After the Morandi Bridge collapsed in Genoa in 2018, the French government ordered an unprecedented survey of France’s bridges, led by the public resilience agency, Cerema. It was a daunting…

A joint venture between engineer Eiffage (80%) and state-owned rail freight company Captrain has won a €415m contract from SNCF Réseau to renovate France’s rail system. The project will take…

French contractor Vinci has won a seven-year contract to renew 800km of track and ballast in the French rail network. The deal, which is expected to be worth about €700m,…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has planned a renovation of Le Schuylkill Tower, a modernist residential development in Monte Carlo. The 1963 structure contains 188 homes ranging from studio flats to…

UK-headquartered architect RSHP has unveiled its designs for the Bayeux Tapestry museum, which has occupied Bayeux’s 17th Century Grand Séminaire for the last 40 years. The new museum will be…

French engineer Eiffage has won a €92m contract to renovate the 25,000 sq m “Cristallis” project in northern Paris’ ninth arrondissement. The three buildings that make up Cristallis will in…

London-based nuclear power start-up Newcleo is in talks with investors to raise up to €1bn to develop its generation IV small modular reactor powered by nuclear waste.  It would use…

The French government says it wants to build eight more nuclear reactors on top of the six previously announced. Energy transition minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher told La Tribune Dimanche that more…

A pedestrian bridge has been 3D-printed in Lyon by a team that included Swiss cement-maker Holcim, British designer Zaha Hadid Architects, ETH Zürich and Austrian printing specialist Incremental3D. The precursor…

A nine-company consortium has won a €2.5bn design-and-build contract for a section of Line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express between Bobigny-Pablo Picasso station and Champigny Centre. The consortium…

Chinese tech company Huawei plans to start work on its first European factory next year, Reuters reports. The Strasbourg plant will make electronic devices for use in mobile networks. A…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…