French banks have agreed to loan a German renewables company more than €50m towards to cost of building Europe’s largest floating solar power plant. Berlin-based Q Energy is planning to…

Saboteurs launched a coordinated attack on France’s high-speed rail network in the early hours of this morning, using arson and vandalism at multiple sites to disrupt services ahead of the…

Italy’s Myrtha Pools has installed two of its modular, stainless steel swimming pools for the Paris Olympics in just 36 days. The 50×25-metre pools went up at La Defense Arena…

An extension of Marseille Provence Airport, designed by Foster + Partners in association with French landscape architect Rougerie + Tangram, has opened to the public. The project reorganises passenger flows…

The Simone-Veil Bridge, a 549m-long structure designed by Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has opened to the public. The structure spans the Garonne between the Bordeaux municipalities of…

The Pompidou Centre in central Paris is due to close for five years from the summer of 2025 while renovation works take place. These will include upgrades to the 1977…

Hoffmann Green Cement and green energy developer The Valorem Group have poured the world’s first wind turbine foundation made from 0% clinker decarbonised concrete. It’s for the Plaine des Moulins…

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,…