Bouygues

A worker, understood to be an employee of a joint venture between Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke, has died at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station construction site in Somerset. Operations have been paused at the EDF-run megaproject, following the death in a traffic incident at 8.30am on…

Bouygues UK has been confirmed as the preferred contractor for a new integrated eye hospital in central London. Yesterday, health bodies involved in the scheme announced the approval of the business plan for the scheme, as well as funding from both the NHS and central government. The new facility, named…

Bouygues has completed its first self-delivered modular project in the UK. The 491-bedroom student accommodation block at The Riverside in Canterbury was assembled using modules produced in a dedicated offsite factory in Morocco. A total of 430 modules were transported to the UK and installed on site, helping to ensure…

Bouygues UK has earmarked nearly £4.3m for provisions on expected loss-making contracts. In its accounts for the year to 31 December 2021, issued this week, the contactor said its provisions related to “expected losses to completion on construction contracts in progress”. It did not name the specific projects. The results…

Bouygues and Equans have agreed to withdraw one of their bids for work on a £300m HS2 overhead-cable contract following concerns raised by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in light of their forthcoming merger. Last November, Bouygues struck a £6bn deal to buy Equans, the construction and services business owned…

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has raised concerns over competition on HS2 bidding due to the proposed merger of Bouygues and Equans. In November 2021, Bouygues struck a £6bn deal to buy Equans, the construction and services business owned by Engie, including the latter’s UK Regeneration and facilities-management arms.…

Wates, Wilmott Dixon and Bouygues UK have won spots on a £2.5bn framework to build 7,000 new houses across London. The framework, tendered by housing association Notting Hill Genesis, will run for four years until June 2026, with the option to extend for a further two years. A total of…

The competition watchdog has launched a probe into Bouygues’ €7.1bn (£6.1bn) acquisition of Engie’s construction and services business, Equans. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) set a deadline of 7 June for interested parties to comment on the effect of the contractor’s proposed purchase of Equans. French-owned Bouygues announced plans…

Bam FM, Galliford Try and Bouygues Energies & Services are among the contractors that have won spots on an £800m facilities-management framework for the NHS. In all, 154 suppliers – including major firms and SMEs – have been selected on the framework, across 46 specialist lots. The work covered is…

Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics have been told to improve their health and safety procedures at Hinkley Point C after a worker fell from height. The scaffold worker avoided serious injury, despite falling from a height of about 5m from scaffolding on 4 March. The Office for Nuclear Regulation…