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Balfour Beatty worker tells of baseball bat attack

Ian Weinfass — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:00:59 +0000

A Balfour Beatty roadworker in Southampton was attacked with a baseball bat by a driver trying to get through a road closure, it has emerged. The incident was highlighted by the firm and Southampton City Council as part of an attempt to stamp out abuse…

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Balfour Beatty to build £68m Passivhaus school

Charlotte Banks — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:00:21 +0000

Balfour Beatty has been selected to build a £67.8m Passivhaus-accredited secondary school in Edinburgh. The UK’s largest contractor will build a replacement campus for Liberton High School, whose existing building is being demolished after a 12-year-old girl was crushed to death when a wall collapsed…

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Balfour Beatty construction chief to step down

Colin Marrs — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:12:40 +0000

Balfour Beatty’s UK construction services chief will retire at the end of the year, Construction News has learnt. An email sent to staff by the firm’s chief executive Leo Quinn announced that Mark Bullock will step down at the end of the year after more…

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Balfour Beatty sued by US agency over ‘hostile and abusive’ sexual harassment

Ian Weinfass — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:58:10 +0000

Balfour Beatty’s US business is being sued by a federal agency over allegations that a female truck driver was subjected to severe sexual harassment at work. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced this week that it had launched the action against Balfour Beatty Infrastructure…

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Greenhouse gas emissions soar at Balfour operating company

Greg Pitcher — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 11:45:28 +0000

Balfour Beatty Group's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose last year, official documents have revealed. The business, a major subsidiary of the UK's largest contractor, reported an 18 per cent rise in its scope 1 and 2 emissions. This figure, calculated using the standard market-based approach,…

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UK construction boosts Balfour Beatty interims

Ben Vogel — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 11:07:25 +0000

A strong performance in UK construction helped to boost Balfour Beatty’s bottom line in the first half of this year. Interim financial results released this morning (16 August) show that group turnover grew by 9 per cent year on year to reach £4.53bn. Pre-tax profit…

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Revealed: Costain tops National Highways contractor spend

Ian Weinfass — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:25:19 +0000

Costain was the largest recipient of National Highways spending in each of the last two financial years, Construction News can reveal. The contractor and consultant was paid £522.4m by the government-owned roads body in 2022/23,£129.74m more than its nearest rival – Connect Plus, a consortium…

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Ten builders picked for £10bn electricity transmission framework

Catherine Moore — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:46:54 +0000

Balfour Beatty has been selected as one of 10 preferred bidders on SSEN Transmission's £10bn onshore transmission framework. The other preferred bidders are: a joint venture between Siemens Energy and Bam; J Murphy & Sons; Wood Power Solutions; a joint venture between Omexom and Morgan…

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‘Electricity superhighway’ puts Bam top of monthly contracts table

Charlotte Banks — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 06:00:10 +0000

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of…

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Balfour Beatty worker dies following ‘serious incident’

Will Ing — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 08:22:33 +0000

A 57-year-old Balfour Beatty worker has died following a “serious incident” on a construction site at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) campus in Aldermaston, near Reading. The individual was airlifted to hospital on Thursday evening (6 July) following the accident, which is believed to have…

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