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Since 19 November, the headquarters’ collaborators have been working in their new office, in Nanterre. After more than sixty years in Clichy, Spac’s presidency and legal, financial, communications and human resources directions have moved in a brand new building, BREEAM and BREEAM “in use” certified.

Two years after the works started, RGM (Renforcement Gascogne Midi) commissioning took place on 23 October, in the presence of Dominique Mockly of Terega et de Christophe Mansuy. Up to 280 workers laid 61.8 km of pipelines to improve the gaz transportation network, developing the Gascogne-Midi liaison capacity. A splendid, very technical project led by Spac!

Spac diversifies its activities and clients with a cogeneration project undertaken for Eiffage in Finistère (Western France). Cogeneration consists in simultaneously producing and using electricity and heat produced from the same primal energy source, in the same plant. In this case, the source is a gas-operated motor whose exhaust gas are used to warm the water which will be used in the tomato greenhouses. The same motor also produces electricity, which is sold. Exhaust gas are filtered to be relieved of most of their CO2, which in turn is used to accelerate the tomatoes’ growth. Nothing is lost… The Piping and Process Facilities team has built and assembled this cogeneration device.

On 16 October, seven new Spac Skilled Workers were enthroned during the yearly general assembly: Marcelo De Jesus Dias of Aulnay Water Works, Antonio Dias of Gas and Power Distribution, Jaouad Houbbatte of SEGEC, Christophe and Marc Michel of Heating and Cooling Networks, Philippe Thomas and Loïc Peyrou of Piping and Process Facilities in Bordeaux now belong to Spac’s Guild of Skilled Workers. This membership emphasizes their skills, their team spirit and their exemplary approach of HSE rules.

Constantly seeking added-value innovation, Spac has been using pipelayer kits for its pipeline projects since 2017. They offer several advantages: they are easier to transport since they only require two heavy trucks, representing a 75% saving compared to the transport of a traditional pipelayer. Moreover, no administrative authorization is required to transport them. Finally, they are assembled on site in under three hours: Video here

Between March and August of this year, several Spac’s employees were operating in Paris’ 15th arrondissement to replace two 600-meter sections of drinking water pipeline networks. The intervention included a three-week asbestos removal phase, a challenging operation given the profusion and complexity of the water supply networks. In order to minimize the impact of these thirteen network interventions, in terms of their conduct and interruption to supplies, significant preparatory work was carried out beforehand. Since water could only be cut off for a maximum of 4 hours during the day, teams also worked at night in order to keep to the schedule.