was declining and the parent Taylor Woodrow group was increasingly focused on housebuilding and the commercial property market. Taylor Woodrow Construction was part of the Channel Tunnel consortium (completed in 1994) but its operations were less important to the group. A series of mergers and acquisitions culminated in the £6 billion merger with George Wimpey forming Taylor Wimpey in March 2007, and just over a year later, in September 2008, Vinci plc, the British subsidiary of France's Vinci SA, acquired Taylor Woodrow Construction from Taylor Wimpey for £74m. Notable projects undertaken Major projects completed by Taylor Woodrow included: the Mulberry harbours completed in 1944 the Tanganyika groundnut scheme completed in 1951 Calder Hall nuclear power station completed in 1956 Hinkley Point A nuclear power station completed in 1965 Westminster City Hall completed in 1965 Sizewell A nuclear power station completed in 1966 Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral completed in 1967 Ronan Point completed in 1968 Wylfa Nuclear Power Station completed in 1971 Port Rashid in Dubai completed in 1972 Kensington Town Hall in London completed in 1976 Wolverhampton Civic Centre completed in 1978 Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station completed in 1983 the Channel Tunnel completed in 1994 the Riverside Stadium on Teesside completed in 1995 Amersham and Wycombe Hospitals completed in 2000 the redevelopment of the Royal Albert Hall completed in 2003 the Princess Royal University Hospital at Farnborough completed in 2003 the National Assembly for Wales at Cardiff Bay completed in 2006 the King's Cross Western Ticketing Hall completed in 2006 Vinci Construction UK and predecessors Today's Vinci Construction UK started as a concrete specialist, Holst & Co, founded in 1918 in London by Danish civil engineers Knud Holst and Christian Lunoe. Five years later, in Liverpool, another business, Norwest Construction was founded in Liverpool. The two businesses merged in 1969 to form Norwest Holst, which - during the 1980s - was the largest privately owned construction group in the UK. In 1991, a French company, SGE, acquired a majority shareholding in Norwest Holst, which, in 2002, was renamed Vinci plc and acquired London-based contractor Crispin & Borst. Weaver plc was acquired in 2007. Taylor Woodrow Construction today In early 2009, Vinci planned to reorganise all UK operations under one name, but the Taylor Woodrow brand was eventually retained (though the company's 'teamwork' logo was retained by Taylor Wimpey). In 2011, the civil engineering division of Vinci Construction UK was rebranded as