Vinci Construction subsidiary Sogea-Satom has won a €92.4m contract in Uganda to update and extend the Kampala metropolitan region’s water supply network.

Financed by the French development agency, AFD, the project will improve access to treated water for 1.5 million people.

The client is the Ugandan National Water Sewerage Corporation.

Sogea-Satom has also been tasked with increasing the capacity of the Katosi water treatment plant.

Vinci said the project will involve up to 500 people and is scheduled for completion in August 2027.

The work includes installing 70km of cast iron pipes, building large reinforced concrete reservoirs and two new pumping stations, and renovating two existing pumping stations.

Working in densely populated areas, crews will dig 3m-deep trenches.

Sogea-Satom has worked in Uganda since 1990. In recent years, it built the drinking water treatment plants in Ggaba, Katosi and Karuma, and is currently working on the Kagera plant.