Spie Batignolles is a French construction company based in

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Company history

Ernest Goüin founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. in 1846. It later became ''

Société de Construction des Batignolles The Société de Construction des Batignolles was a civil engineering company of France created in 1871 as a public limited company from the 1846 limited partnership of ''Ernest Gouin et Cie.''. Initially founded to construct locomotives, the com ...

'' (SCB). Meanwhile, the ''Société Parisienne pour l’Industrie des Chemins de Fer et des Tramways Electriques'' was founded and became, in 1900 under the directorship of baron Édouard Empain, '' Société Parisienne pour l’Industrie Electrique'' (SPIE). As early as 1954, SPIE acquired part of SCB's capital and in 1968 the two companies merged to form Spie Batignolles. During the 1970s and 1980s, Spie Batignolles acquired several other companies: ''Compagnie Industrielle de Travaux'' (CITRA) in 1972, ''Canalisations Pétrolifères, Aquifères et Gazières'' (CAPAG) in 1977, and ''Travaux Industriels pour l’Electricité'' (TRINDEL) in 1982. In 1989 the rail construction company Drouard was acquired, forming the foundation of the group's rail construction engineering company

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. The 1990s brought several waves of restructuring. In 1990, Spie Batignolles created ''Spie Construction'', the building and civil engineering branch of the company. In 1992, Spie Construction merged with CITRA to become SPIE CITRA. In 1997 the company was bought from the

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group with the help of a management buyout supported by

AMEC Amec Foster Wheeler plc was a British multinational consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. In October 2017, it was acquired by Wood Group. It was focused on the Oil, Gas & Chemicals, M ...

. A year later, Spie Batignolles changed its name to SPIE with its three daughter companies becoming Spie Trindel, Spie Enertrans, and Spie Batignolles; operating the energy, transportation and construction fields respectively. On 1 July 2003, Spie as a whole was purchased by

; the acquired company was split in three: the engineering branch of Spie in Europe was renamed AMEC SPIE, a rail construction business AMEC Spie Rail was created, and the remaining construction business was grouped under the name Spie Batignolles. AMEC announced that it would seek to sell the construction arm of the business 'Spie Batignolles', and entered negotiations to secure a management buyout of that division; the management buyout of the construction division by 78 senior managers was completed in September 2003 with the aid of Barclays Private Equity Finance. In 2004, ''Financière Spie Batignolles'' purchased the remaining Spie Batignolles shares owned by Amec Spie. The two other former divisions became separate companies: in 2005 AMEC announced it was to sell its Spie acquisition of 2003. the engineering company AMEC SPIE was sold to PAI Partners for €1040 million in 2006, The European rail business joint venture Amec Spie Rail systems was sold for an estimated £200million in 2007, to

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. The metal construction company ''CM Paimbeuf'' (acquired 1995) was bought by Fayat in 2008.

Constituents of the Spie Batignolles Group

*Spie Foundations *Spie Batignolles TPCI, underground construction,

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...

, infrastructure and industrial construction *Spie Batignolles technologies, concrete and wood pathological treatment *Valérian, earthwork *Spie Batignolles réseaux, multi-site renovation and construction *Spie Batignolles immobilier,

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more genera ...

advertising *Spie Batignolles concessions,

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concessions and

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s *Eurelec et Fontelec, electric installation électrique and mutlitechnical maintenance

Major projects

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, 1979 * Pegasus Bridge, 1994 *

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, 1994 *

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, 1995 *Submerged tube tunnel of the Météor, 1998 *

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Terminal 2F, 1999 * Lesotho Highlands Water Project, 2002Corner House
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Key management

*François-Xavier Clédat, Président-Directeur général *François-Xavier Anscutter, Directeur général délégué

References

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