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…

France’s competition watchdog has fined six companies a total of €31m for collusive tendering connected to work on the Marcoule nuclear site near Avignon. The companies affected, all of which…

The French government is to give €1.5bn to Taiwanese battery maker ProLogium to build a factory near Dunkirk. The company announced its intention to base its first large-scale overseas production…

A total of €247m in funding has been raised for modernisation and safety work on the A32 motorway that connects northwest Italy and France via the Frejus tunnel. The project…

Taiwan has announced that a memorandum of understanding has been signed with the Kyiv city government to build a $2.5m bridge to the city’s Obolon Island. Some $1m in funding…

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.