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Vinhomes Golden River, Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam

Developing

firm roots in South-East Asia

We came to Vietnam, in Ho Chi Minh In 2012, we were renamed Artelia and began adopting the Group’s multidisciplinary approach
City, in 2006 as Coteba with the aim by progressively expanding our services into the fields of water, the environment, industry,
of starting up project management and more recently multi-site and infrastructure projects. At the same time we began looking
activity in the building sector. Within at all the countries in South-East Asia and at ASEAN, the economic zone that is quite similar
a few years we had gained a solid to the European Union in terms of number of inhabitants and includes several high-growth
reputation in the construction of countries.
tower blocks and mixed-purpose Over the last decade we have succeeded in implementing this strategy, taking advantage of
complexes, by setting up local a relatively buoyant market. We have increased our turnover in South-East Asia sixfold and
project management and site set up a string of offices in 7 countries employing 750 people of 15 different nationalities,
supervision teams.
who work in the fields of building construction, industry, multi-site projects, energy, the
environment and urban infrastructure. Our teams of Vietnamese engineers are increasingly
involved in the design of different projects in Asia, but also take part in the Group’s projects in
the rest of the world.
Today we operate subsidiaries in Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia,
Thailand and the Philippines, where we have just combined our teams with those of PTS, the
subsidiary created by MOE, which has over 90 employees. We are also involved in several
flagship projects outside Vietnam, such as the large hydropower development schemes on
which Artelia’s dam specialists are working, most notably in Laos.
In 2020, with Artelia taking a majority share in Principia, a company located notably in Kuala
Lumpur in Malaysia, and the creation of a subsidiary in Australia, we have further extended
our presence in the Asia Pacific region.

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