Bouygues wins £240m Tower Hamlets' BSF deal

Bouygues has clinched the £240m Tower Hamlets’ Building Schools for the Future scheme.

The French giant saw off a joint venture of Balfour Beatty and Babcock & Brown Education Partnerships to win the deal.

The win increases the firm’s BSF presence in London. Bouygues also has the £100m Waltham Forest and the £200m Westminster BSF schemes under its belt, a fact that helped it seal the deal.

Kevan Collins, Tower Hamlets Council children’s services director said the council had full confidence in Bouygues, adding: “Bouygues have demonstrated to us their ability to provide value for money and deliver work to a high standard, and are also already successfully delivering BSF schemes in Waltham Forest and Westminster.”

Meanwhile Carillion features in two new shortlists. The firm is up against Aura (Sir Robert McAlpine/Robertson Capital Projects/Parsons Brinckerhoff) and Emeye Rochdale (Willmott Dixon) for the £196m Rochdale BSF scheme.