News 85-tonne-a-day hydrogen plant planned for Nantes French green-hydrogen specialist Lhyfe has been chosen by the Port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire to build a green hydrogen factory in Montoir-de-Bretagne at the mouth of the Loire River. It’s expected…
News Bouygues, Peikko join to promote “steel concrete” method for nuclear Finnish Peikko Group, a supplier of specialist steel and concrete structures, has signed a contract to work with French contractor Bouygues Travaux Publics to develop a “steel concrete” construction method…
News Work begins on MVRDV’s ‘urban oasis’ in Paris Construction has begun – and the first trees have been planted – at an 18-storey apartment block in the southwest suburbs of Paris. The “urban oasis” in Issy-les-Moulineaux was designed…
Projects RVA blows up French power station Engineering consultant RVA Group has overseen phase one of a three-stage decommissioning and demolition project at the disused Lucy III coal power station in Montceau-les-Mines, France. The works involved the…
News Huge residential timber tower completed in Paris A 50m-tall timber tower in Paris has been completed, complete with 77 residential units, a ground-floor art gallery and restaurant. The €18.5m Le Berlier building was designed by Franco-Australian architect…
News Vinci team picked to handle spoil from world’s longest rail tunnel A Vinci-led consortium has won an €800m contract to deal with 23 million tonnes of spoil produced in the boring of the 45km French section of the Mont Cenis base…
Projects ‘Not an icon’: Swiss architects finish no-nonsense social housing scheme in Paris Basel-headquartered architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein is celebrating the completion of its first Paris project, a 10,500-sq-m, 104-unit social housing development over five floors in the 15th arrondissement. Begun in…
News Six French companies fined for nuclear bid-rigging France’s competition watchdog has fined six companies a total of €31m for collusive tendering connected to work on the Marcoule nuclear site near Avignon. The companies affected, all of which…
News Taiwanese battery maker gets €1.5bn to build French plant The French government is to give €1.5bn to Taiwanese battery maker ProLogium to build a factory near Dunkirk. The company announced its intention to base its first large-scale overseas production…
News €247m to be spent on modernising motorway between France and Italy A total of €247m in funding has been raised for modernisation and safety work on the A32 motorway that connects northwest Italy and France via the Frejus tunnel. The project…
News France and Taiwan finance $3.5m Ukrainian bridge Taiwan has announced that a memorandum of understanding has been signed with the Kyiv city government to build a $2.5m bridge to the city’s Obolon Island. Some $1m in funding…
News France chooses Rhône site to build two EPR reactors The French government, which last year announced its intention of adding eight EPR reactors to the national fleet before 2027, has chosen Bugey nuclear power station as the site of…
News Suez, Vinci to build France’s biggest-ever water treatment plant French engineer Suez Group and contractor Vinci have won a contract worth €700m to refurbish and extend a wastewater treatment plant in Nice, France. It will be the biggest facility…
News Toulouse development revives 1920s aviation heydey Dutch architect KCAP and France’s V2S Architectes have won an international design competition for a mixed-use complex in the new ZAC Aerospace neighbourhood on the edge of Toulouse. A 25m-wide…
News Snøhetta’s French planetarium inspired by the continuous movement of the heavens Norwegian architect Snøhetta has announced the opening of the Orionis planetarium and observatory in the city of Douai, northern France. The design is based on the domes of the projection…
News Hitachi, Vinci to build French-Spanish grid link across Bay of Biscay Hitachi Energy and Vinci have won contract to connect the French and Spanish electricity grids with two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) links across the Bay of Biscay. Combined, the links…
Companies Saint-Gobain expands in North America with €925m Canadian acquisition French materials company Saint-Gobain is to acquire Building Products of Canada, which specialises in roof shingles and wood-fibre insulation panels, for €925m. The move comes a year after it purchased…
News Aecom to expand French green hydrogen factory Dallas-based engineer Aecom has been selected by US chemical company Chemours to expand a green hydrogen facility in the Villers-Saint Paul (VSP) region of northern France. Work at Chemours VSP…