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A former Vinci employee who claimed two managers harassed her due to her sex after she reported paint damage and scratches to her car has lost her tribunal case. Site administrator Susan Turner made the allegations against construction manager David Smolinski and commercial manager Barry Powell over how they dealt…

An investigation is underway after architectural cladding fell off a Vinci-built office in Blackpool. Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) employees at the Fylde View building (pictured) were evacuated following the incident in which a piece of external brise soleil dropped to the pavement from the sixth floor. No injuries…

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey is suing Vinci Construction for more than £30m over alleged cladding and steelwork defects carried out by the contractor’s subsidiary Taylor Woodrow at a development in Cardiff. The case concerns the development of seven residential towers at Victoria Wharf in Cardiff Bay. Taylor Wimpey appointed Taylor Woodrow…

Profit and turnover plummeted at the UK’s biggest ground engineering specialist following a slowdown in activity on HS2. Bachy Soletanche – which is owned by construction conglomerate Vinci – reported a pre-tax profit of £5.9m in the year to 31 December 2024, 60 per cent down on the £15.7m in…

Kent County Council has awarded a £1bn contract to Vinci subsidiary Ringway to maintain and upgrade its highways infrastructure over the next two decades. The highways term maintenance contract will begin in May 2026 and run for 21 years, the council announced today (19 November). Ringway will replace Amey, which…

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…

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has appointed Vinci as the main contractor for the first phase of restoration works at the town’s Grade II*-listed Winter Gardens. The appointment marks a significant step in the multi-million-pound scheme, which will begin with enabling works in the autumn. These include cleaning and stabilising the…

Vinci has returned to profit after a strong showing from three of its biggest subsidiaries. The UK’s eighth-biggest contractor secured a pre-tax profit of £69.3m in the 12 months to 31 December 2024, a year after inflation and provisions pushed it to a pre-tax loss of £6.4m. The accounts –…

Profit and turnover at contractor FM Conway have risen in its latest accounts, filed months after its acquisition by Vinci Construction was confirmed. FM Conway reported a pre-tax profit of £33m in the year to 31 March 2025, up on the previous year’s tally of £29.4m. Turnover also rose, from…

A former Vinci employee has had her case for unfair dismissal over whistleblowing thrown out by an employment tribunal. Renata Stochmal was employed by Vinci Construction Terrassement, a subsidiary of Vinci Construction, as a surface water and flood risk discipline lead from 27 January 2022 to 5 August 2022. She…