Bouygues

“Unprecedented severe weather” has delayed a Bouygues health innovation campus by three months. The facility was due to be completed by this summer as the first phase of Carmarthenshire County Council’s Pentre Awel, a £200m health and wellbeing village in Llanelli, South Wales. However, site progress has stalled by three…

Bouygues UK has submitted a planning application for a £150m scheme on a 1960s estate in south-east London. If approved by Southwark Council, Bouygues will act as developer and contractor for phase two of the Tustin Estate, which will deliver 295 homes across four buildings near the Old Kent Road.…

All four companies served with warning notices by the nuclear regulator over fire-safety failures at Hinkley Point C have now made the improvements required of them, it has been announced. The four firms were served with the notices in relation to fire safety at the under-construction nuclear plant in January.…

Bouygues UK has bagged a bumper job to deliver four new buildings at Stanmore College. The contractor said it will start work at the college “imminently” including the replacement of four existing buildings with new builds. It will use its kit-of-parts approach for education projects, which Bouygues said would “help…

Bouygues has booked substantial building-safety liability costs and has said it was impacted by subcontractor collapses last year. The French contractor posted a pre-tax loss of £62.1m in its latest accounts for the 2023 calendar year – 48 per cent worse than its 2022 loss of £41.9m. It tabled provisions…

Bouygues has been picked to build a health facility in west London to speed up the diagnosis of cancer and other illnesses. The UK arm of the French firm was named as lead contractor for the design and build of the Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex University Hospital. Chelsea…

Equans Regeneration is exiting the new-build housing market after it reported a £135.6m loss for 2022. In its first published accounts since being acquired by Bouygues in October 2022, the group admitted that higher turnover failed to prevent a plunge into the red in 2022 amid “particular pressure in the…

Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke have been served warning notices by the nuclear regulator over fire-safety failures at Hinkley Point C. The contractors have each received enforcement notices relating to failings by their joint venture BYLOR JV. The Office for Nuclear Regulation also served notices to NNB Generation Company, a subsidiary…

The London School of Economics (LSE) has named a Bouygues UK-Equitix consortium as preferred development partner for a major accommodation build in central London. Bouygues UK’s development arm Linkcity is set to lead the 2,000-home development situated behind the Tate Modern on Bankside (pictured), while its contracting arm will carry…

A London politician has demanded a fast response from Bouygues after part of a balcony collapsed within a housing development built by the contractor. Barking and Dagenham Council leader Darren Rodwell wrote to the French-owned contractor’s management urging inspections be carried out “at pace”. The local authority said part of…