Bouygues

Trial dates have been set in the cases of contractors accused of health and safety offences in relation to a death and a serious injury at Hinkley Point C. The two separate cases were brought following investigations by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). One of the cases relates to…

The UK civils and infrastructure arm of Bouygues subsidiary Equans has recorded an almost threefold uplift in pre-tax profit, driven by improved returns across its portfolio of private finance initiative (PFI) contracts. Equans E&S Infrastructure UK’s accounts for the year ending 31 December 2024 show the company increased its pre-tax…

Allowing individual companies that are part of joint ventures (JVs) to pursue adjudications on their own would cause “chaos”, the High Court has ruled. Darchem Engineering has lost its case at the Technology and Construction Court to enforce adjudication rulings against Bylor – the Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics…

A specialist subcontractor on Hinkley Point C (HPC) is taking the main contractor joint venture (JV) to the High Court to enforce a £24m adjudication. Darchem Engineering Ltd took Bylor – the Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics JV constructing the nuclear site – to three adjudications in 2025 over…

Two tier one contractors have entered not guilty pleas to health and safety offences in two separate cases relating to a death and a serious injury at Hinkley Point C. Both cases have been brought following investigations by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). The first case relates to the…

Bouygues UK has posted a £32.3m pre-tax loss for the year ended 31 December 2024 ─ a substantial improvement on the £62.1m loss the French-owned company incurred in 2023. Turnover was 15 per cent higher in 2024 at £375.6m, but the pre-tax loss was put down to various factors, including skills…

Bowmer & Kirkland was the Department for Education’s (DfE) highest paid construction company for the fourth year in a row, Construction News can reveal. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Derbyshire-headquartered firm was paid £320.8m in the 2024/25 financial year - £57m ahead of the…

Bouygues UK has secured the main construction contract for the University of Exeter’s West Park student accommodation scheme, after the project reached financial close. The scheme will deliver six new accommodation blocks and refurbish an existing block at the university’s Streatham campus, creating space for 1,849 students. Bouygues UK was…

Two companies are to be prosecuted after a worker was injured following an incident involving a rebar mesh wall at the Hinkley Point C construction site. The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the UK’s independent nuclear regulator, has given notice to Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS and Laing O’Rourke Delivery Limited…

Bouygues UK has been appointed construction partner on a project to build the East of England’s first specialist children’s hospital. The firm has signed a pre-construction services agreement for the Cambridge Children’s Hospital, a five-storey, 35,000 square metre facility at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The scheme is being developed by…