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Bouygues Construction is a major player in France, where it has built prestigious projects such as the Parc des Princes stadium, the Ile de Ré Bridge, the Grande Arche in La Défense, the Channel Tunnel, the Normandy Bridge, the French National Library, the Stade de France stadium and the Boulonnais and Avignon viaducts.

Bouygues Construction is currently operating a section of the A28 motorway between Rouen and Alençon, which it handed over in late 2005, and worked on several packages of the East European high-speed rail link. It handed over the structural works for the Quai Branly Museum in Paris at the end of 2005 and is renovating the CB31 tower to High Environmental Quality (HQE) standards in the La Défense business district. The group is completing the Geneva-Annecy section of the A41 motorway and will operate the stretch under a 55-year concession contract. In April 2008, Bouygues Construction started work on the archives building for the Nord administrative district – the group's first positive-energy building due to be delivered in late 2011. ETDE provides street-lighting management services for the city of Lille and several other towns and cities.

The group is firmly established in the UK, where it has been awarded several Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects (public-private partnerships covering design, construction and maintenance), including the Home Office, Barnet Hospital, West Middlesex Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital, King's College and Barking Schools. Bouygues Construction is currently designing and building the Peterborough Schools and Lewisham Grouped Schools in London under PFI contracts. In late 2007 Bouygues Travaux Publics won a concession contract for the New Tyne Crossing, a new vehicle tunnel beneath the River Tyne in Newcastle. ETDE is also growing fast in the UK thanks to street lighting PFI contracts and acquisitions of specialist companies.

Bouygues Construction is pursuing an active external growth policy in Europe. In 2006 the group acquired VCES, a major construction company based in the Czech Republic (sales of €130 million and 1,100 employees). In 2007 it acquired Karmar in Poland and Warings in the UK, bolstering its positions on these buoyant markets. The group recently delivered a Novotel hotel in Bucharest, Romania.

Bouygues Construction is currently building the Cyprus international airports. It is due to deliver the Paphos airport in autumn and will proceed with the works on the Larnaca airport. The group will operate both airports for 25 years.

Bouygues Immobilier is the only French property developer to have developed a broad-based strategy in Europe. The company is present in five European countries – Belgium, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Spain – and 20 cities.

In Europe, Bouygues Immobilier's growth strategy follows the same rationale: to be a long-term player and adapt products to the maturity and individual characteristics of each local market.

Bouygues Immobilier reported sales of €134 million in Europe in 2007. Its European businesses accounted for 6.4% of its total sales in 2007.

A total of 372 housing units and 18,000 sq. metres of office and retail space were reserved in Europe in 2007.

Bouygues Immobilier's European operations have enabled the company to establish close ties with a number of leading European investors, who invest both in their home markets and in Bouygues Immobilier's development schemes in France.

Recent projects include Pierre 1^er de Serbie, the former headquarters of the MEDEF employers' federation (6,000 sq. metres), 6^e Sens office building in Lyon Part-Dieu (8,600 sq. metres), offices of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional authorities in Marseille, and the Ericsson headquarters and delivery of the Cristalia office development in Madrid. Projects in Lisbon, Portugal include the Danone headquarters, the European Maritime Safety Agency offices and the Sonaecom headquarters, which won the Project of the Year award in Portugal. Other large-scale projects under way include the Seine Ouest business district in Issy-les-Moulineaux (160,000 sq. metres), two office schemes with a floor area of roughly 20,000 sq. metres each in Madrid and Barcelona and a 10,000-sq.-metre development in Lisbon.

In mainland France, Colas consists of a tight network of autonomous local companies. It has 16 regional road-building subsidiaries, along with four other subsidiaries that specialise in signing, signalling, safety, waterproofing, civil engineering and pipes, and railways. Some recently completed and ongoing projects include the upgrading of several motorways (A11, A16, A25, A29, A39, A40, A71), the Thonon-les-Bains bypass, urban development projects, installation of concrete barriers and guard-rails on the
A25 motorway, cladding and façade of the Saint-Etienne Zenith concert hall, laying of pipes in Guyenne, and repair of catenary systems on the Paris-Lyon high-speed train line.
In France's overseas departments and territories, Colas is present in La Reunion, where it is currently working on several sections of the Tamarind road project, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana, where Colas completed the Apatou – Saint-Laurent road.

Outside France, Colas is firmly established in Europe through local subsidiaries in Belgium, Ireland, Britain, Denmark, Netherlands, as well as in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Poland and Slovenia. Colas is involved in the upgrading and extension of road, motorway and rail networks (mainly in England) and the construction of logistics hubs, water treatment plants, shopping centres, and tourist and recreational facilities.  Current projects in the region include management and maintenance of 500 kilometres of roads and motorways for Area 10 in northwest England, renewal of the rail network in western England, construction of a 78-kilometre section of the
M6 motorway in Hungary, construction of sections of the D1 motorway in Slovakia and the D47 motorway in the Czech Republic, and resurfacing of 150 kilometres of the DN1 and DN17 motorways in Romania. Colas also has operations in Austria and Germany.