Bouygues

A loss-making contract in Germany has tipped Bouygues Energies & Services (E&S) back into the red despite a 7 per cent increase in turnover. The latest accounts for the UK-based construction engineering subsidiary of French group Bouygues were signed off last week (3 April). They revealed a pre-tax loss of…

Bouygues UK has been awarded a £119m contract to build two new campuses in the Welsh town of Barry. Work on the Barry Waterfront Campus (BWC) and the Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) will begin in June with a completion date of summer 2027. The educational facilities, developed by the Welsh…

A major green energy contract helped propel Bouygues to the top of the monthly contractor league table for January. The contractor bagged a £170m job to develop Immingham Green Energy Terminal (IGET) in the Humber Estuary. This and two other projects took Bouygues to the summit in January, with a…

Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Bouygues Travaux Publics to deliver its ambitious Immingham Green Energy Terminal (IGET) in the Humber Estuary. The design and build contract for IGET was tendered in autumn 2023 and at the time was expected to be worth up to £170m. The IGET will support the import…

“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…