Bouygues Construction () is a French company operating in the construction and civil works sector. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bouygues group, which was founded by Francis Bouygues on January 1, 1952, it encompasses all of the group’s construction and civil engineering activities. Operating in over 50 countries, the company is involved in the design, construction, renovation, operation, maintenance and deconstruction of buildings and structures, as well as the decontamination and recovery of materials at the end of their life cycle.
The company also conducts research and innovation projects, primarily in robotisation, industrialisation and artificial intelligence, to support environmental transition and sustainable construction.
Bouygues Construction employs around 34,500 people worldwide. In 2025 it generated a revenue of €10.6 billion.
History From 1952 to 1990 On January 1, 1952, Francis Bouygues founded Entreprise Francis Bouygues (EFB), specialising in industrial and construction work in the Paris region, which later evolved into the Bouygues group. At the end of 1952, the company was employing 30 people. In 1953, the company signed its first substantial contract, building offices for IBM France. Benefiting from the boom of the Trente Glorieuses (the so-called Thirty Glorious Years of French post-War economic recovery), EFB won a series of contracts, including factory refurbishments and the renovation of the Lido.
In 1956, the company moved into property development with the creation of a specialised subsidiary, STIM.
In 1960, Entreprise Francis Bouygues was involved in the construction of the third and current Montparnasse station in Paris.
In 1962, Francis Bouygues decided to have all the company’s equipment painted in minium orange, the colour of rust-proofing. Later, the same colour featured prominently in the logo designed by Alain Carré.
In 1965, Entreprise Francis Bouygues began to develop business in civil works in the French market.
In 1970, the company generated sales of 2 billion French francs and was listed on the French stock market. On May 15, 1972, EFB changed its name to “Bouygues”.
In the 1970s, the company won contracts for several nuclear power plants, airports, the new French national library, the Great Arch of La Défense near Paris.
In 1972, the Bouygues Group completed the Parc des Princes football stadium in Paris, which was subsequently inaugurated by President Georges Pompidou. This was the first civil engineering project undertaken by Bouygues. The stadium’s architecture required the use of a new technique: post-tensioning. Designer Alain Carré took inspiration from the oval shape of the stadium when he created the new Bouygues logo later that year.
The 1970s saw the start of the company’s international expansion. Its first international contract came in 1970, with the Tehran Olympic Complex in Iran. This was the first triangulated structure made of post-tensioned concrete. The company began to open international subsidiaries from 1975.
In 1978, the Bouygues group expanded to Africa with the construction of the National School of Public Works in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
In the 1980s, it worked on projects such as the Bubiyan Bridge in Kuwait, nuclear power stations in Iraq, housing developments in Iran and Nigeria, and military bases in Saudi Arabia.
In 1984, the company completed the University of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
In 1987, the company completed the Lagos thermal power plant in Nigeria, one of the most powerful in Africa.
In 1989, it handed over the Great Arch of La Défense, near Paris, which was inaugurated for the ceremony to commemorate the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
In the same year, same year, the company established itself in Thailand and developed the new town of Muang Thong Thani near Bangkok.
From 1990 to 2000 In 1990, Bouygues acquired Losinger, the third-largest Swiss construction group. Its subsidiary VSL is the world leader in post-tensioning. In Africa, the group built approximately 10,000 classrooms in Lagos State, Nigeria, in 1990. Construction of the Hassan II Grand Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco began in 1991. Bouygues subsequently set up its Moroccan subsidiary, Bymaro.
In 1991, the company completed the two Pacific Place towers in Hong Kong. This project, launched in 1988, was one of the first carried out by the subsidiary Dragages Hong Kong, acquired in 1986. The following year, the Channel Tunnel linking France and the United Kingdom was completed. Bouygues was a member of the consortium of French companies involved in the project.
In 1994, the group began operations in Turkmenistan with the Gökdepe Mosque and established a permanent presence in the country through a new subsidiary, Bouygues Turkmen.
In 1995, it delivered the Normandy Bridge in France, the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge. The Bouygues group also began work on constructing the Sydney metro in Australia.
In 1997, the group completed the Hong Kong Convention Centre to coincide with the ceremonies marking the handover of Hong Kong to China. In the same year, the Gustave Eiffel Apprentice Training Centre was established in Chilly-Mazarin, near Paris.
In 1998, the Stade de France, built to host the 1998 FIFA World Cup, was completed. In the same year, Bouygues received an order for Europe’s largest office development, the Cœur Défense in Paris, France.
In June 1999, the general meeting of Bouygues shareholders approved the demerger of Building and Civil Engineering activities, henceforth grouped within the company Bouygues Construction. In December 1999, the Bouygues parent company transferred 100% of ETDE (acquired in 1984) and a 51% stake in Bouygues Offshore to its subsidiary, Bouygues Construction.
From 2000 to 2015 In 2002, Bouygues Construction built Line 2 of the Cairo metro in Egypt. In July 2002, Bouygues Construction sold its majority stake in Bouygues Offshore to Saipem.
In 2004, Bouygues Construction signed a contract to build the Masan Bay bridge in South Korea. The contract covered the financing, design and construction of the bridge, along with operation and maintenance for 30 years.
In 2005, Bouygues Construction began work on Singapore’s two tallest residential towers, The Sail@Marina Bay. In the same year, the group completed the new headquarters of the UK’s interior ministry (the Home Office) in London. The company also began construction work on the airports in Cyprus and signed a 25-year concession contract.
In 2007, alongside Vinci, Bouygues Construction signed a contract to construct the Chernobyl containment shelter, completed in 2018. Also in 2007, Bouygues Bâtiment International acquired the British contractor, Warings.
In 2009, Bouygues Construction was awarded a €950 million contract in Qatar for the construction of the QP District, a vast real estate complex consisting of nine office blocks. This was Bouygues Construction’s first project in the Middle East. In the same year, the company signed the first energy performance contract (EPC) for social housing in France. In 2010, ETDE became Bouygues Construction’s Energy and Services Division, before being renamed Bouygues Energies & Services in 2013.
In 2011, Bouygues Construction won a contract from the French Ministry of Defence to finance, design and build its Balard site in Paris along with facilities management and maintenance for 30 years. The following year, in 2012, Bouygues acquired the entire share capital of Leadbitter. Also in 2011, Bouygues Construction completed the Tour First (Paris La Défense), the tallest skyscraper in France. The same year, Bouygues Construction and its subsidiaries Bouygues Bâtiment International and Bouygues Energies & Services delivered the Jim Pattison Care & Surgery Centre in Surrey, Canada.
In 2012, Bouygues Construction carried out the renovation of the Ritz Hotel in Paris. The company had previously renovated a number of luxury hotels in Paris – the Four Seasons George V (1999), Grand Hôtel Intercontinental (2003), Fouquet’s Barrière (2006), Royal Monceau and Shangri-La (2010) – as well as the Hermitage in Monaco (2002). Meanwhile, Bouygues signed the contract for the future Paris Law Courts, the Nîmes-Montpellier rail bypass and the first stretch of the Hong Kong-Macau bridge. Bouygues also acquired the British contractor, Thomas Vale.
In 2014, Bouygues completed the Singapore Sports Hub, constructed as a result of the world’s largest public-private partnership, for €770 million. Standing on a 35-hectare seafront site, the facility boasts the world’s largest retractable roof.
In the United States, the company began construction of the Brickell City Centre in Miami, Florida the same year. It was the city’s largest private real estate development in the city and Bouygues Construction’s second project in the United States.
From 2015 to 2025 In 2015, Bouygues Construction united its property development subsidiaries under a single international brand name: Linkcity. In the same year, the company secured the contract for the NorthConnex motorway tunnel in Sydney, Australia.
In 2016, its subsidiary Bouygues Thai completed the MahaNakhon Tower in Bangkok, the tallest building in Thailand. Famous for its pixelated architecture, the 314-metre building remains the tallest structure in the group’s portfolio.
The following year, Bouygues Construction completed the Morpheus Hotel in Macau, designed by Zaha Hadid and built with an exoskeleton that wraps around three central voids. The company also handed over the new Paris Law Courts in France, designed by Renzo Piano, as well as Ridge Hospital in Ghana, which was the first hospital project in Africa to be LEED Healthcare-certified and powered by solar energy.
Bouygues Bâtiment International also completed a new international terminal at Zagreb Airport in Croatia, which was officially opened by the Croatian Prime Minister. Bouygues Construction is a member of the concession company.
The company also delivered the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, which is the longest bridge ever built over the sea and, as such, is one of the world’s largest infrastructure projects. With a value of €1.25 billion, this was the largest design-build contract ever awarded in Hong Kong.
2018 saw Bouygues make several acquisitions. In the energy and services sector, it acquired the Swiss company Alpiq InTec, which became Bouygues Energies & Services InTec, and Kraftanlagen Gruppe in Germany. In the construction sector, it acquired AW Edwards in Australia. In 2018, the company completed the Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link tunnel in Hong Kong.
In 2019, Bouygues won a contract worth €258 million to build Issy Cœur de Ville, a fully pedestrianised eco-district in Issy-les-Moulineaux, just outside Paris. In the same year, its subsidiary Dragages Singapore completed construction of the Clement Canopy in Singapore. Consisting of two 140-metre towers, these are the world’s tallest buildings to be constructed using modular concrete.
In 2020, Bouygues Construction signed a design-build contract for the C1 section of the HS2 high-speed rail line linking London and Birmingham, the largest transport infrastructure project in the United Kingdom. The stretch included a tunnel and the longest rail viaduct in the United Kingdom. In the same year, the company took part in the construction of the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France. The simultaneous construction of 71 wind turbines on a single site was a world first. Bouygues Construction formed a partnership with Dassault Systèmes in 2021 to accelerate the digital transformation of the construction sector.
Also in 2021, Bouygues Construction was involved in setting up a research chair titled “Digital twins for construction and infrastructure in their environment”, in partnership with ESTP, Egis, Schneider Electric, BRGM, SNCF Network and the Arts et Métiers ParisTech.