French engineer Systra has won a nine-year contract on France’s biggest high-speed rail project: a 400km-long, Y-shaped line running south from Bordeaux and splitting to go southwest to the town…

French construction machinery maker Manitou Group has acquired the entire robotics division of French specialist engineering company Sitia, saying it wants to establish robotics as “a salient pillar of innovation”.…

Egypt and France have signed a €7bn agreement to develop a green hydrogen and ammonia complex near Ras Shokeir on the Red Sea coast, Arab News reports.  It will be…

A French court has ordered work to stop on a motorway in the southwest of the country after ruling that it would cause too much environmental damage – despite the…

India and France have agreed to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) together after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, The Indian Express reports. India’s foreign ministry…

A consortium led by France’s Eiffage has signed a €51m design-build contract to build an institute of biology and pathology at the Bordeaux University Hospital Centre site in Pessac. The…

Emmanuel Macron said his government will try to attract €109bn of private investment in AI, the Financial Times reports. Speaking ahead of France’s AI Action Summit that opens in Paris…

A consortium led by Vinci subsidiaries has won a €183m contract to build a protected channel in the Seine River estuary to give river boats access to the port of…

Bouygues Construction has made a deal with low-carbon cement company Ecocem to use its ‘ACT’ cement in projects after thoroughly testing it. Dublin-headquartered Ecocem says its proprietary cement, launched in…

France’s plan to secure the future of its energy sector by building six nuclear reactors beginning in 2027 have been thrown into doubt by a report from the Cour des…

David Chipperfield Architects has announced that its three-building contribution to the La Confluence development in Lyon is completed. The London firm designed a social housing block, an office building, and…

French contractor Bouygues has been selected by British property company Segro to redevelop Les Gobelins railway station in southwestern Paris as a logistics centre. The 75,000 sq m Segro Paris…

American architect Studio Gang has unveiled the completed University of Chicago John Boyer Centre in Paris. The centre has a timber structure and façade, as well as a brise-soleil formed…

Vinci Grands Projets is to team up with its sister companies GTM Sud-Oues and Chantiers Modernes Nouvelle-Aquitaine to design and build a waste-to-energy plant in the commune of Brive-la-Gaillarde, in…

A consortium led by Eiffage Construction has won one of France’s largest public investments of the decade: a €1.3bn contract to design and build the Grand Paris Nord teaching hospital…

Two French investment companies, Fimalac and Latour Capital, have acquired a 58% stake in Systra, a Paris-based engineer that specialises in the transport sector. Systra commented that the deal would…

French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Morocco this week resulted in 20 deals covering desalination, energy, rail and water management, as well as finance, banking, and education, the North Africa…

French autoroute operator APRR and green utility Engie Vianeo have opened Europe’s first electric-truck “charging corridor” between Paris and Lyon. It consists of five new fast-charging stations in rest areas…