Balfour Beatty

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 of roadworkers. A survey by…

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 in 2014. The mixed-use campus…

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 than three years in the…

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 Inc, alleging that the driver…

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, means the entity was responsible…

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 totalled £97m for the six…

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 including Balfour Beatty – a…

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 Sindall Infrastructure; Burns & McDonnell;…

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 work on Eastern Green Link…

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 happened during piling, but later…