With German forces having heavily fortified the French coast and every French port by the middle of 1944 during World War II, the Allies faced the difficult problem of how to unload all the troops, weapons, ammunition, fuel and other supplies on the Normandy beachheads.
A consortium led by France-based Suez Group, with Razel-Bec and VINCI subsidiary Triverio Construction has been awarded a civil engineering contract for the Haliotis 2 wastewater treatment facility in Nice, by Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur and Eau d’Azur.
Scotland also signed seven new agreements to develop floating offshore wind projects that would supply renewable energy to help North Sea oil and gas operations replace gas and diesel power and reduce carbon emissions.
ZÜBLIN, a subsidiary of STRABAG, broke ground recently on a new headquarters project for Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Bayern Mitte eG in Ingolstadt, Germany. The contract value is approximately $74 million.
With no time to wait for esoteric designs for the largest-ever nuclear fusion reactor to take final shape, engineers are pushing ahead with $1.3 billion worth of building and infrastructure construction at a plant site in Cadarache, France.
France must spend billions of dollars improving the safety of its huge fleet of nuclear plants following stress tests prompted by the destruction last March of Japan’s Fukushima reactors.
