Bouygues

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…

Hinkley Point C will require 3,000 more workers than first estimated, which is putting pressure on accommodation facilities. The nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset is being delivered by EDF Energy. The firm is working with local authorities in the region to determine the logistics of the increased demand…

McLaren Construction has promoted its London managing director Darren Gill to join the group’s main board of directors. The promotion comes three years after Gill joined McLaren, following more than two decades at Bouygues UK where he held operational, regional leadership and managing director roles. Since joining McLaren, Gill has…

The production of precast-concrete segments for the HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct has begun. The Align JV will produce 1,000 segments in a factory that will make up the deck of the viaduct, just outside of north-west London. The joint venture between Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick has been working…

Bouygues UK has completed a £380m proton-beam therapy centre for University College Hospital in London. The Grafton Way Building includes eight operating theatres, a surgical recovery area, surgical ward, imaging centre, 10-bed critical care unit and three floors of inpatient haematology wards. The completion marks the creation of one of…