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…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a mountain refuge located in a Unesco world heritage area of France’s Pyrenees National Park. The Barroude mountain refuge will replace another…

Work has begun on the main section of a broad-gauge, 107km-long canal for super-barges in France that is intended to significantly improve freight flows between France, Belgium and the Netherlands,…

Bouygues Construction is leading the consortium chosen to deliver a €235m refurbishment of Argenteuil Hospital in the northwest suburbs of Paris. Bouygues has a €129m stake in the project, which…

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…