The consortium consisting of VINCI and Meridiam has accomplished the funding of the PPP deal for the D4 motorway in the Czech Republic

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Rueil Malmaison, 30 April 2021

The consortium consisting of VINCI and Meridiam has accomplished the financing
of the PPP agreement for the D4 motorway in the Czech Republic

On 29 April 2021, the consortium consisting of VINCI Highways, direct business, and Meridiam (50/50) finished the financing of the PPP contract for the D4 motorway linking Příbram (Central Bohemia) and Písek (South Bohemia). This agreement gained in December 2020, was signed with the Czech Transport Ministry on 15 February 2021.

€474 million of financing has been arranged for the challenge as a result of credit card debt denominated in each euros and Czech koruna.

The challenge is made up of developing, financing, setting up, functioning and maintaining a new 32km motorway and widening an current 16km section of highway to two lanes in every direction. The new motorway will present an enhanced road link amongst Prague and rural South Bohemia, therefore fostering local financial and social growth, and will also assistance improve targeted visitors circumstances on significant industrial routes, especially in direction of neighbouring Germany and Austria.

The agreement is for 28 several years which includes approximatively 3.5 years of building do the job, which will start off in May and will be carried out by VINCI subsidiary Eurovia, which has operated in the Czech Republic due to the fact 1992. It employs far more than 3,000 individuals in the country, wherever it is one of the principal players in transport infrastructure construction.

Operation and routine maintenance will be carried out by VINCI Highways. The new motorway will be equipped with state-of-the-art systems that will, amid other items, warranty a superior level of road protection and comfort and ease for motorists and improve targeted traffic problems.

The project will assistance to increase the economy and make area employment, and has robust environmental qualifications. It incorporates the recycling and reuse of 1.9 million m3 of excavated resources, as properly as a commitment to recycle up to 60% of the overall quantity of asphalt mix. New storm water retention ponds, wildlife crossings and a “zero pesticide commitment” will contribute to preserving biodiversity.

About VINCI

VINCI is a worldwide player in concessions, design and power firms, employing more than 217,000 men and women in some 100 nations. We design and style, finance, develop and function infrastructure and services that help increase each day lifetime and mobility for all. Because we feel in all-spherical functionality, we are fully commited to functioning in an environmentally, socially responsible and moral way. And for the reason that our assignments are in the community curiosity, we contemplate that achieving out to all our stakeholders and partaking in dialogue with them is necessary in the conduct of our business enterprise pursuits. Based mostly on that solution, VINCI’s ambition is to build extended-time period worth for its clients, shareholders, workers, associates and society in normal. www.vinci.com

About Meridiam
Meridiam was started in 2005 by Thierry Déau, with the conviction that aligning the pursuits of the public and non-public sectors can offer remedies to the necessary requirements of communities. A “société à mission”, as described underneath French legislation, Meridiam specialises in the prolonged-expression enhancement, financing and management of sustainable community infrastructure in a few sectors: mobility of products and persons, the power transition and the ecosystem, and social infrastructure. Meridiam at the moment manages $8 billion in assets and in excess of 80 projects. Meridiam is ISO 9001: 2015 licensed, has been recognised for Advanced Sustainability by Vigeo Eiris, and has produced its have ESG (environment, social and governance) and effect assessment methodology, based on the UN Sustainable Growth Aims (SDD or SDG).
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