The road works market in France

According to the Ministry of Transport, in a reply to the Senate in November 2025, France has about one million kilometres of roads, including 380,000 km of departmental roads. The departments also manage 100,000 to 120,000 of the 250,000 road bridges. The State’s non-concessioned national network is now only 10,861 km long, according to the Observatoire national de la route (the French road observatory).

According to the Observatoire national de la route, quoted by Banque des Territoires in December 2025, departmental investment in their road networks fell by 9% in 2024, the first fall since 2016, while the State raised its pavement spending by 13.5%. For 2026, the FNTP forecasts a fall of about 6% in local investment, which weighs on road works orders in France.

The road works market in France is led by the subsidiaries of the large construction groups: Colas (Bouygues group), Vinci Construction and Eiffage. Colas, the road and rail works arm of Bouygues, generated worldwide revenue of €16.0bn in 2025, according to Bouygues. Regional groups also count: Braja-Vésigné, a road specialist in the South-East, generated €224m in 2025 before its takeover by Spie Batignolles, according to Le Moniteur (September 2026).

According to the presidents of Routes de France (the road industry federation) interviewed by Le Moniteur in September 2026, the share of recycled materials in asphalt has risen from 5% to 25%, and France is among the most advanced European countries in decarbonising road works. The resource is large: stripping French roads produces 37 million tonnes of reclaimed asphalt a year, according to the Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR, the French national research agency). The industry wants to speed up on low-temperature asphalt.

Motorway concession companies also order road works in France. Eiffage spends €300m a year on maintaining and modernising its network, about 600 sites, including €150m for routine maintenance, according to Le Moniteur (January 2026). The Sanef and Escota contracts expire at the end of 2031 and early 2032, with calls for tender expected from 2028. According to Challenges, the 53 km A69 motorway required 500,000 tonnes of surfacing.

A PDF report in French, 2026 edition, organised in six chapters: definition and scope of road works, market size and dynamics, public and private demand, supply and players, regulation and constraints, market outlook.

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