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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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.…

French consulting and engineering group Egis has acquired a controlling stake in architectural practice Weston Williamson + Partners (WW+P).