1. Your partner in the ground

2. ▪ 4th largest French construction group
▪ Turnover more than 2€ billion
• 9,100 employees
• Over 160 offices and depots spanning France and five other
countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, UAE, Qatar
…… a subsidiary of

3. ▪ One of Europe’s largest specialist foundation contractors
▪ Over 50 years’ experience
▪ Turnover 2014 : 148M€
2013 : 151M€
2012 : 175M€
• approx 450 employees
• 8 offices and depots
Spie fondations, a European company
SF UK
SF Abu
Dhabi
SF Qatar

4. Technical Strengths and Capabilities
• A multi-disciplined geotechnical
contractor with a fully integrated
in-house design capability for
feasibility studies to turnkey solutions
• 70 skilled people working in a first-class plant yard and workshop to
develop and maintain equipment in-house
• Pro-active and innovative approach to problem solving
• Mobility, reactivity & flexibility
Spie fondations
Site workers
30%
Engineers &
Technicians
70%

5. Basements, shafts and excavations
Design & turnkey construction of
basements and shafts, often in
urban environments and
extending below the water table
Typical projects:
▪ basements
▪ underground car parks
▪ tunnel portals and shafts
▪ underground stations
Technical solutions:
▪ diaphragm walls, barrettes
▪ secant/contiguous piled walls
▪ kingpost/moscovite walls
▪ anchors & sprayed concrete
▪ grouted plugs, skirts etc
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Moscovite Wall
Kingpost Wall
Diaphragm Wall

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Diaphragm Walls
Specialist Plant
Rotoforeuse® - Reverse circulation cutterLow head-room rig and compact grab

7. Diaphragm Wall Cage
Spie fondations : Activity & references - september 2009
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Bentonite Farm – Stepney Green Shaft
Diaphragm Walls
Major Projects

8. Piled Foundations
Design and construction of foundation
solutions for buildings and civil
engineering infrastructure projects
Typical projects:
▪ offices and hotels
▪ public buildings
▪ bridges
▪ industrial facilities
Technical solutions:
▪ CFA piles (up to 41m depth)
▪ rotary bored piles (up to
2.5m diameter)
▪ plunge columns
▪ mini/micro piles
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9. Steel Tube Piles
Top Driven, Vibrated, or Screwed
Spie fondations : Activity & references - september 2009
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Raking top driven steel tube piles Screw piles

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Piled Foundations
Major Projects
Pre-Cast Plunge Columns - Musee Du QuaiRotary Bored Piles - Mont St Michel

11. Specialist Grouting Works
Skilled in the design and execution of a
diverse range of grouted solutions:
▪ permeation grouting
▪ compensation grouting
▪ jet grouting
▪ grout curtains, skirts and plugs
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Grouting Works
Major Projects
Jet Grouting - Castor Project
RER C
Compensation Grouting – Bugey Nuclear Facility

13. Your partner in the ground
01732 521259
adrian.mercer@spiefondations.fr
www.spiefondations.com
UK Major Projects
Heart of East Greenwich grout plug
Crossrail Stepney Green Shaft London diaphragm walls to 50m depth
Eagle House London rotary bored and CFA piles
CTRL Thames Tunnel Portal diaphragm walls and rotary bored piles
John Pier Pumping Station Cumbria diaphragm walls with rock cutter
DLR Island Garden Station London diaphragm walls
DLR Cutty Sark Station London diaphragm walls
Blackwall Place Canary Wharf rotary bored piles