Ernest Goüin founded
Ernest Goüin & Cie. in 1846. It later became
Société de Construction des Batignolles (SCB). A year later, Spie Batignolles changed its name to SPIE with its three daughter companies becoming Spie Trindel, Spie Enertrans, and Spie Batignolles; the acquired company was split in three: the engineering branch of Spie in Europe was renamed
AMEC SPIE, a rail construction business
AMEC Spie Rail was created, and the remaining construction business was grouped under the name Spie Batignolles. AMEC announced that it would seek to sell the construction arm of the business 'Spie Batignolles', and entered negotiations to secure a management buyout of that division; the management buyout of the construction division by 78 senior managers was completed in September 2003 with the aid of Barclays Private Equity Finance. the engineering company
AMEC SPIE was sold to
PAI Partners for €1040 million in 2006, The European rail business joint venture
Amec Spie Rail systems was sold for an estimated £200million in 2007, to
Colas Group. The metal construction company
CM Paimbeuf (acquired 1995) was bought by
Fayat in 2008. ==Constituents of the Spie Batignolles Group==