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The company was founded by Francis Bouygues in 1952. [4] In 1970 Bouygues became listed on the Paris Stock Exchange. [4] In 1985 and 1986, Bouygues acquired road construction groups Screg, Sacer, and Colas; [note 1] [5] later reorganised as Colas Group.
In the 1990s, Martin, supported by a close circle of men of the late Francis Bouygues, developed the group's activities around three sectors: construction — especially at the international level, telecommunications (Bouygues Telecom in 1994) and media (TF1, LCI in 1994), but he was mainly credited as a worthy successor to the family business for his resistance to Vincent Bolloré's takeover ...
Among the construction trades, in most industrialized countries, each has a distinct 2-5 year craft apprenticeship education and usually once started a worker remains in a single craft and progresses through ranks of skill for the duration of their career (pre-apprentice, apprentice, and journeyman; some countries include a post-journeyman ...
The embankment of the Rhône river and construction of bridges (see Bridges of Lyon) led to the management of flood risk and urbanization of the eastern Rhone bank from 1772 onwards. By the end of the 18th century, La Part-Dieu domain was a large estate bordered by the Brotteaux and Guillotière districts.
design and construction of works (35.5%): primarily in the building, civil engineering and hydraulics design, execution, and maintenance of energy and telecom infrastructures (26.5%; Vinci Energies); construction, renovation and upkeep of transport infrastructures (19.7%; Eurovia): roads, highways, and rail roads.
In 1978, a competition was organized to design the new museum. ACT Architecture, a team of three young architects (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon), were awarded the contract which involved creating 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft) of new floorspace on four floors. The construction work was carried out by Bouygues. [7]
Campus of ENTPE . The École nationale des travaux publics de l'État or ENTPE (English: National School of Public Works of the State) is an engineering school part of the French Grandes Écoles founded in 1954 in Paris by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and located since 1976 in Lyon Metropolitan Area (Vaulx-en-Velin).
The construction was carried out by Bouygues. [9] Construction of the library ran into huge cost overruns and technical difficulties related to its high-rise design, so much so that it was referred to as the "TGB" or "Très Grande Bibliothèque" (lit. ' Very Large Library ', a sarcastic allusion to the successful TGV high-speed rail system). [10]