Setec is the fifth largest French engineering and consulting group, involved in
infrastructure
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and
transport systems
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,
planning
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,
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
,
waste
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,
project
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An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of events: a "set of interrelated tasks to be ...
,
telecommunication
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,
water
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,
energy
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,
geotechnical
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and
environmental
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management. Setec was created in 1957 as an acronym of the French ''Société d'Études Techniques et ÉConomiques'', which means "technical and economical design company".
Its headquarters are located in
Paris
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, near the
Seine
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. From the 1960s, the company began to organise into different subsidiaries and to develop its international business. In 2012, it acquired the American
MWH
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's Brazilian subsidiary. This new company is called setec hidrobrasileira.
Key figures
Main projets
The main projects that setec contributed are for example :
* the
Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel (), sometimes referred to by the Portmanteau, portmanteau Chunnel, is a undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at ...
,
* the
Millau Viaduct
The Millau Viaduct (, ) is a multispan cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 across the Canyon, gorge valley of the Tarn (river), Tarn near (west of) Millau in the Aveyron department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Region, i ...
,
* the
LGV Rhin-Rhône and
LGV Est
The Ligne à Grande Vitesse Est européenne (East European High Speed Line), typically shortened to LGV Est, is a French high-speed rail line that connects Vaires-sur-Marne (near Paris) and Vendenheim (near Strasbourg). The line halved the tra ...
* the
Peking opera
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,
* the
Cœur Défense skyscraper,
* the
Macau Light Rail Transit
* the
Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la création
and many others infrastructures and buildings.
Notes and references
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Engineering companies of France
Companies based in Paris
Technology companies established in 1957
French companies established in 1957