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…
News Qatar awards $10bn LNG contract to French–Greek joint venture QatarEnergy said yesterday that it had awarded an EPC contract worth about $10bn to a joint venture between France’s Technip Energies and Greece-based Consolidated Contractors Company. The deal aims to…
News France and African Development Bank to finance Tanzanian hydropower project The government of Tanzania has signed a $300m loan agreement with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the French Development Agency to finance the 88MW Kakono Hydropower Plant in the…
News HDF Energy breaks ground on world’s first high-power hydrogen fuel cell factory Hydrogene De France (HDF Energy) has begun work on the world’s first high-power hydrogen fuel cell factory on the site of a former Ford plant in Blanquefort near Bordeaux. It…
News Eiffage, Systra win Lyon-to-Turin rail tunnel contract French engineer Eiffage has landed a €190m contract to connect the Mont Cenis base tunnel, the longest on the forthcoming Lyon–Turin rail line, with the existing rail network.
News Vinci to build €178m police station in Nice Two French companies, Vinci subsidiary Dumez Côte d’Azur and architect Wilmotte & Associés, have won a €178m contract from the French Ministry of the Interior to design, build, maintain and…
News French team to use virtual twin to rebuild Ukraine’s Chernihiv Ukraine has lined up a consortium of French companies to rebuild parts of Chernihiv destroyed in the Russian invasion. The city of 280,000 people some 100km north of Kyiv was…
News Eiffage lands heavy fabrication deal for big French offshore wind farm Eiffage Métal, a unit of French construction group Eiffage, has won a contract to fabricate 62 heavy components for a 496MW wind farm planned off the western Atlantic coast of…
News France agrees €250m loan to build Ivory Coast metro The government of France has agreed a loan of €250m to fund the construction of a 37km metro in Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast. The €1.4bn initial phases,…
News French law to require solar canopies in parking lots The French government will legislate to require car parks with 80 or more spaces to install solar panels in a move it says could generate up to 11GW of electricity.…
Companies France’s Egis acquires architect Weston Williamson + Partners French consulting and engineering group Egis has acquired a controlling stake in architectural practice Weston Williamson + Partners (WW+P).