France

Emily Buenzle - Wed August 30, 2017

Defense Department Awards Caterpillar $663M Equipment Contract

The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded Caterpillar a contract for more than $663 million. As part of the five-year contract, Caterpillar will supply commercial construction equipment to perform duties in Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Austria, Belgium, England, France, Italy and Japan, with a performance completion date of Aug....

Emily Buenzle - Wed August 23, 2017

Doosan Wins Contract to Supply Excavators to European Pipeline

Doosan won a contract to supply 52 excavators to Europe's Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project. The $5.5 billion project is the largest gas pipeline project on the continent, beginning on the border of Greece and Turkey and stretching across Northern Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea to Italy, the Oman Tribune reported....

Thu February 16, 2017

Paris: Boulders Block Migrants From Sleeping, Prompt Debate

Aid groups say boulders placed under a Paris bridge are preventing migrants from setting up camp in an area that has been a magnet for people fleeing war and poverty around the world. Paris City Hall insists that the boulders are not an anti-migrant measure, but were relocated from another site because of upcoming construction work....

Thu February 09, 2017

Video: Construction Animation of $400M Stadium for French Open

Stade du Roland Garros, home of one of tennis' four grand slam tournaments, the French Open, has revealed animations of the two new stadia planned for the historic park grounds. The renovations will include a $400 million redesign of the event's main stadium and a brand new greenhouse-inspired court, the first of its kind at a major tournament....

Kim Willsher - Mon January 09, 2017

World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village

France has opened what it claims to be the world's first solar panel road, in a Normandy village. A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of electricity-generating panels, was inaugurated on Thursday by the ecology minister, Ségolène Royal....

Lorraine Chow - Thu December 29, 2016

World's First Solar Road Opens in France

A small village in France is now home to the world's first solar road, aka Wattway. French Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal officially inaugurated the approximately half-mile-long (1 kilometer) road covered with 30,138 square-feet (2,800-square-meters) of resin-encased panels in Tourouvre-au-Perche in Normandy on Thursday....