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2008 national grand prize for engineering: Egis Route award-winning project
Egis Route was awarded second prize in the national grand prize for engineering. The trophies were awarded on Thursday 2 October at the “Rencontres de l'Ingénierie” held at the “Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie” in Paris.
The Egis Route project on the Route des Tamarins (Reunion Island) was judged to be “remarkable” by the national grand prize for engineering jury. The road is respectful of environmental constraints and contributes towards the island’s social and economic development.
Egis Route has been acting as designer and works supervisor for section 2 since 2001. The road is a dual carriageway 33 km long, between Saint-Paul and L'Etang-Salé, lying at mid-height on the western slopes of Reunion Island. It contains 4 outstanding engineering structures, 9 grade-separated interchanges, 23 non-standard structures and 3 tunnels and cut and cover.
The National Grand Prize for Engineering was founded on the initiative of the Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Sustainable Development and Regional Development, in association with Syntec Ingénierie and the Moniteur Group. Every year it rewards engineers and teams (independent or integrated engineering) involved in design or construction supervision for a project currently under construction or that has already been built: infrastructures, public utilities, buildings, etc.
