Société du Grand Paris has appointed the Intencités15 consortium as the first design-build contractor for line 15 (western section) of the Grand Paris Express, the largest carbon-free urban mobility project in Europe. This section will link Pont de Sèvres station to La Défense.

The Intencités15 consortium, led by VINCI Construction Grands Projets, awarded the project engineering contract to an integrated project management sub-group comprising Ingerop, Artelia and five architectural firms.

An exceptional project

The contract covers the construction of 14 km of tunnels, five stations (Saint-Cloud, Rueil – Suresnes – Mont-Valérien, Nanterre La Boule, Nanterre La Folie and La Défense), a back station at Nanterre La Folie and 16 service structures.

As an extension of the southern section of line 15, this first western section of line 15 will interconnect with Transilien lines L and U at Saint-Cloud, with RER line E at Nanterre La Folie, and with RER lines A and E, metro line 1, tramway line T2 and Transilien lines L and U at La Défense. This section, built in a very dense urban area, is scheduled to come into service at the end of 2031.
The technical scope of the contract includes preparatory works, civil engineering, all trades fitting out of stations and service structures, as well as systems, railway equipment, equipment for stations, service structures and tunnels: track, high voltage (high voltage, low voltage, traction, catenary), low voltage, electromechanical equipment for stations (ventilation/smoke extraction/air conditioning, lifts and escalators, etc.), tunnels and service structures (ventilation/smoke extraction/decompression).

Ingerop, unique expertise

Faced with the diversity and complexity of the assignments to be carried out, Ingerop has been able to bring its multi-sector expertise to bear in the construction sectors: Infrastructure & Mobility, Transport and Building, City, and to offer cutting-edge technical support covering all phases of the project.

Over the years, Ingerop has developed specific skills for mass rapid transport in cities, ranging from large-scale automatic metros to simple, economical metro lines. Over the years, the group has designed several metro lines for regional cities such as Rennes, but also for major capitals such as Lima, Cairo and Paris.

Ingerop was also one of the pioneers in the development of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in France, starting with buildings and then applying it to transport infrastructure and urban engineering.

This design-build contract is a major one for Ingerop, which will be committed to successfully addressing all the issues involved.

Members of the Intencités15 consortium:

• VINCI Construction Grands Projets (leader)
• Chantiers Modernes Construction
• Razel-Bec
• Dodin Campenon Bernard
• SDEL Infi
• Fayat Energie Services
• ETF
• Ingerop
• Artelia
• JFS Architects
• Grimshaw
• AREP Architects
• Archi 5 Prod
• Philippe Gazeau Architect

Based in Barcelona and Madrid, Leedeo Engineering specialises in RAMS (Reliability, Maintainability, Availability, Safety) engineering, EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) studies and systems engineering, particularly in the field of urban and rail transport.

This new acquisition will enable the Group to strengthen its expertise in transport-related systems. It will also enable it to consolidate its positions in Spain and Latin America, and to develop this expertise in other European and Mediterranean countries.

A historic and strategic presence

Ingerop has been present in Spain for over 20 years, with 4 offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Granada and Seville and a team of almost 90 employees.
With strong added value in the field of urban and rail transport, Ingerop’s subsidiary in Spain has been involved in the project management and supervision of major projects in Spain, such as the Barcelona, Zaragoza and Granada tramways, the Extremadura and Basque high-speed lines, and in Latin America, for the Medellín tramway in Colombia and the Serena tramway in Chile, the Panama metro, the Cochabamba metro in Bolivia and the Lima metro in Peru. The company is also active in a large number of transport projects in France, such as the Grand Paris metro, and the tramways in Montpellier, Toulouse and Avignon, as well as in Canada, Belgium and the UK. Finally, it is now developing new areas of expertise in infrastructure and tunnels, cities and construction.

Leedeo Engineering, cutting-edge expertise for the entire Ingerop group

The arrival of Leedeo Engineering has enabled the Ingerop group to increase its production capacity in transport systems, particularly in FDMS studies. These studies, carried out by Leedeo Engineering, are an essential component of almost all transport projects in Europe and around the world, and guarantee their optimal operation as well as risk forecasting that meets the challenges of passenger transport in the 21st century.
Leedeo Engineering is also developing expertise in Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), interoperability studies, system integration and monitoring requirements and compliance with standards. The medium-term objective of this acquisition is also to develop the Ingerop group’s certification capabilities in the field of rail safety.

With the acquisition of Smart 2 in 2019, Leedeo Engineering today and the recent developments of Ingerop in Spain, the Spanish subsidiary becomes one of the 4 pillars of Ingerop internationally, alongside Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa. It is thus a real reference centre in the field of Transport, complementing the French and Canadian centres, capable of promoting the continued development of the Ingerop group worldwide on high added value projects.

To keep pace with its strong growth, the Group is launching a major recruitment campaign throughout France.

More than 300 permanent positions are available immediately in a wide range of professions (engineer, project designer, technician, project manager, design manager).

MEETING THE STRATEGIC CHALLENGES OF CONSTRUCTION

Ingerop is active in all areas of the construction industry, in a wide range of businesses (Building, Water, Energy, Industry, Infrastructure & Mobility, Transport and Urban Development) and through a wide range of assignments (upstream studies, project management, design and implementation, project management assistance, BIM). The Group is also involved in many large-scale, innovative national and international projects, such as the Grand Paris Express, the Lyon/Turin tunnel, the restoration of the Grand Palais and the construction of the Saint-Ouen Grand Paris-Nord university hospital campus. Ingerop is looking for a wide range of skills to carry out these projects: engineers specialising in the tertiary or health sectors, transport, complex engineering structures, nuclear engineering, project managers, heads of department and design engineers. More than 300 permanent positions are available immediately.

ASSERTING, DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING OUR OWN EXCELLENCE

Ingerop offers real career opportunities, in France or abroad, in design or construction, enabling you to :

• Put your creativity and ambition to work on a variety of prestigious projects;
• Grow and develop your entrepreneurial spirit. For example, Ingerop has launched an international intrapreneurship programme called IN3, which aims to stimulate the agility and creativity of its employees and help them to develop value-creating projects.
• Develop your skills. Every employee is offered training to enhance and deepen their skills. In addition, structured courses, grouped together in the Ingerop Campus, enable each employee to become more professional in his or her job, to strengthen his or her potential and to build a career in the Group’s key areas of expertise (project management, technical expertise, personal development, people management). Every year, Ingerop invests 5% of its payroll in training.
• Develop and build a tailor-made career path. Employees who so wish can benefit from internal mobility, whether temporary or long-term, functional or geographical, in France and abroad.

Finally, in addition to the working environment, which more than 80% of employees approve of according to the internal satisfaction survey, Ingerop offers a wide range of benefits: two days’ teleworking per week, up to 15 days’ paid leave, profit-sharing, luncheon vouchers, health insurance, childcare vouchers, holiday vouchers, gift vouchers, culture and sport.

Located on Evotec’s Curie Campus, this biomanufacturing site aims to meet the needs of biotherapeutics.

A large-scale project

At the beginning of 2021, R&D company Just – Evotec Biologics decided to set up a new biomanufacturing plant in Europe. The group’s aim is to speed up access to biotherapeutic products. To achieve this, it has chosen to set up on its existing site in Toulouse, on Evotec’s Curie Campus.
The J.POD® Toulouse, France plant will be the second of its kind in the world, after the one in Redmond, USA.

The project involves a pharmaceutical industrial building with a floor area of around 15,000 m², including clean rooms dedicated to the process, laboratories, a logistics area and offices. The project must meet the requirements of cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice).
It aims to achieve LEED Silver environmental certification and is subject to approval by the Architectes des Bâtiments de France.

This new building requires expertise in the design of clean rooms, clean utilities, black utilities and process equipment. To carry out all these tasks, the R&D group has appointed Ingerop (leader of a consortium with its subsidiary ILS and the Brunerie Architectes agency) to provide comprehensive project management services.

Complete project management

Scheduled to be operational in 2024, construction of this building has already begun.
As part of its mission, Ingerop is assisting Just – Evotec Biologics from the design phase through to supervision of the construction work in all disciplines, such as clean utilities, clean rooms, integration of process equipment, qualified HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning), automation, high and low voltage electricity, all grey utilities, the structure and external fittings.

This project is a real opportunity for Ingerop, as it is the first J.POD® manufacturing plant for biological products in Europe. Capable of providing intensified clinical and commercial manufacturing of biologics in scalable quantities, J.POD® plants are considered to be ‘factories of the future’ as they promote access to medicines and also reduce costs and risks in the manufacturing process.

Ingerop has launched the third edition of its international intrapreneurship programme, IN³.

The aim of the programme is to stimulate the agility and creativity of Ingérop’s employees, to encourage the emergence of value-creating projects and to propose new service offerings for its customers. Following a selection process, 15 projects were chosen for a pitch session to select the 7 teams who will benefit from the first phase of support under the programme.

As popular as ever

Building on its success since its launch in 2019, the IN³ programme has launched its third season. This year, 24 projects have been proposed by employees, both French and from one of the Group’s international subsidiaries.
The Innovation Committee, made up of 10 Ingerop employees and chaired by François Lacroix, the group’s Scientific and Technical Director, met to select the 15 projects chosen to pitch at the start of the year.

Seven projects in the spotlight and more support!

At the end of the meeting, 7 projects with teams from a variety of backgrounds, both in France and internationally, were selected for the first phase of support. With 1/3 of their working time paid for by IN³ and a budget of €5,000, the teams, supported by our partner Impulse Partners, will have 6 months to develop and grow their idea.

The seven projects selected are:

• Calcab Structure – Calcab is a tool enabling designers to calculate the regulatory carbon weight of the structures in their projects.
• Climatool Health – Climatool Health is a digital decision-making tool that enables hospital decision-makers to optimise the resilience of their healthcare infrastructure in the face of climate change.
• Cyclability – Cyclability is a digital tool dedicated to public and private entities that evaluates the cycle network and proposes optimised developments in favour of soft mobility.
• Infracost Monitoring – InfraCost Monitoring is a monitoring tool that enables construction companies to control the CO2 footprint of their projects during the construction phase.
• L’oreille d’Or – L’oreille d’Or is an autonomous acoustic detection system for identifying production anomalies in Industry 4.0.
• SoftLogistic – Soft Logistics helps local authorities to optimise their worksite flows using software that reduces the impact of logistical and noise pollution.
• Trackcase – Trackcase is an applied research project designed to analyse the condition of a railway line using a case equipped with sensors. The aim of the project is to optimise railway line maintenance costs.

In September, a second pitch session will be organised in front of a jury enlarged to include relevant external profiles. The most convincing and successful projects will then be selected and will benefit from a second phase of support, leading to a truly innovative range of services.

Boosted by the growth of the German market, Ingerop Deutschland, through its subsidiary Codema, has acquired the assets of RRI (Rhein Ruhr International Consulting Engineers), a company based in Essen, whose fifteen employees joined the Group a few days ago. By April, the teams will be physically reunited in Codema’s Essen branch.

Founded in 1942, RRI (Rhein Ruhr International Consulting Engineers) offers design services for the construction of buildings on industrial sites. The 15 engineers and architects have numerous references on projects in Germany and abroad for ThyssenKrupp, Arcelor Mittal, BASF and Saint-Gobain.

“This asset purchase will enable us to expand the Ingerop Deutschland teams, which were having difficulty finding talented people because of the shortage of engineering jobs in Germany,” explains Thomas Sontag, Managing Director of Ingerop Deutschland and Codema.

“Nearly 350 employees are now working to ensure the success of our customers’ projects in Germany, and will enable our German subsidiary to offer a wider range of design services,” concludes Yves Metz, Chairman of the Ingerop Group.

Ingerop has developed Pos’Hy, the first sizing tool for hydrogen production and distribution infrastructures linked to mobility, industry and energy storage.

The only one of its kind on the market, this new tool makes it possible to simulate and compare different scenarios, including the selection of equipment and the environmental and economic analysis of projects, reliably and quickly, according to customers’ needs.

Ingerop, a leading player in the hydrogen sector

Faced with the challenge of climate change, Ingerop has made ecology the primary strategic focus of its development. In this context, the engineering group sees hydrogen, whether renewable or low-carbon, as a means of decarbonising many sectors of the economy, such as industry and mobility, and improving the efficiency of renewable energies.

For nearly 10 years, Ingerop has been expanding its expertise in this field. Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, it is positioned across the entire hydrogen value chain, with consultancy, project management and turnkey operations.

Pos’Hy, a unique design tool

At the same time, Ingerop has developed a unique tool for designing the entire hydrogen chain, from production to distribution, including compression and storage.

Suitable for projects involving mobility, industry or energy storage, for both public and private clients, it provides a real methodology for approaching the design of installations.

It identifies all the data needed to design an infrastructure in line with the customer’s predefined requirements, selects the necessary equipment (electrolysers, storage tanks, compressors, distribution stations), analyses the environmental aspect (floor space required, environmental risks, regulations), energy consumption and the economic aspect of the project.

Finally, it allows you to quickly simulate several scenarios for the same project, depending on the site, location and solution required, and to determine the investment and operating costs. It facilitates choices and trade-offs and helps to find the right balance between hydrogen production, storage and distribution, depending on the uses of each project.

Pos’Hy, a comprehensive tool

Pos’Hy is an ergonomic tool that allows you to design a project in several stages:

1. Parameter setting of uses and consumers: selection of uses, the type of consumers and their periods of use, refuelling ranges and speeds in order to obtain an automatic assessment of consumption and hydrogen production requirements;
2. Hydrogen production sizing: automatic sizing of hydrogen production equipment according to consumption and autonomy requirements, selection of electrolysers according to production technologies and desired availability rates;
3. Selection of compression stages: selection according to pressure of use and desired storage volumes;
4. Dispensing station settings: sizing the number of dispensers according to the type and number of vehicles and the desired filling time;
5. Simulations of the operation of the facilities: hydrogen production vs. distribution, storage levels vs. distribution capacity, filling times for storage and vehicles, energy balance, land location, CAPEX / OPEX / TCO cost estimates.