Balfour Beatty

Contractors working for Transport Scotland will begin preparations to restart work across major infrastructure projects. The transport authority's website lists a total of 16 major schemes; of these, Construction News understands five will begin pre-start preparations to ensure sites can comply with social-distancing guidance. Contractors will make alterations to site offices,…

Balfour Beatty has been given the green light to start work on Highways England’s £355m improvement scheme for the A63 Castle Street, in Hull, East Yorkshire. A decision on the development consent order for the scheme, which had been mooted for 20 years, was delayed earlier this year due to…

A £760m Hong Kong airport deal and £3bn worth of HS2 contracts boosted Balfour Beatty’s order book by 20 per cent, the firm has revealed in a market update. The contractor said it had a strong first quarter this year, after which the coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdown effect would…

Planning permission has been granted for HS2’s Old Oak Common station in west London. Work on the major hub, set to be delivered by a Balfour Beatty, Vinci and Systra (BBVS)  joint venture, is set to begin next month. Approval was granted by the Old Oak and Park Royal Development…

Hotel chain Travelodge is suing Balfour Beatty for £800,000 to fund the removal of what it says is combustible cladding on the outside of its Swansea city centre building, Construction News can reveal. The 70-room hotel, in Princess Way, Swansea, was open for bookings and operating normally after Travelodge first…

Balfour Beatty’s work on the Midland Metropolitan Hospital could be slowed by the “sustainability of the supply chain” in the wake of COVID-19, the local NHS has warned. The contractor is still on site working to complete the £600m hospital, which Carillion had originally been set to deliver. An update…

The newly formed Highways Sector Council (HSC) has said it is pushing for more work to take place during lockdown, including carrying out essential works and maintenance on UK highways. The trade body's first chair Leon Daniels, a former MD of Transport for London’s surface transport division, told Construction News:…

Highways England has named the firms that will deliver its 10-year £4.5bn smart-motorways programme. The long-term framework will see the infrastructure-delivery body work with six just partners. Smart motorways, which use active traffic-management systems, were subject to government review last year following safety concerns. Chosen contractors include Balfour Beatty Civil…

The Unite union has called Balfour Beatty “cruel” for carrying out a redundancy process for around 30 M&E workers at its Crossrail site at Whitechapel during the coronavirus crisis. The firm planned to make the redundancies prior to the recent events, but the union said the contractor should place them…

Balfour Beatty, Graham, Kier and Robertson are building a temporary NHS hospital in Glasgow. Around 400 workers from the four firms are working to finish the hospital in the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) within two weeks, having begun on Tuesday. The temporary facility, named the NHS Louise Jordan, will house…