In 1994, the commissioning of the Petit Saut dam in French Guiana flooded almost 35,000 km² of forest, submerging hundreds of thousands of trees. It must be said that this dam makes it possible to supply two thirds of the electricity needs of Guyanese territory. Triton Guyane and Voltalia have joined forces to reclaim and give another use to these huge volumes of abandoned wood. Triton, thanks to its own patented technology, the SHARC™, is able to cut standing trees up to 30m deep, without disturbing the lake bed. This equipment consists of a self-propelled barge, a forestry machine and a telescopic stick. Once cut, the wood is brought back to shore, dried and sorted. A sawmill will be built close to the lake, where the best species will be transformed into lumber. All other fibers and sawmill waste will be converted as biomass products to power the adjacent biomass powerplant (and thus supply over 8% of French Guyana's coastal consumption).

In the middle of the Amazon jungle, SAMT supplies and installs the frames for the sawmill and biomass powerplant. It's what you might call a worksite at the end of the world! (Customer: Ribal TP, Colas Group)

The city of Glasgow in Scotland is hosting this first edition of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships, from August 3 to 13. On the program for these 11 days: 13 World Championships where more than 2,600 athletes will meet, sharing the common goal of winning one of the precious rainbow jerseys. Mathilde Gros will participate in three track cycling events: team speed on Thursday August 3, Keirin tournament on Saturday August 5 and Sunday August 6 and individual speed tournament on Monday August 7, Tuesday August 8 and Wednesday August 9. Come on Mathilde… like last year!!!

The construction of the new Larivot bridge, which will be 1,300 meters long, is qualified as a "technical feat", due to the complex geotechnical context. This is one of the largest civil engineering works currently underway in France. This project consists of doubling the existing bridge which will accommodate road traffic going in the direction of Cayenne to Kourou + 1 two-way greenway. Currently, we are carrying out the first tests of our jigs for the assembly of shafts of bridge piers, under the watchful eye of our chief quality controller! (Client: Dodin Campenon Bernard)

For many years, we have been working on this site, one of the most ambitious projects in the world in the field of energy. 35 countries are engaged in the construction of the largest tokamak ever designed, a machine which must demonstrate that fusion (energy from the sun and stars) can be used as a large-scale, non-CO₂ emitting energy source for generate electricity. In this month of July, we are working on 3 distinct batches:

- Lot TB18 for the VFR consortium, currently being finalized, which consists of building the last 5 floors of the Tritium building.

- Lot TB13 for the Italian company Monsud, which consists of building 4 emergency electrical buildings.

- The LTCC lot for the Nuvia-GTM Sud consortium, which consists of carrying out various underpinning works to seal the hoppers, once the pipes, equipment and various machines have been installed.

We are very proud and happy to participate in this international project of exceptional magnitude. (Customers: VFR, Monsud, Nuvia-GTM)

Our company, SAMT, created in 1988, is 35 years old this year! We met at the end of last month in Amsterdam to celebrate. Given the geography of our construction sites, it was an ideal place to meet, and there were more than 80 of us. The “Armaturiers” arrived from mainland France, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, Reunion Island, the Guadeloupe, Mauritius and Guyana.

This project consists of the creation of a third bridge over the Garonne which will rebalance flows and traffic between the left bank and the right bank and will relieve the heart of agglomeration. Our teams have completed the installation of the reinforcements of the two river piers of the bridge over the Garonne on the Camelat bar site, as part of the western ring road of Agen. These two very imposing piles of 15m x 15m were entirely prefabricated on the ground. They were broken down into 4 sub-elements, then placed in a monumental formwork, protected from the Garonne by a cofferdam. The next steps will be the launching of the metal framework of the deck, the laying of the prefabricated slabs of the slabs and their keying in place (Client: Eiffage Génie Civil)

As part of the new High Speed ​​2 (HS2) high-speed line, gradual ramp-up of our site of 9 precast segmental viaducts. The Kingsbury precast yard has to date produced just over 100 segments out of the 2,742 that will be created. We are currently producing 2 single track typical segments per day. This rate will quickly increase to 4 segments per day from this summer. At the same time, a few weeks ago we started manufacturing SOPs and SOAs for single-track structures. When the production of these elements reaches its cruising speed, we will begin production of the double-track segments. In terms of support work, we have started the first piers and abutments of the Water Orton viaducts. (Client: Joint venture BBV: Balfour Beatty / Vinci).

We are still at work on the A1-M1 connecting viaduct, which spans the cliff of Grande-Rivière-Nord-Ouest (GRNO). After the pylons and cantilever segments on the piers, the technical assistance management team of our client TGBV begins the reinforcement of the two arched spans with the technical and complex reinforcements of the segments on abutments. (Client: TGBV)

We are going to produce all the reinforcement cages, in stainless steel concrete, for the sunscreen blades for the new Princess Grace hospital center in Monaco (CHPG). These slats will be made of white UHPFRC concrete, at our client Delta Préfabrication (Privas, Ardèche). Once installed, these slats will form a huge undulating white shade that will envelop all the facades, over 15,000 m². Placed end to end, the total length of these blades represents 21 km, i.e. the distance between Nice and Monaco. A nice technical challenge! (Client: Delta Préfabrication)

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A great operation perfectly mastered by our Reunionese teams. Prefabrication in the factory of two beams 24 m long and weighing more than 17 tonnes each, lifting and exceptional transport at night, installation in less than a day on the site. A gain on the two-week schedule. (Client: GTOI)