) on the Reyran River, north of Fréjus on the French Riviera. It collapsed on 2 December 1959, killing 423 people in the resulting flood. The breach was caused by a tectonic fault ...

in France, which was completed in 1954, had a tragic failure. In the same year work was complete on two reactors at the

Marcoule Nuclear Site Marcoule Nuclear Site (french: Site nucléaire de Marcoule) is a nuclear facility in the Chusclan and Codolet communes, near Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Gard department of France, which is in the tourist, wine and agricultural Côtes-du-Rhône re ...

in France along with the Yaté Dam in New Caledonia. In 1960, the Serre-Ponçon Dam was completed and André Coyne died. Two years later ACJB became Coyne et Bellier. They continued to design dams that were completed to include their 100th dam,

Jatiluhur Dam The Jatiluhur Dam is a multi-purpose embankment dam on the Citarum River in West Java, Indonesia. It is located east of Jakarta, close to the medium-size town of Purwakarta. Jatiluhur Dam was designed by Coyne et Bellier and was constructed betwee ...

in Indonesia, Daniel-Johnson Dam in Canada (1968) and Tour Aurore office building in France (1970). In 1976 Electrobel became the primary shareholder of the company. They completed

El Saada Dam EL, El or el may refer to: Religion * El (deity), a Semitic word for "God" People * EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist * El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American p ...

, their 150th, in Algeria in 1978. Electrobel merged with Tractionnel in 1987 to form Tractebel.

Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant (french: link=no, Centrale Nucléaire du Tricastin) is a nuclear power plant consisting of 4 pressurized water reactors (PWRs) of CP1 type with 915 MW electrical power output each. The power plant is located i ...

in France was completed in 1980 and the

Grande Arche La Grande Arche de la Défense (; "The Great Arch of the Defense"), originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité (; "Fraternity"), is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west ...

, also in France in 1989. When the

Aoulouz Dam Aoulouz or Aoullouz ( Shilha Berber Awlluẓ) is a rural commune and small town in Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of ...

in Morocco was completed in 1990, it marked their 200th dam designed.

Birecik Dam The Birecik Dam, one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey, is located on the Euphrates River downstream of Atatürk Dam and upstream of Birecik town west of Province of Şanlıurfa in the southeastern region of Turk ...

in Turkey was completed in 2000 and the Machadinho and

Cana Brava Dam Cana of Galilee ( grc, Κανὰ τῆς Γαλιλαίας; ar, قانا الجليل , translit= Qana al-Jalil , lit=Qana of the Galilee) is the location of the Marriage at Cana, at which the miracle of turning water into wine took place in ...

s in Brazil were completed. Coyne et Bellier was renamed Tractebel Engineering SA in 2009 but still operates under their original name and serves their parent's

hydraulic Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counter ...

sector.

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