Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty has joined forces with a Norwegian engineering firm to strengthen its chances of securing work on UK offshore wind projects. The tier one contractor has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aker Solutions to deliver “end-to-end design and construction solutions” for the concrete floating and gravity-based offshore wind…

Balfour Beatty has been named as the sole contractor on two Scape civil engineering frameworks worth a combined £4bn. Separated into two regions, the framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland is valued at up to £3.23bn, while the one for Scotland is worth £750m. Both frameworks will enable local…

Balfour Beatty has appointed Peter Mumford as managing director of its regional civils business in England and Wales. He joins from National Highways, where he spent five years. He was executive director of major projects and capital portfolio management at the roads body, and previously worked at Aecom and HKA,…

Several of the UK’s top contractors will limit work or completely shut sites during the Queen’s funeral next week. Earlier this week, the Construction Leadership Council told firms that there was no obligation on them to suspend business during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, as per government guidance. It…

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £12.5m contract to restore the Grade A-listed Temperate and Tropical Palm Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. The two-year contract will see the contractor replace deteriorating and damaged stonework, roof structures and windows. This will help the building meet legal obligations for…

Electricians working for Balfour Beatty will be paid more during their holiday leave, after lengthy discussions with the Unite union. More than 280 workers will now receive an additional holiday payment of £250 this year. Unite said this means they would be paid in full. Previously, they received average pay…

With the raised energy price cap pushing up the average household bill to about £3,459 per year from October, the soaring cost is already a concern for millions of people across the country. As an industry that relies on energy-intensive materials and heavy machinery, diesel and petrol, construction is even…

The Balfour Beatty-Vinci (BBV) joint venture is on the lookout for an electrical and mechanical services contractor for work on the HS2 high-speed rail project. The £30m contract will cover the construction of five buildings that are necessary for the two tunnels it is constructing along the West Midlands leg…

Balfour Beatty’s chief executive, Leo Quinn, has set his sights on dominating the UK energy and infrastructure market as a way to de-risk income over the coming decade. Speaking to analysts after the publication of the contractor’s half-year results, which showed Balfour Beatty’s UK construction business had returned to profit,…

Balfour Beatty’s UK construction business has returned to profit. The group reported an underlying profit of £18m in the six months to 1 July for UK construction, marking a significant improvement on last year’s results at the same stage, when it posted a £23m loss due to write-downs on private-sector…