UK architect Grimshaw has been chosen to design La Défense metro station for the Grand Paris Express. The station will be located south of the existing station’s forecourt on Place…

Webuild is setting up France’s first robotic ashlar-block factory to line the inside of Lot 2 of the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail tunnel. The company said the plant’s intensive automation will…

French civil engineer NGE and Italian contractor Webuild have been chosen to build a section of Metro Line 15 – otherwise known as the Grand Paris Express – a circular…

French engineer Eiffage has won a €1.3bn contract to build a headquarters for France’s General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), the country’s counter-espionage and counter-terrorism agency. Reporting the award, news…

Ten companies in the construction sector have formed an alliance to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.   The Community of Sustainable Equipment Players, or the Communauté des Acteurs du Matériel…

A French court yesterday rejected a claim of nearly €1.6bn in damages made by Vinci in relation to the cancellation of an airport project near Nantes, website BMF Business reports.…

A+ Architects and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have unveiled their design for a 1.2ha transport centre for Toulouse. The Marengo Multimodal Transport Hub will be located by the Gare Matabiau,…

France will offer a €149m grant to green hydrogen company Lhyfe to build an electrolysis plant in the Channel port of Le Havre. The Nante-based company is planning to install…

After the Morandi Bridge collapsed in Genoa in 2018, the French government ordered an unprecedented survey of France’s bridges, led by the public resilience agency, Cerema. It was a daunting…

A joint venture between engineer Eiffage (80%) and state-owned rail freight company Captrain has won a €415m contract from SNCF Réseau to renovate France’s rail system. The project will take…

French contractor Vinci has won a seven-year contract to renew 800km of track and ballast in the French rail network. The deal, which is expected to be worth about €700m,…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has planned a renovation of Le Schuylkill Tower, a modernist residential development in Monte Carlo. The 1963 structure contains 188 homes ranging from studio flats to…

UK-headquartered architect RSHP has unveiled its designs for the Bayeux Tapestry museum, which has occupied Bayeux’s 17th Century Grand Séminaire for the last 40 years. The new museum will be…

French engineer Eiffage has won a €92m contract to renovate the 25,000 sq m “Cristallis” project in northern Paris’ ninth arrondissement. The three buildings that make up Cristallis will in…

London-based nuclear power start-up Newcleo is in talks with investors to raise up to €1bn to develop its generation IV small modular reactor powered by nuclear waste.  It would use…

The French government says it wants to build eight more nuclear reactors on top of the six previously announced. Energy transition minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher told La Tribune Dimanche that more…

A pedestrian bridge has been 3D-printed in Lyon by a team that included Swiss cement-maker Holcim, British designer Zaha Hadid Architects, ETH Zürich and Austrian printing specialist Incremental3D. The precursor…

A nine-company consortium has won a €2.5bn design-and-build contract for a section of Line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express between Bobigny-Pablo Picasso station and Champigny Centre. The consortium…