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| Vinci Innovation Awards winners announced French building giant Vinci presented the final awards for this year’s Vinci Innovation Awards competition. The Grand Prize for the 2007 competition was presented to the Freyssinet team (Vinci Construction) that developed a system to reinforce tubular structures using carbon fibre rods and cement slurry. This innovation reinforces metal pylons on which sending and receiving antennae for mobile phones, television, the army, etc. are installed so that more antennae can be added without causing traction or compression problems. Until now, the solution was either to erect a new pylon beside the existing one or to strengthen the existing pylon by means of a metal structure. In both cases, a building permit was needed and the existing antennae had to be removed – and service interrupted – before the work could be done. The 11 award winners included a Eurovia team that wrote a play, "Danger! Roadworks ahead!", pinpointing risk prevention problems at Eurovia (Management Prize), as well as a joint Vinci Park and Cofiroute team, which developed the use of the Liber-t remote toll payment tag as a means of paying for parking in Vinci Park facilities (Marketing and Services Prize). All the award-winning innovations will now be circulated throughout Vinci, from worker to engineer, enhancing their know-how and the way they perform their tasks. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |