Balfour Beatty

A Scottish council has appointed Balfour Beatty for a roads-upgrade project worth up to £40m. Councillors at Falkirk Council agreed to appoint the UK’s biggest contractor for its Westfield A9/A904 improvement scheme.  The work will involve widening carriageways, building major crossing points and implementing road changes, and will kick off…

Irish engineering services business Obelisk has bought Balfour Beatty's telecoms division. Obelisk will retain Balfour Beatty’s existing team of employees and partners and acquire new UK headquarters in Southampton. The team will deliver services and turnkey infrastructure solutions for clients in the UK and Irish telecoms and energy sectors. The…

Balfour Beatty’s joint venture, Gammon, has won a £378m contract to build a development at a Hong Kong government-owned tech business park. Gammon, which is a 50/50 partnership between the FTSE 250-listed firm and conglomerate Jardine Matheson, was awarded the contract to develop the scheme at Cyberport in Hong Kong’s…

Balfour Beatty has chosen Jacobs to replace WSP as one of its three engineers of choice for complex projects. Jacobs joins Mott MacDonald and Atkins as a pre-appointed consultancy in Balfour Beatty’s strategic design partnership, which aims to improve project procurement, design and delivery. The partnership specialises in devising solutions…

Birmingham City Council has approved plans for a 150-metre section of viaduct to carry HS2 high-speed trains into the city’s Curzon Street Station. Client HS2 Ltd obtained Schedule 17 consent for the Curzon No. 2 Viaduct – also called the Bellingham Bridge after Birmingham-born footballer Jude Bellingham – which will…

Balfour Beatty has said its order book stood at £17bn at the end of March, down from £17.4bn at the close of 2022. In a trading update published this morning (12 May), the UK’s largest contractor said the drop in value of its lined-up work comes despite it winning new…

A former Balfour Beatty worker has been given a suspended jail sentence after stealing £75,000 of cabling from the contractor. Paul Stott, 52, was discovered after he attempted to sell the cable to the same scrap metal dealer that Balfour Beatty uses, according to the Derby Telegraph. Stott worked at…

The government has scrapped its plans for the roll-out of smart motorways. The Department for Transport (DfT) and the prime minister decided to cancel all 14 of the planned motorway upgrades, following a “summer campaign pledge” made by Rishi Sunak in his bid to become leader of the Conservative Party.…

Balfour Beatty has won a contract with NHS Highland for two projects in Caithness. As the principal supply chain partner and managing contractor for the Lochaber and Caithness hospitals redesign projects, Balfour will lead the design and construction of a new hospital in Fort William as well as the refurbishment…

A joint venture between the US subsidiary of Balfour Beatty and Metcon is to deliver a $650m ($526m) phased construction programme at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) in North Carolina. In a construction manager at-risk function for the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, Balfour Beatty will work on landside expansion of Terminal 2…