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| The start of the decade sees SAFEGE installed in its new headquarters in Nanterre, a sign of the new direction taken by the company which experiences a three-fold increase in turnover between 1985 and 1999. This new growth is the result of a policy of acquiring new regional consulting engineering companies with the aim of expanding SAFEGE's presence, both on its home market and globally.
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Coming to the rescue of Mickey
When the Disneyland Paris development falls behind schedule in 1989, the Disney Group enlists the services of SAFEGE to get the operation back on track. SAFEGE thus has to rise to the huge challenges of taking over a project in mid-stream, changing requirements on the part of the client and the need to adapt to the client's modus operandi. For that purpose a special office is set up, with a team of 90 high-calibre people representing 18 different nationalities.
Tunnelling below Buenos Aires
 | During the ten-year period beginning in 1993, SAFEGE provides engineering services for the rehabilitation and extension of the water distribution and sewer systems of Greater Buenos Aires. The contract is one of the largest of its kind in 30 years, encompassing the feasibility studies, preliminary designs and construction supervision services for the Saavedra-Moron water tunnel (15km-long, 3.5m-diameter tunnel of capacity 9 m3/s, excavated at a depth of 30m), as well as water and wastewater pumping stations, lift stations, drinking water treatment plants, collector sewer and 1,300km of primary and secondary water and sewer lines. An additional three million people are connected to the water and sewerage systems by the end of the project. |
Phnom Penh : one of the best-managed water companies in Asia
After 1992, SAFEGE works in close collaboration with the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA), for which it carries out numerous studies and technical assistance and construction supervision assignments. After rebuilding a system devastated by years of civil war and setting up a reliable customer management system, the emphasis shifts to expanding the production and treatment facilities and building the pipelines needed to improve the supply of water to a rapidly spreading capital city. With a water-sold/water-produced ratio of 93% and bill collection topping 99%, PPWSA is one of the best managed water companies in Asia.
The crisis as an opportunity
But the early years of the new millennium are difficult. 15 years of growth in Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia and Philippines have been brutally halted by the crises in Asia and Argentina. The world is an increasingly competitive one and a new era dawns for SAFEGE: the age of sustainable development.
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